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"Prohibition was never really about alcohol," he said. "It was about trying to define who was American." Alcohol consumption was common among Irish, Italian, Catholic and Jewish cultures, said Lerner.
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. [1] The alcohol industry was curtailed by a succession of state legislatures, and Prohibition was formally introduced nationwide under the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified on January 16, 1919.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was a patriarch of the Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime senator Ted Kennedy.
January 20: John F. Kennedy is inaugurated as President of the United States. April 12: Yuri Gagarin, flying the Vostok 1 spacecraft as part of the Vostok program, becomes the first human in space. April 17 – 20: Bay of Pigs Invasion by Cuban exiles ends in failure.
[96] [97] Kennedy was the first Catholic to run for president since Al Smith's ill-fated campaign in 1928. Voters were polarized on religious grounds, but Kennedy's election was a transforming event for Catholics, who finally realized they were accepted in America, and it marked the virtual end of anti-Catholicism as a political force. [98]
In addition to Prohibition, the government obtained new powers and duties such as funding and overseeing the new U.S. Highway system, controlling agriculture, and regulating radio and commercial aviation. The result was a rapid spread of standardized roads and broadcasts that were welcomed by most Americans.
Joe Kennedy III/X. Just days later, six of Ethel’s children with Robert F. Kennedy Sr. — former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy, former US Rep. Joe Kennedy II, ...