Booze, Badboys & Bootleggers - Reagen, James E.

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Résumé :
What Grandpa Never Told You... A Lot of Northern New York Families Made a Shady Living As Smugglers, Bootleggers, and Booze Runners During Prohibition 1920 - First Year of Prohibition: A Watertown police officer leaped from a moving taxi onto a fleeing car to arrest Massena bootleggers. Federal agents raided Ogdensburg by land and sea to crack down on rum-running. 2 Potsdam ministers helped federal agents conduct righteous speakeasy raids. Ogdensburg's Fred Lassail: Bootlegger and Dad. A high-speed chase down the streets of Massena led to the arrest of Potsdam bootleggers. An Ogdensburg mayoral candidate defended the city's leading speakeasy owner.12,000 quarts of liquor were seized on a ship docked at Cardinal, Ontario by Prescott Customs agents after the booze showed up in Ogdensburg. An ALCOA crane operator's suicide in Massena was blamed on bootlegging, smuggling, and gambling. Gouverneur's Fred Scozzafava crashed into the New York Central train in DeKalb while hauling a load of smuggled booze. Ogdensburg's Joseph Rish's colorful career as a speakeasy owner. Burglars Robbed the U.S. Customs House for Booze at Rouses Point. Cranberry Lake, Norfolk, Pyrites, and others raided. Federal G-Men Led Raids Across Northern New York.

Biographie:
James E. Reagen, the former award winning managing editor of the Ogdensburg Journal and Advance News, has been writing about Northern New York for more than 40 years. After growing up in Ogdensburg, he began his career as a student journalist and executive editor at the Cavalier Daily newspaper at the University of Virginia. In 1976, he co-authored a series of articles that won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award for outstanding coverage of the problems faced by African American students at the southern college. He was honored at the home of the widow of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and at a luncheon at the President John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1976, he worked with the White House Press Office for U.S. President Gerald R. Ford's bicentennial visit to Thomas Jefferson's home as part of the 200th anniversary July 4th celebration. That summer he also covered the visit of Queen Elizabeth. In 1978, he went to work as a full-time newspaper reporter for the Martinsville, Va. Bulletin where he wrote about local government, moonshiners and murders, among other things. He later wrote for Inside Detective, Master Detective and Front Page Detective Magazines, with articles including Who Plugged Johnny Ya Ya, Daylight Found the Bishop Bludgeoned, and Seven Slugs for the Self Made Man to name a few. In 1981, he returned to Northern New York as a reporter for the Ogdensburg Journal and Advance News. He was promoted to editor of the St. Lawrence Plaindealer in Canton and in 1982 was appointed as Managing Editor of the Ogdensburg Journal and Advance News. He was honored by the Associated Press Managing Editors Association for investigative reporting twice, the New York State Bar Association honored him for investigative reporting, and he received a first place news coverage award for reporting on the FBI's raid on illegal casinos at the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation. Under his leadership, the newspaper was honored by the Associated Press for its coverage of problems facing the gay community when gunmen showed up at a gay dude ranch. He was the first newspaper editorial writer in Northern New York to editorialize on behalf of gay rights. In 1998, he was honored by Associated Press for his newspaper's coverage of the historic ice storm when he published the newspaper from his dining room table at his house, producing the only newspaper available in Northern New York during the first days of the ice storm. In 2001, on the 25th anniversary of winning the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award, he was invited by the African American Student Association at the University of Virginia to participate in a forum on the groundbreaking articles he co-authored and the effect they had on improving life at the college for students of color. He is the author of four books - Booze, Badboys & Bootleggers (North Country Tales Grandpa Never Told You)...

Sommaire:
James E. Reagen, the former award winning managing editor of the Ogdensburg Journal and Advance News, has been writing about Northern New York for more than 40 years. After growing up in Ogdensburg, he began his career as a student journalist and executive editor at the Cavalier Daily newspaper at the University of Virginia. In 1976, he co-authored a series of articles that won the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award for outstanding coverage of the problems faced by African American students at the southern college. He was honored at the home of the widow of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and at a luncheon at the President John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 1976, he worked with the White House Press Office for U.S. President Gerald R. Ford's bicentennial visit to Thomas Jefferson's home as part of the 200th anniversary July 4th celebration. That summer he also covered the visit of Queen Elizabeth. In 1978, he went to work as a full-time newspaper reporter for the Martinsville, Va. Bulletin where he wrote about local government, moonshiners and murders, among other things. He later wrote for Inside Detective, Master Detective and Front Page Detective Magazines, with articles including Who Plugged Johnny Ya Ya, Daylight Found the Bishop Bludgeoned, and Seven Slugs for the Self Made Man to name a few. In 1981, he returned to Northern New York as a reporter for the Ogdensburg Journal and Advance News. He was promoted to editor of the St. Lawrence Plaindealer in Canton and in 1982 was appointed as Managing Editor of the Ogdensburg Journal and Advance News. He was honored by the Associated Press Managing Editors Association for investigative reporting twice, the New York State Bar Association honored him for investigative reporting, and he received a first place news coverage award for reporting on the FBI's raid on illegal casinos at the St. Regis Mohawk Reservation. Under his leadership, the newspaper was honored by the Associated Press for its coverage of problems facing the gay community when gunmen showed up at a gay dude ranch. He was the first newspaper editorial writer in Northern New York to editorialize on behalf of gay rights. In 1998, he was honored by Associated Press for his newspaper's coverage of the historic ice storm when he published the newspaper from his dining room table at his house, producing the only newspaper available in Northern New York during the first days of the ice storm. In 2001, on the 25th anniversary of winning the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award, he was invited by the African American Student Association at the University of Virginia to participate in a forum on the groundbreaking articles he co-authored and the effect they had on improving life at the college for students of color. He is the author of four books - Booze, Badboys & Bootleggers (North Country Tales Grandpa Never Told You)...