The Man Who Poisoned America

追加: 2026-05-18

[00:00:00]The man most responsible for designing the poison program was Wayne B. Wheeler, chief legal counsel of the Anti-Saloon League.

[00:00:09]He was the most powerful prohibition lobbyist in America.

[00:00:13]When asked about the deaths, Wheeler said the victims were, {quote} "committing suicide."

[00:00:20]He was never investigated, never charged.

[00:00:23]He died in 1927, the same year the death toll peaked, and was praised in his obituaries as a hero of the temperance movement.