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New York, Episode 5: 1919-1931 - Cosmopolis

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New York, Episode 5: 1919-1931 - Cosmopolis
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2hrs 0min
Release:
1999
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Warner Home Video
Synopsis: Calling Prohibition a "noble experiment," New York congressman Fiorello La Guardia then declared the law unenforceable. Throughout most of New York City, this was the correct assessment. This is the fifth episode of the epic PBS documentary series about the "Big Apple." Also covered in this program is the deportation of pacifist and anarchist Emma Goldman during the "Red Scare" of 1919; the horse-drawn wagon bombing of the Morgan Bank in 1920, which killed 30 people; the change of Harlem from a German-Jewish ... Full Synopsis
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