During the 1920’s, a bootlegging epidemic raged across the nation. Through his work as a Prohibition agent, Eliot Ness took a stand against corruption initiated by the illegal alcohol empires, leaving behind a legacy of high ethical standards and new scientific techniques in the law enforcement community.
"Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!" -Eliot Ness (Ellis Roxburgh, "Al Capone v.s. Eliot Ness, 2015)
"It was a cotton-mouthed generation which ignored an irritating law by such commodities as bathtub gin and needled beer" -- Oscar Fraley. (Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, The Untouchables, 1957)
“We have seen the evil of the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst; let us try prohibition and see what this will do for us” -Thomas Jordan Jarvis, North Carolina governor. (Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Al Capone vs. Eliot Ness Opposite Sides of the Law, 1908)
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“The bootleg-busting exploits of Eliot Ness, an incorruptible federal agent often credited with taking down the mobster Al Capone in the 1930s” -- The New York Times. (Steven Yaccino, Effect to Honor Eliot Ness in Nation’s Capital Finds Trouble in Chicago, 2014)