
Gangster Road
Season 2 Episode 1 | 27m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
Originally Aired on May 3, 2013
The 1920’s and 30’s were a time of bathtub gin and jazz, but in Oklahoma, it was also a time of bootleggers, outlaws, and gangsters. OETA’s award winning documentary series Back in Time looks beyond the legends to examine why the state was so attractive to outlaws and how with the help of newspapers and radio, they captured the imagination of the people along Oklahoma’s Gangster Road.
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Back in Time is a local public television program presented by OETA

Gangster Road
Season 2 Episode 1 | 27m 46sVideo has Closed Captions
The 1920’s and 30’s were a time of bathtub gin and jazz, but in Oklahoma, it was also a time of bootleggers, outlaws, and gangsters. OETA’s award winning documentary series Back in Time looks beyond the legends to examine why the state was so attractive to outlaws and how with the help of newspapers and radio, they captured the imagination of the people along Oklahoma’s Gangster Road.
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