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An article written in the first-person that describes Beck and the murder.

John Barleycorn, a personification of whiskey, was given funerals by wets and drys alike when Prohibition went into effect.

An advertisement for Vine Glo, a brick of grape concentrate that, when dissolved and left to ferment, made wine.

After a thrilling chase through the busiest streets of Washington, ... a couple of bootleggers and their car come to grief at the hands of the Capitol police

The car driven by Red Byron, who won the first NASCAR championship under Raymond Parks

"An Exciseman, carrying off two kegs of Whiskey, is pursued by two farmers, intending to tar and feather him, he runs for Squire Vultures to divide with him; but is met on the way by his evil genius who claps an hook in his nose, leads him off to a…

An excerpt from the case summary detailing Beck's and his family's mental issues

"Representation of bodily influences. being practised. The patient feels himself hypnotized by a magnet, bewitched, possessed by the god Pluto, surrounded by spirits. A nest of spirits lives in my brain."

A picture of a moonshine still at the Center for East Tennessee History

A quote from Eugene Beck when asked by interviewers if he remembered or contemplated the killing