Interview: John Calpin (1st Interview)

Interview: John Calpin (1st Interview)

When he graduated from Temple University with a journalism degree in 1925, John Calpin (1904-1991) became a police reporter for The Philadelphia Bulletin. There, he witnessed first hand the impact of Prohibition on the city of Philadelphia and the vast power of the Republican City Machine. In the decades that followed, Calpin would go on to become a newspaper bureau chief and civic reformer.

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Charles Hardy

John Calpin

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The Philadelphia Bulletin

Vice

Bootlegging

Smedley Butler

Gambling

Murder

Brothels

Dominic Cardile