The Bootletter Biplane Bombings [Some Sunday Context]

<p>For our "Sunday Context" series, we build on this past week's coversation about Prohibition with perhaps the most colorful story of bootlegging and liquor gangsters we've ever heard. In 1926, members of the Shelton gang in southern Illinois commandeered a biplane to drop homemade bombs on the hideout of their main rivals, the Birgers.</p><p>Join our America250 <a href="https://thisdaypod.substack.com/"><strong>newsletter community</strong></a>! Subscribe for free to get the latest news and analysis of how America250 is playing out. Paying subscribers get access to early, ad-free versions of the show. Plus bonus features throughout the year. To support <a href="https://thisdaypod.substack.com/"><strong>our work and get access to everything, subscribe now</strong></a>.</p><p>This Day is a proud member of Radiotopia from PRX.</p><p>Your support helps foster independent, artist-owned podcasts and award-winning stories.</p><p>If you want to support the show directly, you can do so on our...