Interview with John Calpin, July 7, 1982
Project: I Remember When: Times Gone But Not Forgotten Oral History Project
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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.Interview Accession
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Calpin, John Interview by Charles Hardy, III. 07 Jul. 1982. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Calpin, J. (1982, July 07). Interview by C. H. III. I Remember When: Times Gone But Not Forgotten Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Calpin, John, interview by Charles Hardy, III. July 07, 1982, I Remember When: Times Gone But Not Forgotten Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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