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Jun 2025
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Jump, Jive, and Jail: the Pot Bust of Ge...

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At the height of the swing music era, jazz drummer and musical great Gene Krupa was caught up in a federal bust. He was used as a cautionary tale in America's First Drug War. Taken down in order to scare young people away from that serious and dire threat to America... jazz music.

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