Press Photo "Operation Moonshine" film presented to KY Museum of Whiskey History

Getz, Oscar (Barton Distilling Company). Because of the extremely high audience rating received when the Armstrong Circle Theatre showed "Operation Moonshine" over the Columbia Broadcasting System television network last season, the company will re-run a kinescope of the successful documentary August 17 (10:00-11:00 P.M., EST). Following its first network television presentation the film, dealing with the menace of illicit manufacture and sale of liquor, was presented to the Barton Museum of Whiskey History, Bardstown, Kentucky, for permanent display. Shown are (left to right): Ralph Acklin, Armstrong Cork Company, Oscar Getz, president of Barton Distilling Company, William Getz, director of advertising for Barton; and Robert H. McElroy, of Armstrong, holding the original script which was also presented to the Museum. Barton officials returned the "Operation Moonshine" film to Armstrong for the upcoming summer show. An audience expected to nearly equal the 20 million persons who first viewed the film will see how the United States government counteracts the illicit whiskey makers and sellers. Getz, a leader in the first major effort to publically expose bootlegging and the enormous harm that it creates against our country's economy and health standards. Since the founding of the Barton Museum of Whiskey History in 1957, thousands of artifacts have been added to the exhibits. Unusual bottles, documents, rare books on distilling and an illicit still used by moonshiners, but confiscated by agents of the Internal Revenue Department, have made the Museum the liquor trade's official memorabilia center.

Photo is undated.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.