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A Moment In Kentucky History: The Tommy Gun

WEKU | By Mike Savage
Published September 27, 2019 at 7:00 AM EDT
Kentucky Humanities
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Think History is our daily segment from Kentucky Humanities. Today, Bill Goodman tells us about John T Thompson and the development of the Tommy Gun.
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