That Rockefeller was a “teetotaling” Baptist, even back then.

In the 1920s, “denatured” alcohol, mixed with a bit of poisonous methyl alcohol, was not prohibited, because it was dangerous to drink. That didn’t prevent its use as fuel, however.

Cans of jellied alcohol, for use in the little “Sterno” type camp stoves, were also available, at least for a while, during the Prohibition era. In 1925, or thereabouts, the Iowa Legislature busied itself in worrying whether or not hoboes might be able to get drunk, by consuming that material.

During Prohibition, the liquor manufacturers just moved to Canada, and smugglers found ways of bringing their products into the US.

It’s sort of the same thing as when the US Congress enacted its hypocritical ban on sales of manufactured goods to Cuba. The sale of such goods just continued, by sales to Cuba by the Canadian subsidiaries of US corporations.

I found that out from the book, “90 Miles From Home,” by Warren Miller. He died at age 44 from lung cancer, two years younger than President Kennedy was, when he died. His Wikipedia biography mentions his “outspoken political views.”

Any conspiracy theories about that?