Campbell, Sally Van Winkle. But Always Fine Bourbon: Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald. Louisville, KY: Limestone Lane Press, 1999. Expanded ebook, release date not stated; supplied 291-page PDF capture includes material through at least 2004.
The sale account combines distributor-owned whiskey, low dividends, deferred plant investment, shareholder diversification goals, family voting tensions, failed negotiations in 1971 and a later agreement. Warehouse receipts generated cash before aging but complicated a shift to more profitable case sales and a buyout. Campbell dates the sale to June 30,1972 at about 19.5 million dollars in Norton Simon stock. Interviewees fear dilution of brand identity and describe destruction of historical material afterward.
Sally Van Winkle Campbell, But Always Fine Bourbon, expanded ebook (original printing 1999), supplied PDF pp. 238–249.
Sally Van Winkle Campbell, But Always Fine Bourbon: Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald (Louisville, KY: Limestone Lane Press, 1999; expanded ebook, release date not stated), supplied PDF pp. 238–249.
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Campbell, But Always Fine Bourbon, PDF 238–249.
Chapter 20 — financing, family control and the 1972 sale
Bibliography checked against PDF3,287 and expanded afterword. Ready to cite this source as attributed evidence, not independent validation or confirmation of an underlying historical document. PDF locators, not reader or original-print pagination. Preserve the multiple causes rather than reducing the sale to bankruptcy or a villain. Tennill disputes financial insolvency. Motives and alleged inferior stock disposal are participants' interpretations; acquisition documents and external evidence would be required to settle them. The report of archive destruction also explains the memoir's evidentiary limits.
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Original PDF pages 238–249. Part 1 holds original 1–97; part 2 holds 98–194; part 3 holds 195–291. These are not the ebook's reader counters.
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Sally Van Winkle Campbell, But Always Fine Bourbon: Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald (Louisville, KY: Limestone Lane Press, 1999; expanded ebook, release date not stated), supplied PDF pp. 238–249.
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Bibliography: Campbell, Sally Van Winkle. But Always Fine Bourbon: Pappy Van Winkle and the Story of Old Fitzgerald. Louisville, KY: Limestone Lane Press, 1999. Expanded ebook, release date not stated; supplied 291-page PDF capture includes material through at least 2004.
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Preserve the multiple causes rather than reducing the sale to bankruptcy or a villain. Tennill disputes financial insolvency. Motives and alleged inferior stock disposal are participants' interpretations; acquisition documents and external evidence would be required to settle them. The report of archive destruction also explains the memoir's evidentiary limits.
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