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.
A 1950 company account depicts John E.Fitzgerald as a distillery proprietor. Campbell instead follows a 1941 Claude Bixler letter relaying Herbst's story of a keyholder who sampled preferred barrels, and Norman Hayden's account of the label purchase. Repeal-era supply difficulties lead into an 18-month,93-proof Kentucky Oaks advertisement dated January 1,1937.
Sally Van Winkle Campbell, But Always Fine Bourbon, expanded ebook (original printing 1999), supplied PDF pp. 79–88.
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. 79–88.
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Campbell, But Always Fine Bourbon, PDF 79–88.
Chapter 4 — competing Fitzgerald origin stories
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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. 79–88.
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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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The alternative is itself a transmitted account, not an eyewitness record of the alleged theft. Do not turn the keyholder into a proven federal agent on this evidence. The label-purchase bargain is an anecdote, and the young-whiskey advertisement should be distinguished from later 100-proof positioning.
The underlying letter, interview, advertisement or historical assertion has not thereby been independently authenticated.