This rum's the Real McCoy
By Joe Wojtas; The Day: March 31. 2014
When Bailey Pryor was making his recent Emmy award winning film for PBS about famed Prohibition rum runner Bill McCoy, he wondered if anyone had every trademarked the phrase "The Real McCoy."
The well-known phrase came into being in the 1920s because McCoy's rum was prized for being the real thing, not watered down.
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The Straight Man
By Kristina Dorsey; The Day:Feb 17, 2008
Local filmmaker makes documentary about rum runner Bill McCoy
Bill McCoy was one of the last gentlemen bootleggers. He wasn't violent. Heck, he didn't drink. He didn't even water down the booze he sold during Prohibition, and so his product became known as “The Real McCoy.”
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