Sixty-eight years ago, Lee Crum got caught doing something fairly common in that time and place â making moonshine whiskey.
It's been weighing on him ever since â and it's why Tuesday's announcement that Crum was among 15 people pardoned by President Donald Trump means so much to him.
"I've never been in trouble or spent a day in jail except for that," said Crum, a rural Muskogee County resident now well into his 80s. "It's something I wanted to take care of before I go over the hill."
According to a White House summary of Crum's case, he was 19 when he and his wife's uncle were arrested in 1952. Oklahoma was dry at the time, and moonshining was a common side job.