(WVUE) - It was one of those elixirs that was supposed to cure just about anything. "Whether it be arthritis or whether it be back pain or what have you," said Roland Leblanc. Its name was Hadacol, ...

ERATH, LA (WAFB) - It was one of those elixirs that was supposed to cure just about anything. “Whether it be arthritis or whether it be back pain,” said Roland Leblanc. Its name was Hadacol, and it ...

In easygoing Lafayette, La. (pop. 19,210), 425 factory workers bustled each working day last week turning out more than 100,000 bottles of a murky brown liquid that tastes something like bilge water, ...

As an old horse trader, Louisiana’s Dudley J. LeBlanc likes to say that the man who buys a horse has only himself to blame if the horse keels over and dies. Only six weeks ago, a group of Manhattan ...

Back in the 1950s, my father (think the role played by Darren McGavin in the movie, "Christmas Story") was one of hundreds of thousands of American swept up in the Hadacol health tonic scam. Not only ...

If you’re old enough to collect Social Security, you may remember Hadacol. A fixture on the airwaves in the 1940s and ‘50s, it was a patent medicine of dubious effectiveness and vast popularity.

NEW ORLEANS, La. (WVUE) - It’s considered the last of the traveling medicine shows. In 1950, a Louisiana politician was criss-crossing the country promoting his cure-all potion. It was one of those ...