John Pemberton: The Addict Who Created Coca-Cola | Faces Of History Podcast

Before Coke was red and white and sold by the billion, it was a desperate man’s cure for a saber wound. Tonight on Faces Of History, Thee Duke Of New York cracks open the real story of John Stith Pemberton — the wounded chemist, the Civil War vet, the morphine addict who mixed up a potion to save himself… and ended up feeding the world’s thirst for sugar and bubbles. Subscribe, pour a glass, and remember: every sweet story started bitter.Did John Pemberton give the world a cure — or just a new addiction? Drop your take below.John Stith Pemberton, Coca-Cola history, inventor of Coca-Cola, Faces Of History podcast, Civil War veterans, morphine addiction, patent medicine, American history podcast, Coca-Cola inventor story#FacesOfHistory #CocaCola #JohnPemberton #AmericanHistory #Inventors #HistoryPodcast #TheeDukeOfNewYork #TrueHistory