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All about Al Capone
All about Al Capone
Al Capone once said “You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun”. I'm writing about Al Capone and how he is one of the most recognized gangsters of organized crime and his influence on bootlegging during the 1920’s.
Al Capone is one of the famous gangster in American history and he has been involved in gangs most of his life. His parents were italian immigrants. Alphonse Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York, January 17th 1899. He Joined his first gang when he was 11. He then dropped out of school after hitting one of his female teachers. Developing expert street-fighting skills, Capone was welcomed into New York's notorious Five Points Gang. He came under the influence of Johnny Torrio, an underboss who controlled gambling, prostitution, and influence peddling in Williamsburg.Under Torrio Capone worked as an enforcer and later got a job as a bouncer and bartender at the gang-controlled Harvard Inn. During this time an altercation with a knife-wielding bar patron resulted in the famous scars that came to symbolize Capone's violent persona(this is where he got the name scarface). After Capone killed someone in a fight he moved to chicago with Tirro. Acting like a used furniture dealer he quickly became a significant force in the underworld of Chicago. A number of corrupt law enforcement and government officials helped create an atmosphere of lawlessness. After the 19th amendment passed outlawing the manufacture and distribution of liquor in 1919, Capone and Torrio entered into a bootlegging partnership. Capone assassinated the reigning syndicate boss, "Big Jim" Colosimo. The combined operations of prostitution and bootleg liquor were generating millions of dollars in profits in the mid-1920s. Torrio-Capone organization repeatedly battled violently with rival gangs in the city. Most notably with the operations headed by Dion O'Bannion on Chicago's north side. After O'Bannion's murder in November 1924, Torrio was convicted of bootlegging and several days later was wounded in a retaliatory attack by O'Bannion's men. He subsequently left the city, and Capone gained full control of the multimillion-dollar criminal activities in gambling, prostitution, and liquor. The late 1920s saw increasingly reckless violence in the streets of Chicago among the warring criminal factions. There were many attempts to kill Capone, including an attempted poisoning and a machine-gun attack on Capone's headquarters in suburban Cicero by the O'Bannions in 1926. In the most notorious event of the period, which became known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Capone hired a crew to kill rival Bugs Moran on February 14, 1929, Capone's operatives, posing as police officers, executed all seven men they found in Moran's headquarters. Moran, however, was not among the victims, and the public expressed outrage at the brutal mass murder. By 1930 Capone had effectively eliminated his criminal competitors, but he faced a new adversary in federal authorities. When it was discovered that he had failed to pay income taxes for the years 1924 to 1929. He was sentenced to eleven years in federal custody but was released because of illness in 1939. He had developed paresis of the brain, a condition brought on by syphilis, which he likely had contracted from a prostitute during the 1920s. Suffering diminished mental capacity, Capone lived the remainder of his life in seclusion at his Palm Island, Florida, estate. He passed away January 25, 1947.
As you see above Al Capone influenced bootlegging in a big and he is one of the most know Gangsters of all time. “I have built my organization upon fear” this shows that he his ruthless and this is one of the reasons why we still talk about him today.
written by, Brandon Gearhart
Works Cited
BiographyChannel. "Mini Bio: Al Capone." YouTube. YouTube, 08 Apr. 2014. Web. 03 Feb. 2017.
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Al Capone the gangster
Al Capone the gangster
Al capone was a well known gangster. He made a lot of crime in the 1920s with alcohol acts. Al capone had a soup shop to feed the homeless 3 times a day . Al capone came to America looking for a better life with his family. When Capone was 19 he married Mae Coughlin just weeks after their child albert francies. Al capone went to alcatraz where he can't be bribing guards. Al capone in the 1920s made gangsters well known in america.
Al capone devised a system to distribute his alcohol, which involved delivery truck drivers, salespeople, speakeasies (equivalent to a bar), and of course heavily-armed bodyguards to protect these investments. In 1920 the gangsters have limited their activities to theft,gambling and murder. In the 1930s america had a love/hate for crime.
The well known gangster Al Capone was a very violent and dangerous person through the 1920s. Al capone was a very bad person that enjoyed doing illegal things. He was a very violent criminal. Al capone was a big criminal in the 1920s that people memorize.
Written by, Brandon Kassis
Work Cited
BiographyChannel. "Mini Bio: Al Capone." YouTube. YouTube, 08 Apr. 2014. Web. 03 Feb. 2017.
"Google." Google. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Feb. 2017.
http://www.umich.edu/~eng217/student_projects/nkazmers/organizedcrime2.html
"Old Picz." Old Picz Al Capone Crime Boss Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Feb. 2017.
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