Al Capone Research Papers

Bang! Bang! Al Capone, though looked on as a business man who gave the people what they wanted, was really a murderer who was leading the bootlegging business in Chicago. Doing anything and everything to earn that title, Capone would not stop his mastermind business for the merest bit of resistance. Though the times of being a criminal were challenging, Capone some how made it work. From being in a courthouse multiple times and getting off scot-free, to finally getting nailed and put away for some time. Finally, Capone had fallen, and he wasn’t getting back up from this one. Despite the belief by some that Al Capone was kind hearted, in reality, he was the leading gangster during the Prohibition Era in Chicago. Showing no mercy to those who

On February 14, 1929, 7 people from “Bugs” Moran’s mob were said to be killed by Capone’s gang who were dressed as police. The FBI did not have availability to look into during that time. There were limitations in the 1920’s and 1930’s on what the FBI could investigate. Al Capone was really in Florida during this shooting. Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang was a big rival of Capone’s. Moran tried to kill Capone’s friend and colleague Jack McGurn. On Thursday February 14, at 10:30 A.M. McGurn had Moran’s gang com to their garage to buy whisky. Mcgurn and the rest of his gang were wearing stolen police uniforms and had a stolen squad car. Bugs Moran saw the police car and left before anything happened. Mcgurn had the rest of Moran’s gang line up on the wall. Mcgurn’s men took their weapons and opened fire on them. The newspapers said that four men, two in police uniforms, lined seven members of a rival gang against the wall at a beer distributor’s meeting place at 2,122 North Clark Street. They shot at the gang because of illegal liquor traffic. The seven men included James Clark, Frank Gusenberg, Peter Gusenberg, John May, and Weinshank Albert. Six of the gangsters died on the spot, the seventh one died an hour later with twenty or more bullets in him. In the police investigation Capone’s name was being mentioned quite a bit. There was over 160 empty machine gun shells on the floor of where the men died. Moran remained alive taken away by raiders. The first two men with the police uniforms had sub-machine guns while the other two men who were in street clothes had sawed off shotguns. After shooting the seven men, the four shooters got into their stolen squad car and their fifth man drove off with them into traffic. The police also suspected that Aiello brothers’ gang of North side Sicilians planned this raid, but none were found to be associated with the