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Al Capone Research Paper

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David Amaya
Mr. Montgomery
World History, 3
4 Dec. 2014
Al Capone Al Capone was a famous gangster, he was known for many of the crimes he committed. Capone was born in Brooklyn in 1899, he was the son of two Italian immigrants. Capone was known to have a short temper and to be violent. Capone showed this violence such as when he was in the sixth grade; Capone was hit by teacher and he reacted by striking his teacher back, after that Capone never went back to school. Capone first joined a gang when he was 11 years old, he joined an adult gang four years later which was called "Five Points Gang" where he met the leader …show more content…

Moran was now trying to kill Capone's hit man Jack MgGurn who was also known as "Machine Gun" Jack MgGurn. Capone and MgGurn decided to take action by trying to kill Moran on February 14, 1929, MgGurn's gunmen were dressed up as policemen and they killed seven of Moran's men, but not Moran who managed to escape because he was told of the danger before they got to the garage where the shoot out happened. This event came to be known as the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre." After the massacre Capone was named "Public Enemy Number One." Due to the massacre it caused the federal government to make their efforts greater to try and put Capone behind bars. On June 5, 1931 they finally achieved it, Capone was guilty of 22 counts of income-tax evasion. Capone tried to escape jail time by trying to bribe and intimidate the jury, but during the last moment the judge switched the jury to an entirely new one. In the end Capone was found guilty and sent to prison for eleven years. Capone was first sent to Atlanta to a federal prison, but was caught bribing the guards so he was sent to famous prison of Alcatraz. After six and a half years of prison Capone was sent to a mental hospital. It turned out that Capone had suffered from syphilis and later it was neurosyphilis, which is a cause of dementia. He was in the mental hospital for about three years, and he spent his last days in Miami, Florida with his wife. Al Capone died of cardiac arrest on January 25,

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