Al Capone : The St. Valentines Day Massacre

On Valentines day in 1929 Chicago was about to find out that Al Capone actually a popular figure and celebrity of the time was a darker evil character than portrayed. During Prohibition in the roaring 20's organized crime was rife in city's across America, Chicago's big two gang bosses were Al Capone and Bugs Moran. But Capone wanted Bugs Moran out of the picture and he choose Valentines day to make his move.

In the late morning inside a garage in Chicago seven men from Bugs Moran's gang are lined up against a wall and laced with bullets.This execution style act was brutal with the Tommy guns almost cutting body's in half and that was how it was reported by the press.Pictures from the crime scene were published in the daily papers showing a different side to the organized crime that was supplying people and the famed speakeasy's with booze.

The move showed brutality and greed by gangsters on a scale never seen before or since.But was it a move Capone would benefit from or live to regret ? This documentary looks at prohibition and the subsequent organized crime that made criminals very rich and strangely famous.

The St. Valentines Day Massacre
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