Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins: Mafia Detective

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6 • 623 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Retired KCPD Intelligence Detective Gary Jenkins interviews William Hazelgrove, the author of Al Capone and the 1933 World’s Fair. He learns that this World’s Fair was one of the critical reasons the government created the special squad of Treasury agents to take Capone down by any means necessary. Mr. Hazelgrove describes how a group of anonymous businessmen called the Secret 6 pressured the Federal government to take down Capone. The negative publicity generated by the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day massacre was still in the public’s imagination. They wanted the fairgoers to feel safe. We learn how the long career of the famous Fan Dancer, Sally Rand, was launched by this event. Support the Podcast Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwireClick here to “buy me a cup of coffee” To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup click here To rent Brothers against Brothers, the documentary, click here. To rent Gangland Wire, the documentary, click here To buy my Kindle book, Leaving Vegas: The True Story of How FBI Wiretaps Ended Mob Domination of Las Vegas Casinos. To subscribe on iTunes click here, please give me a review and help others find the podcast.

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0:00.0	the king of the gangsters is about to get his and a lot of Chicago folks are on hand
0:10.4	at federal court for a last look at Scarface Al Capone before Uncle Sam puts him away
0:15.1	here he comes the big boy himself what's to hurry Where you're going, you'll have loads of time.
0:22.8	Welcome all you, wiretappers out there.
0:24.8	Good to be back here in the studio of Gangland Wire.
0:27.2	I am calling a man that I happen to see this title on Facebook or something, and it
0:34.9	sounded so interesting.
0:36.3	Al Capone and the 193333 World's Fair is the
0:40.2	title of his book, William Hazel Grove. Did I get that right, William? Yep. Yes. Great. Well,
0:46.4	welcome, William. I really am happy to have you on the show and want to talk about your book.
0:51.8	Oh, thanks for having me. So the 1933 World's Fair, you know, there was a lot going on in Chicago during that
1:00.3	time.
1:00.5	So anyhow, the 1933 World's Fair and Al Capone, William, tell us a little bit about your background
1:08.3	and how you, are you a writer by trade or what have you done
1:14.3	what other uh yeah i uh started i got a master's in history and then wrote my first novel and uh
1:22.3	can't published uh by a small press yeah and then i wrote a second one and that was picked up by Random House
1:29.5	and they gave me an advance
1:31.5	on that and the third one
1:32.6	and so I just took off running from there
1:35.3	I published 10 novels and then I switched
1:37.8	to what people call today narrative nonfiction
1:40.0	which is what Al Capone and the 33 Fair is
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