Episode #224 - What's True About Al Capone? (Part III)
Our Fake History
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🗓️ 25 March 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Who brought down Al Capone? Was it Eliot Ness and his storied “Untouchables” or is their story the result of distorted memoire written by washed-up glory-hound? If Eliot Ness didn’t secure a conviction against Al Capone then who did? The pinnacle of Capone’s career in Chicago came after years of bloody gang wars, but his most devastating move against his enemies may have brought on more heat than he could handle. Should Capone be blamed for his own undoing? Tune-in and find out how fake history induced heart attacks, sly judges, and evil banjo players all play a role in the story.
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| 1:06.0 | today's episode is going to be a bit more violent than the average episode of Our Fake History. |
| 1:12.6 | I know this whole Capone series has been pretty bloody, but part three is especially gruesome. |
| 1:19.5 | There will be descriptions of murder that may be disturbing for younger listeners. |
| 1:25.1 | I know a lot of you out there like to listen to this show with your kids. |
| 1:28.8 | This one might not be great depending on how old those kids are. So please use your discretion. |
| 1:37.5 | With that said, enjoy the show. |
| 1:53.4 | Have you ever heard the story of how Elliot Ness died? You've heard of Elliot Ness, the Chicago-born Prohibition agent that's been celebrated in pop culture as the man |
| 1:59.9 | who brought down Al Capone. |
| 2:02.7 | In fiction, he is the Dick Tracy to Capone's big boy, the incorruptible super cop who managed |
| 2:11.2 | to bring law and order to a city that had long since given up on such quaint notions. |
| 2:20.4 | This is a man who has been portrayed on screens big and small by the likes of Robert Stack and Kevin Costner. But how did he meet his end? |
| 2:30.1 | Did he go down in a hail of machine gun bullets raiding the last of Chicago's Alki cooking joints? |
| 2:37.5 | Was he taken out by a hit called in by one of Capone's successors? |
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