Saturday Matinee: American History Tellers
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4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Saturday Matinee, we follow a young Al Capone as he arrives in Chicago looking for a fresh start. However, over the next few years tensions in the city's crowded criminal underworld will boil over, leading to a violent turf war known as the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.
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| 0:45.9 | I bet you thought I forgot. |
| 0:47.2 | Of course not. |
| 0:48.2 | I've even brought you something, too. |
| 0:49.8 | I know, I know I shouldn't have, |
| 0:51.4 | but it's not the ordinary chocolate and roses. |
| 0:53.8 | No, today, I bring you the gruesome gangland it's not the ordinary chocolate and roses. No, today, |
| 0:54.6 | I bring you the gruesome gangland killings that mark the beginning of the end for Al Capone. |
| 1:01.0 | We all know Al Capone, old Scarface himself, the most notorious mobster ever, and the inspiration |
| 1:07.1 | for countless other crime bosses in real life and fiction. But he was finally brought down famously for tax evasion. |
| 1:14.3 | That points to something, though. |
| 1:15.9 | Why couldn't he be arrested, charged, and convicted for his real crimes? |
| 1:19.9 | The illegal alcohol, the prostitution rings, the extortion, blackmail, and murder? |
| 1:25.2 | Well, for much of his reign, he was the untouchable, always slipping |
| 1:29.2 | through the fingers of justice as corrupt cops looked the other way and potential witnesses |
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