The Rise & Fall of Al Capone
American History Hit
History Hit
4.3 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Al Capone is one of the most notorious gangsters in US history. His story of rags to riches, set against the backdrop of the prohibition era, is worthy of the many movies that it has inspired.
Violent mobster, genius businessman or semi-professional baseball player, who was the real Al Capone? To find out, Don speaks to Claire White, Director of Education at the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.
Produced and edited by Sophie Gee. Senior Producer was Charlotte Long.
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| 0:00.0 | North Clark Street in Chicago is an average thoroughfare of businesses and homes. |
| 0:07.0 | Quiet on this Thursday morning in early 1929. |
| 0:11.0 | It is February 14th, St. Valentine's Day. |
| 0:15.0 | A group of men convenes inside the usually empty garage at 21-22 North Clark. |
| 0:21.0 | Well-dressed fellows and suits, ties, polished leather shoes. |
| 0:25.0 | One of them wears a carnation in his lapel. |
| 0:28.0 | A 10.30 a.m. a black Cadillac sedan arrives outside the garage. its tire tracks embedding in the light snow. |
| 0:36.2 | Under gray skies, four passengers, two of whom wear police uniforms, |
| 0:40.9 | climb out of the car carrying weapons, and enter. |
| 0:46.0 | Witnesses later describe hearing gunshots and a dog howling. |
| 0:51.9 | The four men left the garage apparently in a hurry. Their Cadillac nearly collided with a trolley car and sped south out of view. |
| 1:00.0 | It was someone from the neighborhood who poked inside and discovered the horrific sight. |
| 1:05.8 | Under the light of a single bulb suspended from the ceiling, seven men sprawled at the |
| 1:10.7 | foot of the wall they've been lined up against. It is a scene of bloody |
| 1:15.3 | mayhem, the worst of the gang violence that has recently plagued Chicago. It will also |
| 1:21.1 | mark the beginning of the end of kly Power for the man most believe ordered |
| 1:25.9 | the hit. |
| 1:27.7 | Al Capone. I'm so happy you're listening to this next episode of American history hit. |
| 1:45.6 | I'm your host Don Wildman, nice to be with you. |
| 1:48.2 | Alphonse Gabriel Capone was in 1899 the newborn baby of law-abiding Italian immigrant |
| 1:56.2 | Brooklynites Gabriella and Teresa Capone who had emigrated from a small |
| 2:01.0 | village outside of Naples in southern Italy. |
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