THE UNTOUCHABLES
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The story of crime in Chicago - how it started- how bad it got by the 1930''s-and one man who fought it with his band of federal agents who couldn't be bribed and weren't going to back off-Elliott Ness and his Untouchables..
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| 0:00.0 | music |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to another episode of |
| 0:21.0 | 1,000 One Heroes Legends, |
| 0:23.0 | Histories and Mysteries. |
| 0:25.0 | This one from our Heroes section is |
| 0:28.0 | titled The Untouchables. |
| 0:30.0 | This story took weeks of research |
| 0:32.0 | in getting to the unvarnished truth |
| 0:34.0 | about federal age and elegantness |
| 0:36.0 | and his band of untouchables, |
| 0:38.0 | men of utmost moral character |
| 0:40.0 | who would not take bribes |
| 0:42.0 | in a city that at the time was called |
| 0:44.0 | the Crime Capital of the World, |
| 0:46.0 | Chicago. |
| 0:48.0 | And after looking into it, |
| 0:49.0 | there was no doubt about placing this one |
| 0:51.0 | in the Heroes category. |
| 0:53.0 | My research quickly reminded me |
| 0:55.0 | that there's a tendency today |
| 0:56.0 | for some writers to bring attention |
| 0:58.0 | to themselves by finding negative stories |
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