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hello I'm Jack Perkins welcome to biography Chicago in the Roaring Twenties a ton of sending parties unlimited booze and unrelenting violence behind much of that action was one man I called him Scarface Al Capone the most powerful man in the Underworld back in the twenties Al Capone Lord it over a criminal Empire worth hundreds of millions of from time he virtually ruled all of Chicago to power came from his mix of generosity and brutality he was willing to pay off anyone who could help him and murder anyone who wouldn't  today I'm biography please hear from some of the people who knew him well survived the notorious Al Capone Al Capone Who Rose to power with a deadly combination of raw brutality and brains  he wanted the public to love it but those who dared across a new better Scarface Al Capone was a very very evil man  for the big fellow killing was just part of his business plan plan to become the CEO of organized crime in Chicago how's the phone is not stupid **** if he was a person who took the legal job he'd be head of General Motors but as king of the Bootleggers during prohibition Scarface Al became more of a celebrity than any mere corporate executive he became the famous gangster in the world Alphonse Capone was a first-generation American born 17th 1899  his parents had many dreams when they left Naples from Erica  when the shuttle in Brooklyn pick up boost on hardship District life was rough for the Capones as they struggle to escape the waterfront finally moved when I was 10 to a better neighborhood he had a perfectly fine mother and father is mother was devoutly religious to the end of her life his father was a perfectly respectable Barber no reason to believe set any of the children would grow up to be anything other than perfectly respectable children and they all grew up to be criminals early you join the toughest local gangs stole things and when necessary used his fists young now had Flair he was A Cut Above the punks who roam the neighborhood with when he saw an elderly widows washboard being stolen when he was a kid he organized a kid gang to go get it to retrieve it to beat up the kids the other kids install it and return it to her and then to lead a parade as a sort of a celebratory parade afterwards and which he could portray himself and play the hero so even if Korean age you can free adolescent you can sort of agin to see the outlines of the Al Capone who grew up with a kind of a Robin Hood Legend Capone one more on the street than he Avenue School you drop down in sixth grade after smacking his teacher and then turn going to get thrashing from the principal  what do you learn was how to shoot first with a pool family gone  Capone cause trouble with his buddies but he also help support his big family I'll try the straight life wasn't going to munitions 3 as a pinsetter in a bowling alley on does a cloth cutter in a bookbindery he also is a sideline became a bounce around Coney Island and a bar turn down is the Harvard in Scott a joke because it was owned by a gangster named Frankie Yale that's where Capone really got his first taste of mob life or gangster life can you Arc it was also we're a small-time hoodlum Frank galluccio shielded his little sister Lina from Capone's advances and marked 18 year now full life  Capone came over to the table and over and said to Lina loud enough set the people at the next table swivel their heads in surprise at the language which was strange honey you got a beautiful I mean that is a compliment really defending a sister's on a galluccio pulled out a knife and slashed the left side of Capone's face giving rise to the Nick hated Scarface Capone was ashamed of the scars Sometimes using powder to hide them preferring to be photographed from the right side sing the scars with the result of the war injury these formative years were when Capone caught the eye of a Sharp Brooklyn mobster 17 years his senior Johnny tour will become Capone's role model Torio move to Chicago to run things the Vice Lord Big Jim colosimo Big Jim control the string of gambling whorehouses Coliseum nightclub just south of downtown was where the action was entertainers gangsters and politicians crowded Big Jim's Empire swell Torio needed a lieutenant with brains as well as Brawn so he recruited Capone with the imminent passage of pro efficient out will be an asset tutorial people he knew weren't going to stop drinking and this open up at brand new tax free business to him alcapone only 19 I just become a father and husband in that order he married an Irish girl may Coughlin who was two years older Almay and their baby came to Chicago in 1919 the city would never be the same in the Roaring 20s Chicago was synonymous with corruption wild Night Live rampant crime and flowing moves when prohibition became the law in you are a 1920 it was a special invitation which one of your old Al Capone to scheme move in take over and kill anyone who got in his way in a few years Capone will be running a criminal organization the likes of which Chicago and never seen But first he had some things to learn from his boss Johnny tour coriolis Capone's Mentor it was coming up through the ranks being attractive to the boss having the boss say this is someone who might succeed me one day I'm going to bring him along you started out the houses of prostitution either is a bartender / bouncers pimp Roper their stories of supposedly component standing out stop in front of the house is just saying the password by hey buddy I got some nice girls inside  the hot spot where Capone war was calacinos nightclub watering home for the city's high rollers with prohibition Torio saw dollar signs bootlegging was his answered prayer but his boss Big Jim colosimo 40 was rich enough and didn't need a new record without Big Jim Torio couldn't expand  exit Big Jim don't have to do it and it was Capone who was the one who was chosen to arrange it  how hired his former New York boss Frankie Yale to do the kill Big Jim was rubbed out in May of 1920 in the lobby of his own club the style of this hit was to become a Hallmark of Capone's murders plan deliberate and Witnesses who had sudden Amnesia now torrio and Capone could take over and cash in on bootlegging Capone at the right in thanks but he still needed some Polish or you took the rough edges off of Capone so I can everything else he insisted that you go to night school to improve his accent how to Brooklyn accent but evidently he ended up without that kind of an accent the people who knew him later in life said no you no particular is it all Capone Rose quickly through the ranks of the underworld he never wanted to be thought of as a criminal but rather is a gentleman with a passion for opera on the Finer Things money could buy Williams a very snappy dresser for those days but not exactly in the Brooks Brothers mode  he went to yellow and green where his dominant fashion statement colors with a milky white Borsalino what's a Dora that was a jam he wore a huge 11 and a half carat pinky ring that cost $50,000 he Italian glove silk underwear his style earned him the nickname you liked snorkie meaning sharp dresser I was Plumb plant is 5 foot 10 and a half in 175lbs commanding attention as he and his gang swept into night clubs used to come in with four or five eyes and they'd all sit at the table and then the girls would come over the hostesses in the club they'd all come around make a big fuss over him and he'd give them play you know he was very liberal he was a very nice person as to know what they said so many he never did anything it was his people that did it like his men that he had a whatever do the Dirty Work many people only believe homes good nature they didn't see evil just generosity like the time he spilled a drink on a show girls new dress what am I going to do you know like for the rest of the night so he did give me some money to go and have it taken care of I didn't want to take it nice is no make this again I think $25 I think it was there's something on the stage 11 do the Charleston you know and get a $5 bill and it was terrific you know we thought he was terrific to when is father died in 1920 how the dutiful son brought his family to Chicago together the Capones lived in a 15 room house on the Southside he brought his brothers into the rackets and supported his sisters comfortably to the day she died is youngest system of Father defended him why didn't I know nothing about his activities outside the family I do not recall any conversations about business matters outside the family he was a different guy he was regularly Unfaithful he was a Lusty man who was dealing with prostitutes and Sample the Wares would get drunk  he would be away from home for long periods long periods of time  he in effect would live away from home what he wasn't a drinking gambling or whoring Capone studied his boss torrio he learned how Chicago was divvied up and how to bring Gangland together to fill City stores for alcohol in 1922 under torios design local Mobsters made a peace agreement everyone would get a cut of the action that was Torio za  modus operandi to a triangle every together and agree in Capone learned that from Tori I think Capone-E learn to suppress his naturally violent instincts the strategy turned bootlegging into big business supply was controlled from breweries to Backyard Stills Saloon owners if they were smart Capone's beer  if you didn't they would come back and tell you you better take their beer this happened over and over again if you didn't do that again they would bomb your place and they will blow out the windows and then they would offer to lend you the money to repair it well nobody else give you the money to repair your place horse once you did that you were in fact in business with the Capone organization the government's estimate is they token on average 120 million large a year in sales from liquor prostitution and gambling Bay City so they were the equivalent of a medium sized Corporation and it was like a business there were guys with specific functions like in charge of beer truck repair in charge of reconstruction in charge of Brewery management play an organizer he could invest money in the in the conventional sense because that would Supply the government with the trail to his organization so it was an all-cash business he was in which was the Trinity of gambling prostitution and vice Capone also guarantee protection from the law by bribing cops and politicians Al Capone estimated 50% of Chicago police force work for him that's a big part of doing business otherwise you wouldn't operate from minute if you weren't getting protection 1922 was the year of the home finally got a fishily notice by the Chicago press in the early hours of August 30th he was arrested after a night of boozing Capone's temper erupted when the car driving slammed into a taxi badly injuring the driver  he pulled a gun and threatened the taxi driver waving around a fake sheriff's badge when the real police what up Capone was arrested he taunted the officer boasting that he fix this thing easy he did the charges were dropped worth it out walk got around fast his Legend was growing now just 23 years old owl became torio's partner at the top of the crime world koala temps to quench The public's there stepped up so did greed in 1923 the Gangland peace negotiate and under Torio shattered Chicago's notorious beer Wars began and grabbed headlines Nationwide blood flowed and bombs exploded from temperature December for Capone's enemies it ended in death they all think these guys would do would be to respond with violence and violence a sword a currency for them it's that's what they use to get their way during the entire prohibition-era 700 people were murdered in Chicago in bootlegging or probation related crimes torrio and Capone won the first round of the gang wars confident the controllers restore Stereo One on a four-month cruise leaving Capone and charge giving him license to become the most powerful man in the city 1924 Russian in a new era for Al Capone in Chicago corruption took a detour when a law-and-order man was elected mayor what is personal distaste for prohibition he enforced it so I'll set his sights on opportunities for growth in the suburbs starting with Cicero it only made him seem to be a much stronger criminal Leader by expanding into the suburbs he was really able to seal Up Chicago Lock Stock & Barrel down Cicero was made to order for Capone's gang it was a working-class bedroom community of 60,000 Webdriver it worked like a charm from sir one headquarters at the Hawthorne hotel out cut deals with local officials to operate beer and gambling joints to keep his power base Capone rig the Cicero election his man shot beat up on help voters hostage or opposed to mob rule on Election Day April 1st 1924 the Capone ticket was Victorious Brown suffered one major defeat his 30 year old brother Frank was killed in a shootout with Chicago Police the death of Frank Capone I think I found a fact on out and turn him from a kind of low-key Johnny torrio type of racketeer to a much more desperate and violet Hood it made him feel that his own life could become short at any time and that he should he would go before his much as he could the week Frank's death Capone open Cicero's first betting parlor the Hawthorne smoke shop Capone always said he had bad luck with horses but now it didn't matter because he going to have to take of racetrack prophets especially when the races were fixed to his friends he doled out Hot Tips like candy he and his bodyguards we're walking around in a Cummins by the racetrack and he's in Hey kid how you doing you said you see number six said he's going to win so one of his Goons came over and slip the tickets my pocket was a $5 to take it  the horse went off at 6:01 and with my plus I think I collected something like three hundred and something dollars Capone and his boss Johnny torrio now either hands in the till with 160 gambling joints and 123 saloons Justin Cicero was disgusted he exposed Town leaders on the mob payroll I detailed the Capone brothel with a death chamber run by owls older brother Ralph Hunting course that made me an enemy of the Capones as I was going to my office early one morning glanced up and saw a big black touring car, roaring toward the intersection this car Screech to a halt and four men jumped out goodnight Ralph Capone the midget lead and they headed for me and I was halfway across the intersection I dropped to the ground curled up put head between my legs and they gave me a real working over blackjacks and Billy is and but the interesting can I use a cake of soap in a knitted Woolen sock this is one of their the Capone's favorite murder instruments because if they if using this instrument if they hit the base in the neck and then base of the skull you can kill a person this time though it didn't work Saint John survived and was hospitalized and when I got up to play my bill of the cashier the hospital settle your bill was paid this morning and I should have something to stay cancer been paid oh yes they describe the man who invaded a slight scar on his left cheek good mascarpone to add insult to injury Big Al had also bought controlling interest in St John's newspaper Capone's takeover of others was easier in Chicago Heights he helped local Mobsters win their game War in return Capone me to financial killing getting an interested bootlegging pork at one time it was reported that Chicago Heights is worth around 36 million dollars to him by having the Chicago Heights people behind them his Network would play Dublin size Chicago Heights Mob Rules and there were times when he'd ride in open car and people would come up to him and shake his hand and you know he would even treat people like they were his friends like like they family and because of that they had a lot of respect for him respect paid off Johnny torrio was away on his Cruise Alex operations for new allies and reap the profits when toriel came back if there ever been any question Tory was mine that Al Capone was the man to succeed him that ended it there was also no question about Capone's explosive temporal loyalty on May when Al's accountant greasy thumb guzik whined that he'd been kicked around by local Bootlegger Alta game he unloaded a six shooter into the culprits head make blind in front of three Witnesses no one forgot it but no one would say they remembered it I'll went into hiding but later turned himself in to the police saying he was what time the day of the murder once again he beat the rap  there is no way to get Capone  on a The Substitute charges you couldn't get a jury they knew what would happen to them if they voted a conviction against the gangster and they said as much people would ask I have to carry a gun the rest of my life said one of them asking to be excused Capone knew it he went about his business or during the elimination of people who refuse to cooperate the one we ride with the preferred method let's get him in a car and let's take him to a nice secluded place and shoot him and dump him out of the car so there are no one places to innocent bystanders or any particular problems Beyond Capone's biggest problem that had to be taken care of was Northside gangster and well home florist d&o Banyan plenty of power in money but wanted more he made a fatal mistake when he tried to Swindle Capone and his boss play I want a brewery deal on the morning of May 19th Torio got arrested in a Prohibition Radio band you knew about toriel was on his way to The Slammer but not before you get revenge once again New York triggaman Frankie Yale got the nod yeah we do the job with two local hitmen decided to kill a banyan on November 10th when he was busy preparing flowers for a gangster funeral  when the three Hitman walked into the flower shop O'Banion reached out to shake his hand held on is the others pump to Banyan full of lead it was the end of O'Banion and the beginning of a bloody gang war that's because in January 1925 two of them banyan's men George Bugs Moran and Hymie Weiss try Revenge that bosses murder I went gunning for Capone and torrio they missed Al but managed to Ambush Torio tell me a recovered and was the prison on the prohibition charge in March while serving time he announced his retirement to no one's surprise leadership of the mob was pass Capone then just 26 years old do you eat the mob boss was front-page news he like being in the Limelight when accused of find it call a press conference to do with Chicago's increasingly vicious gang violence El was now moving Target he's shielded himself in his new high security headquarters in the plush Apollo tell secret tunnels help Allen is man-made quick getaways he never went anywhere alone component more security than President Calvin Coolidge he wrote in a $20,000 customized Cadillac limousine it was more like a tank it was 7 tons armor-plated with bullet proof glass the back window could be yanked when gunmen had to fire their enemies Capone now I didn't share they kept encroaching on each other's territory wasn't supposed to happen it did they shot each other Capone was going to have to eliminate one by one the opposition again bring one by one bring them all in line give the orders he did and he never looked back 1925 Echo Road gunshots violence was escalating with no end in sight Al Capone and his enemies were fighting with a new weapon the Tommy Gun  it demeans me change the rules of the game because they were much more violent than pistols once you combined a machine gun with a moving car you had a lethal instrument the likes of which you never been seen before so they up the ante and all the gangster Wars Chicago was For Better or Worse kind of the example par excellence of Gangland and Gangland violence the violence was much more noticeable and spectacular here than saying New York or elsewhere kapono ever brought violence to New York weather in late December to take his son to a doctor then he gave his buddy Frankie Yale a Christmas present slaughtering 3 of Yale's enemies Capone and his men were tested as usual all the witnesses were silent and the charges were dropped don't came back to Chicago tonight teen 26 and the continuing gang the stakes are getting higher when on April 27th I'll let a five-car assault on a rival gang outside of Cicero bar component is man open higher the tally three wounded 3 dead including a twenty-five-year-old assistant State's Attorney Bill mcswiggan had stayed close with his childhood buddy to work a poems enemies  it was an outcry over the murder of a public official so Capone vanished if I can went to Lansing Mary hit out at a little cottage with his mistress for the summer until the heat was off after a while he began negotiations the Illinois State authorities and delivered himself into their custody despite a major investigation a Coroner's inquest on the convening of 6 grand Maurice Capone was never indicted once again he got off proclaiming his innocence Capone appeared Untouchable in fact one day he went to a courthouse a jail in the police station asking if there was any policeman there any cop any detective any judge wanted to arrest him nobody nobody dared and of course he brought a reporter around with him to show that he was not a wanted man in Chicago I was the only photographer turn the paper had the only reporter with him and we went to all these places  lollies places one has nothing to do with them  not everyone played out of Capone's way trigger happy Hymie Weiss and Bugs Moran traded shots without all during the summer of 1926 but not hit their mark spectacular time to ball came in late September Capone was having lunch at the Hawthorne restaurant when a 10 Car Care event filled with wisest man wrote around the corner machine gun Fire split the air Capone left up and started to run  his bodyguard registered on him before register on it's something is wrong  and there's going to be more they must have been blanks to make us find out what's happening Dido forward knocked Capone to the floor and the  holding him down when the rest of the car is came by with real machine guns and they just shot up the entire block finally a gunman got out Nails in the doorway and sprayed the whole place 5000 bullets blasted the coffee shop in just under 10 minutes it was destroyed but amazingly no one was killed Capone pay the hospital bills for the one person injured then he turned his attention to getting rid of lice  Capone ordered his men to rent rooms that will look twice Moran headquarters when they spotted wise crossing the street they open fire one more problem eliminated  sooner are Bugs Moran became leader of the north side gang Capone sending condolences about wise denying any involvement with his assassination  what October Capone play the peace agreement with Miranda. The gang leaders a later said there's plenty of business for everybody why kill each other over it at age 27 poems power in the Underworld was growing but he crave recognition as an upstanding businessman after all he employed more than 400 people and control the multi Mill dollar operation we didn't go running around with a machine gun shooting people out of fast moving cars you would find him in office surrounded by Junior Executives of the phone's jangling three people waiting to get a little bit of his time executive decision that was his his working day that's the kind of criminal he was in other words he was a modern Criminal 1927 started as a Goodyear Pharrell by all measures the US attorney's office would estimate his organization took in 105 million dollars that all from unlawful Enterprises one of his allies Big Bill Thompson was voted back in as mayor of Chicago given control of the city and effect took a what things were going his way I'll try to relax he took his son to baseball games he boxed he like to have a good time Copeland said he was tired of being appreciate it and its role as public servant but he needed to get away so we bought one in January 1928 Capone paid $40,000 cash for 14 room mansion on Palm Island Florida near Miami invested another $100,000 in improvements to make it a paradise this wouldn't Chelsea Capone from problem starting to brew in his own organization I'll learn that his favorite New York Hitman Frankie Yale was stealing East Coast whose shipments loyalty Capone and he felt betrayed now the tables were turned my first 1928 Yale was the victim chased and shut down in New York by Alice gunman  Capone still at one significant rival Bugs Moran Bruins game was hijacking the mobs whiskey Capone was fed up with Moran's Antiques and at the end of December he went to Florida to Mastermind what would be his most infamous crime was one of the most fascinating and complicated hits in the history of Gangland country probably also the most celebrated on the morning of February 14th 1929 Moran was late getting to his Warehouse his men were there for shipment of whiskey strangers walked in to dressed as cops to others in plain clothes Moran's men thinking of a raid put their hands up face the wall and instantly were mowed down and inquest was assembled to investigate Moran and others pointed the finger at Capone but Al had an airtight Alibi he was in Florida in a meeting with the district attorney in Miami at the time of the shootings once again with no one willing to testify the case was closed no one knows for sure who did it my theory is they fought the last person to go in who looked quite a bit like Moran and was wearing the same outfit the Moran wore a light Overcoat with a darker brown Dora  I think I thought he was Moran  the city and the country was sickened by this killing but the Bloodshed wasn't over the same Valentine's Day think it was the most graphic show of violence yet now there was no Escape for Capone he was to become the target of criminals and lawmen alike public disgust with The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre had barely subsided when Al Capone made his next move to clean house in May 1929 as informants told him Hitman John scalise and Albert and salami and another gunman were conspiring to murder him Capone and Adventure World Roadhouse in Indiana he got their conference and through a bank with for them and they had a wonderful evening drinking and eating and then at the end of the night then the tables Ruby Tuesday on Treasury and he and his bodyguards I'll beat him to death with baseball bats before shooting the course their heads were smashed they were bad the police picked up the bodies and they took him to a martial area and we had taken I'm covered up you only saw a little bit of their face it was a really hideous crime affected was so hideous that even other gangsters began to distance themselves Capone at that time  suddenly trouble was everywhere for Capone public sentiment against him was growing his life was in danger it was a 50 housing on the contract out on it I'll freak at the only place he'd be safe was in a jail away from Chicago so we set it up on May 16th sing a movie theater in Philadelphia Capone and his bodyguard were arrested for carrying concealed weapons this game went haywire when the judge threw the book at them the verdict was a year in jail  I'll tried everything to get out early for bribery to giving money to local charities at Christmas it didn't work so I'll use this phone privileges to run his gang long distance from jail  the news he got from home was bad Capone and his organization will now a target of the federal government  President Hoover wanted to see Big Al behind bars for a long time he got sing is AIDS have you got that fellow Capone yet the IRS was working on it closing in on his gang well he was still in jail in Philadelphia Ralph Capone was gotten and was sent away Jack guzik was sent Away Frank Nitti who was Capone's number two was sent away all on income tax  when Capone was prison in March 1930 new problems awaited him here just been named Public Enemy Number One by the Chicago crime commission but he wanted people to think of him as a good guy the country was entering the depression so Capone responded opening Chicago's first soup kitchen feeding 3000 hungry people a day  I want polio roughing up Loose Hair Warehouse on 935 South State Street Waverly Capone's generosity someone of a folk hero in the media but in June I lost one of his major pipelines to the Press Jake lingle who covered crime and politics for the Chicago Tribune what's on Capone's payroll was gunned down by one of our Rivals when I look at home I got that shake  well I took a picture too and then call the office did Jake lingle just kill he was on his way to the racetrack and the only reason I know that is because you had a racing for him here Capone avenge lingle's death can't deal with his newest enemy the federal government  pop culture is left the impression that a group of prohibition agent down Capone The Untouchables led by Eliot Ness in reality did little more than stage a couple of raids for the press the IRS tax man who at all play put away Capone's top lieutenants where the government's real heroes but it wasn't easy legally Alden known a thing you couldn't buy real estate you put his house in Florida in his wife's name he put his house in Chicago in his mother's name he put his car in his wife's name he didn't keep Ledger's but saw this book where is Camp ledgers and eventually the IRS discovered the ledgers was able to decipher the ledgers and was able to track some of the loads in the ledgers to Capone's old bookkeepers and then track them back to Capone himself it took five years to bring all the evidence together on June 5th 1931 The Man known is Alphonse Capone was indicted on 22 counts of income tax evasion dating from 1925 through 19 29 the prosecution led by United States Attorney George EQ Johnson said kapono Dunkel Sam just over $215,000 Capone did everything in his power to control the outcome of this case Capone hired five hold them out every New York kill my father and they were spotted here and the Secret Service had tail them enough to stop this and Coppola's Givenchy better send them home that's just before the trial we had a squad car as cargo squad car in front of our house in Southside of Chicago and one in the back by the house my father and Secret Service with him all the time sing the only way to keep my life Capone tried to plea-bargain but the judge wouldn't hear of it then Capone open his wallet to buy off the jury but when the judge found out switch jurors moments before the trial was set to begin on October 7th  there was no real defense took a poem with so many hard-working Americans paying tax some small salaries and so many out-of-work there wasn't much sympathy for Big Al the Big Spender the jury was out nine hours there are 22 ballots taken and as We Know by history that Al Capone found guilty of income tax evasion not murder not pimping not all the dirty things you did or killing but income tax but that was the only way  he could be prosecuted and that's what my father did Capone was sentenced 11 years behind bars the stiffest penalty of any tax case to date it's safe to assume the Capone ever expected to be convicted or if he was convicted wait to spend perhaps a year or two in jail not 10 or 11 years as he left Corey look to the photographers and said get enough boys you won't be seeing me for a long time Capone appeal the verdict of lost and went from Chicago's Cook County Jail to federal prison in Atlanta in August 1934 he was sent to the Alcatraz Alcatraz Capone kept to himself his old ways didn't work there in 1936 a fellow prisoner tried to stop and Capone in the back for the pair of scissors  the 1938 Al was officially diagnosed as suffering the degenerative effects of syphilis picked up from one of his what's the two girlfriends his mind was going Capone needed medical treatment and in January 1939 he was transferred to the federal correctional center Los Angeles in November he was released from prison and sent to Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore I'll return to Florida in March 1940 say the word Capone for the rest of his life at age 48 on January 25th 1947 Alphonse Capone died of cardiac arrest his body was taken to Chicago for burial over the very cold day in January of 1947 effectives 11 zero at the time funeral because a person is turned out there's any **** by hand AJ Accardo who was the voice of Lamar invented former bodyguard for El Capone to all crime syndicate gangsters to show up the funeral and pay their respects El Capone even though Capone had no power and was helpless when he died Capone's run is a mop King when was Oliver but his fingerprints on crime and Chicago's reputation lives on established the underpinning what is now the Chicago organized crime family it gave it the mob a start here in the Windy City and that the vet beginning led to Zenith and activity in the fifties and sixties turn into the seventies that was in continues to be in some form an alliance between the hoodlums that began under Capone and an elected public officials Chicago can't shake its link with the big fellow in 1993 at tourist attraction paying homage to him open his Legend lives on AC Alphonse Capone my father made many speeches and made this point about Al Capone balloons occasions  that had this man taking all this energy count basic intelligence and guts if you will and directed energy down legitimate The Avenues it been a very successful businessman about it tell your charm about him they could use when he wanted to use and there's a course with deceptive but as we all know he didn't use his talent in that direction and as a result people died people were hurt in Chicago lost its reputation course Capone is famous wherever you go if you mention Chicago people instantly associate that City with Capone there a lot lots of celebrities very very few will become Illusions so their name means the same thing to everyone who hears it cabana's want  healing prayer tell me if I have anything except that he was a bad guy  any reason to maybe that I felt that way is because I happen to be in the time and anybody that them is it hurts an Italian person I feel I feel hurt until  listen to me it was a bum can I 1033 Chicago entrepreneur decided to cash in on alcapones Legend he opened a museum called Chicago tourist could buy T-shirts with Capone's lightness or watch it's only somebody that Capone Chicago went out of business and that closing delighted many Chicagoans who felt the museum glorified a brutal man who symbolized the city most violent era  well whether those Chicagoans like it or not the truth is that Al Capone remains one of Chicago's most famous names for biography I'm Jack Perkins thanks for watching

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