I hope you enjoy this one, and that you learned something new about Al Capone along the way!
Everyone knows the legend: the pinstripes, the cigar, the Tommy gun, the St Valentine’s Day Massacre, and Eliot Ness kicking his door in. But Capone was in Miami when the massacre happened, Ness never put him in prison, and the scars he called war wounds came from a bar fight on Coney Island. So I followed his footsteps instead, from Brooklyn to Chicago to Alcatraz. It turns out the most feared man in America was brought down by an accountant, and three dusty ledgers from the back of a filing cabinet.
Robin Hood or public enemy? Let me know what you think in the comments!
0:00 Meet Al Capone
1:27 Chapter 1: Scarface
3:56 Chapter 2: Secondhand furniture dealer
6:10 Chapter 3: The beer wars
9:21 Chapter 4: Valentine’s Day
12:54 Chapter 5: The ledger
17:04 Chapter 6: The Rock
18:37 Myth versus record
20:02 The end
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com): “Cool Vibes”, “Backed Vibes Clean”, “Hidden Agenda”, “Crossing the Chasm”, “Interloper”, “Thinking Music”, “Aftermath”, “Airport Lounge”
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
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