Al Capone: VIDEO : No one name has become more closely identified with a particular period in history than Al Capone and the 1920s. As head of the Chicago branch of the organized crime families, Capone controlled prostitution, bootlegging, gambling, drugs, and the other enterprises that fed the coffers of Chicago’s gangster barons. Disputes were common among rival mobs, and when gang warfare broke out, Capone had the final word at the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. He successfully avoided the law until treasury agents caught him on charges of income tax evasion. He died in a federal prison, but his name will remain alive in the imaginations of Americans fascinated by the Roaring Twenties. (12 minutes)

Al Capone

No one name has become more closely identified with a particular period in history than Al Capone and the 1920s. As head of the Chicago branch of the organized crime families, Capone controlled prostitution, bootlegging, gambling, drugs, and the other enterprises that fed the coffers of Chicago’s gangster barons. Disputes were common among rival mobs, and when gang warfare broke out, Capone had the final word at the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. He successfully avoided the law until treasury agents caught him on charges of income tax evasion. He died in a federal prison, but his name will remain alive in the imaginations of Americans fascinated by the Roaring Twenties. (12 minutes)

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