Tuesday, November 3, 2009

The Massacre

The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago, Illinois, in 1929: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran. Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected to have played a large role in the St. Valentine's Day massacre, assisting Capone.
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  1. Organized Crime and ProhibitionNovember 3, 2009 at 1:56 PM

    This was a terrible event, but back then guys like this could get away with these types of things.

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  2. Organized Crime and ProhibitionNovember 4, 2009 at 5:24 AM

    I feel that this act was very sneaky because this whole time Capone was in Flordia, so he couldn't get blamed for this.

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