Al Capone: The Untouchable Legend (Full Program)

buddy down here what we know be their point that my mom RJ oh my god get your head down forgetting holy crepes are come out the wall that is their doctor god sakes holy smokes die die die die die get the head polish Oh Holy Mother oh that guy got it two to three times a day tourists are taken on a tour through Chicago in the bus of The Untouchables learning what it was like to live in the city back in the 1920s oh we lose anybody what one guy in the back put your fingers put your finger right in the hole Darrell hold it like they tell in the army there now I just hold it that was close that was close there but all right now shut up and listen up now here in Chicago you don't got to know a lot to get by I don't know if you ever been to Chicago during the 1920s before but I'll tell you right now it's a rough town you got to keep your eyes peeled you never know what could happen you don't even have to look for trouble and you can find it sometimes so keep your eyes peeled you hear you see something yell out warn everybody else all righty between 1920 and 1929 the is very good in Chicago the city is booming and so is organized crime rival gangs divide the city into territories which they constantly fight over using methods that can hardly be described as peaceful even today some people are still fascinated by these wild times in Chicago the club of the merry gangsters has been founded I would love to have lived in the 20s time will be no an economic boom up until the Great Depression a lot of people were doing very well I like the the attitudes and the social structure of the time it was an era I think of a lot of fun it's a period in history that I really find fascinating you could be a secretary by day and be a gangster's girlfriend at night I think that would have been terrific exciting I don't think I would have liked to have been a gangster I might have been good at it but I don't think I have the emotional makeup for it it's a very high-pressure profession in 1920 a stranger arrives in Chicago in his hometown New York he only managed to make his mark as a small-time gangster among the other small-time criminals now he's ready for something new his name Al Capone in his own lifetime he will become the biggest gangster of all time he has been the subject of scientific research and is adored by true and faithful fans this one is of course I'll pass on my over Connie to my left we go around clockwise this is a Capone on the way to prison Al and I ignore I have no reason why he's smiling the members of the merry gangster fan club meet every few weeks to exchange information anecdotes and gossip exactly okay all helpfully here you always get the photographer's the Newsboys a good picture it's got cigar as hand use playing cards with the US Marshal and perfectly dressed oh of course never never had a bad day on arrival in Chicago Al Capone meets up with his old friend Johnny Torrio Torrio is working for the undisputed king of Chicago's underworld Big Jim Colosimo Colosimo came to Chicago 40 years ago and worked as a street cleaner before creating his own lucrative source of income a protection racket he promised to protect acquaintances in return for regular payments by doing this Colosimo worked his way up to become the undisputed head of the underworld directly or indirectly he is involved in practically every illegal business the owners of illegal gambling halls live a quiet life as long as they can deliver a regular payment to Colosimo due to his good contacts all those who pay for their protection are left alone by the police everyone is happy the gamblers enjoy their game the owners enjoy their profits the corrupt police improved their modest salaries and the king of the underworld continues to build his empire Al Capone fits into Colosimo plans and is made a debt collector the rules are straightforward and most people play by them nine out of ten illegal gambling halls pay Colosimo their protection money and it would start at the top money would go to the mayor and end up at the bottom with money being stuffed in the pockets of police captain's police sergeants and other lower ranking police officials those who do not wish to be protected by Colosimo receive a visit either by the police or Al Capone Capone is infamous face brutality dead bodies litter the streets the second line of business is prostitution equally if not more profitable than the protection racket however just as Colosimo is established a new law is introduced which severely disrupts his business starting in January 1920 prohibition comes into effect the manufacture trade and consumption of alcohol is prohibited nobody believed in prohibition that all think seems prohibition was started by a woman's group in Evanston called the WCTU was the women's Christian Temperance Union but they were the only ones that believed in it I don't know how they influenced the national government but they did and so everybody enjoyed cheating on that that law as a matter of fact my wife and I used to go down to a speakeasy believe it or not in the basement of the Chicago Board of Education building at LaSalle Street and Wacker Drive where they'd open the slide and if we recognize you they let you in they served you your alcohol drinks alcoholic drinks in and tea cups which was to prove to you that you were doing something illegal secret clubs speakeasies serve illegal alcohol only checked friends are admitted however enjoying alcohol remains dangerous the government initiates raids to combat illegal alcohol traders the result is a further increase in the price of alcohol Capone sees the potential in the alcohol trade and suggests to his boss Colosimo that he gets involved however Colosimo is too busy mixed up in his own divorce his new love is very demanding and he has no time for business now makes use of colosimo's weakness to get rid of the Opera lover with Colosimo x' death al capone is now the number two in the hierarchy of the Mafia only Torrio is above him together Torrio and Capone into the illegal alcohol trade a successful and remarkable move for Capone after arriving in Chicago as a poor immigrant prohibition provided Capone with an exciting lucrative opportunity to become a millionaire on the one hand the potential for profits were extremely high and on the other hand the possibility of being arrested and car serrated punishment though that possibility was low so this was an ideal market situation for Capone to enter he was an immigrant who was faced with a lot of adversity when he came to America I don't think there were a lot of opportunities by way of education or job opportunities for him so he became a criminal today ferries leave Manhattan Harbor to circumnavigate the Statue of Liberty several times a day millions of tourists admire the Statue of Liberty for decades a symbol of the new world and unlimited opportunities the round-trip also takes the tourists to Ellis Island up until the 1950s this small island just off the New York shoreline used to be the first arrival point for immigrants coming to America at the turn of the century hundreds of thousands of immigrants from all over the world were heading for the United States the landing stage which fascinated tourists used today was once a path leading to an uncertain future it was here that the new arrivals equipped with only a few belongings hoped to be able to make a new start in 1894 Gabriella and Theresa Capone and their two sons also land here the family finds a home in Brooklyn among the other Italian and Irish immigrants he was also a victim of of his family's financial situation they were poor they lived in the Lower East Side so you know it was a ghetto and even like today in many large American cities there's poor areas where there just aren't opportunities for people other than criminal activity I mean that seems like the easy way out in 1899 Alphonse Capone is born he starts to follow his older brothers around and together the kids join a street gang within the gang al soon finds his way around becoming streetwise and able to hold his own in those days that was the thing to do to join a street gang that was your protection the father works as a barber to earn a living for the family of nine he's left with little time or money and can only offer fatherly love and a few sweets I took all the CUNY copy of Capone wanted his boys to win the value of a dollar when each child reached the age of maybe 11 12 he would build them a shoeshine shoeshine box in Al's case he gave me shoeshine box somebody had told Gabriel where to send his son to shine shoes then they pick up a couple of bucks over the weekend a couple of bucks means the most to Dallas over who weekend even at school Al Capone is disruptive when his teacher tells him off he decides never to go back after school Al Capone came under the influence of Frankie Yale he was about six years older than him seven years older like that but already who was enveloping into you know a boss Frankie Yale asked him to look in the mirror and concentrate and try try to perfect a dangerous look you don't even have to open your mouth you just look at the guy like this the look is going to tell the guy if you do what I tell you or I'm gonna kill you Frankie Yale offers Capone a job in one of his bars in Coney Island the place where New Yorkers go to have a good time Capone's acquaintances are gangsters and his girlfriends are prostitutes it is here that he catches syphilis a disease which he never completely recovered from a fight over a woman also leaves him with deep knife cuts and scars on his left cheek this earns him the nickname Scarface a name he deeply hates never again will he allow his photo to be taken from the left side Al Capone moves forward in an organized way planning and striking accurate ow nearly killed a man an Irishman named Finnegan last name Finnegan and when Frankie L found out about it he got him a job he called up Chicago and got him to go out thought the Chicago because this here Finnegan belonged to Wild Bill loveth and he knew that this wild beloved was a madman you know he was going to find eg on the track when he gets his mind to something that's it he's gonna find you especially with them scars fried ID so you go out to Chicago if he had stayed there I think New York would have become the center of gangland but he brought all of his know-how and nastiness with him to Chicago and in Chicago there was one man who ran it all in that whisker poem Little Italy in Chicago is to Capone in many ways similar to New York newcomers look for the districts where people from their own country live you live work marry raise your children and then die all within your own district the families support each other and live according to their own laws the number one principle is that they take care of themselves rather than involving the local authorities the Italians were very much to themselves the Irish were to themselves and so are the Germans each one had retained their own cultures and part of that culture was was for instance the Italians and their and their love for wine and the Irish ship for their love of whiskey and beer so when Prohibition came in it was completely foreign to the immigrant population in Chicago so to them it was only natural to start to produce alcohol but then as they produce the alcohol they realized that they could also make a lot of money off of it because there was a there was a large community to serve by selling it so I think that that's probably why Chicago became the center of gangland in prohibition after his father's death al moves the rest of the family from New York to Chicago together the Capone brothers set up a professionally organized alcohol trade Oh with toria's permission old breweries and distilleries around Chicago are reopened from production to bar everything is taken care of and tightly organized the cobwebs of years of neglect were swept from back armies of men recall the Polish the drilling machinery put the long-neglected plants in perfect order for the rush of business it was certain to conquer another emphasis was given to business when the president would he's named the beer bill ralph was the one who rose the highest he ended up being involved in beer distribution probably in sales of beer which apparently accounts for his nickname bottles the other brothers tended to have more minor jobs never really rose high in Chicago gangland even in the 50s 60s etc the original complex stood on the foundation of this building here was put up in 1857 burned down only about two weeks after it was built the first time they lit the kilns up to start making beer apparently there was a problem and a whole place burned to the ground corrupt politicians also kept the illegal trade going Chicago's mayor bill Thompson was not opposed to the occasional drink after Thompson loses the election Capone's gang pulls out of Chicago city center they want to establish new headquarters in the suburb of Cicero which is perfect for running the business dismal straightforward and easy to govern and last but not least it is easy to manipulate the election of a new mayor the tendency is to think that Capone was always the one who initiated the bribes but in fact politicians and police officers sometimes initiated the corruption and as I say there was this close exchange relationship between the politicians and the police on the one hand and Al Capone on the other police officers earned a very little money but the mob saw that they got regular pay off list the mob kept regular books with the names of all of the patrolmen and the sergeants and lieutenants in there and they got regular contributions and most of them took the money because they weren't earning very much in those days and they needed it and in exchange for that some police officers became informants for the mob told him when they were going to be raids and stuff so they could hide the things other ones just look the other way when things happen they bribed the officials they hand-picked the local candidates they terrorized the voters by the time League carefully delayed news of what was happening reached the state capital by the time the National Guard arrived on the scene it was too late the polls were closed Cicero had been taken the electorate are gently persuaded to vote for the candidate that the Capone support the people of Cicero are incensed police forces which ammonia corrupt are brought in from Chicago but Capone still achieves his goal and the alcohol friendly mayor wins the election but the price is high Frank Capone killed in a shootout with the police the closely knit Capone family are in shock Capone had sort of a dual life on the one hand there's al capone the man with his wife and family in the house with the brothers and whoever else was staying there his mother and sister on Prairie Avenue maybe he spent three days a week on Prairie Avenue looking like a you know a typical family man on the other hand he was a gangster and being a gangster involves violence because that's the only way that they have to enforce the agreements they make so it could be a very violent individual especially with people who double-crossed him I think that particular view that view that says Capone was a psychological misfit I think that falls down though it falls down because Capone was able to form some emotionally close relationships during his life he obviously had loving relationships with his son with his wife with his brothers as well as with members of his gang despite the close family relationship Vincenzo the oldest son leaves the house one day and never returns Vincenzo's sends a letter telling them that he is well but no one knows of his whereabouts despite their search the Capone's never find him sometime in 1920 a man steps off a train in Nebraska at the Town Hall in Houma he registers himself as Richard Hart he didn't want the family to find him for what reason I don't know and he changed his name as far as we know because he was interested in a movie star that was called William s heart he leads a modest inconspicuous lifestyle marries and has four children he earns a living as a painter but when prohibition is introduced he decides to join the police Vincenzo's alias Richard Hart engages in a relentless fight for prohibition my father was very strong-willed and he knew what he wanted to do and he was afraid of nobody at anytime and he was very very tough Richard heart becomes known face brutal crusade against illegal distillers nobody would believe that this strict teetotaler was the brother of the very man who a few thousand miles away under Fortune in the illegal alcohol trade you my dad never did tell me he was part of the Capone family he never told my mother he never mentioned a word even after he went back to the family he never talked about any of it all and he hardly ever mentioned as far as him being a brother of Capone Al Capone had established himself as an illegal alcohol trader and had plenty to laugh about the big boss enjoys all of life's great pleasures visiting shady bars and hosting lavish parties you he always finds time for an enjoyable game of billiards he loves to surround himself with boxers and jockeys and he also manages to have the media on his side Al Capone was very good at public relations he used to duck the press when they would try to take his pictures he would swing at them or threaten their lives and one day a newspaper photographer named Tony variety who was also a boxer - Capone aside and says you're making a fool of yourself and these newspaper guys can make you look ridiculous when you put your hat in front of your face and hide like that he says cooperate with them and they'll be nicer to you we went to lunch there and of course we had the booze which we all wanted and as prohibition time and after the lunch boy Capone passed around these cigars they were Havana cigars when I was a cigar smoker I was smoking 10 cigars a day but they were nickel cigars and I unwrapped the Havana cigar that he gave us and said with it and started smokin and I enjoyed it so much I raved about it and when I left when I left the luncheon he handed me a box of 50 of those cigars as a gift and I never could smoke a cheap cigar after that the rest of my life despite all this Capone never forgets to keep an eye on the business Torrio and the other rival gangs have divided the city Tory and Capone controls Southside where most of the Italian immigrants live their biggest opponent Dean O'Banion reigns in the north side where the Irish Bohemians Austrians and Germans live on the surface O'Banion appears to be a loving family man and a harmless flower seller however the flower shop is the headquarters of the cold-blooded calculating Irish gang O'Banion plans to extend his territory when Capone hears of this he sends his best men to thwart O'Banion's plans on November 10th O'Banion arranges his shop-window just as he does every morning when a car stops in front of the shop O'Banion is shot dead immediately a crowd of reporters gather around the front of his shop everybody in the city knows of this killing is the beginning of a merciless gang war I'm Eve ice O'Banion successor seeks revenge one by one Capone's best men are brutally killed off in the Irish gangs bloodthirsty revenge in only a few weeks there are more than a dozen deaths very very very effective up between 1924 that tommy gun is introduced and the gangs profit from the weapon industry's latest invention within a very short time it becomes the gangsters favorite weapon real device pins before they hit the ground mm-hmm in crime scenes us yes you can fire it from the shoulder and it's a heavy gun you have to trust your weight to fire to the shoulder you need to lean forward and compensate for the weight of the gun which was largely back here to maintain your balance if you're fired from the hip there isn't that much of a kick I guess that's sort of a myth about the big kick of the Thompson but a fire in the hip pretty much like this and you don't have to adjust your weight so you can stand level and then of course if you fire a whole magazine you got to put another way in now again for practical purposes if you can't kill a guy with 50 rounds or can't get your work done you might as well change the profession Capone himself learns to appreciate the true power of this new weapon on August 10th 1924 his arch enemy Jaime vice finally attempts to assassinate Capone the assassination fails Capone survives and vice knows that this is his own death sentence [ __ ] Weiss keeps the flower shop as his headquarters right next door was mrs. Rafferty's boardinghouse a three-story building al rants apartments facing the street he puts machine-gunners in the rooms sitting there waiting for what the police estimated was about two weeks judging by the layers of cigars and cigarette butts right along the ledge of the windows as they sat there keeping individual [ __ ] Weiss had a habit of coming every day from the north side of Chicago he would take his big touring car and make a half circle turn right in the middle of the street and always park the car in front of the front door of Holy Name I'm advice dies in bugs Moran becomes a successor who hits back by seriously wounding John Torrio after his convalescence Torrio decides to retire now Capone is the boss he can continue in the way he wants to Al Capone's working week consists of four days during this time he resides in the noble Lexington hotel after a leisurely breakfast and studying the daily press he makes a few phone calls and takes his time dressing himself in fine clothes by early afternoon he moves to his study in the hotel suite where his colleagues wait in hope of advice and decisions he probably wouldn't in some sense have been a bit like a medieval King in terms of his basic work thing there were people lined up waiting to approach the throne to ask the King for something either some help a favor or the King would have to make a decision in terms of who would be appointed what giving out commissions in the army let's say I would give people certain positions running gambling houses etc people would approach al about them what should we do about beer sales what about this what about that we're having this problem having that problem it would be up to Alec upon quite frequently as the boss to solve it if it couldn't be solved lower the organization function as a business with Al Capone as the boss or chairman of the board and a board of directors each board director had a very specific function in the organization either accounting or running stills or running a particular Street crew that was responsible for carrying out various activities that would bring in money and then kick it back to the board of directors in Al Capone however the larger the organization the more complicated and intricate the business and his opponents become more and more troublesome in particular the Irish gangs boss bugs Moran Capone decides to get rid of him in February 1929 bugs Moran receives a phone call the caller offers a shipment of whiskey the price is good sir Moran is interested a meeting is scheduled for February the 14th Valentine's Day but instead of the dealer the police show up Moran's men readily raised their hands thinking that the police are only interested in the whiskey however the supposed policemen are not interested in whiskey the seven members of the Moran gang are massacred only Moran himself manages to escape a lot of the gangland killings carried out by the Capone organization were very well organized very well managed in the extreme case of st. Valentine's Day Massacre it was well set up preparation weeks in advance almost sort of a military operation in some sense the gunmen were imported from out of town so that the Moran gang would not recognize them by sight you'd have to get the weapons you would have to get the cars you would have to have a place to hold these men while the lookouts who themselves had to be organized we're able to call and say okay and we think they're all there now then you have to have a way to dispose of all the stuff and get these guys back out of town again the massacre receives a lot of public attention seven killings in one incident is too much even for Chicago however Capone does not even consider hiding out on the contrary he intensifies his contacts to several reporters it took seven men to be killed the st. Valentine's Day Massacre before you got much attention in Chicago whereas in other cities if three men were killed it was already a massacre and they're calling for a crackdown on the gangs we didn't have television in those days and not everyone had radios either but it was so we learned of Capone by the newspapers and I think the newspaper men had a part in making him the legend that he was if you could call him a legend after all he gave him he gave me my my liquor and he gave all of us newspaper men our liquor not only did he have speakeasies but he furnished us with personal gifts of booze of a kind of whiskey we wanted or whatever those gin or what it was whatever any kind of me who all we had to do was ask him and we got it and we didn't have to pay for it it was a gift those of the reporters who Capone considered to be friends were protected by him for instance if anybody got robbed burglarized or anything Capone would find you're the guy that did it to you and kill him there was no trials not all of these lawyers making money and the millions like they are with the Clinton affair the people who were bothering his friends were eliminated from life the autumn of 1929 brings the Great Depression which gives Al Capone an opportunity to gain good publicity through charity he presents himself as a modern-day Robin Hood taking from the rich to give to the poor it was a time when people didn't have much money thousands and thousands of people were out of work and they were looking for a full care was and things like that and they didn't like the politicians Capone was an equal opportunity employer it wasn't just Italians or Sicilians he employed people from various ethnic groups I think that was important he hired on the basis of who could do the job rather than who was in his same kinship group the number of unemployed people arises to hundreds of thousands parents cannot even provide food for their own children Al Capone is one of the first to set up a soup kitchen again Capone receives favorable press the guy did a heck of a lot of good for the city of Chicago he during the Depression he built three food stations for the four people that had their meals every day all over the city Capone's certainly paid to run a soup kitchen on South State Street just south of the loop the downtown area in Chicago in 1929 1930 I think that was more of a public relations ploy he was you know going to trial for income tax evasion and it wasn't long thereafter that the kitchen was closed so I think this was a way to try and show to the public what a good guy Al Capone was it wasn't that unemployment went away when they closed the soup kitchens it was the tea I believe the trial had begun and there wasn't uh there wasn't anything more to be done on the public relations side Capone's involvement in charity can no longer help him behind the scenes the authorities have already collected a vast amount of material against him nevertheless they are not able to prove him guilty of a single crime the Illinois Crime Survey which was published in 1929 concluded that the criminal justice system in Chicago was paralyzed it could not move Al Capone was beyond the reach of the law there was one man whose single goal in life was to get Capone behind bars state prosecutor George Johnson alcohol made Chicago famous for its game my father tried to make Chicago famous for law enforcement culture and background this is the home of alcohol but it was also a home of my father Georgia Hugh Johnson one had to go corruption is everywhere the state prosecutor Johnson cannot even trust the members of his own Department Johnson started out with a padlocking drive and the padlocking drive consisted of getting court orders to shut down saloons and other places in Chicago that we're selling Capone's alcohol that didn't work because the prohibition agents who were supposed to put the padlocks on the door sometimes didn't do it that frustrated Johnson Johnson intends to whack pone down again and again Capone faces losses from large-scale raids executed by security forces Capone feels the noose getting tighter around his neck Capone threatens to kill Johnson's family and they are given police protection allowing the prosecutors to carry on with their investigation their new strategy is to charge Capone with tax evasion and indeed they finally find something they calculate that between 1924 and 1929 Capone evaded a total of two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars a Capone there is no way out and in October of 1931 he is charged with tax evasion Al Capone still believes he is untouchable but the indictment is watertight on top of this Capone makes a crucial mistake he had an opportunity to hire one of the best attorneys in Chicago this was a man who had been a federal prosecutor this is a man who actually had worked with George EQ Johnson the story goes that this private attorney made Component offer for $100,000 he would represent component the tax case Capone who by some accounts was a cheapskate when it came to some personal matters declined the offer thought it was too much money and instead Capone made a very stupid decision he hired Michael Ahern and associates and Ahern was mainly experienced in the area of defending thugs and defending you know Street criminals Aaron was a polished attorney yes very skillful attorney yes was he an expert in tax law No at the end of the trial George Johnson in his final speech succeeds in destroying the Robin Hood myth Capone is created the jury agrees with the prosecution Capone is found guilty of tax evasion the numerous capital crimes carried out by his organization were never mentioned during the trial nevertheless the king is brought down 11 years of prison are waiting Al Capone is transferred to Atlanta by train there he serves his first year in prison after this he receives a transfer to the brand-new high-security prison Alcatraz it is located on a small island in the Bay of San Francisco up to 200 prisoners are to be kept here the modern security measures and the dangerous current surrounding the island make an escape virtually impossible Alcatraz houses the most brutal and unpredictable criminals as inmates robbers murderers and gangsters Al Capone is the only one to be kept in Alcatraz for tax evasion on August 22nd 1954 our Capone's cell door is locked for the first time from now on the big gangster boss is known as inmate number 85 there are other changes the syphilis that he caught as a young man is taking its toll some days he seems mentally vacant whereas on other days his mind is clear shaf in January 1936 the inmates start to rebell and want to make Capone their leader but al knows it's pointless refuses he is right and the inmates rebellion is brutally suppressed many of his fellow inmates aren't forgiving of his lack of loyalty and they plan their revenge the prison barber shop seems to offer the best opportunity the attempted assassination takes place in the barber shop where tourists now wander in June 1936 a lifer attacks Capone with a pair of scissors Capone survives severely wounded Capone becomes a loner whilst wasting away in prison news from the outside world reaches him that is not encouraging prohibition is to be scrapped Capone is aware that one of his most important sources of income has dried up somebody else is also badly affected by the end of prohibition Vincenzo the prodigal son who fought for prohibition loses his job the Capone's receive a letter from him where he announces his return there had been different guys that had you know said well they were Capone but they turned out they weren't of course they were trying to get into the family the one thing when he was confronted with to his mother that would be my grandmother Theresa he mentioned the fact that he went up this one alley or that somebody went up this one alley to a certain place but they had goats and they got goat's milk and he had to drink so much goat's milk every day because he had some disease or something sickness that he had and and who else would know that but him and his mother Ralph Capone and the most reliable members of the gang are now running the organization vincenzo is given an inconspicuous job Geoff Hart was born much later long after prohibition ended he visited a bar with his uncle Ralph Capone we stopped this one bar and we went in and I always remember uncle Ralph would stand up to the bar he would very seldom sit at the bar he would stand up he happened to look behind the counter and I think he saw a certain kind of beer back there and he he asked the bartender he said who were you who you buying that beer from where you getting that beer and the bartender I don't recall a name but he said from so-and-so on my uncle Ralph said don't buy from him anymore okay the bartender said okay Ralph it was just like whatever you say Ralph he said okay Ralph and that was that and I said to myself yeah Ralph Ralph still still has the business he still still is in control some things and this was 1971 in 1939 due to his bad health Al Capone is released from Alcatraz three years before his time he moves to his home in Miami the L was good shape as far as I was concerned in 1946 and he was a good man good-sized man and too many newspapers or even movies that have been put out on him he picked him as a frail weak you know when he got out of prison how he was so rundown everything he was not that weak of a man at the time in 1946 at a large banquet Harry Hart saw his uncle for the last time place that we went to eat it was a very big room and the table was just like a lazy susan you know the turned around the middle of it there's probably 20 25 people sitting around this table and I set between Al and Ralph Ralph told me to go down to a certain building well they had pool tables and I went down and playing pool I found out later that actually was a bunch of guys from Chicago that were meeting at this gathering the future of the organization is determined even the Capone gang has to change with the times what was done then in Chicago or in New York in you know still today influences and four years that a heavy influence on what those cities were and how they functioned the tie is established between the gangsters and the politicians during Prohibition have continued up until law in many cases today are almost today because once the politicians got into bed with the gangsters they didn't just get back out again however the politicians have already teamed up with different gangsters the ghettos of the Italians and their arch enemies the Irish are breaking up and the open gang wars are increasingly replaced by diplomatic talks the era of Al Capone is finally over things had changed for Italian Americans home they were starting to get out of the ghettos they were starting to get themselves educated they were finding more job opportunities so I don't think that Al Capone would have become a gangster he demonstrated the ability to run a large organization so I think that that that ability that that skill also would have translated into legitimate business and that's why I say I think he probably would have run his own business or he would have Bob and for instance a corporate officer of some type in 1947 Al Capone dies his corpse is transferred to Chicago and the burial is witnessed only by family and close friends Al Capone was a vicious gangster he had to be very smart no I just remember that he was a bad guy and I'm sure he was very brutal he was a ruthless cold-blooded killer he had to make a lot of very hard decisions that uh clearly affected people's lives or affected their life expectancy he was a great businessman he had compassion and he was an opportunist corruption was the key to understanding Al Capone he was right for the time his business was right for the time that's how he became famous he was violating a federal law that nobody believed in in the end Al Capone was mainly a prohibition made man thanks like guys you better swell thanks for coming buddy hope you get a good time today Thanks we had a good time thank you come along buddy focus me again yeah you're good back to good luck

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Length: 52min 45sec (3165 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 06 2009