The King of ChicagoAl Capone

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Who was he ?

Prohibition: It was a nationwide constitutional law from 1920 to 1930, in the United States, that banned production, import, transportation and sale of alcoholic berevages.

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• Alphonse Capone alias Al Capone was born on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York and died on January 25, 1947 in Palm Island, Miami.

• Capone was the most famous gangster of the 20’, he was the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit who used to smuggle alcohol and other illegal activities during the « Prohibition » era.

His personality: An elegant gangster

Capone wanted to look like a respectable buisnessman. He used to be well dressed with :

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• a white borsalino (hat)

• a suit

• an overcoat

• leather shoes

As he was rich , Capone liked expensive and beautiful clothes.

The criminal’s lifeThe beginning of his life

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• Al Capone was born, from Italian immigrants, on January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn in a Catholic family. At 12, he left school , began to do casual works and joined notorious street gangs who trained him to crime techniques. We gave him the legendary nickname of « Scarface » because he had a scar on his cheek.

• On December 30, 1918, he got married to Mae Coughlin and then they had a son Albert Francis Capone.

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The criminal’s life

• In 1925, Capone became the crime czar of Chicago when Torio retired to Italy after an assassination who had gone wrong. During years, he used to make money with illegal activities. Al Capone also used to expand his teritories by gun down his rivals and rival gangs. His most notorious bloodletting was the St. Valentine’s day Massacre on Febuary 14, 1929.

In the 1920’s, Capone joined Johnny Torio in Chicago, Illinois. After some crimes and murders, he became his right-hand man.

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The criminal’s lifeThe end

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• On october 1931, Capone was arrested by Eliot Ness and sentenced to 11 years in prison and $50,000 in fines and court costs for tax frauds.

• Al Capone died on January 25, 1947 of a stroke and a pneumonia in his estate in Palm Island, Miami.

• He was 48 years old.

The St.Valentine’s day Massacre Mass murder of group of unarmed bootlegging gang men

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• Men working for Al Capone dressed up as policemen and entered a garage at 2122 North Clark Street run by members of the Georges « Bugs » Moran gang, lined their opponents up against a wall and shot them

His illegal activitiesIn the prohibition, Capone made money easily with his buisness.

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He used to run :

• The alcohol smuggling

• The drug trafficking

• The running of gamblings

• The prostitution

Al Capone in popular cultureThe movie which are inspired by Capone’s life.

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Scarface• Scarface is a 1932 American pre-code gangster film directed by

Howard Hawks and produced by Hawks and Howard Hughes.

Al Capone in popular cultureThe movie which are inspired by Capone’s life.

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Al Capone:

• Al Capone is a 1959 biographical crime movie directed by Richard Wilson, written by Malvin Wald and Henry F. Greenberg and realised by Allied Artists.

Al Capone in popular cultureCapone in the litterature.

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Tintin in America • Al Capone appears in some pages of the cartoon « Tintin in

America » by Herge.• It’s the third volume of  « The adventures of Tintin ».

Thank you!Marie Goupil 4A

20’s and 30’s gangsters