The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

The article goes into detail as to what happened and what led to the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of February 14, 1929. It retells the story of that day and the people involved in the shooting. It talks about how the massacre was done because of power over bootlegging between Al Capone’s gang and Bugs Moran crew.

Al Capone had a multitude of rivaling gangs and their leaders who fought to control the title as Chicago’s top crime boss. Capone had only one competition, George “Bugs” Moran and his gang. In order to remove his opposition, Capone ordered his gunmen to raze Moran’s business and his associates. On February 14, 1929, Capone’s men, disguised as police officers trespassed into a garage where Moran’s business took place. Seven of Moran’s men were present in

Capone was said to be involved with many violent crimes, as the same with many of the men who could be classified as organized crime gangsters. With t the lack of evidence and the numerous amount of people that Capone had paid off the police were never able to charge him with any of numerous amounts of crimes. One of the most well known killings that Capone was said to be involved with was the ST. Valentines Day massacre. Capone’s men enter a competitors garage dressed as policemen and killed 6 other gangster. There were few occasions where he was arrested but was released due to lack of evidence. The 1927

Was Al Capone the man who killed the seven men in Chicago on Valentine’s Day February 14, 1929.

Nearly 20 years later, known as the Valentine’s Day Massacre, occurred. This shooting happened in Hollandsburg, a rural town in Indiana. The execution of 4 young men and an attempted homicide of Betty Jane Spencer left Daniel Stonebraker, Michael Wright, David Smith and Roger Drollinger serving life sentences for their careless mistake.

The Bloody Sunday massacre unfolded on the 22nd January 1905. An unarmed, peaceful march in St. Petersburg, Russia to the Winter Palace was organized by Father Gapon. Approximately 200,000 workers gathered with pictures of their ‘Little Father’ the Tsar, singing the anthem God Save the Tsar all the way along. The problem that it was illegal to hold any demonstration against the Tsar’s authority had threatened the government to believe that it would became a riot and thus, ordered the Imperial Guard to stop and dismiss the protesters. As there were too many protesters that the limited soldiers could not control over, some started gunning down the demonstrators even if no physical threat was shown. Whether the soldiers was given an order to fire

Valentine’s Day Massacre, that took place in 1929. The Massacre started because of two men named Jack McGurn, which was Al’s hitman and “Bugs” Moran. On Valentine's Day McGurn shot and killed seven of Moran's men, but Moran somehow escaped the killings. While nowhere near the Massacre, Al was framed for all of the killing that took place. As the years passed the Supreme Court wanted to prosecute Al for the act and built up a case and found him guilty for 22 counts of income-tax evasion. Not expecting a harsh sentence, he was sent to prison for 11

Valcoast District was home to a large number of gangs. Two of the most dangerous gangs basically controlled the city. The most surprising thing about these two gangs was that they weren't rival gangs. They didn't try to overthrow the other. If a member of one

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Chicago has the biggest gang problem in the country (Thomas & Bass, 2009). “There are more gang members per citizen in Chicago than anywhere else in the country” (Thomas, 2009, para 4). The average Chicago gang leader is 43, convicted of murder and lives in the suburbs. That leader on many occasions directs his gang from jail (Main, 2006) and 95 percent of inmates in the Cook County Jail are gang members (Thomas, 2009). Gangs are everywhere today just like they use to be. The high number of gangs causes violence and deaths to rise in Chicago.

For the most part main stream America accepted gangsters. It was a necessary evil to get the alcohol they craved (Bergreen 231). Until that is, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in 1929. “ Crime in Chicago has been so psychologically successful, that it takes such a romantically excessive episode as the recent St. Valentine’s Day Massacre to stir the citizens at all “(Bergreen 319). Seven of Bugs Moran’s (a chief rival of Capone) men were slaughtered in warehouse on Clark Street in Chicago. The five killers, two

With many nuisances in his way he developed a policy for killing his competitors. After the first major killing of Dion O'Banion who was an Irish mobster and competitor to Capone a major gang war broke out in 1926. In just one district alone of Chicago, 130 gangsters were murdered. In them 130 killings it involved the St. Valentines Massacre which was an event where 6 high ranking members of Bugs Moran gang which is affiliated with Dion O’Banion were murdered in a garage by gangsters dressed in full police uniform. Few murderers were arrested and convicted of crime which led to Capone’s success in Chicago’s

On August 24th, 1572 approximately 7,000 protestants were murdered in France. This horrific event was named the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Marguerite de Valois, Queen Catherine de Medicis daughter was arranged to marry Henry of Navarre on August 18th. Marguerite and the rest of the Valois family were extremely Catholic while Henry was a Huguenot (Calvinist Protestants). This marriage was an attempt the break the religious tension and join together the religions in peace, or so they thought. The wedding was held in Paris, France and many Huguenot nobility attended. However, what seemed to be a happy and memorable occasion quickly resulted in a gruesome, and barbaric massacre that would be remembered forever.

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