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Capone with his mother. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City, on January 17, 1899. [3] His parents were Italian immigrants Teresa (née Raiola; 1867–1952) and Gabriele Capone (1865–1920), [4] both born in Angri, a small municipality outside of Naples in the province of Salerno.
The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults is a two-hour live American television special that was broadcast in syndication on April 21, 1986, and hosted by Geraldo Rivera.It centered on the live opening of a walled-off underground room in the Lexington Hotel in Chicago once owned by crime lord Al Capone, which turned out to be empty except for debris.
Edward Joseph O'Hare (September 5, 1893 – November 8, 1939), a.k.a. "Easy Eddie", was a lawyer in St. Louis and later in Chicago, where he began working with Al Capone, and later helped federal prosecutors convict Capone of tax evasion. In 1939, a week before Capone was released from Alcatraz, O'Hare was shot
During the 1920s Prohibition Era in Chicago, Al Capone was among the most feared men in organized crime. The feud over racketeering and booze was fierce and bloody, including the St. Valentine’s ...
Love him or hate him, Al Capone is a legend. The infamous mobster remains a household name more than half a century after his death. On this day 84 years ago, the gangster was sentenced to 11 ...
Died: Josh Gibson, 35, American Negro league baseball player and 1972 inductee to the Hall of Fame (stroke); ... Al Capone, 48, American gangster (cardiac arrest) [32]
Jack "Machine Gun Jack" McGurn (born Vincenzo Antonio Gibaldi; Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso anˈtɔːnjo dʒiˈbaldi]; July 2, 1902 – February 15, 1936) was a Sicilian-American boxer, mobster, and eventually a made man and caporegime in Al Capone's Chicago Outfit.
A quarter century after "investigative reporter" Geraldo Rivera probed the so-called mystery of Al Capone's vaults, yet another mystery surrounding the infamous mobster is causing a stir: his vats.