The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
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- 1967
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February 14, 1929-
the year of the black bottle,
six-day bicycle races...
flagpole sitting, and the first flight
from Paris to New York.
Mickey Mouse
makes his screen debut...
and Herbert Hoover is inaugurated
as the 31 st president with the words...
"We in America today are nearer
to the final triumph over poverty...
than ever before in any land. "
Six months later, the New York
stock market will crash...
depression in world history.
In the city of Chicago,
the time is 10:
25 a.m.The temperature- 18 above zero.
Oh, my God.
My God!
In the years
following the passage...
of the National
Prohibition Act of 1920...
the nation's underworld rises to power
just as modern nations
and corporations do.
Open periods of gang warfare are
followed by peace treaties...
and attempts at consolidation
and monopoly...
each of which is shattered
as new warfare erupts...
in quest of the booming
bootlegging and vice profits.
By 1929, the gangs of Chicago
operate 21,207 speakeasies...
reaches $357 million.
Six hundred and 18 members
of the city's underworld...
are murdered within nine years.
Corruption extends
from the mayor's office...
to the humblest
side-street speakeasy.
Tell your lousy sister
Do me a favor, will you?
I mean, just to give
her tonsils a break-
Two beers.
Nice place you got here.
Thanks.
Do a nice business, huh?
Pays the rent.
What are you trying to do,
poison me?
If you don't like the beer, mister,
you don't have to pay for it.
Well, now, ain't you
the cat's pajamas?
Did you hear that, Jimmy?
Bright eyes here says
we don't have to pay for this slop.
How 'bout it, bud?
You're drinking this stuff.
Tastes terrible, don't it?
I guess I'm not what
you'd call much of a judge.
What's the matter?
Don't you know when something stinks?
I guess I drunk better at that.
Ah, ya hear that?
Even your friend don't like it.
What more do you want?
All right, bright eyes,
where you getting it?
Fellow named Slauson.
Slauson, Slauson-
Only Slauson I know
works for Capone.
Al Capone.
That wouldn't be the same
Slauson, would it?
Huh?
I think it is.
- How much you move in a week?
- Five barrels.
Five? A swell joint like you got here?
With the right kind of beer,
I'm gonna put 10 barrels in here
tomorrow morning, cost you $55 a barrel.
Look, mister, you trying
to get me knocked off?
I can't buck Capone.
Neither can Moran.
Moran?
Only Moran I know drives a streetcar.
That, uh-That wouldn't be
the same Moran, would it?
My mistake.
Aw, that's okay.
Anybody can make a mistake.
Take me. Why, I could even
Maybe it's swell,
and it's just you got dirty pipes.
Happens.
Well, now, you know
what you got there, bright eyes.
It's not the pipes at all.
It's green beer.
Here, you can smell it.
See what I mean?
Peter Gusenberg-born Chicago,
Illinois, September 22 of 1898.
Ex-convict. Mail-robber. Burglar.
Hijacker. Professional killer.
When, at the age of 13, he came home
from school to find his mother dead...
his first act was to pry the wedding ring
from her finger and pawn it.
He has been a member of Bugs Moran's
North Side gang for the past seven years.
Ten barrels, starting tomorrow.
And don't forget-
I'm doing you a big favor.
Frank Gusenberg...
younger brother
of Peter Gusenberg-
born Chicago, Illinois,
October 11, 1902.
Burglar. Car thief. Extortionist.
Professional gunman.
Member of the North Side gang
for the past nine years.
He is married to two women
simultaneously...
but lives with neither.
Vincenzo DeMora, alias
"Machine Gun"Jack McGurn-
born Brooklyn, New York,
July 7, 1903.
When he was nine years old,
his father was murdered.
By the time he was 20,
he had personally killed...
every man connected
with his father's death.
trigger man and extortionist...
in the Capone organization.
Just where the hell were you?
Nothing I could do, Jack.
Guy came up like
right out of the woodwork.
First I know, the door is open
and he's blasting away.
- Did you make him?
- Yeah.
One of Moran's boys.
Frank Gusenberg.
Alphonse Capone...
alias Al Capone,
alias Al Brown-
born Castellamare, Italy,
January 6, 1899.
No criminal record.
Raised in a Brooklyn slum.
He has migrated to Illinois
early in 1919.
Shrewd, ambitious,
and utterly ruthless...
Capone in six short years has climbed
from the status of saloon bouncer...
to become unchallenged leader of Chicago's
most powerful underworld organization.
To his associates,
he is "The Big Fellow."
To the public,
he is "Scarface"Al Capone.
Thank you, Mr. Capone.
Sorry about that raid, Jake. I got a new
captain out there who won't play ball.
- What's wrong with him?
- Playing hard to get.
We had him put down
for a yard a week.
He says if we want to operate
in his district, we gotta triple that.
Three hundred, huh? Those guys
must think we're made of money.
Write me out his name. I'll have
the bum transferred to the sticks.
If it helps get him reelected...
half a million in Thompson's
campaign fund's a bargain.
They put Cermak
in the mayor's office...
and we're gonna lose
20 million a year.
That's a waste of dough.
We bought one mayor.
He loses out,
we buy the next one.
You don't know
Tony Cermak, Frank.
Charles "The Fixer"Fischetti-
born Castellamare, Italy,
August 11, 1891.
A second cousin to Al Capone...
Fischetti acts as chairman
at executive meetings.
He his a heavy drinker
but never drunk.
His principle value
to the organization...
is his ability
to suborn political leaders...
and public officials
on both state and city levels.
He will be murdered
on April 7, 1951.
...and that's where
we can get hurt.
He ever tries chiseling
on the Big Fellow's rackets...
he'll think a suitcase fell on him.
Ah, come on, Frank.
You know-
Hello, Al.
Meeting will come to order.
Jake.
Jake, we got you down here
for a report on the stockyards district.
How's everything going down there?
I'll read you the figures
and let you tell me, okay?
We took over that territory from Joe
Saltas at the end of last October...
and right away things got better.
For example...
beer sales for the 30-day period
ending December 15...
are up 21.4-
Jake "Greasy Thumb"Guzik-
born Peoria, Illinois,
November 9, 1894.
A one-time proprietor of a string
of suburban houses of prostitution...
Guzik is now in charge of all
bootlegging, sales and distribution...
for the Capone syndicate.
He will die of natural causes
on July 11, 1956.
Huh. I've been telling you guys for months
that when it comes to selling beer...
that big Polack don't know
his hat from third base.
For Christ's sake! All I get
outta you guys is talk!
The rest of the time,
you're strutting around...
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