Al Capone All-American: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

February 14th, 1929: a routine police raid on a Chicago garage turns out to be anything but, as seven men are machine-gunned to death; an event colloquially known as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. In this episode of “Al Capone All-American,” love is NOT in the air, as Dan and Alana find that the dead men are but collateral damage to an insidious gang war gripping the streets of Chicago—and all signs point to one Al Capone.

Sources

A special debt of gratitude to William J. Helmer & Arthur Bilek, authors of The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath that Brought Down Al Capone--the book which solved the case. A special thank you as well to William J. Helmer for his role in publishing Georgette Winkler's Al Capone and His American Boys: Memoirs of a Mobster's Wife, the most important account of the slayings.

Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)

Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen

Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg

Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler

Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair

The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter

Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder

Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg

Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen

The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo

Newspapers including The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Daily-News, The Chicago American.

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