American Stories profiles Al Capone, the Prohibition-era face of organized crime. Hailed as an anti-hero, feared as a cold-blooded crime lord, Al Capone’s bootlegging exploits, celebrity and ...

Take a look back at his life of crime. Al Capone rose to prominence as a Chicago mob boss during the Prohibition era, and has gone down in history as one of the most notroious gangsters in ...

Al Capone was a regular visitor to both the speakeasy ... but he also enjoyed some of his more illicit pastimes there, too. During Prohibition, the speakeasy featured a peephole so that people ...

While prohibition in the United States is largely associated with stories of Al Capone and underground tunnels, Minnesota has its own bootlegging history. And one such enterprise was led by farmers in ...

“This isn’t a race, of course, but it may be worth noting that Capone is also way ahead in individual counts (the 1931 Prohibition indictment alone added up to five thousand conspiracy charges),” ...

Al Capone’s Prohibition Era activities included bootlegging, gambling and a host of other illicit rackets, all of which were marked by profound violence, exemplified by the 1929 St. Valentine ...

Al Capone was born in 1899. It was Capone's multi-million dollar Chicago bootlegging, gambling, and prostitution operation during the height of Prohibition that dominated organized crime during this ...

The aim of Prohibition, also known as “The Noble ... The most infamous Mafia leader was 'Scarface’ Al Capone. He controlled the alcohol supply in the city of Chicago and dominated a range ...

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Al Capone's Bloody Business: American Stories is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ...