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Documentary, Mafia's Greatest Hits: Al Capone
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00:00In the early days of organized crime in America, one man dominated the headlines.
00:08Alphonse Capone was America's first superstar gangster.
00:13He's said to be responsible for one of the bloodiest hits in mob history,
00:17the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
00:23Al Capone is arguably the only gangster at the time who could murder seven of his opponents
00:29in broad daylight in one of the most audacious hits at that time in gangster history.
00:36But behind the headlines, the true significance of Capone's career is less well known.
00:42He became the face of organized crime in America,
00:46and naturally the federal government had to come in and bring him down.
00:51Capone's swagger set the tone for one of the most glamorous eras in gangland history.
00:57But it was Capone's weakness, not his strength, that would teach a group of warring mobs a lesson they would never forget.
01:04And set them on course for a transformation into the single, powerful entity we now know as the American Mafia.
01:14This is the real story of Al Capone.
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01:421924, Chicago.
01:48In the suburb of Cicero, Joseph Klenner, the town's mayor, addresses a crowd of reporters.
01:56Behind him stands the man who secured his election, mobster Alphonse Capone.
02:04Al Capone realized that part of the secret to power was to control local governments,
02:09which he did by bribing officials.
02:12He controlled a local mayor, Joseph Klenner, whom he considered his guy, who was duty-bound
02:18to obey his orders.
02:20But Capone isn't happy.
02:23The mayor has gone off message and unexpectedly speaks out against illegal speakeasies, which
02:29are the foundation of Capone's criminal empire.
02:33Capone isn't going to allow such public disrespect.
02:37So he and the mayor were standing on the steps of City Hall.
02:40And they had some kind of argument, so Al just whipped out the blackjack.
02:50He literally kicked the mayor down the steps to show publicly, this is what happens to
02:57people, even politicians, who defy Al Capone.
03:07Other mob bosses would put the mayor straight behind closed doors.
03:10But not Al Capone.
03:16In this part of Chicago, he fears no one.
03:20What kind of man can beat up the mayor directly in front of the cops?
03:28Capone's rise to power in Chicago begins in the years of prohibition.
03:42In 1919, the U.S. government outlaws the sale of booze.
03:49Selling beer or whiskey is now a crime.
03:52Cue the arrival of a young New York hood called Al Capone.
04:02The young heavy has come to work for gang boss Johnny Torrio.
04:07Torrio's building a successful business, bootlegging booze and illegally supplying it to the people
04:13of Chicago.
04:14Torrio is one of many gangsters across the U.S. turning a fortune by making sure the good
04:27times continue to roll.
04:31Torrio's illegal speakeasies serve his imported booze to thirsty Chicagoans across the south
04:37of the city.
04:37Prohibition was a complete failure in big cities like New York and Chicago.
04:46And Chicago already had a reputation for having a corrupt government and a thriving underworld,
04:52even before Prohibition.
04:58And Chicago finds itself well placed for this unintended criminal opportunity.
05:03Chicago became the quintessential Prohibition city because of its location.
05:09It was close to Canada, just across Lake Michigan.
05:12That meant that booze could freely come into the city as an entry point.
05:17Gangsters like Torrio quickly learn that there's big money in turning the smuggling and selling
05:22of booze into a slick business.
05:24Torrio's Chicago outfit becomes one of the biggest in the city, and the rapid growth means Torrio's
05:40always on the lookout for fresh talent.
05:42Enter Alphonse Capone, and the young man's ruthlessness and business sharps see him rapidly rise through
05:54the ranks.
05:56He quickly identified Al Capone as a promising up-and-comer and a protege, and gradually let
06:04Al Capone have more and more responsibility.
06:08But Torrio's success makes him a prime target for rival gangs.
06:12One night, Johnny Torrio is ambushed.
06:33He is shot repeatedly in the neck and groin.
06:36His attacker is one of his underworld business rivals, notorious gangster and bootlegger, George
06:45Bugs Moran.
06:50Bugs aims the gun at Johnny's head, but as Torrio waits for the coup de grace, Bugs' gun misfires.
07:00He's out of bullets.
07:01He's out of bullets.
07:04Moran leaves Torrio to bleed out.
07:08Miraculously, Torrio survives, but the attack affects him deeply.
07:13Johnny Torrio is almost murdered in front of his own apartment, and he decides enough is enough.
07:19Torrio's sure Chicago is no longer safe, so he makes a life-changing decision for him and
07:26for Capone.
07:28While Torrio is recovering from his gunshot wounds, he turns everything over to Al Capone,
07:36you know, his former protege, and Capone, of course, is delighted by this.
07:40Torrio leaves behind one of the biggest bootlegging syndicates in America and hands the whole Chicago
07:48outfit to Al Capone.
08:03At only 26 years old, Capone is now one of the youngest mob bosses in America, worth millions
08:11of dollars.
08:12And he moves quickly to put his own stamp on the Chicago underworld.
08:20Capone is a very ruthless individual, a very violent individual.
08:23He came from a very poor background, realized very quickly that, you know, the only way to
08:28get to the top was through, you know, violence.
08:32Capone clears the path to profit by bribing police, intimidating politicians, and threatening
08:45his rivals.
08:53Capone is soon outpacing his contemporaries in the other great prohibition city, New York.
09:00Young gangsters like Meyer Lansky and Frank Costello.
09:05In fact, the only mobster who can keep pace with him is one savvy individual.
09:11A bright young man who will go on to become one of the most important names in U.S. gangster
09:16history.
09:18Lucky Luciano.
09:20The two great contemporaries was Al Capone in Chicago and Charles Lucky Luciano in New York.
09:29Lucky Luciano is a rising lieutenant in one of the big New York gangs.
09:34But he approaches business in a very different way to Capone.
09:39There was an immense difference between them.
09:42Luciano did not look for the spotlight.
09:45He wasn't interested in the tension.
09:47He knew secrecy was his best safeguard.
09:50While Capone's success is built on fear and intimidation, Luciano believes violence inevitably leads to conflict.
09:59His cardinal object was to be no wars between the families.
10:05Attacking your rivals in the streets brought double trouble.
10:18Revenge attacks and unwanted police attention.
10:22If only the mobs could work together, they could make far more money without attracting the cops.
10:34He wanted no hits and no headlines.
10:37If there was bloodshed, the bodies shouldn't be found.
10:40All he wanted was everyone should share the wealth.
10:47But Luciano's way doesn't suit Capone.
10:50He doesn't want to work with the others.
10:53He just wants Chicago all to himself.
10:56And right now, one gangster stands in Capone's way.
11:01The man who tried to kill his old boss, George Bugs Moran.
11:09With Moran out of the way, he'd be the undisputed king of Chicago.
11:14But Capone doesn't do things discreetly.
11:17When Big Al makes a hit, it's got to be the biggest hit in mob history.
11:26At just 26, Al Capone has taken control of the Chicago outfit.
11:47It's one of the city's two biggest criminal gangs, running the south side of the Windy City.
11:53But Capone wants all of Chicago.
11:56And the man who stands between Capone and being king of the Chicago underworld is George Bugs Moran.
12:10The mobster who runs the north side of the city.
12:13He thought he had to eliminate the Bugs Moran gang.
12:16So he could be, if you want to call it, the boss of bosses.
12:19No competition in Chicago.
12:22Capone and Moran are heading down the road to a brutal war.
12:27The two of them became rivals for a criminal empire.
12:31Only one of them could possibly survive what was essentially a fight to the death.
12:35Capone's gang launch a series of violent attacks on Moran's network.
12:45Gentlemen!
12:46Gentlemen!
12:57And Moran hits back.
12:59Chicago has never seen violence like it.
13:04The press go into overdrive, calling the bloody conflict Chicago's beer war.
13:15Capone's on the way to becoming America's first ever celebrity gangster.
13:20Capone was never going to be an elusive mob boss working in the shadows.
13:35He makes the five-star Metropole Hotel in the center of Chicago his new HQ.
13:47Capone takes over an entire floor with hookers regularly visiting.
13:52The Metropole became a kind of unofficial city hall in Chicago.
13:56Everybody knew where they could find him or somebody knew him.
14:00He was accessible.
14:02That was very unusual for a gangster.
14:04And he loved to see and be seen wherever he went.
14:07And he wore very conspicuous clothes.
14:09His suits were kind of an electric blue or electric purple.
14:13So he was a peacock and he loved to show off.
14:20Capone bribes local lawmakers, so he's free to flaunt his position in public without fear of arrest.
14:25He wants people to know the face of Al Capone.
14:32Capone loves his notoriety, that he loves being seen as the bad guy.
14:37And he really, he sort of plays this up that, you know, the way he looks, the way he dresses, the way he acts.
14:43He's almost like a Hollywood imitation of a gangster in many ways.
14:49He was a huge personality.
14:51He would go into a nightclub, he would go into a restaurant, and he would have to sit in the center of the room so that everybody would know that he was there.
15:01But while Capone enjoys the limelight in Chicago, his headlines are causing serious alarm in New York.
15:15Rivals like Lucky Luciano were appalled by this behavior because they felt Capone was just attracting attention to their illicit activities.
15:26They wish he would just stop and go away and let them continue without benefit of all this attention.
15:32But Chicago isn't going to go away.
15:35And Capone's war with Moran is about to spiral out of control.
15:41On September the 20th, 1926, Al Capone is eating at a favorite haunt at the Hawthorne Hotel on the outskirts of Chicago.
16:08As usual, Capone isn't hiding. He likes to be seen.
16:15And his arch rival, Bugs Moran, has been watching him very closely indeed.
16:24They sent carloads of gunmen out there to blast Capone.
16:31The gunmen open fire indiscriminately.
16:46His bodyguard, Frank Rio, flings Capone to the floor to protect him.
16:53Thousands of bullets are unleashed in a matter of minutes.
16:59Bullets and glass went flying and Capone realized how vulnerable he was.
17:09Remarkably, Capone survives. And now he has one thing on his mind. Revenge.
17:17And the Chicago Beer War is about to make headlines across the U.S.
17:33Capone's philosophy was kill and don't worry about the consequences.
17:40It was a war zone. They didn't use the word terrorism, but gangsters were certainly terrorizing the city.
17:46And it was seen as a national crisis.
17:49The war rages on until 1929, when Capone decides to end it once and for all.
17:59This time, he will make a bloody statement that he hopes will end his problems forever.
18:05His violent attack will go down in mob history, but it will also plant the seeds of his downfall.
18:20Notorious Chicago mob boss, Al Capone, survives a violent and very public attempt on his life.
18:27Now he plans to show rival mobster, Bugs Moran, how to really make headlines.
18:34When he kills Moran, he'll be king of Chicago. And the whole world will know.
18:49When Bugs Moran gets an anonymous tip-off to buy a stolen load of Capone's bootlegged whiskey,
18:55he thinks it's the perfect opportunity to get the upper hand on his arch rival.
19:04Moran tells his crew they'll do the deal at their secret garage on February the 14th, St. Valentine's Day.
19:17Moran's gang wait patiently for the load to arrive.
19:22But before the shipment comes in, Bugs' crew get an unexpected visit from the cops.
19:31It looks like someone has ratted on the deal.
19:35Moran's gang aren't too worried.
19:40They can usually buy the cops' silence with a bribe or two.
19:46But not these cops. They aren't law enforcers. They're Capone's cold-blooded killers.
19:55He had one of his chief assassins put together a plan to eliminate as many of the Bugs Moran gang members as possible.
20:04The assassins pretended to be policemen, had the gangsters line up against the wall pretending to frisk them.
20:11Moran's men realized too late, this isn't a raid. It's a hit.
20:29Capone decided to stage a massacre, but he didn't want to do it himself.
20:34He wasn't going to stand there with a machine gun and spatter people with bullets.
20:40He was much more likely to hire dangerous gunmen to assassinate somebody than to do it himself.
20:48In a matter of seconds, Moran's squad lie dead on the floor.
20:53Photographs of the shocking scene spread across the nation.
20:58And the bloodbath is known forever as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
21:04To make sure that no one can pin the killings on him, Capone sits a long way away in the company of an attorney.
21:21But he knows that he will be the beneficiary. With Moran out of the way, Chicago is his.
21:27If Moran is dead, Capone realizes he's won, that he has sole control of the rackets in Chicago, and he's the top dog there.
21:38And it means that he's immensely wealthy. In today's dollars, he would be a billionaire.
21:43But Moran wasn't among the seven corpses lying on the garage floor.
21:55He never made it to the scene of the shooting.
21:58When he saw the cop car outside, he kept driving.
22:10Capone's arch enemy is still alive.
22:13And Capone is about to discover that his botched Valentine's Day Massacre...
22:18...will add powerful names to his list of enemies.
22:31While Capone is publicly battling with Moran for supremacy of Chicago...
22:35...behind the scenes, up-and-coming mobster Lucky Luciano is plotting to make his own power play for New York.
22:43His vision is to end the violent infighting and ease the pressure from law enforcement.
22:50It's a revolution in the criminal underworld.
22:58With Capone's massacre still fresh in the headlines, Luciano and other New York mobsters plan a conference in Atlantic City.
23:06A lot of what they wanted to talk about at the Atlantic City conference...
23:11...is how do we do this in a matter where not everybody ends up dead?
23:15How do we do this in a way that doesn't draw the attention from the authorities?
23:21The obvious move is to get violence off the streets and to run the mob as a professional business.
23:27The approach couldn't suit Capone less.
23:32So Luciano and the others take the bull by the horns and invite the hot-headed Chicago killer...
23:37...to the Atlantic City conference to sit down and thrash it out.
23:42Other gangsters, either in Chicago or in New York City...
23:46...they're a little wary of him because they did regard him as a bit of a loose cannon...
23:51...and they really didn't like his publicity-seeking personality.
23:59Fresh in everyone's mind is the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
24:03Capone may love to seek out the limelight, but Luciano and the other mobsters predict severe consequences.
24:10It was very rational for racketeers. As much as people think that they're these big tough guys...
24:16...who are afraid of nothing, they're very afraid of the government.
24:19And the last thing they want is to bring down the full force of the United States government on them.
24:27Luciano, with the other gangsters, asks Capone to change his ways.
24:33But Capone takes issue with his competitors telling him how to run his business.
24:37And he storms out.
24:44It soon becomes clear that Capone should have listened to Luciano.
24:50Just as Luciano warned, Capone's wild killings soon come to the attention of the most important man in America.
25:05There was a new president, Herbert Hoover, and his first thing was he was confronted by headlines from coast to coast...
25:15...about this massacre and about these outrageous activities in Chicago.
25:19Hoover launches a special task force with one mission. Get Capone.
25:29The St. Valentine's Day massacre marked a turning point at the beginning of a concerted federal effort to get Capone.
25:34I.e. get him behind bars some way.
25:43Luciano and other gangsters try to put out the public firestorm that Capone has started.
25:48They meet with journalists and tell them Capone's Chicago outfit will be disbanded.
25:55The story is just a ruse to diffuse the heat.
26:00But Capone knows the story is also a message.
26:05The other families are running out of patience.
26:08With both the U.S. government and the mob on his case, it looks like it's time for Capone to lie low.
26:21But Capone's next move will take everyone by surprise.
26:26After the St. Valentine's Day bloodbath, Al Capone is now a hunted man.
26:42Within the mob, the New York rising star Lucky Luciano wants Capone out of the way.
26:48Just as he feared, the massacre has drawn the attention of none other than the President of the United States himself.
26:58But as one of the most public gangsters of the time, where can Capone hide?
27:13Capone's next move takes everyone by surprise.
27:16He finds safety in the one place no one would expect him to go.
27:36He bribes police officers to get him sent to a corrupt jail in Philadelphia.
27:41Where he finds conditions far from typical.
27:48His stay in the Philadelphia Penitentiary was more like a stay in a hotel or a rescuer.
27:54People waited on him hand and foot there.
27:56Everybody was corrupted.
27:58And he had a very easy time there.
28:00It was relaxing.
28:02The prison term is in fact part of a deal brokered with Luciano and other mobsters.
28:07And Capone is living the high life at the expense of the US government.
28:16But back in Chicago, the feds have got different plans for Al Capone.
28:21Newsreel across the nation shows elite teams of prohibition agents aggressively targeting Capone's empire of booze.
28:34The squad has been handpicked by the young and handsome Elliot Ness.
28:40Nicknamed the untouchables, it's soon clear that Capone can't buy them off.
28:47The agents who were sent to Chicago to get Capone weren't bribable.
28:53They were paid by the federal government and they had a different allegiance, a different loyalty.
28:58They weren't locals.
29:00And this made a big difference.
29:06Ness and his squad use wiretaps to find out where the illegal booze is kept.
29:12And then raid the warehouses.
29:16Ness turns Capone's love of publicity against him.
29:19He tips off newspaper reporters who show the world that even Al Capone isn't above the law.
29:28Meanwhile, the Treasury Department scrutinize Capone's financial affairs.
29:35Back in his Philadelphia cell, the man who craves publicity is getting plenty.
29:40But it isn't the kind he's used to.
29:49After 10 months behind bars, Big Al gets secretly let out of prison by officials and heads back to Chicago.
29:59When he returns, he finds the government have dragged his reputation through the mud.
30:03And Al Capone is no longer the king of Chicago.
30:10He's now public enemy number one.
30:23The obvious move for Capone would be to lie low.
30:26But he can't resist publicity.
30:29So Capone decides to organize a charm offensive.
30:33He's a publicity hound.
30:35He loves, you know, being in the spotlight.
30:37He loves seeing his picture in the newspaper.
30:39No publicity is bad publicity.
30:43Capone counters the government's campaign and appeals directly to the people of Chicago.
30:49Capone decided to improve his public image by opening a soup kitchen.
30:55Many of the working men who were his people were out of work.
31:00So he wanted to play the Robin Hood figure.
31:03But not only that, he wanted newsreel cameras to come and see him feeding the working people.
31:10Capone says the real crooks weren't hustlers like him, but stock market speculators.
31:15But the story is always Al Capone.
31:19Capone was a narcissist to the extent that he had a distorted impression of reality.
31:24So he saw himself as the center of almost anything that was going on.
31:29And he felt that he was a force for good in the world.
31:32Capone may think he's a good guy.
31:37But the US government could hardly disagree more.
31:40Working diligently behind the scenes, federal agents have been building a strong case for tax evasion.
31:56Capone was immensely rich. In today's money, he was worth billions. And he didn't pay his taxes.
32:01The police smash open Capone's private safe.
32:07He liked to keep records of what was coming to him, to make sure he wasn't being cheated.
32:13So finally they had the goods on him.
32:14Facing prior on income tax evasion, Al Capone finds an aroused government ready to put him behind bars.
32:25Capone's indictment hits the headlines.
32:28But the charges don't bother Capone.
32:31His accountants can strike a deal.
32:33When he found out he was under investigation by federal auditors, he wanted to cop a plea, make a plea bargain, admit that he had not paid taxes for several years.
32:46He offered the United States government a million dollars to take care of his back taxes, but they wouldn't take that.
32:53Even when he's brought to trial, Capone is confident that he can walk away.
33:07The King of Chicago has a sure-fire way to beat the rap.
33:12It seemed like he was going to have another brush with the law.
33:15He didn't pay his taxes, haha, who would have expected that he would?
33:18And then he would eventually get off scot-free and bribe the jurors if necessary, which is what he did.
33:26At the trial, Capone's men open the checkbooks.
33:30They pay off members of the jury.
33:34It's a classic mock tactic that has worked before.
33:38But not this time.
33:40At the last moment, the judge shows that the law is one step ahead.
33:49The authorities realized that he probably would try to bribe the jurors or threaten them in some way so they wouldn't convict him.
33:56So they brought in at, to everybody's surprise at the last minute, another jury who couldn't have been tampered with.
34:16Capone couldn't be out-fought, but he had been out-thought.
34:19He gets an 11-year conviction for tax evasion.
34:27Nobody got 11 years for income tax violation.
34:30That kind of case would have resulted in 18 months or something.
34:33But they gave him 11 years.
34:35He was stunned. His lawyers were stunned.
34:38Everybody was stunned. It didn't seem possible that one could be jailed for such a, quote, minor offense.
34:43Of course, the government wanted to make an example of Capone.
34:52Al Capone, the man who once publicly beat a mayor,
34:56now finds himself publicly humiliated by the law.
35:02And things will go from bad to worse for Capone as he discovers that prison life isn't so easy
35:09when everyone knows your face.
35:20On October 24th, 1931, Al Capone, one of the best-known mobsters in the world, goes to jail for tax evasion.
35:27They didn't get him for any of his gunplay, for any of his murders, for any of his racketeering.
35:33They got him on income tax evasion, something he had never anticipated.
35:40Capone's downfall makes the news across the world.
35:44It looks like the US government has dealt a mortal blow to organize crime.
35:54But in fact, Capone has provided gangsters like Lucky Luciano with a smokescreen.
35:59Beyond the glare of publicity, a new, secretive, and highly effective organization of mobsters is taking shape.
36:17And they're happy that Capone is locked away.
36:20Other gangsters rejoice that Capone was now no longer at large.
36:26On the other hand, they were afraid that the same thing could happen to them.
36:30Gangsters learned to avoid publicity from Capone because they saw where it got him.
36:36They realized it made him a target for federal investigations that eventually put him in jail.
36:41Outside, Lucky Luciano will make sure that the negative publicity of gangland violence will never again damage their business.
36:59When Luciano makes his play for control of the New York mob, he does it not by ordering a public massacre, but with just two strategic hits.
37:11First, he sacrifices his own godfather, Joe Masseria.
37:19And next, Masseria's arch-rival, Salvatore Barazzano.
37:30Luciano is now the most powerful mobster in New York.
37:34Soon he will lead the commission, the mob's board of directors, and usher in a new era of cooperation and wealth for what will become the American Mafia.
37:52Where Capone failed in his Valentine's Day massacre, Lucky Luciano takes everything with just two deaths.
37:59Behind bars, his empire gone, Capone's reputation is in tatters.
38:13Now the government decide to use Capone for some publicity of their own.
38:17They move America's most high-profile gangster to the New Island fortress of Alcatraz.
38:28President Hoover said to the warden,
38:32if you want the world to know what a horrible place Alcatraz is, transfer Al Capone out there.
38:38And that is exactly what they did.
38:41He was in a six-foot-by-ten-foot cell.
38:48And they put him on the outside where he could look across the bay at San Francisco.
38:55For people to come to visit him, they had to get on a ferry boat and go across the water.
39:03No longer the feared man he once was, for the first time in his life, Capone tries to keep a low profile.
39:14When Al Capone was in Alcatraz, it was humiliating in part because other prisoners were not afraid of him.
39:21He was given a very derogatory term, the WAP with the MOP, because he was often seen mopping.
39:27Capone learns that his reputation is now a magnet for criminals wanting to make a name.
39:38One is Jimmy Lucas, a member of a gang called the Texas Cowboys.
39:48Capone's fall from grace is complete.
39:51His life in the spotlight is bearing bitter harvest.
40:08In time, prison doctors discover that perhaps Capone wasn't entirely to blame for his reckless behavior.
40:15Al Capone suffered from syphilis. He acquired it from prostitutes as a young man in Brooklyn.
40:21Didn't realize that he had it.
40:23And it explains a lot about his behavior and his temperamental outbursts throughout his life.
40:29As he got older, it also shattered his health because there was no cure for it at the time.
40:33In 1939, Capone is released from prison on medical advice.
40:44By now, the syphilis had spread to his brain.
40:48And Al Capone has the mental age of a 12-year-old.
40:53The family had a big party for him in Chicago when he got released.
40:58And my mother said that Al was there, but he would come up to her and say,
41:03Who are you?
41:04And then he would go over to his own sister and say, Who are you?
41:11Al Capone will live out the rest of his life in seclusion in his mansion in Florida.
41:15A gangster without a gang.
41:28On January the 18th, 1947, shortly after celebrating his 48th birthday,
41:35Al Capone suffers a massive stroke and slips into a coma.
41:39At almost the exact same time, some of the biggest mob bosses in the US meet in Havana, Cuba.
41:50They plan the future of the mob.
41:54A future without Al Capone.
41:59Instead, it will be led by Lucky Luciano.
42:03He wanted the American Mafia to be a mirror of American capitalism.
42:09To cash in on anything that worked with capitalism.
42:12And he wasn't going to be restricted.
42:14This was a new era.
42:16And he was going to modernize the mob.
42:19And that is exactly what he did.
42:24A few days after his stroke, Capone dies.
42:27The era of celebrity mobster is over.
42:33And a new generation of gangsters is born.
42:40Now mobsters will work together to create a secret society that dominate crime for generations.
42:47They call it Our Thing.
42:49La Cosa Nostra.
42:50The world will know it by another name.
42:55The American Mafia.
42:57The foundations for this organization were laid by Al Capone.
43:03But his contribution wasn't through inspiration.
43:08It was his brutal and public mistakes that had taught the mob how not to behave.
43:14His career may have ended in disaster.
43:18But to this day, Al Capone defiantly remains the most famous name in mob history.
43:24Public enemy number one.
43:26Public enemy number one.
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