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Original Gangsters with Sean Bean - Season 1 Episode 2 -
Al Capone
Al Capone
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02:04Why is it that his name sits above so many others?
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02:28He said, oh yeah, is that all they taught you?
02:31Did he tell you that he gave people jobs?
02:34No.
02:36Did they tell you that he gave people soup in the time when they couldn't get soup at the other kitchens?
02:41No.
02:43Did they tell you that he had given money to build an orphanage?
02:46I said, no.
02:47He goes, what kind of school you go to, they teach you this.
02:49Next time you go to school, don't pay attention to everything they say.
02:53Come and ask me next.
02:54What I learned was that Al Capone was many things.
02:58He was almost anything to anybody, which is what makes him such a good mythological figure.
03:04My name is Deirdre Marie Capone.
03:07I am Al Capone's grandniece.
03:11Was Al Capone a mobster?
03:13Yes, he was.
03:14Was Al Capone a monster?
03:16No, he was not.
03:18The myth has become the reality, and that's the difficult part of it.
03:22Once something has been said so many times, it becomes the norm.
03:26The myth is so enormous that we have to go back to the sources.
03:30I keep wondering if there were signs early on of what Al Capone would become.
03:37By all accounts, he came from a stable, caring family.
03:42No evidence of cruelty or violence or abuse.
03:45So what led him down that path?
03:53We know that his father, Gabriel Capone, was 29 years old when he boarded the ship, the Werra, bound for America.
04:01Alongside his pregnant wife, Teresa, 27, and their two children.
04:08It was a time of mass immigration to America.
04:14In the 1890s, over 600,000 Italians would make the crossing.
04:21The prejudice against Italians was tremendous.
04:24The Italians were the largest immigrant group to come during that period.
04:28And people didn't know when these numbers were going to stop.
04:32You can go back and look at political cartoons of the time.
04:36And they show Italians swarming onto the shores like little rats with knives in their teeth.
04:45They were the last to be hired and the first to be fired.
04:49There's signs that were out in the window.
04:51If you're Italian, don't apply for a job here.
04:54They had to learn not only to navigate the world in a foreign language,
05:00but they had to do it without skills that would have gotten them jobs.
05:06The system fails the immigrant.
05:09And so the immigrant must resort to other ways of doing things.
05:15The family moved to a small apartment at 95 Navy Street in Brooklyn.
05:20And it's here, five years after their arrival,
05:26that Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born on the 17th of January, 1899.
05:34The first child conceived and born in their adopted America.
05:43Capone grew up very poor.
05:44He was one of nine kids and really had to start working pretty young
05:49to try to help his family out.
05:50His parents were law-abiding citizens.
05:53His father was a barber in Brooklyn.
05:56You know, a barber's salary wasn't going to feed nine kids.
05:58So he and his brothers all went to work at a pretty young age.
06:03He eventually leaves school at 14,
06:05having apparently beaten up one of the teachers.
06:07And for me, psychologically, that tells us a couple of things.
06:12One, he had no respect for authority.
06:16Or is it that he felt anger and rage?
06:21He pretty much grew up on the streets.
06:23Street gangs were prevalent at the time.
06:31And Al's early involvement with Brooklyn gangs
06:33exposed him to people who would go on to lead him down a far darker path.
06:45He was a bruiser.
06:46He grew to about 5'11", and he's hefty.
06:51What happens when you see a tough guy on the street,
06:55the gangsters begin to put them to work.
06:58One time, I did something I regretted.
07:01I held this guy who somebody else beat up.
07:06When it was all over, I had blood on my shirt.
07:09The guy peeled off a $50 bill and threw it to me.
07:15So when you see that kind of money come out, it's like, whoa.
07:19When you are around that violence,
07:22you begin to take it for granted,
07:23and you begin to think of it as an option.
07:25Wow, this is pretty profitable.
07:30I think as the son of an immigrant,
07:32it would have taken him a long time to find his sense of self,
07:35to figure out who he wanted to relate to and why.
07:39But in finding that he was good at something,
07:42finding a foothold in his criminal career,
07:45gave him a very, very strong sense of identity.
07:50He's connected with the Five Points Gang,
07:52which is one of the leading gangs at the time.
07:57His opportunities are pretty limited
07:59as an uneducated, first-generation immigrant.
08:03And suddenly, he sees a way that if he's willing to take some risks,
08:08he can make some good money.
08:12He found himself working at a place called the Harvard Inn on Coney Island,
08:18which was definitely not an Ivy League establishment.
08:21This was a really rough bar owned by a guy named Frankie Yale.
08:27Frankie Yale was a really tough guy.
08:30He ran the ice rackets in Brooklyn.
08:32If you tried to sell ice without Frankie's approval,
08:35you were going to end up with an ice pick in your knee.
08:39That's the kind of guy Frankie was,
08:40and that's the guy Capone went to work for as a teenager.
08:44So he's hanging around the Harvard Inn,
08:47and he's meeting some of the toughest, most dangerous guys in New York,
08:51and he's getting ideas.
08:54This is what it takes to be successful.
08:57So Capone's working at Frankie Yale's Harvard Inn in 1917,
09:02and a fight breaks out.
09:04A fight that Capone's responsible for starting,
09:08and one, in a way,
09:11that he'd never recover from.
09:12When we think of gangsters,
09:18what's the name we think of first?
09:23Al Capone.
09:25But who was he really?
09:29How did he get those infamous scars?
09:33When he was just a teenager working at the Harvard Inn,
09:37he saw a girl that he liked.
09:39and he started talking to her,
09:42and she told him to get lost.
09:45Capone didn't give up quite so easily.
09:47He approached her again, maybe two or three times,
09:50and finally, this girl's brother stepped in.
09:55We're not sure whether it was using a knife
09:57or whether it was actually using a bottle.
10:00Whatever it was,
10:01it left Capone with three deep scars down his cheek.
10:09Al Capone is 17 years old,
10:16and he's just been marked for life.
10:20He's been made to look like a criminal,
10:23scarred by violence.
10:26Did this turn him away from leading a normal life?
10:29Did it change him?
10:30He's a young man. He's a teenager.
10:35He hasn't found a wife yet.
10:38Suddenly, he's got these three brutal,
10:40really bright scars across his face and neck.
10:43You can't avoid seeing it.
10:45It's probably the first thing you notice when you look at him.
10:48So this must have been, you know, really traumatic.
10:50When you're looking at a young person who's been scarred,
10:53they can go one of two ways.
10:54Either they're going to take it inward
10:56and be very insular about what's happened,
10:59try and hide it, try and disguise it.
11:02Or you might have someone who eventually turns that
11:04into something else where they feel the rage
11:06from what's happened to them.
11:09At this stage in his life,
11:12Capone's still just tired muscle.
11:15He's not a gangster.
11:17Not yet.
11:18In 1918,
11:21Al would meet the woman he'd spend the rest of his life with,
11:25May,
11:25a devout Irish Catholic from a respectable family.
11:29They would get married three weeks
11:31after the birth of their only child,
11:33Albert Francis Sonny Capone.
11:36Capone was a very good husband and father
11:39in a peculiar way.
11:42He loved his only child, Sonny.
11:44He absolutely adored him.
11:45He rang his mother and his wife every single night.
11:50He would phone them.
11:52He was, and he wanted to be, a family man.
11:57But he played around.
12:00And in those days, playing around had serious consequences.
12:03During Al's youth, syphilis was very, very common.
12:13He probably contracted syphilis as a young man in his early 20s
12:16and didn't seek the treatment that could have nipped it in the bud.
12:21Alcohol was seen to be one of the big contributing factors
12:25to the spread of venereal disease.
12:27Perception was that people were more likely
12:29to engage in extramarital sexual encounters
12:33if they had been drinking.
12:36Around the turn of the century,
12:38there was a movement to see about maybe banning alcohol.
12:41And liquor has no more business
12:46in the constitution of my country
12:49than a rattlesnake has in your baby's cradle.
12:53The National Women's Christian Temperance Union
12:55announces a campaign
12:56for the prohibition of the manufacture and sale
13:00of alcoholic beverages.
13:01It seems so bizarre looking at it now
13:08that an entire country would ban
13:11the sale and production of alcohol
13:12to try and curb its social ills.
13:19Al Capone turned 21 just as prohibition was becoming the law.
13:23It passes at a time when the nation was really more conservative.
13:28And unfortunately, by the time it becomes the law
13:30in the early 1920s, those attitudes have changed.
13:35People no longer want to sacrifice.
13:36They want to have a good time.
13:38But now we've got this law that we passed a while ago.
13:41So what happens when you take away
13:43one of the biggest industries in America,
13:46a business that brings pleasure to people,
13:48and you say, it's over.
13:50You can't go to your local liquor store.
13:52You can't go to your local bar.
13:54Some people might decide that they're going to take that
13:56into their own hands.
13:57There was one criminal that would alter the course of Al's life
14:02like no other.
14:05When Capone was working at the Harvard Inn on Coney Island,
14:08he met a lot of powerful people,
14:10and one of them was Johnny Torrio.
14:15Johnny Torrio was one of the brightest people in that business.
14:19If it wasn't for Johnny Torrio, Al Capone would have never been able to be what he was.
14:26Torrio was much older and a very careful, dignified guy
14:30who treated the crime work that he did as a serious undertaking,
14:34something not to be handled capriciously.
14:37He goes home every night to his wife.
14:41He treats it as a nine-to-five job,
14:43even though that nine-to-five job is extraordinarily violent.
14:47He really takes to Capone, and he takes him under his wing.
14:51I think he sees Capone as brighter than the average thug,
14:56and he trains him up.
14:58He realized that he was an intelligent man
15:01who could actually do the job well.
15:02Torrio eventually left New York and moved to Chicago,
15:10where he became one of the biggest of all operators in the underworld.
15:16Torrio recruited Capone to come to Chicago.
15:23So it's 1920.
15:25Al's now living in Chicago.
15:26In the early 20th century,
15:33it's very much a working-class city.
15:36It has a population of about 2.8 million,
15:40which has doubled almost every decade
15:42since the mid-19th century.
15:45It's a crazy town then because it was growing so fast.
15:49It seemed out of control at times,
15:51and that led to a kind of wildness, a kind of lawless...
15:53The great thing about Prohibition for gangsters
15:56is that it provides all sorts of different options.
15:59You can distill, you can brew,
16:01you can ship,
16:03and of course, because it's illegal,
16:04you can hijack other people.
16:06He's working for Johnny Torrio,
16:08but at this point,
16:10he isn't the man at the top in Chicago.
16:13So who is?
16:17Johnny Torrio goes over to Chicago
16:19to work for his uncle, Jim Colosimo.
16:24Who is the man in town?
16:28He's a ruthless businessman.
16:31He's built up an empire of 100 brothels.
16:34He not only runs brothels and gambling operations,
16:38he runs one of the most popular restaurants.
16:40Jim will become the catalyst for Capone's success.
16:46Colosimo didn't really want to change things.
16:51He knew his business.
16:53He was very good at the brothel business.
16:55He felt he had a formula that worked.
16:57He could see that other groups had managed to buy up
17:02most of the breweries and the distilleries in the area,
17:05so he thought they'd be starting from scratch.
17:08He's dragging his heels,
17:10whereas Torrio is ambitious.
17:12He rightly thinks that prohibition
17:14will be the making of any criminal enterprise
17:18during the 1920s.
17:21Torrio knows that regardless of the law,
17:24people will always want to drink.
17:27And whoever fills their glasses
17:29is going to get rich.
17:32There's a growing sense that something has to be done.
17:35On May the 11th, 1920,
17:41Colosimo gets out of his car
17:43and walks into his restaurant.
17:56Chicago police, acting on tips,
17:59theorized that the person responsible
18:01was none other than Brooklyn Mobster
18:03and Al Capone's old employer at the Harvard Inn,
18:08Frankie Yale.
18:13I think there's a pretty decent chance
18:15that Capone was involved in the hit on Big Jim.
18:18He was young, he was new in town.
18:20It's the kind of thing that Johnny Torrio
18:22might have expected a new guy to do to prove himself.
18:24But nobody saw Capone there,
18:27so we really don't know.
18:29No one is ever convicted for the crime,
18:31surprisingly.
18:33Now we have Johnny Torrio
18:34right at the top of the pile.
18:37And who does he take with him?
18:391920 was a big year for Al Capone.
18:50With Jim Colosimo,
18:52the head of the Chicago outfit, dead,
18:54and the opportunities for bootlegging
18:57growing by the day,
18:59the money is starting to roll in.
19:01He's running 100 brothels.
19:03He expands into bootlegging,
19:05but he also expands into all sorts of other businesses.
19:07They can't keep track of it all.
19:10They can't even keep track
19:11of how much money's coming in.
19:14Then on November the 14th,
19:17his father, Gabriel, dies at 55 years old,
19:21and Al becomes the new head of the family.
19:25Once Capone started making a little bit of money,
19:27he brought his whole family with him from Brooklyn.
19:30He moved his mother, his brothers, and sister
19:32into this big house on South Prairie Avenue.
19:35His older brothers, Frank and Ralph,
19:38start working with him in the business.
19:42Suddenly, he's not just the family man,
19:44he's the leader of the family.
19:46In some ways, he's stepping in for his dad
19:47to supply and to provide for the entire crew.
19:53Chicago is a divided city.
19:56Turf wars are raging,
19:57especially between the Northside gang
20:00and Torrio's outfit.
20:02Once Big Jim was out of the way,
20:04Chicago was wide open.
20:06Suddenly, the amount of money he could make
20:08explodes infinitely.
20:11Torrio and Capone,
20:12they had the best operation in Chicago,
20:14the best and the biggest operation.
20:16They were smart enough to go to some of the breweries
20:18and say, hey, the feds have shut you down.
20:21We'll put you back in business.
20:23We'll take all the risk.
20:24We just want you to keep producing some beer for us.
20:27And we'll distribute it.
20:29We'll pay you for your time.
20:32A lot of other guys have the same idea.
20:35So rivals emerge all over town.
20:39And Capone and Turfie can't keep them all at bay.
20:42The Northside gang is run by an Irishman,
20:46Dino Banyan.
20:48Dino Banyan was a thorn in the side of the outfit.
20:52Who ran a flower shop by day
20:54and used that flower shop for cover.
20:56The interesting thing about the Northside
20:58is even though they're quite a small gang,
21:00they're very cleverly bought up
21:02almost all the breweries.
21:04So they have control of the product.
21:06And that puts them in a very strong position.
21:09These guys were in constant battle.
21:13There was sort of a code that if you took out one of my guys,
21:16I'm going to take out one of your guys.
21:18And then once you introduced the Tommy gun
21:20and the much greater firepower,
21:23then the death count started to rise.
21:30Dino Banyan is killed in 1924.
21:36And that led to Jaime Weiss
21:38and Bugs Moran,
21:40the head of the Northside,
21:41they would have to seek revenge.
21:44Capone and his brothers
21:46move operations out of Chicago Central
21:49and into one of the suburbs called Cicero,
21:52where they have the local city manager in their pocket
21:57and manage to do pretty much what they want.
22:00There's an election out there.
22:02They want to make sure people vote right.
22:03The election is being tampered with,
22:05that voters are being intimidated.
22:06A judge hears about this
22:08and sends a bunch of police officers
22:10to turn back these gangsters from the polls
22:12to let the people vote.
22:14Shooting breaks out
22:16and Frank Capone gets killed.
22:21On January the 10th, 1925,
22:25Capone's sedan was strafed with a machine gun fire.
22:30On January the 24th,
22:36Torrio and his wife Anne were set upon by Moran and Weiss.
22:42Several shots hit Torrio,
22:44but when Weiss went to deliver the coup de grace,
22:48the gun jammed and the two fled.
22:52Johnny Torrio received really significant bullet points,
22:56and everyone thinks that he can't possibly make it through this.
22:59Capone takes this shooting really to heart.
23:03He sleeps by Torrio's bed every night in a cot that he has made up,
23:08and he is the person that takes care of the day-to-day running of the business
23:12while Torrio is incapacitated.
23:13His time in hospital really is where we see this passing of the baton to Al Capone.
23:23Against all odds, Torrio would recover from his wounds.
23:28He would be taken straight from his hospital bed to prison
23:31to serve a short sentence for bootlegging,
23:34though there are some who suggest this prison sentence
23:36came about as a result of Torrio's own negotiating.
23:40After all, where could be safer than a prison
23:43where he could buy off the guards?
23:44If you run into a situation where your life is threatened
23:48or you begin to think differently...
23:51There's something really deeply ingrained here
23:53about the legacy building of this kind of industry.
23:56It wouldn't be enough just to have it exist
23:59and for it to completely fall apart.
24:02Any good leader knows that you hand on your empire.
24:06When Capone is 26, he really faces a huge crossroads.
24:11Capone could have said, you know what, I'm good.
24:13I've made enough money.
24:14I'd like to get back to my family.
24:17I can take the money I've made and set up a legitimate business somewhere.
24:20You're getting out.
24:20I'm going to get out too.
24:22But no, he actually embraces this new challenge.
24:26So Al Capone, at only 26,
24:31he's handed the keys to the kingdom.
24:36He takes over the running of the business
24:38and no one objects to it.
24:40So it was obvious that he was actually the ordained.
24:43He was 26 years old
24:46when he took over a business
24:47which in today's terms was worth $1.5 billion.
24:51I mean, it's an extraordinary thing at 26 years old.
24:58And I think there's a part of him
25:01that really likes the attention that comes with this job.
25:07With this change in leadership
25:09comes a new way of interacting with the public and the media.
25:14Al Capone loved the limelight.
25:16His garishly colored suits,
25:23his pale gray fedora that he always wore,
25:26his overcoat that he always wore.
25:28These are symbols of Capone.
25:32The Italians have some very important coats
25:35and one of them is the coat of bella figura.
25:39You've got to make yourself look better than you actually are.
25:42You never let people know exactly what's going on inside of you.
25:46Especially in front of public audiences.
25:52He wanted to dress like a banker,
25:54except even more.
25:56So he would go with bigger, wider pinstripes
25:58and brighter colors.
26:00He wanted to show a certain lifestyle.
26:02And not just because he wanted to show off
26:03that he was making money,
26:04he wanted to be taken seriously.
26:07Sound and image are coming together
26:09to create newsreels.
26:11He's probably the first real media gangster that we have.
26:16And he becomes iconic.
26:19They started making movies
26:20with characters based on him.
26:23That would really kind of feed into his ego.
26:26So there's really strong elements of narcissism there.
26:29This kind of attention is validation.
26:31That, you know, how bad can I really be
26:35if all these people are paying attention to me?
26:39That's why he's given interviews to the newspapers.
26:41He's given interviews to Cosmo Magazine,
26:43a women's magazine, right?
26:44He's basically saying,
26:46why don't you understand me?
26:47I'm just a good guy.
26:48I'm just an American entrepreneur.
26:49He was a businessman.
26:52He had a very successful business.
26:55He supplied the demand.
26:56You know, people wanted to be in bars.
26:58They wanted to have alcohol.
27:00And he supplied the alcohol.
27:02He has an oversized personality,
27:04a nodding relationship with the truth.
27:07But he's charming.
27:08A bit like people regard Trump today.
27:10One of Capone's great strokes of genius
27:18was that he realized that you don't keep all the money.
27:22You hand it out.
27:24You make friends.
27:27When people were really struggling,
27:29he gave people jobs.
27:30He was responsible for, you know,
27:32opening a soup kitchen on the South Side.
27:35The Italians weren't always allowed
27:37into the typical soup kitchens
27:40that were up.
27:42Capone was responsible
27:44for creating alternative soup kitchens,
27:48soup kitchens that, you know,
27:49that actually had good food
27:51that the Italians would eat
27:52because Italians are very particular
27:54about their food.
27:56But he also had people come to him
27:57and complain about buying spoiled milk.
28:01I mean, I don't think he went to City Hall
28:03and did it himself,
28:04but he made sure that the expiration dates
28:08were put on milk cartons in Chicago.
28:10You can only do this
28:12when you have so much money
28:13you don't know what to do with your money,
28:15but also when you do have some compassion
28:17for the people that are your people.
28:20You see this kind of Robin Hood-type character
28:23come to life,
28:24and I think that that really fed the story,
28:27the facade,
28:27the character that he wanted to portray
28:29to the outside world.
28:31Like a lot of men in his position,
28:33he was able to groom people
28:35to do the dirty work.
28:36He had a really compelling vision
28:38and could compel people
28:40and draw them into his vision.
28:42If you want to stay in business a while,
28:45you've got to have friends.
28:46So he buys off the cops,
28:48he buys off the courts.
28:50He can't get arrested if he tries.
28:52He understands that in order to protect himself,
28:55he's got to buy everyone else off.
28:57At his height, Capone probably had 60%
28:59of the Chicago Police Department in his pocket.
29:02They always say about Capone
29:06that if you met him,
29:08he was absolutely charming.
29:09He would have a glint in his eye
29:11and he would just have this great smile,
29:13but it could turn,
29:15and he would suddenly become a reptile.
29:23There's a story about how,
29:25when he found out
29:26that there was an assassination attempt against him,
29:28he beat one of the victims to death
29:31with a baseball bat.
29:34It's estimated that
29:35in the period of the 1920s
29:38that we're interested in,
29:39there were 700 gangland killings in Chicago,
29:44of which 200 are associated with Capone's gang.
29:48Sometimes it felt like the Wild West in Chicago.
29:51You just have guys, you know,
29:52rolling by shooting at each other,
29:54seemingly unprovoked,
29:55for grudges that you couldn't keep track of after a while.
29:58And we start to get a little pushback.
30:01You start to see business leaders
30:03going to Washington, D.C.
30:05and saying,
30:05you've got to help us
30:06because our local elected officials,
30:08they're not doing anything.
30:10People are afraid to do business in Chicago.
30:12They're afraid to come here as tourists.
30:13So there's a growing sense
30:15that something has to be done,
30:16that this is becoming a national problem,
30:18that lawlessness is out of control.
30:23At 10.30 in the morning,
30:26on St. Valentine's Day, 1929,
30:29seven men associated with George Bugs Moran's bootlegging operation
30:34were inside a garage in the Lincoln Park neighborhood
30:38of Chicago's Northside.
30:41Four men, two wearing police uniforms,
30:45pulled up in a police car and entered the garage.
30:49They drew guns and forced the men to line up against a wall,
30:53shoulder to shoulder.
30:54At first, Moran's men offered no resistance
30:59until a side door opened
31:01and two other men carrying Thompson's submachine guns entered.
31:08The pictures go straight into the press
31:11and no one holds back.
31:14Folks are drinking their coffee
31:16and eating their Wheaties
31:18and looking at the newspaper
31:19and suddenly this gruesome, bloody scene
31:23is right in front of them.
31:31We have the impression that Capone was responsible.
31:36But it makes no sense.
31:38He already knew the feds were breathing down his neck.
31:41People thought the cops did it
31:42because when one of the Gusenberg boys
31:44who died in the garage was still alive
31:46when police got there,
31:47he said it was the cops that did it.
31:50Well, there's a bunch of different possible theories,
31:52but I don't think we're ever going to really know.
31:55Either way, there's a sense that this is going too far.
32:00Up until that point,
32:02crime fighting had always been considered a local issue.
32:05It was left to your police chief and your sheriff,
32:07but now the federal government is getting involved
32:09and J. Edgar Hoover is taking over the FBI
32:12and building a national response to crime.
32:16Never before was there a greater need for unity
32:19for a calm appraisal
32:22of the forces which work against us.
32:27Is this the beginning of the end for Capone?
32:31Seems like he's finally got a problem on his hands
32:34he can't buy his way out of.
32:36But the fortunes of the whole nation
32:40are about to change.
32:48So things are beginning to shift now for Capone.
32:52His image is tarnished.
32:56The press have turned on him.
32:58And now the federal government
32:59have labeled him public enemy number one.
33:03The president, Herbert Hoover,
33:07no relation to J. Edgar Hoover or the FBI,
33:11starts talking to his cabinet.
33:12What are we going to do about Capone?
33:14We can't have this kind of stuff
33:15on the front page of the newspaper.
33:17We can't have these gangland killings anymore.
33:19We either have to enforce prohibition
33:21or we have to strike it from the books.
33:23But we can't just keep looking the other way.
33:25So he decides that he's going to do something about it.
33:28This is the president
33:29deciding that he's going to get involved
33:31in an effort to take down Al Capone.
33:36The Wall Street crash of 1929
33:39was a catastrophic collapse in the world economy,
33:42which would take a generation to recover from.
33:47We are now into this horrible depression.
33:50The economy is tanking.
33:51Stock market is nosedived.
33:53People are losing their fortunes.
33:55They're blaming President Hoover for this.
33:56and he figures that going after Al Capone
33:59will make him look good.
34:04Now you'd think it'd be pretty easy, right?
34:06Because Capone is admitting that he's a bootlegger.
34:09He's obviously making a fortune
34:11selling booze and running guns
34:12and keeping brothels, casinos.
34:15How hard could it be to take this guy out?
34:18But remember, the Chicago cops aren't going to do it.
34:22Capone was also very careful.
34:25He didn't put a lot of the business in his own name,
34:28so it wasn't clear how they were going to take him down.
34:30You've got federal prohibition agents
34:34trying to stop Capone,
34:35and they're raiding his breweries and his brothels
34:39looking for evidence of crime,
34:41but they can't pin anything on him.
34:44But there's a federal prosecutor,
34:45a U.S. attorney named George E.Q. Johnson.
34:49The Justice Department has asked him
34:50to find a way to prosecute Al Capone.
34:53And he says, what about his taxes?
34:55Has he been paying his taxes?
34:57Capone was not paying taxes.
35:00All of his income was illegal.
35:02And the federal government said to him,
35:04hey, we'd like to talk to you about your taxes.
35:05You haven't filed any returns in years.
35:07Capone actually offered to pay taxes.
35:09He said, here's how much I think I made.
35:11Tell me what I owe you.
35:13And after a while, the negotiations fell apart.
35:15So Capone had a chance to get out of this,
35:18but he didn't. He didn't pay.
35:20Capone should have realized
35:21that this was a pretty good situation for him, right?
35:24The best they can do is come after me for income tax evasion.
35:27I'm going to hire myself a really good lawyer,
35:29and I'll probably pay a settlement, and I'll be good.
35:32But when this went to trial,
35:33Capone didn't hire a good tax lawyer.
35:35He hired one of the usual lawyers
35:37who he turned to any time he got in trouble with the law.
35:41And this guy really didn't know tax law that well.
35:44The biggest mistake they make
35:46is Capone is convicted
35:47of not providing tax returns for 1925 and 1926.
35:53Well, the law didn't demand that he had to until 1927,
35:58so they could have argued that quite clearly,
36:00which would have really damaged the prosecution's case.
36:04But they don't do that.
36:06It's ridiculous.
36:07They just don't seem to know it.
36:09The judge is determined that Capone is going to go down
36:12no matter what happens.
36:13He manages to stop Capone from tampering with the jury
36:18because he changes the jury the night before the actual trial.
36:20He swaps the jury with another jury.
36:23They're all from outside Chicago, rural characters,
36:26and they're absolutely shocked by Capone's behavior
36:29because Capone arrives on the first day of the trial
36:31in a suit that is described as glaring banana yellow.
36:36So they're pretty baffled by the whole of Capone anyway.
36:39They don't have any empathy with him.
36:41They certainly wouldn't have been the jury
36:43that Capone would have chosen.
36:45Capone was convicted on five counts of income tax evasion
36:49on October the 17th, 1931.
36:53He was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
37:00My grandfather got three years in the federal penitentiary
37:05for the same amount of money
37:06that he didn't declare on his income tax.
37:09Al Capone got 11 years
37:11for the same amount, the same thing.
37:15I mean, that's unheard of.
37:18If you look at what he was convicted of,
37:21today, more people are convicted of the same crime,
37:24and it's just a simple fine.
37:27I'm not saying he was a good guy,
37:29and I'm not saying he was innocent,
37:30and I'm not saying that he didn't deserve to go to jail,
37:33but he got a much stiffer sentence for income evasion
37:36than he should have gotten.
37:37Capone would serve his sentence
37:40in the infamous Alcatraz prison,
37:43a place reserved for the most dangerous criminals of the time.
37:48They built Alcatraz at a ridiculously high cost
37:52to try to deter crime,
37:54and what better way to call attention
37:56to your new tough-on-crime approach
38:00than by putting Al Capone there?
38:03And he's only a tax evasion conviction, right?
38:07Why do you got to put him in Alcatraz?
38:08But it's clear that they want to send a message,
38:10and this is really a new phase in American history,
38:13this emphasis on showing that we're tough on crime,
38:16building more prisons,
38:17is something that really still runs through our society today.
38:20He started off not knowing who he was,
38:24to finding a really strong character,
38:26so strong that he wears a costume,
38:29to suddenly be imprisoned,
38:31where everything that provided that sense of status
38:34and character is stripped away from him.
38:36He's just now a man,
38:38and he's a very ill man.
38:40His health began to fail.
38:44After spending years of his life on the edge,
38:47syphilis was now taking a serious toll on him.
38:51We know that Al Capone lived
38:53with inadequately treated syphilis for a very long time,
38:57which is why he entered into a tertiary stage
39:02later on in his life.
39:03It's a slow degeneration of your nervous system
39:07that comes with cognitive and motor impairment,
39:13dementia, mood swings, delusions, hallucinations,
39:16personality changes, violent outbursts.
39:20Your entire person and sense of self
39:24changes, sometimes beyond all recognition.
39:28In 1939, he was released from Alcatraz
39:34due to his failing health,
39:36and he returned to his mansion in Florida.
39:40But the once powerful gangster
39:41was a shadow of his former self.
39:46Most people think he died in prison, but he didn't.
39:48He got out and lived another 10 years in Florida.
39:50The Al Capone that I knew,
39:55he was kind of like a big child.
39:59I was by his side with my father,
40:03and he would call me baby girl.
40:06He said, baby girl, I love you,
40:08and baby girl, baby girl.
40:10And my father turned to me, he said,
40:12dear, dear, we've got to go back to Chicago.
40:13You've got to go back to school.
40:15So we got on the train,
40:18and we came back to Chicago.
40:20The next day, my grandfather called
40:24and said, Al just died.
40:28He died on January the 25th, 1947,
40:32at the age of 48.
40:34His body was paraded through Chicago
40:42in a hearse,
40:45and people were lining up on the streets
40:50with their hands over their hearts,
40:53their hats in their hands,
40:54their heads bowed
40:55when his casket went by.
40:59The church was filled with people.
41:04Yeah, it was quite something to see.
41:12So who was Al Capone?
41:15A hardened thug,
41:17who was also a savvy business leader,
41:20who might have been a successful CEO,
41:23or even president,
41:25in another life?
41:27A brutal bully,
41:29who yet handed out food to the poor.
41:31A caring husband
41:33who rang his wife every night,
41:36but whose countless infidelities
41:38exposed her to syphilis.
41:39was a loving father,
41:42who was yet responsible
41:44for countless cold-blooded murders.
41:47The truth is,
41:49he was all those things.
41:51And yet as powerful and influential
41:53as Al Capone was,
41:55like all of us,
41:57he was still subject to the whims of history.
41:59We love the idea of Capone as a morality tale.
42:06Here's the man who makes this vast fortune
42:08from illegal and violent means.
42:13We can't have him win.
42:14He's got to be brought to justice.
42:16He's not only got to be brought to justice,
42:18but he's got to be seen to suffer.
42:20This is what we don't want you to do.
42:23This is evil.
42:25If you do this,
42:26you will end up dead.
42:29People didn't understand that
42:31even the dead gangsters
42:35become heroes to somebody.
42:38People who understood
42:40why the gangster rebelled against the system
42:44began to see that
42:46as a potential model
42:47for rebelling against the system.
42:51But what blessings
42:52are there to be taken
42:54from Capone's legacy?
42:56Why are we still talking about him
42:58almost 100 years later?
43:02His story reflects
43:04the contradictions of America,
43:08a nation built on law and order
43:10yet rife
43:11with corruption and rebellion.
43:16We've seen lots of criminals
43:18live out loud in America
43:20feeling like they're above the law
43:23and that if they don't try to hide
43:27what they're doing,
43:28they might just get away with it.
43:31One thing's for certain,
43:34the legend of Al Capone
43:36will continue.
43:38No matter how much you pull,
44:01you shovel in the mouth of your child,
44:04these vertices still won't move,
44:07these vertices still won't move,
44:09these vertices still...
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