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00:00El nombre de un hombre ha sido synonymoso con el crimen en los años 30.
00:10Fue esperado y respetado, idolizado y inmortalizado en escena de tantas veces.
00:19Considerado por algunos...
00:23...as la última gangsta.
00:30No, he's here, gentlemen.
00:33Pero quién era, realmente?
00:37¿Qué realmente sabemos de él?
00:41Es todo tuyo, Al.
00:45Me, estoy quitando.
00:46Al Capone.
00:51A sólo 26 años, Alphonse Gabriel Capone...
00:56...would ser el líder de uno de los más grandes syndicatos de la América ha conocido.
01:04Pero esto fue sólo el principio de la historia de Al Capone.
01:07Esto fue su propio historia.
01:19Estoy perd positionado.
01:21Comprbert Cares.
01:23Se увелич Mansion de las Indias que tenía algún momento importante.
01:28Se
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03:04My name is Deirdre Marie Capone.
03:07I am Al Capone's grandniece.
03:11Was Al Capone a mobster?
03:12Yes, 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.
03:27The 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.
03:36By 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?
03:49We 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.
04:19The 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,
04:35and 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.
04:47They were the signs that were out in the window.
04:51If you're Italian, don't apply for a job here.
04:55They 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,
05:10and so the immigrant must resort to other ways of doing things.
05:13The 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.
05:40Capone grew up very poor.
05:45He 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, 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.
06:02He eventually leaves school at 14,
06:05having apparently beaten up one of the teachers.
06:09And 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.
06:27Street gangs were prevalent at the time.
06:29And 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 foot 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.
06:57One 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.
07:10The 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.
07:18When you are around that violence, you begin to take it for granted,
07:23and you begin to think of it as an option.
07:26Wow, this, you know, this is pretty profitable.
07:28I 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 this criminal career,
07:45gave him a very, very strong sense of identity.
07:48He's connected with the Five Points Gang,
07:52which is one of the leading gangs at the time.
07:58His opportunities are pretty limited
07:59as an uneducated first-generation immigrant,
08:03and suddenly he sees a way that,
08:06if he's willing to take some risks,
08:08he can make some good money.
08:09He found himself working
08:14at 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
08:23owned 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.
08:37That'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,
08:49most 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.
09:03A fight that Capone's responsible for starting,
09:08and one, in a way,
09:11that he'd never recover from.
09:15When we think of gangsters,
09:19what's the name we think of first?
09:23Al Capone.
09:25But who was he really?
09:27How 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.
09:40He 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,
09:48maybe two or three times,
09:50and finally this girl's brother stepped in.
09:52We'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.
10:05Al Capone is 17 years old,
10:17and 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?
10:32He's a young man.
10:33He'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
10:47when you look at him.
10:48So this must have been, you know, really traumatic.
10:51When you're looking at a young person
10:53who'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.
11:01Or you might have someone
11:03who eventually turns that into something else
11:05where they feel the rage from what's happened to them.
11:09At this stage in his life,
11:12Capone still just hired muscle.
11:15He's not a gangster.
11:16Not yet.
11:20In 1918, Al would meet the woman
11:23he'd spend the rest of his life with,
11:25May, a devout Irish Catholic
11:27from 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.
11:47He rang his mother and his wife
11:49every single night he would phone them.
11:53He was, and he wanted to be,
11:55a family man.
11:57But he played around.
11:58And in those days,
12:01playing around had serious consequences.
12:03During Al's youth,
12:09syphilis was very, very common.
12:13He probably contracted syphilis
12:15as a young man in his early 20s
12:16and didn't seek the treatment
12:18that could have nipped it in the bud.
12:21Alcohol was seen to be
12:23one 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
12:40maybe banning alcohol.
12:44And 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
12:59and sale of alcoholic beverages.
13:03It seems so bizarre looking at it now
13:08that an entire country
13:10would ban the sale and production of alcohol
13:12to try and curb its social ills.
13:19Al Capone turned 21
13:21just as prohibition was becoming the law.
13:23It passes at a time
13:24when the nation was really more conservative.
13:27And unfortunately,
13:29by the time it becomes the law
13:30in the early 1920s,
13:32those attitudes have changed.
13:35People no longer want to sacrifice.
13:37They want to have a good time.
13:38But now we've got this law
13:39that 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,
13:49it's over.
13:50You can't go to your local liquor store.
13:52You can't go to your local bar.
13:53Some people might decide
13:55that they're going to take that
13:56into their own hands.
13:58There was one criminal
14:00that would alter the course of Al's life
14:02like no other.
14:05When Capone was working
14:06at 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
14:18in that business.
14:20If it wasn't for Johnny Torrio,
14:22Al Capone would have never been able
14:23to be what he was.
14:26Torrio was much older
14:27and a very careful, dignified guy
14:30who treated the crime work
14:31that he did as a serious undertaking,
14:34something not to be handled capriciously.
14:38He goes home every night to his wife.
14:41He treats it as a 9-to-5 job,
14:43even though that 9-to-5 job
14:44is extraordinarily violent.
14:46He really takes to Capone,
14:48and he takes him under his wing.
14:51I think he sees Capone
14:53as 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.
15:07Torrio eventually left New York
15:09and moved to Chicago,
15:10where he became one of the biggest
15:12of all operators in the underworld.
15:16Torrio recruited Capone to come to Chicago.
15:22So it's 1920.
15:25Al's now living in Chicago.
15:30In the early 20th century,
15:33he's very much a working-class city.
15:36It has a population of about 2.8 million,
15:39which has doubled almost every decade
15:42since the mid-19th century.
15:46It's a crazy town then,
15:47because it was growing so fast.
15:49It seemed out of control at times,
15:51and that led to a kind of wildness,
15:53a kind of lawless...
15:54The 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.
16:12So who is?
16:14Johnny Torrio goes over to Chicago
16:19to work for his uncle, Jim Colosimo.
16:25Who 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.
16:48Colosimo 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.
16:58He could see that other groups
17:00had managed to buy up most of the breweries
17:03and the distilleries in the area,
17:05so he thought they'd be starting from scratch.
17:07He's dragging his heels,
17:10whereas Torrio is ambitious.
17:13He 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
18:06at the Harvard Inn, Frankie 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
18:24to 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,
18:55and 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
19:07of other businesses.
19:08They 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,
19:19dies at 55 years old,
19:21and Al becomes the new head of the family.
19:25Once Capone started making
19:26a little bit of money,
19:27he brought his whole family with him
19:28from Brooklyn.
19:30He moved his mother,
19:31his brothers, and sister
19:32into this big house
19:34on South Prairie Avenue.
19:35His older brothers, Frank and Ralph,
19:38start working with him
19:39in 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
19:47for his dad to supply
19:49and to provide for the entire crew.
19:53Chicago is a divided city.
19:56Turf wars are raging,
19:58especially between the Northside gang
20:00and Torrio's outfit.
20:01Once Big Jim was out of the way,
20:04Chicago was wide open.
20:06Suddenly, the amount of money
20:08he could make explodes 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
20:17to go to some of the breweries
20:19and say,
20:19hey, 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
20:25producing 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
20:38and Capone and Torrio
20:40can't keep them all at bay.
20:42The Northside gang is run by an Irishman,
20:46Dino Banyan.
20:48Dino Banyan was a thorn
20:50in the side of the outfit.
20:51Who 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.
21:10These guys were in constant battle.
21:13There was sort of a code
21:14that if you took out one of my guys,
21:16I'm going to take out one of your guys.
21:18And then once you introduce 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
21:56in 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.
22:07A 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.
22:15Shooting breaks out
22:16and Frank Capone gets killed.
22:21On January the 10th, 1925,
22:24Capone's sedan was strafed
22:29with a machine gun fire.
22:34On January the 24th,
22:37Torrio and his wife Anne
22:38were set upon by Moran and Weiss.
22:42Several shots hit Torrio,
22:45but when Weiss went to deliver the coup de grace,
22:48the gun jammed and the two fled.
22:50Johnny Torrio received
22:54really significant bullet wounds
22:56and everyone thinks
22:56that he can't possibly make it through this.
22:59Capone takes this shooting really to heart.
23:03He sleeps by Torrio's bed
23:06every night in a cot that he has made up
23:08and he is the person that takes care
23:10of the day-to-day running of the business
23:12while Torrio is incapacitated.
23:16His time in hospital really is where
23:18we see this passing of the baton
23:20to Al Capone.
23:24Against all odds,
23:26Torrio would recover from his wounds.
23:28He would be taken straight
23:29from his hospital bed to prison
23:31to serve a short sentence for bootlegging.
23:34Though there are some
23:35who suggest this prison sentence
23:36came about as a result
23:38of Torrio's own negotiating.
23:40After all,
23:41where could be safer than a prison
23:43where he could buy off the guards?
23:44If you run into a situation
23:46where your life is threatened
23:48or you begin to think differently.
23:50There's something really deeply ingrained here
23:53about the legacy building
23:54of this kind of industry.
23:56It wouldn't be enough
23:57just to have it exist
23:59and for it to completely fall apart.
24:02Any good leader knows
24:03that you hand on your empire.
24:05When Capone is 26,
24:08he really faces a huge crossroads.
24:11Capone could have said,
24:11you 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
24:18and set up a legitimate business somewhere.
24:20You're getting out,
24:20I'm going to get out too.
24:22But no,
24:23he actually embraces this new challenge.
24:26So Al Capone,
24:28at only 26,
24:31he's handed the keys
24:32to the kingdom.
24:36He takes over
24:37the running of the business
24:38and no one objects to it.
24:40So it was obvious
24:40that he was actually the ordained.
24:43He was 26 years old
24:46when he took over a business
24:47which in today's terms
24:49was worth $1.5 billion.
24:53It's an extraordinary thing
24:54at 26 years old.
24:55And I think
25:00there's a part of him
25:01that really likes
25:03the attention
25:04that comes with this job.
25:07With this change in leadership
25:09comes a new way
25:10of interacting
25:11with the public
25:12and the media.
25:13His garishly coloured suits,
25:23his pale grey fedora
25:25that he always wore,
25:26his overcoat
25:27that he always wore.
25:28These are symbols
25:29of Capone.
25:31The Italians
25:32have some very
25:34important codes
25:35and one of them
25:36is the code
25:37of Bella Figura.
25:39You've got to make yourself
25:40look better
25:41than you actually are.
25:42You never let people
25:44know exactly
25:45what's going on
25:46inside of you,
25:47especially
25:48in front
25:49of public audiences.
25:51He wanted to dress
25:53like a banker,
25:54except even more.
25:56So he would go
25:56with bigger,
25:57wider pinstripes
25:59and brighter colours.
26:00He wanted to show
26:01a certain lifestyle
26:02and not just because
26:03he wanted to show off
26:03that he was making money,
26:04he wanted to be
26:05taken seriously.
26:07Sound and image
26:08are coming together
26:09to create newsreels.
26:12He's probably
26:12the first real media
26:14gangster that we have
26:16and he becomes iconic.
26:19They started making movies
26:20with characters
26:22based on him.
26:23That would really
26:24kind of feed
26:25into his ego
26:26so there's really
26:27strong elements
26:27of narcissism
26:28and this kind
26:30of attention
26:30is validation
26:32that, you know,
26:33how bad can I really
26:34be if all these people
26:36are paying attention
26:37to me?
26:39That's why he's
26:40giving interviews
26:40to the newspapers.
26:41He's giving interviews
26:42to Cosmo magazine,
26:43a women's magazine,
26:44right?
26:44He's basically saying,
26:45why don't you
26:46understand me?
26:47I'm just a good guy.
26:48I'm just an American
26:48entrepreneur.
26:50He was a businessman.
26:52He had a very
26:53successful business.
26:55He supplied the demand.
26:56You know,
26:56people wanted to be
26:58in bars.
26:58They wanted to have
26:59alcohol and he supplied
27:00the alcohol.
27:02He has an oversized
27:03personality,
27:04a nodding relationship
27:05with the truth,
27:07but he's charming,
27:08a bit like people
27:09regard Trump today.
27:10One of Capone's great
27:17strokes of genius
27:18was that he realized
27:19that you don't keep
27:21all the money.
27:22You hand it out.
27:24You make friends.
27:27When people were
27:28really struggling,
27:29he gave people jobs.
27:30He was responsible
27:31for, you know,
27:32opening a soup kitchen
27:33on the south side.
27:34The Italians weren't
27:37always allowed
27:38into the typical
27:39soup kitchens
27:40that were up.
27:42Capone was
27:43responsible for
27:45creating alternative
27:47soup kitchens,
27:48soup kitchens that,
27:49you know,
27:49that actually had
27:50good food
27:51that the Italians
27:52would eat,
27:53because Italians
27:53are very particular
27:54about their food.
27:55But he also had people
27:57come to him
27:58and complain
27:58about buying
27:59spoiled milk.
28:00I mean,
28:02I don't think
28:02he went to City Hall
28:03and did it himself,
28:04but he made sure
28:05that the expiration dates
28:08were put on milk cartons
28:09in Chicago.
28:11You can only do this
28:12when you have
28:12so much money
28:13you don't know
28:13what to do
28:14with your money,
28:15but also when you
28:16do have some compassion
28:17for the people
28:18that are your people.
28:21You see this kind of
28:22Robin Hood-type
28:22character come to life,
28:24and I think that
28:25that really fed
28:26the story,
28:27the facade,
28:27the character
28:28that he wanted
28:29to portray
28:29to the outside world.
28:30Like a lot of men
28:32in his position,
28:33he was able
28:34to groom people
28:35to do the dirty work.
28:36He had a really
28:37compelling vision
28:38and could compel people
28:40and draw them
28:41into his vision.
28:43If you want to stay
28:44in 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
28:51if he tries.
28:52He understands
28:53that in order
28:54to protect himself,
28:55he's got to buy
28:56everyone else off.
28:57At his height,
28:58Capone probably had
28:5960% of the Chicago
29:00police department
29:01in his pocket.
29:05They always say
29:06about Capone
29:07that if you met him,
29:08he was absolutely charming.
29:09He would have a glint
29:11in his eye
29:11and he would just
29:12have this great smile,
29:13but it could turn
29:14and he would suddenly
29:17become a reptile.
29:23There's a story
29:24about how when he found out
29:26that there was an assassination
29:27attempt against him.
29:28He beat one of the victims
29:30to death
29:31with a baseball bat.
29:34It's estimated
29:35that in the period
29:37of the 1920s
29:38that we're interested in,
29:39there were 700 gangland
29:41killings in Chicago,
29:43of which 200 are associated
29:46with Capone's gang.
29:48Sometimes it felt like
29:49the Wild West
29:50in Chicago.
29:51You just have guys
29:52rolling by,
29:53shooting at each other,
29:54seemingly unprovoked
29:55for grudges
29:56that you couldn't
29:57keep track of
29:58after a while.
30:00We start to get
30:00a little pushback.
30:01You start to see
30:02business leaders
30:03going to Washington,
30:05DC and saying,
30:06you've got to help us
30:06because our local
30:07elected officials,
30:08they're not doing anything.
30:10People are afraid
30:10to do business in Chicago.
30:12They're afraid
30:12to come here as tourists.
30:13So there's a growing sense
30:15that something
30:15has to be done.
30:16This is becoming
30:17a national problem,
30:18that lawlessness
30:19is out of control.
30:23At 10.30 in the morning
30:25on St. Valentine's Day,
30:271929,
30:29seven men associated
30:31with George Bugs Moran's
30:33bootlegging operation
30:34were inside a garage
30:36in the Lincoln Park
30:37neighborhood
30:38of Chicago's Northside.
30:41Four men,
30:43two wearing police uniforms,
30:45pulled up in a police car
30:46and entered the garage.
30:49They drew guns
30:50and forced the men
30:52to line up against a wall
30:53shoulder to shoulder.
30:55At first,
30:57Moran's men
30:58offered no resistance
30:59until a side door opened
31:01and two other men
31:03carrying Thompson's
31:04submachine guns entered.
31:08The pictures
31:10go straight into the press
31:11and no one holds back.
31:15Folks are drinking their coffee
31:16and eating their Wheaties,
31:18looking at the newspaper,
31:19and suddenly
31:20this gruesome,
31:23bloody scene
31:23is right in front of them.
31:31We have the impression
31:33that Capone was responsible.
31:36But it makes no sense.
31:38He already knew
31:39the feds were breathing
31:39down his neck.
31:41People thought the cops did it
31:42because when one of the
31:43Gusenberg boys
31:44who died in the garage
31:45was still alive
31:46when the police got there,
31:47he said it was the cops
31:48that did it.
31:50There's a bunch
31:50of different possible theories,
31:52but I don't think
31:53we're ever going to really know.
31:55Either way,
31:57there's a sense
31:57that this is going too far.
32:00Up until that point,
32:02crime fighting
32:02had always been considered
32:03a local issue.
32:05It was left to your police chief
32:06and your sheriff,
32:07but now the federal government
32:08is getting involved,
32:09and J. Edgar Hoover
32:10is taking over the FBI
32:12and building
32:13a national response
32:14to crime.
32:16Never before
32:17was there a greater need
32:19for unity
32:19for a calm appraisal
32:22of the forces
32:24which work against us.
32:27Is this the beginning
32:28of the end
32:29for Capone?
32:31Seems like he's finally
32:33got a problem
32:34on his hands
32:34he can't buy
32:35his way out of.
32:37But the fortunes
32:39of the whole nation
32:40are about to change.
32:42So, things are
32:49beginning to shift
32:50now for Capone.
32:53His image is
32:54tarnished.
32:56The press have turned
32:57on him.
32:58And now the federal government
32:59have labelled him
33:01public enemy number one.
33:05The president,
33:06Herbert Hoover,
33:07no relation to
33:08J. Edgar Hoover
33:09or the FBI,
33:11starts talking
33:11in his cabinet.
33:12What are we going
33:13to do about Capone?
33:14We can't have
33:15this kind of stuff
33:15on the front page
33:16of the newspaper.
33:17We can't have
33:17these gangland killings
33:18anymore.
33:19We either have to
33:19enforce prohibition
33:21or we have to
33:22strike it from the books.
33:23But we can't just
33:24keep looking
33:24the other way.
33:25So he decides
33:26that he's going
33:27to do something
33:27about it.
33:28This is the president
33:29deciding that he's
33:30going to get involved
33:31in an effort to take
33:33down Al Capone.
33:36The Wall Street
33:37crash of 1929
33:39was a catastrophic
33:40collapse in the world
33:41economy,
33:42which would take
33:44a generation
33:44to recover from.
33:47We are now
33:48into this horrible
33:49depression.
33:50The economy is tanking.
33:51Stock market
33:52is nosedived.
33:53People are losing
33:54their fortunes.
33:55They're blaming
33:55President Hoover
33:56for this.
33:57And he figures
33:57that going after
33:59Al Capone
33:59will make him
34:00look good.
34:04Now you'd think
34:04it'd be pretty easy,
34:05right?
34:06Because Capone
34:06is admitting
34:07that he's a bootlegger.
34:09He's obviously
34:10making a fortune
34:11selling booze
34:12and running guns
34:12and keeping brothels,
34:15casinos.
34:16How hard could it be
34:17to take this guy out?
34:18But remember,
34:19the Chicago cops
34:20aren't going to do it.
34:22Capone was also
34:24very careful.
34:25He didn't put
34:26a lot of the business
34:27in his own name,
34:28so it wasn't clear
34:28how they were
34:29going to take him down.
34:31You've got
34:32federal prohibition agents
34:34trying to stop Capone,
34:35and they're raiding
34:36his breweries
34:38and his brothels
34:39looking for evidence
34:40of crime,
34:41but they can't
34:42pin anything on him.
34:43But there's
34:44a federal prosecutor,
34:45a U.S. attorney
34:46named George E.Q. Johnson.
34:49The Justice Department
34:50has asked him
34:51to find a way
34:51to prosecute Al Capone.
34:53And he says,
34:54what about his taxes?
34:55Has he been
34:55paying his taxes?
34:58Capone was not
34:58paying taxes.
35:00All of his income
35:01was illegal.
35:02And the federal government
35:03said to him,
35:04hey, we'd like to talk
35:04to you about your taxes.
35:05You haven't filed
35:06any returns in years.
35:07Capone actually offered
35:08to pay taxes.
35:09He said,
35:10here's how much
35:10I think I made.
35:11Tell me what I owe you.
35:13And after a while,
35:14the negotiations fell apart.
35:15So Capone had a chance
35:16to get out of this,
35:18but he didn't.
35:18He didn't pay.
35:20Capone should have realized
35:21that this was
35:22a pretty good situation
35:23for him, right?
35:24The best they can do
35:25is come after me
35:26for income tax evasion.
35:27I'm going to hire myself
35:28a really good lawyer,
35:29and I'll probably
35:30pay a settlement,
35:31and I'll be good.
35:32But when this went to trial,
35:33Capone didn't hire
35:34a good tax lawyer.
35:35He hired one of the usual
35:36lawyers who he turned to
35:38any time he got in trouble
35:39with the law.
35:41And this guy really
35:41didn't know tax law
35:43that well.
35:44The biggest mistake
35:45they make is Capone
35:46is convicted
35:47of not providing
35:49tax returns
35:50for 1925 and 1926.
35:53Well, the law
35:55didn't demand
35:56that he had to
35:56until 1927.
35:58So they could have
35:59argued that quite clearly,
36:00which would have
36:01really damaged
36:03the prosecution's case.
36:04But they don't do that.
36:06It's ridiculous.
36:07They just don't
36:07seem to know it.
36:09The judge is determined
36:11that Capone
36:11is going to go down
36:12no matter what happens.
36:14He manages to stop Capone
36:16from tampering
36:17with the jury
36:18because he changes
36:18the jury the night
36:19before the actual trial.
36:20He swaps the jury
36:21with another jury.
36:23They're all
36:23from outside Chicago,
36:25rural characters,
36:26and they're absolutely
36:27shocked by Capone's behavior
36:29because Capone arrives
36:30on the first day
36:31of the trial
36:32in a suit
36:33that is described
36:34as glaring
36:34banana yellow.
36:36So they're pretty
36:37baffled by the whole
36:38of Capone anyway.
36:39They don't have
36:40any empathy with him.
36:41They certainly
36:41wouldn't have been
36:42the jury
36:43that Capone
36:43would have chosen.
36:46Capone was convicted
36:47on five counts
36:48of income tax evasion
36:49on October the 17th,
36:521931.
36:53He was sentenced
36:55to 11 years in prison.
37:00My grandfather
37:01got three years
37:03in the federal penitentiary
37:05for the same amount
37:06of money
37:06that he didn't declare
37:08on his income tax.
37:09Al Capone got 11 years
37:11for the same amount,
37:14the same thing.
37:15I mean,
37:16that's unheard of.
37:18If you look
37:18at what he was convicted
37:20of,
37:21today,
37:22more people are convicted
37:23of the same crime
37:24and it's just
37:25a simple fine.
37:27I'm not saying
37:28he was a good guy
37:29and I'm not saying
37:29he was innocent
37:30and I'm not saying
37:31that he didn't deserve
37:32to go to jail,
37:33but he got a much
37:34stiffer sentence
37:35for income evasion
37:36than he should have gotten.
37:39Capone would serve
37:40his sentence
37:40in the infamous
37:41Alcatraz prison,
37:43a place reserved
37:44for the most dangerous
37:45criminals of the time.
37:47They built Alcatraz
37:50at a ridiculously high cost
37:52to try to deter crime
37:54and what better way
37:55to call attention
37:56to your new
37:58tough on crime
37:59approach
38:00than by
38:00putting Al Capone there
38:02and he's only a tax
38:05evasion conviction,
38:07right?
38:07Why do you got to put him
38:08in Alcatraz?
38:08But it's clear
38:09that they want to send
38:10a message
38:10and this is really
38:11a new phase
38:12in American history,
38:13this emphasis
38:14on showing
38:15that we're tough on crime,
38:16building more prisons,
38:18something that really
38:19still runs through
38:19our society today.
38:21He started off
38:22not knowing who he was
38:23to finding a really
38:25strong character,
38:26so strong that he wears
38:28a costume
38:28to suddenly be imprisoned
38:30where everything
38:32that provided
38:33that sense of status
38:34and character
38:35is 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
38:45of his life
38:46on the edge,
38:47syphilis was now
38:48taking a serious
38:50toll on him.
38:51We know that Al Capone
38:52lived with inadequately
38:55treated syphilis
38:56for a very long time,
38:57which is why he
38:59entered into a tertiary
39:01stage later on
39:03in his life.
39:04It's a slow
39:05degeneration
39:06of your nervous system
39:07that comes with
39:09cognitive and
39:11motor impairment,
39:12dementia,
39:13mood swings,
39:14delusions,
39:15hallucinations,
39:16personality changes,
39:18violent outbursts.
39:20Your entire
39:21person and sense
39:23of self
39:24changes,
39:26sometimes beyond
39:27all recognition.
39:28in 1939,
39:31he was released
39:33from Alcatraz
39:34due to his failing
39:35health
39:35and he returned
39:37to his mansion
39:38in Florida.
39:40But the once powerful
39:41gangster
39:41was a shadow
39:43of his former self.
39:44Most people think
39:47he died in prison,
39:47but he didn't.
39:48He got out
39:48and lived another
39:4910 years in Florida.
39:51The Al Capone
39:53that I knew,
39:55he was kind of
39:55like a big child.
39:59I was by his side
40:01with my father
40:03and he would call
40:05me baby girl.
40:06He said,
40:06baby girl,
40:07I love you
40:08and baby girl,
40:09baby girl.
40:10And my father
40:11turned to me,
40:12he said,
40:12dear, dear,
40:12we've got to go
40:13back to Chicago.
40:13You've got to go
40:14back to school.
40:15So we got on
40:16the train
40:17and we came
40:19back to Chicago.
40:20The next day,
40:22my grandfather
40:23called and said,
40:25Al just died.
40:28He died on
40:29January the 25th,
40:301947
40:31at the age of 48.
40:37His body
40:38was
40:39paraded
40:41through Chicago
40:42in a hearse
40:44and people
40:47were lining
40:48up on the streets
40:50with their hands
40:52over their hearts,
40:53their hats
40:53in their hands,
40:54their heads bowed
40:55when his casket
40:58went by.
41:00The church
41:01was filled
41:02with people.
41:04Yeah,
41:05it was quite
41:06quite something
41:07to see.
41:13So who was
41:14Al Capone?
41:16A hardened thug
41:17who was also
41:18a savvy business leader
41:19who might have been
41:21a successful CEO
41:22or even president
41:24in another life?
41:27A brutal bully
41:29who yet handed out food
41:31to the poor.
41:32A caring husband
41:33who rang his wife
41:35every night
41:35but whose countless
41:37infidelities
41:38exposed her
41:39to syphilis.
41:40A loving father
41:42who was yet
41:43responsible
41:44for countless
41:45cold-blooded murders.
41:46The truth is
41:49he was all those things
41:50and yet as powerful
41:52and influential
41:53as Al Capone was,
41:55like all of us,
41:57he was still subject
41:58to the whims
41:58of history.
42:00We love the idea
42:02of Capone
42:03as a morality tale.
42:06Here's the man
42:07who makes
42:07this vast fortune
42:09from illegal
42:10and violent means.
42:13We can't have him win.
42:14He's got to be
42:15brought to justice.
42:16He's not only
42:17got to be brought
42:17to justice
42:18but he's got to be
42:19seen to suffer.
42:21This is what
42:22we don't want you
42:23to do.
42:23This is evil.
42:25If you do this
42:26you will end up
42:28dead.
42:29People didn't
42:29understand that
42:31even the dead
42:33gangsters
42:35become heroes
42:37to somebody.
42:38People who
42:39understood
42:40why the gangster
42:42rebelled against
42:43the system
42:44began to see that
42:46as a potential
42:47model
42:47for rebelling
42:49against the system.
42:51But what
42:52blessings
42:52are there to be
42:54taken from
42:54Capone's legacy?
42:56Why are we still
42:57talking about him
42:58almost a hundred
43:00years later?
43:03His story
43:04reflects the
43:04contradictions
43:05of America.
43:07A nation built
43:09built on law
43:09and order
43:10yet rife
43:11with corruption
43:13and rebellion.
43:16We've seen lots
43:18of criminals
43:18live out loud
43:19in America
43:20feeling like
43:22they're above
43:22the law
43:23and that
43:24if they
43:26don't try to
43:27hide what they're
43:27doing they might
43:28just get away
43:28with it.
43:29One thing's for
43:32certain
43:33the legend
43:35of Al Capone
43:36will continue.
43:38No matter how much
44:00you pull
44:00you shovel
44:01in the mouth
44:02of your child
44:04these furnaces
44:05still walk more
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