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Al Capone was perhaps the most notorious, and popular, gangster of the twentieth century, the subject of numerous articles, books, and movies. He has been portrayed in film by Wallace Beery, Paul Muni, Barry Sullivan, Rod Steiger, Neville Brand, Jason Robards, Ben Gazzara and Robert De Niro. Capone and his era were highlighted in the 1959 television film The Untouchables and its feature film and television series remakes which has created the popular myth of the personal war between the crime lord and Eliot Ness. Capone ... featured in the comic book, Tintin in America, the only case of a real person appearing as character in the The Adventures of Tintin.
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Al Capone had made it big when the Great Depression rolled around. Capone was a bootlegger, supplying liquor to people who wanted it. This included judges, police, and highly-placed people who demanded the best. But the bootlegging business ... included death as a strategy for survival. The other players, the opponents, were also in the same game and abided by those rules. They were gangsters of the Roaring Twenties—well-dressed men who lived fast and dangerously.
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Al Capone – A famous gangster, Al Capone was born in Brooklyn in 1899. He became infamous for his alleged crimes during the prohibition era, but the FBI could not find sufficient evidence to convict him until he was caught on tax evasion violations in 1931. He visited the Pinewald hotel in Berkeley Township.
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Capone was a natural leader. He possessed a shrewd business sense, gained the loyalty of those working for him by showing his appreciation for a job well done, and inspired confidence through his sound judgments, diplomacy, and "the diamond-hard nerves of a gambler." He left school at 14, married at 15, and spent the next ten years with the street gangs of his Brooklyn neighborhood. During a barroom brawl, he received a razor cut on his cheek, which gained him the nickname "Scarface."
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On April 23, 1930, the Chicago Crime Commission issued its first Public Enemies List; there were 28 names on it, and Al Capone's was the first. Capone headed an enormous crime organization that netted huge profits from the illegal liquor trade and he became a legendary symbol of the violent gangsterism of the Prohibition era.
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Al Capone gangsters ambushed the leaders of the rival gang on their territory, Chicago's North Side. Some of his gangsters disrupted their meeting, disguised as policemen. They forced the seven men to line up against the wall, and two gunmen entered the garage with Thompson submachine guns and killed all of them. Only Bugs Moran escaped but with his gang leadership beheaded, his gang lost its power and Al Capone's gang became the sole and unique underworld force in Chicago.
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