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In this episode of Gangland Wire, I sit down with Salt Lake City author Flats to discuss his book, Ice Pick Willie: The Life and Times of Israel Alderman. We take a deep dive into the shadowy world of Israel “Icepick Willie” Alderman—a largely forgotten but deeply embedded figure in early 20th-century organized crime. Willie's criminal career traces back to Prohibition-era New York, where he began as a jewelry thief before evolving into something far more lethal. His nickname came from his preferred weapon: an ordinary household ice pick. In the 1920s, it was common, inconspicuous, and devastatingly effective. Flats explains how Willie's method allowed him to carry out murders quietly and efficiently, often avoiding the attention that accompanied more public gangland shootings. We follow Willie's movements from New York to Minneapolis and eventually into the orbit of Chicago's violent underworld. Along the way, he intersected with major figures of organized crime, including Meyer Lansky, Charles Luciano, and Bugs Moran. Flats outlines the shifting alliances and rivalries that defined the era, placing Willie within the broader context of gang wars that culminated in events like the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The conversation also examines Willie's transition from violent enforcer to gambling operative as organized crime evolved and shifted westward. As Las Vegas rose with legalized gambling, figures like Willie adapted—moving from street-level brutality to more structured rackets under established mob leadership. Despite brushing against major historical events and powerful crime bosses, Icepick Willie faded into relative obscurity. Flats and I explore why certain gangsters become legends while others—equally dangerous and influential—slip into the margins of history. We also touch on Willie's odd cultural afterlife, including regional pop-culture references that keep his name alive in unexpected ways. This episode provides both a character study of a cold and calculated killer and a broader examination of how organized crime adapted from Prohibition chaos to structured syndicates. It's a detailed look at a man who operated in the shadows—lethal, efficient, and nearly forgotten. Flats' book, Ice Pick Willie: The Life and Times of Israel Alderman, is available now on Amazon. Hit me up on Venmo for a cup of coffee or a shot and a beer @ganglandwire Click here to “buy me a cup of coffee” Subscribe to the website for weekly notifications about updates and other Mob information. To go to the store or make a donation or rent Ballot Theft: Burglary, Murder, Coverup, click here To rent ‘Brothers against Brothers’ or ‘Gangland Wire,’ the documentaries click here.  To purchase one of my books, click here. Transcript [0:00] Hey, welcome all you wiretappers. Good to be back here in the studio of Gangland [0:03] Wire. This is Gary Jenkins. As most of you, I’m a retired Kansas City Police Intelligence Unit detective turned podcaster and documentary filmmaker. I got a couple of documentary films you can rent on Amazon if you choose. I’ll have links in the show notes. Or just go to Amazon and search my name and you’ll find my stuff. But anyhow, today I have a friend of mine from Salt Lake City called Flats. And he’s just Flats, all right? And he’s written a book about a man named Icepick Willie. Now, Icepick Willie has got a great, cool nickname. I’m surprised that he didn’t last through history a little better because people had an easy-to-remembering cool nickname. His real name is Israel Alderman. Now, Flats has been researching him. He got a hold of me because I did a show on David Berman, who ended up in Las Vegas. He was a Jewish gambler from Minneapolis. And ice pick ends up out there connected to him somehow. And I didn’t really stumble. I stumbled a little bit across that, but I couldn’t remember what it was. But anyhow, welcome flats. [1:09] Glad to be here. Thanks for inviting me. All right. Go ahead. I’m sorry. I’m always open for any chance to talk about Ice Pick Willie, one of my favorite people. And if you guys out there know anything about Ice Pick Willie, get a hold of me and I’ll connect you up with Flats. And I’ll have his Gmail in the show notes. But either that or get a hold of me pretty easy. Any rumors or stories, lies, anything about him. [1:38] But in the meantime, in a couple of weeks, actually, by the time this podcast is out, that book’s going to be up on Amazon. But you can always go back. You can always pull those down and add more information in and then put them back up if you want. So that’s a good way to go. Nicknames are interesting. I once talked about doing a show on nicknames and how people got them, and I just never got around to it. And many times you can see how people get their nicknames. Al Capone, Scarface Al. He’s got the big scar on his face, right? Here’s one. One of Icepick’s Willie’s contemporaries, a guy named Albert, was it Tannenbaum? Yeah, Tannenbaum. And he was called Tick Tock. And I looked that up because, like I said, he was a contemporary of Icepick Willie’s. And he got the name Tick Tock because somebody said you move all the time. You’re always like a watch. You’re Tick Tocking all the time. And, of course, there’s Anthony Accardo, who they called Joe Batters. And his guys gave him that. They used to call him Joe. And that was because he beat up somebody with a baseball bat so bad that Al Capone said, you’re a real Joe batters. But he also, many times the press will give people these nicknames. And they gave Anthony Accardo the nickname of the big tuna because he was big. And they had a picture of him with a huge big tuna he had caught. There’s Joe Bananas Bonnano. That speaks for itself, Joe Bananas. And I think the press gave him that. First question, Flats, you know how Icepick Willie got his nickname? The nickname came… [3:06] From when he was in Minneapolis, he apparently picked it up. And this is something which he admitted to later on in his life. He claimed to have taken about 11, 12 victims out by using an ice pick in the ear. [3:27] And ice picks were actually really common back in the 20s everywhere. People had them. Everyone had them in their homes. and they were a real popular tool among Murder Incorporated members. It’s a handy thing, small, quiet kind of a tool. [3:49] Normally, a knife-pick killing was something that took maybe three or four people, not counting the victim. They’d crowd around him and grab his arms, whatever, and then somebody’d do him, they’d haul him off. Uh, Willie had managed to turn this into a one man operation. He’d take his victim. [4:11] He’d be up at the bar with a drinking buddy, get this guy really liquored up, and he’d slip his ice pick out of his jacket. Boom, real quick in the air, ice pick’s gone, the guy’s down on the bar. Not much blood because it’s an ice pick. Forensics wasn’t real hot back in the 20s, so a lot of times they would diagnose this as a brain aneurysm. But the guy would slump over the bar, drunk, dead drunk, and then they’d just haul him off. The story is they’d take him in the back room, he’d go down the coal chute, which everybody had back then, out into a truck, they’d haul off the body. The people that went down the coal chute, they were all pretty much forgotten. But Willie, he seemed to have stuck around. Now, in Minneapolis, apparently he’s still a real popular figure. Memorable, which is funny because Minneapolis, for all my research, is the place there is the least documented evidence about. [5:19] But that seems to be that and Las Vegas are where he’s best known. There’s even a company in Minneapolis that does a nail polish they named Ice Rick Willie. It’s a popular culture thing there. Yeah. Now, did he start out in New York with Erlansky? He started out in New York. He grew up on the Lower East Side. Like so many people, Benny Siegel and Meyer, everybody came from there. Early on, and back by the 20s, Meyer had hooked up with Charlie Luciano, and most of the serious Jewish gangsters came under Meyer’s umbrella, so to speak. And this Willie supposedly, according to another author, this is when Willie hooked up with Meyer, was early on during Prohibition. But Willie didn’t start out as a bootlegger. He started out with a bunch of jewelry store robbers, but they were pretty notorious at him. God, his first record of him was, oh, when was it? About 1925. [6:34] He got a charge for robbery. Not a lot of details on it. The charge was dismissed, and it seems to be a pretty common thing throughout his entire life as far as resolution of his legal issue. But anyway, then right after Christmas, that’s in year 25, he was going by Izzy Alderman back then. Israel, Izzy was his nickname. He didn’t get into Willie till later, but he went into with a couple other guys and they hit a jewelry store for about $75,000 worth of jewelry. Oh, wow. That’s a pretty good chunk of change back then. That’s a score, man. That is a real score back then. Oh, yeah. And then a few months later, along with a couple other people, he hit another jewelry store in the Bronx, William Sims Robbery. This one was pretty well publicized. And they go in, they take the, everybody there, the owner, employees, customers, tie them up, they’re in the back room, they grab trays full of gems, usually diamonds, they’re out the door, never even touched the cash register. So they got about a hundred grand on that. Got away. Next morning. [7:59] Another jeweler, Sam Candle, as he was opening up his shop to let a friend in, some guys come pushing into the door. Izzy’s with them again. Once more, the same M.O., everybody’s in the back room tied up. Another hundred grand or so worth the gems. So they’re doing pretty good by now. Wow, yeah. I assume that whenever they fenced them, did you find out much about how they fenced them? Did the Italians get a piece of the action? Did they make him pay up, or did Meyer Lansky get a piece of that? I’m sure that Meyer was somehow connected to this. He got a piece of everything that was going on in the Jewish world. And originally, at that point in time, there was not a lot of interaction between the Italian mobsters and the Jewish mobsters. They had their own little thing that they kept to themselves. They felt safer that way. They could trust everybody. It was actually pretty much Meyer and Charlie Luciano that moved things past that point. I see. But up till then, everything was coming under Meyer’s thing. So they were doing pretty good until they did a robbery. [9:19] There was a jeweler, Aaron Roddark. Now, about 18 months earlier, he’d had an attempted robbery where he had shot and killed one of the robbers as they were running out of the store. So he got a bunch of publicity called the Fighting Jewelers in the press, a popular guy. About a year and a half later, another crew walks in. This is Izzy’s crew. [9:50] When they come in, same thing, the fighting jeweler, he goes for his gun. Doesn’t work out so well this time. This time, he’s shot and killed. But they didn’t get any jewels. They take off again. [10:05] But now they’re hot. This is big news. Fighting jewelers murdered. Big publicity, big public outcry. And cops are looking for them hot and heavy by now. [10:17] And by now, so a few weeks, couple weeks after the fighting jewelers murdered, one of Izzy’s crew was picked up, coming out of a doctor’s office, for a gunshot wound, where he’d been treated. Cots get word of this, they pick him up, and he immediately starts confessing to all the jewelry store robbers, giving up partners. They pick up a couple more people pretty soon everybody is just singing like canary it’s like the mormon tavern fire or something so the cops are looking for everybody they haven’t got they pick up almost everybody the two people are missing from the last robbery where the guy was murdered is Izzy Alderman and one of the other guys Robert Byrd. [11:09] So Izzy and Robert they know they’re hot They’ve got warrants out. They know the police are looking. They’ve got this information because they’re connected to whoever. So they leave town. They’re on their way to Chicago. They’re going to go there to hide out, take care of business for a couple reasons. One is Robert Berg has brother, Ollie, who is tied in with the Northside Bugs Moran gang in Chicago. Ago, Holly is also a jewelry driver and right about the time, right before. [11:47] His brother, Robert, gets to Chicago. Ollie and a couple guys are on an Illinois Central commuter train. They robbed three jewelry salesmen while they’re on the train of their jewels, managed to get off the train and get away. They got picked up about 12 hours later, though. So now his brother, Ollie, is in prison again, of course. But Robert is connected. They have connections to the Northside gang. Through the brother, through Ollie. And this is a safe place for them to go, relatively safe. At that point in time, Chicago’s got the beer wars going on, and so it wasn’t a real safe place to be. But they had out there, they’re there maybe a week or so. The cops raid a hotel room, they pick up Robert Burke. They also find a bunch of jewelry, which they trace back to the New York robbery. So they know this is all tied together now. They don’t get Willie. Izzy is still at that point. So Robert Berg, now he’s back to New York going to prison too. Izzy needs a new partner. Berg had a guy he was running around with, Red McLaughlin. [13:06] Red’s partner’s in jail, and Izzy’s partner’s in jail, so they came up a little bit. But now Red already at this point the cops are looking for him hot and heavy in Chicago a little while before they found him. [13:24] The cops saw him on the side of the road, Red was on the running board of the car, reaching through the window, choking the driver. The driver turned out to be, of course, a jewelry salesman with the jewelry in the car. Red explained to the cop that his friend was just having some kind of a fit, and he was trying to help him. The cop wasn’t going for it, and so Red was off to jail. He managed to get bailed out. And as soon as he’s out, he just goes off on all kinds of things. By now, the cops are looking for him for being involved in some kidnappings and bootlegging and murders. One newspaper article called him the man of a hundred brides. He’s like Lon Chaney of the criminal world or something. So now the cops are really hot after Red. He’s junk bail. He’s doing all this other stuff. There they raid a hotel, the Webster Hotel in Chicago. They’ve got a tip. That’s where they’re going to find him. Yeah. They don’t find Red, but they find his buddy in there. They find him, and he’s got a suitcase full of guns. [14:38] But no, he knows this is turned out to be actually Izzy Alderman, but he knows the cops are looking for Izzy Alderman. So he tells the cops his name’s Robert Lewis. They don’t know any better. Things are different back then. Yeah. He also told them that he was a bootlegger from Detroit. And that, I guess, would explain having a suitcase full of guns. And when they get ready to arrest him, he tells the cops they’re going to be wasting their time because he says he has some high connections in the illegal liquor business in town here. And apparently he was right because all of his charges were dismissed as soon as they haul him in once again. Back then, it seemed in Chicago, because of Al Capone, Bugs Moran. [15:30] New York with Meyer and Charlie, Prohibition contributed to it a lot. Corruption was just fantastic. So you could buy your people’s way out of everything, which was nice if that’s what you were doing. Yeah so anyway Robert Bird disappears and now Willie all of his partners all of his connections everybody’s locked up missing dead something he’s out of work again but he’s in Chicago since 1927 they’re in the middle of the beer wars he’s a starker a tough muscle man starker’s Jewish term so he hooks up right away They were Bugs Moran on the North side. Bugs is more, the Bugs Moran gang, they were people like Frank Foster, Ed Newberry. He had other Jewish gangsters working with him at the time. So Lizzie fit in pretty good. And it isn’t long at all, maybe a month later, he gets cops pull over a car. They find Frank Foster and Izzy Alderman in there. And they’ve got guns, of course. And once again, the charges just disappear. Everybody goes on their way. [16:51] So things are rolling along. The beer wars are going good. And now we get into the taxi cab wars. because in Chicago back then, that’s how you settled everything. You had a war. There were two cab companies mostly going on in Chicago at the time, and they were shooting up each other’s cab offices and throwing bombs and shooting up cabs. So the Yellow Cab Company puts out a hefty reward for the people involved, which leads to another made by the cops on this time. It was a Broadway apartment where there were supposed to be people involved in all of this. [17:30] Among the people they find, first off, Frank Foster, who at the time was a high-ranking member of Bugs Moran’s group on the north side. They also find another bunch of people, one of them named Harry Davidson. This was, again, Izzy Alderman, but he knew that the cops were looking for Izzy Alderman, and they were looking for Robert Lewis by then. So that was Harry Davidson, and that worked out. And, of course, everybody gets charged with concealed weapons, and then the charges are dropped, and catch and release. Yeah, catch and release Chicago. It was really interesting. So shortly after this, of course, this is 1929 in Chicago, and it’s Valentine’s Day. We all know what happened there. Now this brought major heat, major attention from everyone nationwide, the student. [18:30] And surprisingly, later in life, like I said, he used to almost brag about his activity as he got older. One of the things he would tell people is that he missed the St. Valentine’s Day massacre because he was in the bathroom. Yeah, I was going to say, he missed that. The bathroom wasn’t in SMT partage, if that was the case. They had an outhouse, Flats. They had an outhouse out back. That’s true. Yeah, he was close enough to do that activity. Yeah. He was just caught up in the middle of all the major things happening throughout Gangland at that point in time. Really? How does he end up in Minneapolis? It’s reasonably close to Chicago, and there are some connections. It is. [19:19] Before he ends up back in Minneapolis, first he ends up back in New York. What happens now in New York, they’ve got their own problems going on between the two gangs back then. Yeah, they had the Castle Marie’s War during that time, I believe, or sometime around then. It broke out. Actually, it happens right after he gets shot. But as he gets picked up, there’d been a shooting that they had. First, they had the Easter Massacre, where a few people get shot up. And then the Fox Lake Massacre. Like I said, everything in Chicago was wars or massacres. And by the time the Fox Lake massacre happened, it was after the Valentine’s Day thing. Izzy Alderman, Frank Foster, Ted Newberry, and probably at least 6, 8, 10 other people affected. They left the Northside gang, and they moved south and joined up with El Capote. [20:21] Obviously, they could see where everything’s going. I mean, everyone at the outside is winning. But the authorities were aware of it. So after the Easter massacre and the Fox Lake massacre, now the cops know there’s going to be all kinds of retaliation. Fox Lake thing, Al Capone’s people got shot up. So cops are out on the street looking for people. They pull over a car racing down the street. They find Frank Foster, Izzy Alderman again, out with their guns. Once again, they get hauled in, arrested, catching release. Shortly after this, now we get a reporter, Jake Lingle. Jake Lingle, he was crooked. He was on the take. He was one of these $65 a week reporters who vacations in Hawaii and has an apartment on Lake George Drive, that kind of thing. He even said he had a fancy piece of gold jewelry that was a gift from Al Capone. Anyway, he gets into trouble with people there. He gets killed. [21:32] Now, everybody knows you can’t. The people you don’t kill are cops and newsmen. Jake Lengel gets killed, and now, once again, it’s like St. Valentine’s Day all over again. Big public outcry. Cops are hot and heavy. They know somehow Izzy Alderman is somehow tied into this. Frank Foster’s tied into it. So they’re hunting them. And a few months later, a cop spots Izzy. He’s in a restaurant with another guy, Joe Condi. They’re eating dinner. Cop recognized Izzy because he was really, which is surprising, he was really well known then to the cops, to the press, to other gangsters. [22:19] And yet today, who was Izzy Aldenman? Who was Ice-Pick Willie? So time goes by. But the cop spots him, recognizes him, grabs, snatters him up, and arrests him. As soon as they come out of the restaurant, runs him in for questioning for the Lingle murder. They get him in. There’s nothing they can tie him to the Lingle case with. So they charge him with vagrants. This is a new deal, a new tool that prosecutors are using in Chicago. Yeah. We know you’re a gangster. We can’t prove anything, so we’re going to arrest you for vagrancy because you have no physical means of support. You don’t have a job. [23:07] When Izzy was arrested at this time, he had about $650 in his pocket. This is worth like over 12 grand today so yeah the economy’s good when vagrants are carrying that kind of money obviously but they get arrested charged with first they’re brought in before a judge one judge mccordy he says there’s nothing to hold them on the lingual thing so they’re free to go the minute they walk out of the court building they get arrested charged with vacancy taken in front of another judge, Judge Lyle. Now, Judge Lyle, he’s known, he’s a holy terror when it comes to gangsters. He’s just after them. And even he admits the vagrancy thing, I’m not sure it’s really valid, but we’re going to charge you anyway. First thing is, he says, is I want a lawyer. So the judge tells the court reporter, the defendant has no comment at this time. And then in what’s probably the shortest trial in history, Izzy and his buddy are found guilty. [24:21] And shipped away to jail in a matter of like 10 minutes or something. How long was the sentence for? How long was the sentence for? They were sentenced to six months in jail. Okay. Surveillance. Okay. So now their lawyer comes back, goes back to the first judge, McGordy, who had released them on the Lingle chart. [24:49] And he convinced her, I don’t know, for whatever reason, Judge McGurdy says, no, I have jurisdiction in this case because they were brought before me first. And so he issues a bond and sets them free again. As soon as they walk out of the courthouse, they’re re-arrested again for vagrancy. At this point, their lawyer, the lawyer’s upset. And he’s telling, he tells the cops, that’s it. If you’re going to take them in on this bullshit again, you got to take me too. So they all went down to the station, the lawyer with them, charged with vagrancy again, locked up. Judge Lyle, like I say, Judge Lyle was not a friend of these people. He missed their fail at $10,000 on the vagrancy charge. And then he immediately changed it to $20,000 a piece because he was afraid they might make the $10,000 bail. These vagrants, mind you. So they’re backed off in jail. [25:56] Late that night, the lawyer, who’s also out of jail at this point, finds another judge who is either totally unaware of this case or he’s very aware of it. Either way, this judge says, oh, no, that’s way too much bail for vagrancy. The bail should be $100 for that. And as he says, they’re bailing at $100. They’re out again. Boom. So the next day, they go to court facing the, vagrancy charge in front of Judge Lyle. Judge Lyle immediately says, no, your bond was issued falsely, charges him with another $20,000 bail, has him re-arrested. Oh, my God. So they get their bond reduced to $10,000. They bail out of jail. They go to court. [26:51] Finally, on the vagrancy charges, maybe a month later. They’ve been dealing with this now for almost two months. Vagrancy charge. First day of the actual vagrancy trial, Izzy goes in, they arrest him for the burglaries back in New York, charging with hoax. So now they’re ignoring the vagrancy charge. They’ve got him locked up. They’re holding him for extradition to New York. He fights this still. He holds out finally in December, just a couple days before Christmas. He ends up back in New York to face the vagrants. He’s charged with the robberies and the murder of the fighting jeweler. Finally, everything gets dropped back in New York. You know, this is Meyer and Charlie’s area. All the charges are dropped. He’s free and clear again. He’s back home, so he sticks around. and it’s just in time because, as you mentioned, the Castle Marie’s war breaks out like a month later. [27:57] There’s no actual evidence, a lot of evidence of his involvement, but coincidentally, he is charged with murder about a month after the war breaks out. And, of course, his charges drop again, too, like they are. And then as the war goes on, first, Charlie Luciano, he swapped, changed his sides, they whacked Joe the boss, and then they set up Maranzano. [28:27] And Salvador Marenzano gets shot and killed in a restaurant, supposedly by a hit squad of Jewish gangsters that Meyer organized, because Meyer and Charlie were pretty close at this point in time. It isn’t sure who all was involved in that. Benny Siegel was supposed to be one of the shooters. And there’s no mention of Izzy being involved in it, but once again, just coincidentally, he left for France a couple of weeks after the shooting, where he stays until the end of the year when they first held at a couple of conferences. The one where Charlie Luciano organized pretty much the Italian crime family And then a couple months later, Meyer had one where he organized Jewish people, except Meyer had more of a national thing, whereas Charlie’s was more of the New York Five family kind of thing. [29:37] So anyway, at this time, I guess moving along here, Dave Berman, as you’re familiar with, being a Jewish mobster out of the Midwest, he’d come under Meyer’s umbrella. And then in 1927, he gets called to New York. He ends up in New York. At the time, Meyer, the Bugs and Meyer gang, especially being Budgie Siegel and Meyer Lansky, had this thing going where they were kidnapping rival bootleggers. Bootlegging was big business. Meyer was taking control of all of that. It was coming, especially coming in from Canada, which is where the Midwest came in, coming in by boatloads from Canada. We were drinking Canada Dry. Yeah, good one. So Dave Berman, he ends up in New York. Another bootlegger named Abe Sharlin gets kidnapped. [30:45] And the family agrees to pay like a $50,000 ransom to get him back. So when the two guys show up to collect the ransom, instead of a pile of money, there’s a pile of cops waiting for him. Immediately, a shootout breaks out. The one guy jumps out of the car, pulls out his gun, big shootout, people running everywhere. One guy shot and killed. The other guy, he surrenders. That’s Dave Berman. So Dave Berman, it’s, doing this for Meyer, but the cops don’t know that for sure. But they arrest him. He’s off to Sing for seven years for kidnapping. [31:27] Actually, back then, Sing, the prison in Ossining, New York, sat on the river, and so most people sent there, prisoners were shipped up there by boat. That’s where the term sent up the river. I didn’t realize that. Cool. So he does his time while he’s locked up there there’s not a lot of Willie doesn’t show up a lot but there is one specific mention of him, B Kittle he was a nightclub singer back in the early 30s young girl goes to New York chasing her dream ends up working at the nightclub that just happens to be to hang out for the mobsters. She doesn’t know this, but… And actually, she ends up marrying Mo Sedway later on. And Mo Sedway was one of Meyer Lansky’s close people, Benny’s people. She does remark, though, that she remembers there were two guys she’d always see sitting over at a table in the corner drinking together. One of them, she said, was Izzy Alderman, who she said was a lieutenant for Moe Sedway, and the other was Fat Irish Green. [32:51] Fat Irish Green was Benny’s bodyguard, hang-around-everywhere kind of guy. We always see the same people popping up all through this thing. Izzy’s plugged into this bunch. So anyway, we jump ahead a couple years. Dave Berman gets out of prison. Gets out of prison immediately. Meets up with Mo Sedway and Meyer and Charlie, everybody there. Dave’s been a stand-up guy. He kept his mouth shut about everything. He took his beef. He was good about it. But the story goes, they offer him a million dollars in cash for his loyalty. Fire took the judge. More employers should be like him. [33:42] Dave said he didn’t want the money. He wanted to be, he wanted control of gambling in Minneapolis. His mother lived there. His brother, Chickie, was there running small-time gambling thing. That’s where he wanted to go. And they say, okie-dokie, which I think is a good example of the influence, shall we say, that the East Coast group had over the rest of the country. They can just, I’ll give you this city in the Midwest. But before A.V. heads there, interestingly enough, there’s a couple of treasury bond robberies, big treasury bond robberies that happened in New York. They need total like over $2 million. [34:31] Big bucks and the FBI tracks down some of the bonds to a Minneapolis gangster, so when they arrest him along with him the Minneapolis gangster his name was Royce Boris Royce not that it’s a big deal but with him they pick up Davey Berman Davey the Jew is what he was called at that time they weren’t quite as politically correct, They got Dave Berman, they got Moe Subway, and there was a guy that the newspapers called, one account called him Jacob Irish Greenberg, and another one called him Jack Green Greenberg. So this would have been Fat Irish Green, it was Jacob Greenberg. [35:21] Once again, by the time it was done, acquittals all the way around. Wonderful things for him. Now Davey Berman pays off to Minneapolis to join his brother in the gambling thing. He gets there. Brother Chickie was running gambling initially. Isidore, or Kid Khan, was in charge. Isidore Bloomfield was in charge of the Minneapolis thing. And his brother, Yiddy Bloom. Yeah. But, of course, Davey’s here now. Since Kid Khan and his bunch were also Jewish popsters, that means they are linked to Meyer. And when Meyer says, okay, here’s Davey, now that’s how it goes. Davey immediately starts expanding the gambling joints into horse booking and race wire and craft games and everything. And he’s a good businessman. He’s sharp. And he’s learned a lot, apparently, from Meyer because he knows how to keep his name and people out of the name. Back then in Minneapolis, they had a deal. It was called the O’Connor Existence. [36:41] For the it was a deal that the local police had with gangster you could come to our town, and we won’t bother you we’ll leave you alone three conditions you check in with us when you get here so we know you’re here you of course make various payments to the necessary police and city officials and it was an orphan’s fund to the widows and orphans fund the police, and you promised that you will not commit any crimes major crimes while you’re in twin cities minneapolis st paul and if they’d agree to that they could stay there safely no matter who was looking for them so this also made it kind of more attractive i think for dave burman and people like him because obviously all you got to do is pay people off you’re good to go yeah kind of like the hot springs of the north, huh? Oh, yeah. So, once again, with this kind of ability, you don’t find a lot of mention of. [37:52] Dave Berman or his crew, especially in Minneapolis, and some of the police records have been lost there over the years. So that made it a little harder, too, to track things down. There are a couple of interesting things. For example, now, part of the Berman crew, one of them especially was Slippy Sherr, a guy named Phillip Sherr. They went by Slippy. He was really an interesting sort of guy. He was definitely a violent person he was constantly charged with assaults and murders and of course the charges were always dropped there was one occasion he was out with some friends in a bar they end up in an argument with the bar owner turns into a fight the bar owner goes outside flags down a motorcycle cop who’s going by the motorcycle cop goes back in with the bar owner and they proceed to get in a fist fight with Flippy and his friends, they get lumped up pretty good. Later, when they go to court. [39:01] The officer made a remark in court about, he said, all in all, it was pretty fair fight all the way around. And he said, for the most part, they’re pretty nice guys when they’re not drinking. Yeah. So aren’t we all? He was that kind of the guy Flippi was bollocked, Oh, another example of that. Willie ends up, by the time he hits Minneapolis, he’s become Willie Alden. He’s given up the Izzy thing, trying to put that behind him. Now, his focus is gambling. He’s like Dave Berman. It’s a muscle, maybe, behind Dave Berman. But he’s mellowed out a lot, and you don’t hear a lot about him. In one incident, though, they were golfers of all things. They loved golfing. And this is the 30s. So, of course, they can only golf at the Jewish golf course. Jewish people weren’t allowed at the regular country club. They’re out golfing. Flippy, sure, he would always join them. We wanted to force them. They didn’t deal with golf well. They’d get upset easily. I know the feeling. I know. [40:19] So on one occasion, Flippi slices a ball over into a neighboring farmer’s field. There’s an 18-year-old kid over there farming his potato crop. And Flippi, being argumentative, is a problem breaks out over the ball, him and this kid. Pretty soon, Flippi’s over there in the field. First, he starts wailing on the kid with his fist. And then he starts beating on him with his golf club until he knocks him out. Oh, man. This is like a $30,000 golf club. Game for flippy by the time it’s over and probably got extra strokes on that hole while he was there. [41:03] That the berman crew ran in minneapolis was 613 hennepin this was they were regularly it seemed like it was an annual thing it’s probably a deal they hadn’t once a year the cops would hit 613 Hennepin, they’d raid it, they’d charge him with gambling, whatever, and they’d pay their fine, let it go. But like clockwork, if you check the newspapers, once a year, it’s 13 Hennepin. So finally, last time, 1940, they go in, and now their cops are hyped. Big, great, they ain’t got all these cops, they’re ready to get the door down, charge in. To get there, Doors are wide open. Cop belt all run in. There’s still hot coffee on the stove. There’s a chalkboard full of all the race results. Everything but people. The places. There’s nobody in the place. This upset him made more of an embarrassment, I think, than anything for the police. He finally got beat out on that one. [42:09] That was 613 Hennepin. Was that the address and the name of the spot, 613 Hennepin? Or was that Hennepin’s like a common name up in Minneapolis? It was called the TMA Club. Okay, and the address was 613 Hennepin. Yeah, it actually had a couple of different names, But the address, no matter what club was at that address, whatever they called, it was the same thing. Yeah, I got you. They just sold. Now, about this time, this is late 1930s, of course, I’m sure you’re familiar with the Silver Church thing, the support group, so to speak, in the States, right? Yeah, yeah. And Judge Perlman from New York got a hold of Meyer Lansky. Yeah. See if he could offer assistance. And among the people that Meyer called was Dave Berman, of course, in Minneapolis. And Dave said, sure, I’d be glad to help. And Willie would be glad to help, too. Dave was a little nervous about Willie’s assistance because they really didn’t want anybody killed. And he wasn’t sure about that with Willie. But as it turns out, they said that Silver Shirts held their meeting at the Elks Club in town. and J.B. Berman showed up with some friends and baseball bats. [43:32] It took him about 10 minutes to clear the place out. A couple more go-rounds like this and the silver shirts, all the… [43:42] Nazi groups, neo-Nazis, whatever, they changed their mind about having these kind of meetings there. Like in New York, when they had Nuremeyer brought his people in, they were not extremely friendly to the Nazis, which is understandable. So the Silver Shirts complained to the mayor, Mayor LaGuardia, demanding protection for their rallies and their marches. And the mayor is obligated by law to protect them, to provide them with the support. And he did. He rounded up all of the black and Jewish officers he could find and assigned them to that duty. His mother was Jewish. Yeah, crazy times. It’s hard to believe. If you don’t read it in history yourself, you wouldn’t know it. It’s really something that’s been a gift under the rug. We had those Nazi sympathizers right up to World War II. It was crazy. Oh, it was amazing. People like Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, who wrote The International Jew. At one time, if you bought a new Ford, you’d get a free copy of that book. [44:57] I read that somewhere, The International Jew, that Jewish conspiracy that’s supposed to take over the world and have all the money and everything. Yeah, that’s interesting. That’s ridiculous. They just want to take over gambling. It’s obvious. Yeah, really. Then they wanted to move all these guys you mentioned, Mo Sedway and Mayor Lansky, of course, and Buggy Siegel. They all end up out in Las Vegas. They take it all to Las Vegas, don’t they? Yeah, and like I said, right from the very beginning, you’ll see the same name over and over. Benny Siegel, Gus Greenbaum, Joe Stacker. They had an amazing bunch. And if you look at it, most of them died in bed. Yeah. [45:43] It was a whole different, probably, mindset than you’d see with the Italian gangsters at that time. These are people who managed to stay out of jail, stay out of the press, and stay out of the ground and make money. Yeah. A FBI agent here in Kansas City gave me a quote one time on a documentary I was doing. He was talking about this national crime syndicate. And he said, yeah, he said, the Italians provided the brawn, and the Jews provided the brains. Pretty much how well you got to Vegas, obviously the Jewish groups around the country had been running gambling. They were smart. Meyer especially was a visionary. This guy was a genius in Meyer’s mind. And he could see that, obviously, Prohibition, as wonderful as it was for them, wasn’t going to last forever. But he could see the future in gambling. And I’m sure he didn’t foresee Las Vegas back when Prohibition was repealed, but he did see the direction things were going. [46:55] He developed gambling all over the country. And then when Vegas came along, this was just a wonderful thing for legalized gambling. They had the expertise, the experience, the knowledge, all they needed. Because opening casino is an expensive venture, so they needed more money. The Italians provided extra cash, and the Jewish groups had all the experience and the knowledge to run there. That’s where, back in the one conference, the Fraconia conference that Meyer organized, where he organized the Jewish groups around the nation, at that time he convinced, both groups were convinced that it was time that they start working together and not be at odds with them. with each other. Yeah, no, it was actually, it turned out to be a real profitable agreement as time went on. Yeah, especially in Las Vegas, so. [47:55] I’ll tell you what, Flatsy, it’s a hell of a book. That’s a hell of a story you’ve got there, guys. [48:00] We’re not going to disclose everything because we’ve got to go on out to Las Vegas, but we’re not going to disclose everything. We want you to buy that book. It really sounds interesting. It’s really a walk through the history and the expansion of organized crime from the early days from the Castle of Racey War and Chicago and the Beer Wars to Minneapolis and on out to Las Vegas. It’s a hell of a story. and Ice-Pick Willie was there for all of it, it sounds to me like. That’s what I found so amazing is pretty much every major event in gangland history at that point in time, he would somehow evolve there. And yet, here like 50 years or so after he’s dead, nobody even remembers him. They will now. The people he knew, the people he associated with, the things he’s seen, what a life really guys the book is Ice Pick Willie the life and times of Israel Alderman and the author is Flats F-L-A-T-S and I will have a link to that book on Amazon when this comes out so thanks a lot Flats I really appreciate you coming on and telling those stories, you betcha thanks for having me.

Mercedes Mone' shares her reasoning for women's wrestling being held back, plus she drops another championship in route to elevating women's wrestling. Plus Maya World earns a Ring of Honor women's title shot. Will she become the new champ. Brian H. Waters discusses this, plus many new champions across the board including Chaz The Don, Shaq Jordan, Charity King and more!Rundown (2:11) Krista B makes her color commentary debut at Pro Wrestling R(2:41) Mercedes Mone' Drops EWA Women's Title(3:59) Ricky Sosa defeats Joe Lando(4:23) Mercedes Mone's says its the men that's holding women's wrestling back(10:05) Maya World earns shot at Ring of Honor Women's Title(11:51) Maya World added to Reality of Wrestling alumni wall(12:37) Mercedes Mone' host free women's wrestling seminar (13:27) Red Velvet retains Ring of Honor women's tv title (13:59) Jade def Michin, later seen backstage with B-Fab(15:40) Irresistible Forces retain tag titlesand attack Bella Twins(16:04) Trick Williams def Jacob Fatu(16:39) Willow Nightingale retains TBS title(16:57) Swerve Strickland def Brody King(17:13) Jetspeed win AEW trios titles(17:44) Chaz the Don wins Young Simba Championship(18:19) Shaq Jordan wins Wrestling League Official heavyweight Championship(18:29) Charity King wins the Texas Pro Women's Wrestling Championship(18:47) Darius Carter wins Enjoy championship, TME retains enjoy tag titles(19:15) Shalonce Royal is the new OWV women's champion(19:29) Black Cat Johnson and Trent James become Action Packed tag team champions(19:42) Devon Monroe wins the Winnipeg Professional Wrestling Men's Voyageur Cup(20:03) ACE def JR Lindsey to win the the Wrestling League Proven Championship(20:16) Donovan Lo & Bugs Moran win the Tag Team Titles(20:28) Rhio announces Progress will hold The first ever Women's Super Strong Style 16(21:06) Rhio retains 4th Rope Women's title(21:22) Roddy Suavino def Lex the Radical(21:30) The Congregation SpeaksCheck out Sophie's Tax Prep here: https://www.facebook.com/sophiestaxprep/ Create some of the best social clips using OPUS Clip. Be sure to click my link belowhttps://www.opus.pro/?via=brianhwaters Create some of the best social clips using OPUS Clip. Be sure to click my link belowhttps://www.opus.pro/?via=brianhwaters Subscribe to our Patreon https://www.patreon.com/Wrestling_Wrealm Use the promo code WrestlingWrealm on SeatGeek to get $20 off your purchaseSubscribe to the Wrestling Wrealm on the following platformsYouTube http://bit.ly/WWYouTube1 Twitch http://bit.ly/WrealmTwitch ​Spotify http://bit.ly/WWSpotify1​ Apple Podcasts http://bit.ly/WWItunes​https://www.patreon.com/Wrestling_Wrealm

In one of the bloodiest true crime chapters of Chicago gang history, the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre left seven men dead in a hail of machine-gun fire – yet no one was ever convicted. Decades later, buried evidence, shocking confessions, and overlooked witnesses reveal a chillingly clear picture of what really happened that February morning.Darkness Syndicate members get the ad-free version of #WeirdDarkness: https://weirddarkness.com/syndicateDISCLAIMER: Ads heard during the podcast that are not in my voice are placed by third party agencies outside of my control and should not imply an endorsement by Weird Darkness or myself. *** Stories and content in Weird Darkness can be disturbing for some listeners and intended for mature audiences only. Parental discretion is strongly advised.IN THIS EPISODE: After more than nine decades, the St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago still intrigues lovers of unsolved true crime stories. But is it really an unsolved case? We'll look at the true story of the “St. Valentine's Day Massacre,” as told by the evidence and witnesses that we've always been told never existed.SOURCES AND RESOURCES FROM THE EPISODE…“The Unsolved St. Valentine's Day Massacre” by Steve Shukis from Chicago True Crime (link no longer available)=====(Over time links seen above may become invalid, disappear, or have different content. I always make sure to give authors credit for the material I use whenever possible. If I somehow overlooked doing so for a story, or if a credit is incorrect, please let me know and I will rectify it in these show notes immediately. Some links included above may benefit me financially through qualifying purchases.)= = = = ="I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness." — John 12:46= = = = =WeirdDarkness® is a registered trademark. Copyright ©2025, Weird Darkness.=====Originally aired: June, 2020EPISODE PAGE at WeirdDarkness.com (includes list of sources): https://weirddarkness.com/ValentinesDayMassacre

Al Capone wasn't just a gangster—he was a mastermind who built an empire on bootlegging, bribery, and bloodshed. But no event cemented his reputation like the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, seven of Bugs Moran's men were lined up in a Chicago garage and executed in a hail of seventy bullets. The massacre shocked the nation, turning Capone into Public Enemy #1 and igniting a federal crackdown that would eventually bring him down. Who really ordered the hit? Was it Capone, corrupt cops, or an inside job? Theories have swirled for nearly a century, and the truth remains one of America's coldest cases. Join me as I unravel the rise and fall of Al Capone in this deep dive into one of the most infamous mob hits of all time. #AlCapone, #ValentinesDayMassacre, #TrueCrime, #OrganizedCrime, #MafiaHistory, #BugsMoran, #EliotNess, #CrimeHistory, #MobBoss, #ProhibitionEra, #ChicagoCrime, #PublicEnemyNumberOne, #SaintValentinesDayMassacre, #CaponeLegacy, #GangsterWars, #MobViolence, #TrueCrimeStory, #CrimeDocumentary, #MafiaTales, #TrueCrimeAddict, #UnsolvedMysteries, #HistoryChannel, #LaurenceFishburne, #CrimeInvestigation, #Bootlegging, #Mobsters, #CrimeLords, #HistoryLover, #GangsterLife, #TrueCrimeCommunity, #HistorysGreatestMysteries=======================================History's Greatest Mysteries: Al Capone https://play.history.com/shows/historys-greatest-mysteries/season-6/episode-3Order a copy of Deceived or She Knew No Fear and get the book signed for free! https://www.ProfilingEvil.comDONATE to Profiling Evil: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455SSUPPORT our Podcasts: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1213394/support

Chicago, Illinois. La ley seca se impone ante la vida de los estadounidenses. El crimen organizado es percibido como  grupos de resistencia ciudadana e incluso como algo heroico, ante un gobierno que abusa de su poder. Sin embargo, eso cambiaría el 14 de febrero de 1929 cuando dos de las figuras más importantes en la historia de la mafia, Al Capone y Bugs Moran, se enfrentaron. Al Capone se encumbró como el líder indiscutible de la ciudad y esto marcó el principio del fin de la ley seca, pero ¿a qué precio?

I read an interesting passage that a reader sent me from The American Minute – Valentine's Day that helps explain what is occurring in our country. “The St. Valentine's Day Massacre occurred in 1929 during the Prohibition era. Al Capone's Chicago mob murdered seven members of Bugs Moran's Irish gang. Accompanying Al Capone's hitman Frank Nitti as he terrorized neighborhoods was the young Saul Alinsky, who later adapted this technique into the political tactic of community organizing . . . https://www.wordsfortheday.com/2024/12/bloody-nose/

This is the story of the infamous Valentine's day Massacre and the day the FBI caught up with Bugs Moran and Al Capone. 

The original Hollywood epic Bullets And Blood tells the sometimes unbelievable, but true tale, of a Hollywood dynasty, every bit as thrilling, shocking and dramatic as any Hollywood blockbuster. In part eight, Al Capone's war with Bugs Moran has reached terrifying proportions, but an act of violence on Valentine's Day leaves the world sickened and determined to stamp out the romanticised gangsters forever. In Hollywood, Jack Warner's extra-marital affairs are destroying his home life, as well as his relationship with his brothers, and with his son… To gain instant access to the entire series, as well as hundreds more hours of Hollywood storytelling and much more, simply sign up now at https://www.patreon.com/attaboysecret Sign up now and unlock an entire universe of Hollywood legends! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

El enemigo público (The Public Enemy, 1931, EE. UU.), de William Wellman, con James Cagney, Jean Harlow y Edward Woods. Presentación: Manuel Hidalgo El mafioso Tom Powers (James Cagney), inspirado en las figuras de gangsters reales de la época, manifiesta una afición desmedida por el alcohol y el dinero, se burla de las autoridades y ejerce una violencia feroz. Concebida como si fuera una crónica del nacimiento del gangsterismo en Estados Unidos al amparo de la ley seca, la película supuso la consagración de su protagonista. En 1949, al ser reestrenada, le fueron eliminados diez minutos, hasta dejarla en los 84 actuales, para cortar episodios que retrataban a un gangster real (Bugs Moran). El sábado se proyecta el vídeo de la presentación del día anterior.Más información de este acto

Bugs Moran is a young drifter who found his way into professional wrestling! Whether he is outside collecting change, finding a place to sleep, or reminiscing with his guitar best believe causing pain is on his mind. Most of the time he is cool and collected, but he is not afraid to put his body in the line in order to earn or retain gold. You wont see him in action without paying the toll, after all a hobo has his price. You can find Bugs in Chicago or any of the surrounding areas even though he is world traveled there is no place like home on the streets! Use Code ACROSSTHERING for 10% OFF DUBBYhttps://www.dubby.gg/?REF=ACROSSTHERING.comhttps://www.instagram.com/hobobugs/https://www.instagram.com/acrossthering/https://twitter.com/AcrosstheeRinghttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEB9Elw50O68EqEvwpWf42A

On this day in 1929, seven members of “Bugs” Moran's gang were shot dead at a garage in Chicago.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Two Gurls One Murder, Blair welcomes her long-time friend Liz back to the pod to discuss The Valentine's Day Massacre - an event that's considered the bloodiest mob hit in history. The story takes place in Blair's homeland, Chicago, and involves a gang war between arch rivals Al Capone and Bugs Moran. You know this is going to be a juicy episode when the mob is involved! Be sure to stick around until the end of the episode for the gurl's favorite closing segment "Buy, Try, or Pass By". This week, Blair & Liz stick with the Valentine's Day theme and and taste test heart-shaped Starburst jellybeans. The gurls also share their Valentine's Day "hot takes", upcoming travel plans, and check in with Liz to see how her new job is shaking out.

America's coldest case. Seven men were brutally gunned down in a garage near the north side of Chicago. The murders resulted from the gangland wars during prohibition. The Irish North Side gang run by Bugs Moran versus the Italian South Side gang lead by America's most notorious gangster Al Capone. The murderers have never been caught, but there are plenty of theories as to who may have committed this horrible crime. www.thearchivistpodcast.comSources:https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition#:~:text=The%20Prohibition%20Era%20began%20in,Prohibition%20was%20difficult%20to%20enforce.The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Al Capone (Excerpt from Get Capone) By Jonathan Eig. April 30, 2010. https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/may-2010/get-capone-st-valentines-day-massacre-jonathan-eig/Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Valentine%27s_Day_MassacreSt. Valentine's Day Massacre. History.com February 4, 2021 https://www.history.com/topics/crime/saint-valentines-day-massacreInside the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, History's Bloodiest Mob Hit. By Katie Serena. February 2, 2022. https://allthatsinteresting.com/st-valentines-day-massacreProhibition. History.com https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/prohibition#:~:text=The%20Prohibition%20Era%20began%20in,Prohibition%20was%20difficult%20to%20enforce.Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_StatesInflation calculator

Gangbusters, originally broadcast October 25, 1947, Bugs Moran, Part 3. Part 3 of his story, conclusion of his criminal career. Includes a recording by a condemned murderer, made from his death cell, twenty-four hours before his execution. Also Part 9 of a 9 part Yours Truly Johnny Dollar story, The Phantom Chase Matter, originally broadcast October 25 1956. Who gets paid off, and why? The answer surprises Johnny! Visit my web page - http://www.classicradio.streamWe receive no revenue from YouTube. If you enjoy our shows, listen via the links on our web page or if you're so inclined, Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wyattcoxelAHeard on almost 100 radio stations from coast to coast. Classic Radio Theater features great radio programs that warmed the hearts of millions for the better part of the 20th century. Host Wyatt Cox brings the best of radio classics back to life with both the passion of a long-time (as in more than half a century) fan and the heart of a forty-year newsman. But more than just “playing the hits”, Wyatt supplements the first hour of each day's show with historical information on the day and date in history including audio that takes you back to World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, LBJ. It's a true slice of life from not just radio's past, but America's past.Wyatt produces 21 hours a week of freshly minted Classic Radio Theater presentations each week, and each day's broadcast is timely and entertaining!

Gangbusters, originally broadcast October 18, 1947, The Case of Bugs Moran, Notorious Gang Leader. The second part of the story of "Bugs." A comeback. Also Part 4 of a 9 part Yours Truly Johnny Dollar story, The Phantom Chase Matter, originally broadcast October 18, 1956. A woman in the picture.Visit my web page - http://www.classicradio.streamWe receive no revenue from YouTube. If you enjoy our shows, listen via the links on our web page or if you're so inclined, Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wyattcoxelAHeard on almost 100 radio stations from coast to coast. Classic Radio Theater features great radio programs that warmed the hearts of millions for the better part of the 20th century. Host Wyatt Cox brings the best of radio classics back to life with both the passion of a long-time (as in more than half a century) fan and the heart of a forty-year newsman. But more than just “playing the hits”, Wyatt supplements the first hour of each day's show with historical information on the day and date in history including audio that takes you back to World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, LBJ. It's a true slice of life from not just radio's past, but America's past.Wyatt produces 21 hours a week of freshly minted Classic Radio Theater presentations each week, and each day's broadcast is timely and entertaining!

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Gangbusters, originally broadcast October 11, 1947, The Case Of The Devil and The Syndicate. Al Capone vs. Bugs Moran. The rise of the Chicago gang wars. Also Part 4 of a 5 part Yours Truly Johnny Dollar story, The Primrose Matter, originally broadcast October 11, 1956. A fake rattler causes the death of a real one. Three down, one to go. Visit my web page - http://www.classicradio.streamWe receive no revenue from YouTube. If you enjoy our shows, listen via the links on our web page or if you're so inclined, Buy me a coffee! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/wyattcoxelAHeard on almost 100 radio stations from coast to coast. Classic Radio Theater features great radio programs that warmed the hearts of millions for the better part of the 20th century. Host Wyatt Cox brings the best of radio classics back to life with both the passion of a long-time (as in more than half a century) fan and the heart of a forty-year newsman. But more than just “playing the hits”, Wyatt supplements the first hour of each day's show with historical information on the day and date in history including audio that takes you back to World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. FDR, Eisenhower, JFK, Reagan, Carter, Nixon, LBJ. It's a true slice of life from not just radio's past, but America's past.Wyatt produces 21 hours a week of freshly minted Classic Radio Theater presentations each week, and each day's broadcast is timely and entertaining!

Crime Fighters - Gang Busters-471011-The Case Of Bugs Moran Part 2 http://oldtimeradiodvd.com  or Nostalgia USA PRIME Roku Channel

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Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 578, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Hello, Newton! 1: Newton designed one of these that used mirrors in addition to lenses. telescope. 2: A student of this university's Trinity College, Newton graduated in 1665 without honors or distinction. Cambridge. 3: A falling apple gave Newton some ideas about what type of force could hold this heavenly body in its path. moon. 4: In the 1690s Newton was the bane of counterfeiters, introducing newly milled edges while working here. mint. 5: This English astronomer paid for the publication of Newton's masterwork, the "Principia". Edmond Halley. Round 2. Category: Sounds All Around 1: It can be a continuous low humming sound or a male bee. drone. 2: If you listen to your heart using a stethoscope, you'll hear the sound of these flaps opening and closing. valves. 3: In part of the Capitol dome, you can clearly hear distant sounds, making it this kind of "gallery". a whispering gallery. 4: The name of this instrument comes from the Italian for "little goose". an ocarina. 5: This rude noise is the last name of Toby, a character in "Twelfth Night". Belch. Round 3. Category: American Sign Language 1: It's the phenomenon being signed here. a rainbow. 2: This bulb is related to the lily. an onion. 3: The Beatles' Rocky knows the sign for this animal. a raccoon. 4: This area of land with a specific use is of grave importance. graveyard (cemetery). 5: Here is the sign for this geometry term. a perpendicular. Round 4. Category: Ding Dong 1: In 1967 this company introduced its chocolate-covered Ding Dong snack cakes. Hostess. 2: Continuing the alliteration, it follows "ding-dong" in a kid's prank that involves ringing a doorbell and running away. dash (ditch). 3: "Ding dong", it's this company "calling"; how about some lipstick or other cosmetic?. Avon. 4: 4-word title of the Barry Mann song that asks, "Who put the ram in the rama lama ding dong?". "Who Put The Bomp". 5: Judy Garland's "Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead" surged on U.K. iTunes after this former prime minister passed away. Margaret Thatcher. Round 5. Category: Sinners 1: In 1988 this popular evangelist tearfully admitted on his national TV show that "I have sinned against you". Jimmy Swaggart. 2: Holiday in 1929 on which Chicago gangster Bugs Moran lost several members of his gang. St. Valentine's Day. 3: "I sin every single day", said this 2008 presidential candidate whose indiscretions keep coming to light. (John) Edwards. 4: Despite the nickname, this man said to have coined the term "G-men" reportedly never fired a shot during a crime. "Machine Gun" Kelly. 5: In a 1741 Jonathan Edwards sermon title, sinners were "in the hands of" this. an angry god. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia! Special thanks to https://blog.feedspot.com/trivia_podcasts/

Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program aired from January 15, 1936 to November 27, 1957 on NBC. The show, one of the earliest crime shows on radio, was created by actor-producer Phillips Lord. Each episode began with loud sound effects like gun fires and tire screeches, which led to the catch phrase "come on like Gang Busters." And then, at the end of each episode were the description of each criminal captured and some information on those who were still on the loose. During its entire run, hundreds of criminals were brought to justice, courtesy of the Gang Busters. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. The GSMC Classics collection is the embodiment of the best of the golden age of radio. Let Golden State Media Concepts take you on a ride through the classic age of radio, with this compiled collection of episodes from a wide variety of old programs. ***PLEASE NOTE*** GSMC Podcast Network presents these shows as historical content and have brought them to you unedited. Remember that times have changed and some shows might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Golden State Media Concepts or the GSMC Podcast Network. Our goal is to entertain, educate, and give you a glimpse into the past.

Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program aired from January 15, 1936 to November 27, 1957 on NBC. The show, one of the earliest crime shows on radio, was created by actor-producer Phillips Lord. Each episode began with loud sound effects like gun fires and tire screeches, which led to the catch phrase "come on like Gang Busters." And then, at the end of each episode were the description of each criminal captured and some information on those who were still on the loose. During its entire run, hundreds of criminals were brought to justice, courtesy of the Gang Busters. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. The GSMC Classics collection is the embodiment of the best of the golden age of radio. Let Golden State Media Concepts take you on a ride through the classic age of radio, with this compiled collection of episodes from a wide variety of old programs. ***PLEASE NOTE*** GSMC Podcast Network presents these shows as historical content and have brought them to you unedited. Remember that times have changed and some shows might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Golden State Media Concepts or the GSMC Podcast Network. Our goal is to entertain, educate, and give you a glimpse into the past.

Gang Busters was an American dramatic radio program aired from January 15, 1936 to November 27, 1957 on NBC. The show, one of the earliest crime shows on radio, was created by actor-producer Phillips Lord. Each episode began with loud sound effects like gun fires and tire screeches, which led to the catch phrase "come on like Gang Busters." And then, at the end of each episode were the description of each criminal captured and some information on those who were still on the loose. During its entire run, hundreds of criminals were brought to justice, courtesy of the Gang Busters. GSMC Classics presents some of the greatest classic radio broadcasts, classic novels, dramas, comedies, mysteries, and theatrical presentations from a bygone era. The GSMC Classics collection is the embodiment of the best of the golden age of radio. Let Golden State Media Concepts take you on a ride through the classic age of radio, with this compiled collection of episodes from a wide variety of old programs. ***PLEASE NOTE*** GSMC Podcast Network presents these shows as historical content and have brought them to you unedited. Remember that times have changed and some shows might not reflect the standards of today's politically correct society. The shows do not necessarily reflect the views, standards, or beliefs of Golden State Media Concepts or the GSMC Podcast Network. Our goal is to entertain, educate, and give you a glimpse into the past.

Born on This Day in The Mob: 8/21/22 was Chicago Gangster Gerorge Bugs Moran. Moran started out as a petty thief and eventual bootlegger and number 2 to Dean O'Banion and his North Side Gang. He eventually took over the crew after O'Banions death. He shot it out with The Capone Mob. He narrowly escaped the St. Valentines Day Massacre. Hear his full life story on the latest episode of THIS DAY IN THE MOB!

On this day in the mob, August 1st 1930 Jack Zuta, a sleezy vice lord working for Chicago north side gang and Bugs Moran is lit up in a hail of bullets at a dance hall. The shooter was future Chicago Outfit mob chieftain Tony "Joe Batters" Accardo acting on the orders of Al Capone. John takes you through the events leading up to the death of a notorious chicago vice-lord. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/this-day-in-the-mob/support

In 1929, Al Capone was worth an inflation adjusted 1.5 billion dollars. Al Capone as a child with his mother On January 17, 1899, Alphonse Gabriel Capone became the fourth child born into this family, and the second native American.  Including the two born in Italy, the Capone family later consisted of nine children, eight surviving into adulthood.  Al's father was a barber by trade, eventually moving the family to a better home that also contained his shop.  His father, unlike his mother, was literate and spoke English.  Although relatively poor, the Capones seemed like just another ordinary, hard working couple putting their children through school and looking to make their way in the new world.  There was nothing to indicate mental instability or dysfunction that eventually produced a remarkably anti-social progeny. Johnny Torrio From a young age, Donato “Johnny” Torrio was focused on organizing criminal activities involving gambling and loan sharking that he operated from behind a legitimate business, a neighborhood pool hall.  Although not flamboyant, Torrio, born in Montepeloso, Italy, was a sharp operator who allied himself with Manhattan's Five Points Gang and quickly began to branch out into more malevolent criminal activity involving prostitution, extortion and even narcotics.  Torrio also kept a close eye on the neighborhood, always eager to find teenagers that he could depend on to run errands and generally handle tasks without asking too many questions. James "Big Jim" Colosimo This change was prompted by Johnny Torrio, by now himself relocated to Chicago and the brains behind the racketeering organization operated by James (Big Jim) Colosimo, a rags to riches gangster and restaurateur, who covertly ran a huge vice operation that dealt especially in brothels and prostitution.  His Colosimo's Café was one of the most popular and opulent restaurants in the city and Colosimo, sporting diamonds, wearing a white suit, tall and certainly carrying more than a few extra pounds was a literally larger than life figure.  Torrio was the perfectly reserved and concealed manager who paid attention to day to day operations while Colosimo spent most of his time partying and taking advantage of his proximity to a large stable of obliging females. Dean O'Banion Warned by his gang buddies to stop provoking Torrio, O'Banion famously responded, “To hell with the Sicilians,” evincing a bravado that was recklessly foolhardy.  Because, O'Banion was a heavyweight gangland figure with strong connections, the Outfit tread carefully but methodically forward.  O'Banion also had a lucrative florist business that focused especially on the elaborate floral designs necessitated by any number of gangland deaths in Chicago.  The shop was directly across from the Holy Name Cathedral, an immense downtown Chicago Catholic church and location that generated even more business.  O'Banion actually supervised the business personally and was usually on the premises.  On November 10, 1924, three men entered the store, ostensibly to pick up a sizable order.  Exactly who these men were has always been the subject of rumor, but the best guess revolves around Frankie Yale, who O'Banion would not have suspected and two other men, John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, two individuals who eventually became the most feared hitmen in the Outfit but at that time were unknown, recent emigres from Sicily.  While Frankie Yale firmly shook hands with O'Banion, both Scalise and Anselmi shot him in the chest, throat and a final coup de grace to the head.  Other employees in the rear of the store fled out of the back door.  O'Banion's funeral was as lavish as any Chicago had ever seen, the funeral procession to the cemetery a mile long.  Capone and Torrio and many other enemies were in attendance, for them the occasion as much of a celebration as anything else.  They presumed that O'Banion's north side territory would now be there's to keep. George "Bugs" Moran, 1946, mug shot for Dayton bank robbery, long after his Chicago glory days Although Bugs Moran escaped injury, his gang was essentially neutralized and in the early thirties he left Chicago altogether.  He resumed his life as a petty criminal, engaging in crimes involving forgery and bank robbery.  Once one of the wealthiest criminals in Chicago, he died penniless, of cancer in 1957, in Leavenworth Prison, while serving a ten year sentence for bank robbery, and is buried in the prison cemetery in an unmarked grave. Thompson Submachine Gun, with circular drum Ironically purchased while he was on an extended visit to Colorado, Dean O'Banion was the first Chicago criminal to recognize the potential of the Thompson submachine in conducting gang warfare.  The gun was invented in 1916, the result of the First World War, but it never really caught on and subsequent peacetime efforts to sell the weapon to police departments were met with failure.  But the relatively light weight automatic that could fire numerous bullets from a round drum was perfect for shooting up buildings and automobiles, accuracy no longer necessary for the rapid fire of dozens of bullets sprayed in the general direction of a target.  Although O'Banion didn't live long enough to ever use the gun itself, in January of 1925, Weiss, Drucci and Moran did use a submachine gun in an attempt to kill Al Capone.  The gangster traveled around Chicago in a large recognizable Cadillac, figuring his bodyguards would handle any typical attack.  This particular attempt failed, the parked limousine sized car containing only Capone's chauffeur and his bodyguards, Al safely inside a nearby restaurant.  But the incident impressed the Outfit enough to secure their own Thompsons, a development that eventually became relevant to Hymie Weiss in a major way. Al Capone's Miami house, 2013 Al Capone made himself highly visible in Miami before and after St. Valentine's Day, commenting when he heard Bugs Moran's accusation that actually only Moran killed like that.  Although Jack McGurn was eventually arrested for the crime, he was released for lack of evidence, McGurn having carefully and also visibly checked into a hotel with his attractive girlfriend, Louise Rolfe.   Known thereafter as the “Blonde Alibi,” Rolfe and  McGurn eventually got married so that she could never be forced to testify against her husband.  Although several witnesses were able to identify Fred Killer Burke, he was already a fugitive and eluded police by fleeing to a rural part of Missouri.  No one was ever prosecuted for the St. Valentines Day Massacre. Capone family house, Chicago South Side By mid-1922, Al Capone was earning enough money to move his wife, son, widowed mother and even some of his still teenaged siblings to Chicago.  He installed these members of the Capone clan in a South Side suburban house, far from the areas in Chicago that generated his income.  While he occasionally holed up elsewhere, he would own this home for the rest of his time as a Chicago resident.  And initially, Al's life in Chicago in the early twenties was relatively peaceful, with the various criminal factions respecting each other's territories, assuming that there was a big enough racketeering pie for everybody to prosper.

Bugs Moran became a great opponent against Al Capone in the fight for territory of the Chicago underground, gang realm. Unfortunately he lost, and by the end didn't have a penny to his name. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/samuel-bratton2/support

Whew! We are covering a lot of ground today at Ichabod's House. Eastern State Penitentiary, Yale, Gettysburg, the Hoosac Tunnel, the Jennie Wade House, the Salem Witch House, Bugs Moran and Al Capone to name a few. Who doesn't love a good ghost story? Join us today as we talk about some of America's favorite haunted places. Source:Ichabod's Nose Picks:Jen:  Granny O'GrimmPieces of HerAndy:Beetlejuice

Episode 43Release Date: 13 February 2022.In honour of tomorrow being the 14th February, this week we are covering the St Valentine's Day Massacre that took place in 1929 in Lincoln Park, Chicago. We discuss the lead up to the shootings and the turf war between Al Capone's Chicago Outfit and Bugs Moran's North Side Gang.We hope you enjoy the episode and you can contact us on any of our Social Media accounts below.Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on your favourite platform and you can follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wherethemonstersarepodcast/ on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhereMonsters on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/supersleuthsandspookykid  and on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@wheremonsterspodcast 

was a Sicilian bootlegger and organized crime leader in Chicago during the Prohibition era. He was best known for his long and bloody feud with Chicago Outfit boss Al Capone. Aiello masterminded several unsuccessful attempts to assassinate Capone, and fought against his former business partner Antonio Lombardo, a Capone ally, for control of the Chicago branch of the Unione Siciliana benevolent society. Aiello and his ally Bugs Moran are believed to have arranged the murder of Lombardo, which directly led Capone to organize the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in retaliation. Despite being forced to flee Chicago multiple times throughout the gang war, Aiello eventually took control of the Unione Siciliana in 1929, and ranked seventh among the Chicago Crime Commission's list of top "public enemies". Aiello was killed after Capone gunmen ambushed him as he exited a Chicago apartment building where he had been hiding out, shooting him 59 times. After his death, the Chicago Tribune described Aiello as "the toughest gangster in Chicago, and one of the toughest in the country"

Lou volunteers to sneak into Bugs Moran's speakeasy. Detective Drury arrests Jack. Starring Lisa Kudrow, Leigh Joel Scott, Sara Montgomery, R.S.T Davis, Bill Rogers, James Mount, Adam Pilver, Tyler Gurciullo, Todd Gajdusek, Gretchen Harris, Brian Knoebel, Leonardo Santaiti, Danny Roberts, Carolyn Carpenter, Chelsea Suh, Larry Sprott. Jack & Lou: A Gangster Love Story is a production of USC School of Cinematic Arts. Produced by Yeon Jin Lee, Mehmet Gungoren. Sound supervised by Audrey Gu, Cabba Cai. Directed by Alexis Patton, Alyssa Fritz, Craig Lief, Danny Roberts, Joshua Powell, Max Pearce, Mila Danton, Rachel Silveria, Renato Miguel Ruiz, R.S.T Davis, Sophia Ungaro, Yudi Zhang. Written by Becca Suh-Hee Han, Brandyn Johnson, Craig Lief, Joshua Powell, Mason Jason Orfalea, Mila Danton, R.S.T Davis, Sophia Ungaro, Yeon Jin Lee. Based on a story by John Watson. Original music composed by David Myles Lewis. Casting by Jane Flowers. Additional Sound Editing By Jalen Conway, Rebecca Grass, Esther Kim. Additional Dialogue Editing By Jackson Daneluk. Music Supervised by Matt Michienzie. Music Mixed by Tim Starnes. Musicians: Piano by Joey Kantor, Trumpet by Jordan Katz, Bass by Marc Gasway, Guitar by John Adair, Cello by Isaac Mailach, Drums by David Myles Lewis. Poster Design by Mehmet Akif Malatyali. Title and End Credits Voice by Coby Lawrence. Consulting Producer John Watson. Special Thanks to Dean Elizabeth M. Daley, Allison Belanger, Beidi Wang, Jeannie Lee, John August, Julian Stern, Maria Sara Santoro, Steven Flick, SAG-AFTRA.

Jack meets Al Capone. Jack is initiated into the Chicago Outfit. Bugs Moran makes a grand entrance. Starring Lisa Kudrow, Leigh Joel Scott, Sara Montgomery, R.S.T Davis, Bill Rogers, James Mount, Adam Pilver, Tyler Gurciullo, Todd Gajdusek, Gretchen Harris, Brian Knoebel, Leonardo Santaiti, Danny Roberts, Carolyn Carpenter, Chelsea Suh, Larry Sprott. Jack & Lou: A Gangster Love Story is a production of USC School of Cinematic Arts. Produced by Yeon Jin Lee, Mehmet Gungoren. Sound supervised by Audrey Gu, Cabba Cai. Directed by Alexis Patton, Alyssa Fritz, Craig Lief, Danny Roberts, Joshua Powell, Max Pearce, Mila Danton, Rachel Silveria, Renato Miguel Ruiz, R.S.T Davis, Sophia Ungaro, Yudi Zhang. Written by Becca Suh-Hee Han, Brandyn Johnson, Craig Lief, Joshua Powell, Mason Jason Orfalea, Mila Danton, R.S.T Davis, Sophia Ungaro, Yeon Jin Lee. Based on a story by John Watson. Original music composed by David Myles Lewis. Casting by Jane Flowers. Additional Sound Editing By Jalen Conway, Rebecca Grass, Esther Kim. Additional Dialogue Editing By Jackson Daneluk. Music Supervised by Matt Michienzie. Music Mixed by Tim Starnes. Musicians: Piano by Joey Kantor, Trumpet by Jordan Katz, Bass by Marc Gasway, Guitar by John Adair, Cello by Isaac Mailach, Drums by David Myles Lewis. Poster Design by Mehmet Akif Malatyali. Title and End Credits Voice by Coby Lawrence. Consulting Producer John Watson. Special Thanks to Dean Elizabeth M. Daley, Allison Belanger, Beidi Wang, Jeannie Lee, John August, Julian Stern, Maria Sara Santoro, Steven Flick, SAG-AFTRA.

Welcome to episode 10 of Ohio 88 where we will be discussing one of the most notorious individuals from Montgomery County, Ohio. For this episode, we will be discussing Adelard Cunin aka Bugs Moran.As a quick summary; Prohibition-era gangster Adelard Cunin — aka Bugs Moran — rose to prominence in Chicago. But he was arrested in 1946 for his involvement in a Dayton (Montgomery County) robbery. Moran spent most of the rest of his life in prison before dying in custody in 1957.Seven members of Moran's gang were killed in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929 in Chicago. Moran's rival Al Capone is believed to have ordered the killings.Support the show by joining Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ohio88Check out our new website - www.ohio88podcast.comOur music was created by Nico of We Talk of DreamsPodcast mentioned in this episode - Mysterious Circumstances Podcast*All sources for this episode will be on the website soon.

It's 1929, downtown Chicago, Crime is running rampant and it seems like it needs to be controlled better. Capone had 5 unidentified men kill 7 men that were part of the Bugs Moran gang. Screams and machine guns rang through the streets. Though the building is gone, to this day the screams and machine gun sounds can still be heard.   Sponsor - Calm Your Body Down LLC 'Salem's Secret' by Peter Gundry

On 2/14/1929 Seven of Bugs Moran's north side Gang members were gunned down! Who was behind it? Was it the infamous Chicago Gangster Al Capone? Zach and myself sat down with our friend Mike (a retired chicago cop) to discuss the infamous massacre!

Hey look Thomas is back! He decided to do a timely topic - mobster Bugs Moran and the St. Valentine's day massacre. Sparkie struggles to keep up but thinks a lot about pie and romance. Enjoy! Email us at creepylifepodcast@gmail.com and stay creepy! Sources: https://mafia.wikia.org/wiki/George_Moran https://www.history.com/topics/crime/saint-valentines-day-massacre https://www.nationalcrimesyndicate.com/bugs-moran-biography/ https://www.bugsmoran.net/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/george-bugs-moran-is-arrested https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Moran https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugs_Moran --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/creepylife/support

This is the story of the feud between Al Capone and "Bugs" Moran. Listen in on this wild ride as we tell you how these two went to war and battled it out over control of Chicago. Alcohol, murder, execution, STD's.... This one has it all. Thanks for being here for our FIRST EPISODE! Remember to check out our Instagram @thecrimeseenpod to check out the photo's for this episode! Sources used in this episode include: The St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Chicago Tribune St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Victims, Evidence & Suspects - HISTORY Bugs Moran - Wikipedia George Moran - Biography - IMDb Al Capone - Biography - IMDb

Like the drink pop song? check it out here: https://www.reverbnation.com/Sayreofficial/song/8642528-your-love-the-outfield-cover As most of you may or may not know, Valentine’s Day occurs every February 14. Across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and horrible gifts are exchanged between loved ones and potential flames, all in the name of St. Valentine. But, have you ever asked yourself “who is this fantastical saint and where did these sappy traditions come from?” Did some guy in a cave, thousands of years ago, screw up with his woman after bopping her on the head with a stick? Did he just say “ugh...sorry… here rock”? The Midnight Train Podcast is sponsored by VOUDOUX VODKA.www.voudoux.com Ace’s Depothttp://www.aces-depot.com BECOME A PRODUCER!http://www.patreon.com/themidnighttrainpodcast Find The Midnight Train Podcast:www.themidnighttrainpodcast.comwww.facebook.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.twitter.com/themidnighttrainpcwww.instagram.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.discord.com/themidnighttrainpodcastwww.tiktok.com/themidnighttrainp And wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts. Subscribe to our official YouTube channel:OUR YOUTUBEWell, the history of Valentine’s Day—and the story of its patron saint—is actually shrouded in mystery. We do know that February has long been celebrated as a month of romance, and that St. Valentine’s Day, as we know it today, contains traces of both Christian and ancient Roman tradition. But who was this Saint Valentine, and how did he become associated with this ancient ritual? The Catholic Church recognizes at least three different saints named Valentine or Valentinus, all of whom died or were out to death, rather than renouncing their religion. One legend tells us that Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, and ever the romantic, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine’s actions were inevitably discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death. Still others insist that it was Saint Valentine of Terni, a bishop, who was the true namesake of the holiday. He, too, was beheaded by Claudius II outside Rome. So… you know… Claudius was a swell guy. Other stories suggest that Valentine may have been killed for attempting to help Christians escape harsh Roman prisons, where they were often beaten and tortured. According to one legend, an imprisoned Valentine actually sent the first “valentine” greeting himself after he fell in love with a young girl—possibly his jailor’s daughter—who visited him during his imprisonment. Before his death, it has been said that he wrote her a letter signed “From your Valentine,” an expression that is still used today. Although the truth behind the Valentine legends is murky, the stories all emphasize his appeal as a sympathetic, heroic and—most importantly—romantic figure. By the Middle Ages, perhaps thanks to this reputation, Valentine would become one of the most popular saints in England and France. The French! We are the most romantic! Screw the English!  While some believe that Valentine’s Day is celebrated in the middle of February to celebrate the anniversary of Valentine’s death or burial—which probably occurred around A.D. 270—others claim that the Christian church may have decided to place St. Valentine’s feast day in the middle of February in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan celebration of Lupercalia. Celebrated at the ides of February, or February 15, Lupercalia was actually a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus. Get all that? Sure you do! At the start of the festival, members of the Luperci, an order of Roman priests, would gather at a sacred cave where the infants Romulus and Remus, the founders of Rome, were believed to have been cared for by a she-wolf or lupa. The priests would sacrifice a goat, for fertility, and a dog, for purification. Poor dog! They would then strip the goat’s hide into strips, dip them into the sacrificial blood and take to the streets, gently slapping both women and crop fields with the goat hide. Yep. Too bad that tradition is gone. Sounds SUPER fun! Anyway, Far from being a bunch of scared pansies, Roman women welcomed the slap of the hides because it was believed to make them more fertile in the coming year. Yeah! Later in the day, according to legend, all the young women in the city would place their names in a big urn. The city’s bachelors would each choose a name and become paired for the year with his chosen woman. These matches often ended in marriage. So, it was like eharmony but with a little more sacrifice and far less computers. Lupercalia survived the initial rise of Christianity but was eventually outlawed, BUT OF COURSE IT WAS—as it was deemed “un-Christian”—at the end of the 5th century, when Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St. Valentine’s Day. It wasn’t until much later, however, that the day became definitively associated with love. During the Middle Ages, it was commonly believed in France and England that February 14 was the beginning of birds’ mating season, alright! which added to the idea that the middle of Valentine’s Day should be a day for romance. Because, ya know if birds do it… I mean… anyway. The English poet Geoffrey Chaucer was the first to record St. Valentine’s Day as a day of romantic celebration in his 1375 poem “Parliament of Foules,” writing, ““For this was sent on Seynt Valentyne’s day / Whan every foul cometh ther to choose his mate.” Smooth, Chaucer, real smooth. Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, though written Valentine’s didn’t begin to appear until after 1400. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. (The greeting is now part of the manuscript collection of the British Library in London, England.) Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois. Now, that chubby little bastard Cupid is often portrayed on Valentine’s Day cards as a naked cherub launching arrows of love at unsuspecting lovers. But the Roman God Cupid has his roots in Greek mythology as the Greek god of love, Eros. Accounts of his birth vary; some say he is the son of Nyx and Erebus; others, of Aphrodite and Ares; still others suggest he is the son of Iris and Zephyrus or even Aphrodite and Zeus (who would have been both his father and grandfather… because, you know… incest). According to the Greek Archaic poets, Eros was a handsome immortal who played with the emotions of Gods and men, using golden arrows to incite love and leaden ones to simply fuck with people. It wasn’t until the Hellenistic period that he began to be portrayed as the mischievous, chubby child he’d become on Valentine’s Day cards. Such a weird transition. From handsome immortal to a fat baby in a diaper. In addition to the United States, Valentine’s Day is celebrated in Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, France and Australia. In Great Britain, Valentine’s Day began to be popularly celebrated around the 17th century. By the middle of the 18th century, it was common for friends and lovers of all social classes to exchange small tokens of affection or handwritten notes, and by 1900 printed cards began to replace written letters due to improvements in printing technology. Ready-made cards were an easy way for people to express their emotions in a time when direct expression of one’s feelings was discouraged. Cheaper postage rates also contributed to an increase in the popularity of sending Valentine’s Day greetings. Americans probably began exchanging hand-made valentines in the early 1700s. In the 1840s, Esther A. Howland began selling the first mass-produced valentines in America. Howland, known as the “Mother of the Valentine,” made extravagant creations with real lace, ribbons and colorful pictures known as “scrap.” Today, according to the Greeting Card Association, an estimated 145 million Valentine’s Day cards are sent each year, making Valentine’s Day the second largest card-sending holiday of the year only next to Christmas Some cool notes on St. Valentine. .  In all, there are about a dozen St. Valentines, plus a pope.The saint we celebrate on Valentine’s Day is known officially as St. Valentine of Rome in order to differentiate him from the dozen or so other Valentines on the list. Because “Valentinus”—from the Latin word for worthy, strong or powerful—was a popular moniker between the second and eighth centuries A.D., several martyrs over the centuries have carried this name. The official Roman Catholic roster of saints shows about a dozen who were named Valentine or some variation thereof. The most recently beatified Valentine is St. Valentine Berrio-Ochoa, a Spaniard of the Dominican order who traveled to Vietnam, where he served as bishop until his beheading in 1861. Pope John Paul II canonized Berrio-Ochoa in 1988. There was even a Pope Valentine, though little is known about him except that he served a mere 40 days around A.D. 827.  Valentine is the patron saint of beekeepers and epilepsy, among many other things.Saints are certainly expected to keep busy in the afterlife. Their holy duties include interceding in earthly affairs and entertaining petitions from living souls. In this respect, St. Valentine has wide-ranging spiritual responsibilities. People call on him to watch over the lives of lovers, of course, but also for interventions regarding beekeeping and epilepsy, as well as the plague, fainting and traveling. As you might expect, he’s also the patron saint of engaged couples and happy marriages.  You can find Valentine’s skull in Rome.The flower-adorned skull of St. Valentine is on display in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin, Rome. In the early 1800s, the excavation of a catacomb near Rome yielded skeletal remains and other relics now associated with St. Valentine. As is customary, these bits and pieces of the late saint’s body have subsequently been distributed to holy containers around the world. You’ll find other bits of St. Valentine’s skeleton on display in the Czech Republic, Ireland, Scotland, England and France. Here’s one for the ladies! You can actually celebrate Valentine’s Day several times a year.Because of the abundance of St. Valentines on the Roman Catholic roster, you can choose to celebrate the saint multiple times each year. Aside from February 14, you might decide to celebrate St. Valentine of Viterbo on November 3. Or maybe you want to get a jump on the traditional Valentine celebration by feting St. Valentine of Raetia on January 7. Women might choose to honor the only female St. Valentine (Valentina), a virgin martyred in Palestine on July 25, A.D. 308. The Eastern Orthodox Church officially celebrates St. Valentine twice, once as an elder of the church on July 6 and once as a martyr on July 30.Ok! So the lovey dovey shit is out of the way, let’s talk about some Murders. At 10:30 a.m. on Saint Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, 1929, seven men were murdered at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were shot by four men using weapons that included two Thompson submachine guns. Two of the shooters were dressed as uniformed policemen, while the others wore suits, ties, overcoats, and hats. Witnesses saw the fake police leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting. The victims included five members of George "Bugs" Moran's North Side Gang. Moran's second in command and brother-in-law Albert Kachellek (alias James Clark) was killed along with Adam Heyer, the gang's bookkeeper and business manager, Albert Weinshank, who managed several cleaning and dyeing operations for Moran, and gang enforcers Frank Gusenberg and Peter Gusenberg. Two collaborators were also shot: Reinhardt H. Schwimmer, a former optician turned gambler and gang associate, and John May, an occasional mechanic for the Moran gang. Real Chicago police officers arrived at the scene to find that victim Frank Gusenberg was still alive. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors stabilized him for a short time and police tried to question him. He had sustained 14 bullet wounds; the police asked him who did it, and he replied, "No one shot me." He died three hours later.[4] Al Capone was widely assumed to have been responsible for ordering the murders in an attempt to eliminate Moran. Moran was the last survivor of the North Side gunmen; his succession had come about because his similarly aggressive predecessors Vincent Drucci and Hymie Weiss had been killed in the violence that followed the murder of original leader Dean O'Banion.[5][6] Several factors contributed to the timing of the plan to kill Moran. Earlier in the year, North Sider Frank Gusenberg and his brother Peter unsuccessfully attempted to murder Jack McGurn. The North Side Gang was complicit in the murders of Pasqualino "Patsy" Lolordo and Antonio "The Scourge" Lombardo. Both had been presidents of the Unione Siciliana, the local Mafia, and close associates of Capone. Moran and Capone had been vying for control of the lucrative Chicago bootlegging trade. Moran had also been muscling in on a Capone-run dog track in the Chicago suburbs, and he had taken over several saloons that were run by Capone, insisting that they were in his territory. The plan was to lure Moran to the SMC Cartage warehouse on North Clark Street on February 14, 1929 to kill him and perhaps two or three of his lieutenants. It is usually assumed that the North Siders were lured to the garage with the promise of a stolen, cut-rate shipment of whiskey, supplied by Detroit's Purple Gang which was associated with Capone. The Gusenberg brothers were supposed to drive two empty trucks to Detroit that day to pick up two loads of stolen Canadian whiskey. All of the victims were dressed in their best clothes, with the exception of John May, as was customary for the North Siders and other gangsters at the time. Most of the Moran gang arrived at the warehouse by approximately 10:30 a.m., but Moran was not there, having left his Parkway Hotel apartment late. He and fellow gang member Ted Newberry approached the rear of the warehouse from a side street when they saw a police car approaching the building. They immediately turned and retraced their steps, going to a nearby coffee shop. They encountered gang member Henry Gusenberg on the street and warned him, so he too turned back. North Side Gang member Willie Marks also spotted the police car on his way to the garage, and he ducked into a doorway and jotted down the license number before leaving the neighborhood. Capone's lookouts likely mistook one of Moran's men for Moran himself, probably Albert Weinshank, who was the same height and build. The physical similarity between the two men was enhanced by their dress that morning; both happened to be wearing the same color overcoats and hats. Witnesses outside the garage saw a Cadillac sedan pull up to a stop in front of the garage. Four men emerged and walked inside, two of them dressed in police uniform. The two fake police officers carried shotguns and entered the rear portion of the garage, where they found members of Moran's gang and collaborators Reinhart Schwimmer and John May, who was fixing one of the trucks. The fake policemen then ordered the men to line up against the wall. They then signaled to the pair in civilian clothes who had accompanied them. Two of the killers opened fire with Thompson sub-machine guns, one with a 20-round box magazine and the other a 50-round drum. They were thorough, spraying their victims left and right, even continuing to fire after all seven had hit the floor. Two shotgun blasts afterward all but obliterated the faces of John May and James Clark, according to the coroner's report. To give the appearance that everything was under control, the men in street clothes came out with their hands up, prodded by the two uniformed policemen. Inside the garage, the only survivors in the warehouse were May's dog "Highball" and Frank Gusenberg — despite 14 bullet wounds. He was still conscious, but he died three hours later, refusing to utter a word about the identities of the killers. The Valentine's Day Massacre set off a public outcry which posed a problem for all mob bosses.[7] Victims EditPeter Gusenberg, a front-line enforcer for the Moran organizationsFrank Gusenberg, the brother of Peter Gusenberg and also an enforcerAlbert Kachellek (alias "James Clark"), Moran's second in commandAdam Heyer, the bookkeeper and business manager of the Moran gangReinhardt Schwimmer, an optician who had abandoned his practice to gamble on horse racing and associate with the gangAlbert Weinshank, who managed several cleaning and dyeing operations for Moran; his resemblance to Moran is allegedly what set the massacre in motion before Moran arrived, including the clothes that he was wearingJohn May, an occasional car mechanic for the Moran gang[8] Within days, Capone received a summons to testify before a Chicago grand jury on charges of federal Prohibition violations, but he claimed to be too unwell to attend.[9] It was common knowledge that Moran was hijacking Capone's Detroit-based liquor shipments, and police focused their attention on Detroit's predominantly Jewish Purple Gang. Landladies Mrs. Doody and Mrs. Orvidson had taken in three men as roomers ten days before the massacre, and their rooming houses were directly across the street from the North Clark Street garage. They picked out mugshots of Purple Gang members George Lewis, Eddie Fletcher, Phil Keywell, and his younger brother Harry, but they later wavered in their identification. The police questioned and cleared Fletcher, Lewis, and Harry Keywell. Nevertheless, the Keywell brothers (and by extension the Purple Gang) remained associated with the crime in the years that followed. Many also believed that the police were involved, which may have been the intention of the killers. On February 22, police were called to the scene of a garage fire on Wood Street where they found a 1927 Cadillac sedan disassembled and partially burned, and they determined that the killers had used the car. They traced the engine number to a Michigan Avenue dealer who had sold the car to a James Morton of Los Angeles. The garage had been rented by a man calling himself Frank Rogers, who gave his address as 1859 West North Avenue. This was the address of the Circus Café operated by Claude Maddox, a former St. Louis gangster with ties to the Capone gang, the Purple Gang, and the St. Louis gang, Egan's Rats. Police could not turn up any information about persons named James Morton or Frank Rogers, but they had a definite lead on one of the killers. Just minutes before the killings, a truck driver named Elmer Lewis had turned a corner a block away from 2122 North Clark and sideswiped a police car. He told police that he stopped immediately but was waved away by the uniformed driver, who was missing a front tooth. Board of Education president H. Wallace Caldwell had witnessed the accident, and he gave the same description of the driver. Police were confident that they were describing Fred Burke, a former member of Egan's Rats. Burke and a close companion named James Ray were known to wear police uniforms whenever on a robbery spree. Burke was also a fugitive, under indictment for robbery and murder in Ohio. Police also suggested that Joseph Lolordo could have been one of the killers because of his brother Pasqualino's recent murder by the North Side Gang. Police then announced that they suspected Capone gunmen John Scalise and Albert Anselmi, as well as Jack McGurn and Frank Rio, a Capone bodyguard. Police eventually charged McGurn and Scalise with the massacre. Capone murdered John Scalise, Anselmi, and Joseph "Hop Toad" Giunta in May 1929 after he learned about their plan to kill him. The police dropped the murder charges against Jack McGurn because of a lack of evidence, and he was just charged with a violation of the Mann Act; he took his girlfriend Louise Rolfe across state lines to marry. The case stagnated until December 14, 1929, when the Berrien County, Michigan Sheriff's Department raided the St. Joseph, Michigan bungalow of "Frederick Dane", the registered owner of a vehicle driven by Fred "Killer" Burke. Burke had been drinking that night, then rear-ended another vehicle and drove off. Patrolman Charles Skelly pursued, finally forcing him off the road. Skelly hopped onto the running board of Burke's car, but he was shot three times and died of his wounds that night. The car was found wrecked and abandoned just outside St. Joseph and traced to Fred Dane. By this time, police photos confirmed that Dane was in fact Fred Burke, wanted by the Chicago police for his participation in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Police raided Burke's bungalow and found a large trunk containing a bullet-proof vest, almost $320,000 in bonds recently stolen from a Wisconsin bank, two Thompson submachine guns, pistols, two shotguns, and thousands of rounds of ammunition. St. Joseph authorities immediately notified the Chicago police, who requested both machine guns. They used the new science of forensic ballistics to identify both weapons as those used in the massacre. They also discovered that one of them had also been used to murder New York mobster Frankie Yale a year and a half earlier. Unfortunately, no further concrete evidence surfaced in the massacre case. Burke was captured over a year later on a Missouri farm. The case against him was strongest in connection to the murder of Officer Skelly, so he was tried in Michigan and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison in 1940. On January 8, 1935, FBI agents surrounded a Chicago apartment building at 3920 North Pine Grove looking for the remaining members of the Barker Gang. A brief shootout erupted, resulting in the death of bank robber Russell Gibson. Taken into custody were Doc Barker, Byron Bolton, and two women. Bolton was a Navy machine-gunner and associate of Egan's Rats, and he had been the valet of Chicago hit man Fred Goetz. Bolton was privy to many of the Barker Gang's crimes and pinpointed the Florida hideout of Ma Barker and Freddie Barker, both of whom were killed in a shootout with the FBI a week later. Bolton claimed to have taken part in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre with Goetz, Fred Burke, and several others. The FBI had no jurisdiction in a state murder case, so they kept Bolton's revelations confidential until the Chicago American newspaper reported a second-hand version of his confession. The newspaper declared that the crime had been "solved", despite being stonewalled by J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, who did not want any part of the massacre case. Garbled versions of Bolton's story went out in the national media. Bolton, it was reported,[where?] claimed that the murder of Bugs Moran had been plotted in October or November 1928 at a Couderay, Wisconsin resort owned by Fred Goetz. Present at this meeting were Goetz, Al Capone, Frank Nitti, Fred Burke, Gus Winkler, Louis Campagna, Daniel Serritella, William Pacelli, and Bolton. The men stayed two or three weeks, hunting and fishing when they were not planning the murder of their enemies. Bolton claimed that he and Jimmy Moran were charged with watching the S.M.C. Cartage garage and phoning the signal to the killers at the Circus Café when Bugs Moran arrived at the meeting. Police had found a letter addressed to Bolton in the lookout nest (and possibly a vial of prescription medicine). Bolton guessed that the actual killers had been Burke, Winkeler, Goetz, Bob Carey, Raymond "Crane Neck" Nugent,[10] and Claude Maddox (four shooters and two getaway drivers). Bolton gave an account of the massacre different from the one generally told by historians. He claimed that he saw only "plainclothes" men exit the Cadillac and go into the garage. This indicates that a second car was used by the killers. George Brichet claimed to have seen at least two uniformed men exiting a car in the alley and entering the garage through its rear doors. A Peerless Motor Company sedan had been found near a Maywood house owned by Claude Maddox in the days after the massacre, and in one of the pockets was an address book belonging to victim Albert Weinshank. Bolton said that he had mistaken one of Moran's men to be Moran, after which he telephoned the signal to the Circus Café. The killers had expected to kill Moran and two or three of his men, but they were unexpectedly confronted with seven men; they simply decided to kill them all and get out fast. Bolton claimed that Capone was furious with him for his mistake and the resulting police pressure and threatened to kill him, only to be dissuaded by Fred Goetz. His claims were corroborated by Gus Winkeler's widow Georgette in an official FBI statement and in her memoirs, which were published in a four-part series in a true detective magazine during the winter of 1935–36. She revealed that her husband and his friends had formed a special crew used by Capone for high-risk jobs. The mob boss was said to have trusted them implicitly and nicknamed them the "American Boys". Bolton's statements were also backed up by William Drury, a Chicago detective who had stayed on the massacre case long after everyone else had given up. Bank robber Alvin Karpis later claimed to have heard secondhand from Ray Nugent about the massacre and that the "American Boys" were paid a collective salary of $2,000 a week plus bonuses. Karpis also claimed that Capone had told him while they were in Alcatraz together that Goetz had been the actual planner of the massacre. Despite Byron Bolton's statements, no action was taken by the FBI. All the men whom he named were dead by 1935, with the exception of Burke and Maddox. Bank robber Harvey Bailey complained in his 1973 autobiography that he and Fred Burke had been drinking beer in Calumet City, Illinois at the time of the massacre, and the resulting heat forced them to abandon their bank robbing ventures. Historians are still divided on whether or not the "American Boys" committed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Many mobsters have been named as part of the Valentine's Day hit team. Two prime suspects are Cosa Nostra hit men John Scalise and Albert Anselmi. In the days after the massacre, Scalise was heard[by whom?] to brag, "I am the most powerful man in Chicago." Unione Siciliana president Joseph Guinta had recently elevated him to the position of the Unione's vice-president. Nevertheless, Scalise, Anselmi, and Guinta were found dead on a lonely road near Hammond, Indiana on May 8, 1929. Gangland lore has it that Capone had discovered that the pair were planning to betray him. Legend states[where?] that Capone produced a baseball bat at the climax of a dinner party thrown in their honor and beat the trio to death.[11] Police tested the two Thompson submachine guns (serial numbers 2347 and 7580) found in Fred Burke's Michigan bungalow and determined that both had been used in the massacre. One of them had also been used in the murder of Brooklyn mob boss Frankie Yale, which confirmed the New York Police Department's long-held theory that Burke had been responsible for Yale's death. Les Farmer, a deputy sheriff in Marion, Illinois, purchased gun number 2347 on November 12, 1924. Marion and the surrounding area were overrun by the warring bootleg factions of the Shelton Brothers Gang and Charlie Birger. Farmer had ties with Egan's Rats, based 100 miles away in St. Louis, and the weapon had wound up in Fred Burke's possession by 1927. It is possible that he used this same gun in Detroit's Milaflores Massacre on March 28, 1927. Chicago sporting goods owner Peter von Frantzius sold gun number 7580 to a Victor Thompson, also known as Frank V. Thompson, but it wound up with James "Bozo" Shupe, a small-time hood from Chicago's West Side who had ties to various members of Capone's outfit. Both guns are still in the possession of the Berrien County, Michigan Sheriff's Department. The garage at 2122 N. Clark Street was demolished in 1967, and the site is now a parking lot for a nursing home.[12] The bricks of the north wall against which the victims were shot were purchased by a Canadian businessman. For many years, they were displayed in various crime-related novelty displays. Many of them were later sold individually, and the remainder are now owned by the Mob Museum in Las Vegas.[13]

Join Jen and Kristin for our special VALENTINE’S DAY episode! Since Valentine’s Day is GROSS, we’re celebrating in true macabre fashion… with MURDER. We talk about the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, how to dress like a snorky mobster, and why you should always run a little bit late. Sources History.com, St. Valentine’s Day Massacre https://www.history.com/topics/crime/saint-valentines-day-massacre The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre from the Chicago Tribune https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/chi-chicagodays-valentinesmassacre-story-story.html 8 Things You Should Know About Al Capone from history.com https://www.history.com/news/8-things-you-should-know-about-al-capone The Parkview Chicago Virtual Tour of Bugs Moran’s Penthouse https://www.parkviewchicago.com/parkviewpenthouse.aspx The Mob Museum St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Wall Exhibit https://themobmuseum.org/exhibits/massacre-wall/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/macabretraveler/support

We couldn’t do a week on the mafia and not talk about some of the most famous mob hits of all time.Ever heard of the Trojan Horse Attack or the St. Valentines Day Massacre?Take a listen to the stories of Danny Greene, Antonio Caponigro and Bugs Moran.

The Massacre Gary investigates follows the journey of the bullet-riddled bricks for the wall where four assailants lined up seven members of the Bugs Moran gang and shot them down. This podcast includes an interview... The post Halloween Extra – St Valentine’s Day Massacre appeared first on Gangland Wire.

It’s episode 21 and we are officially legal to drink! Or at least the podcast is :) We take a look at some of the most infamous bootleggers around in 1920s Chicago where violence and lawlessness ran the town. Stolen whiskey, crime bosses, gang wars, and a bloody climax are just a tiny taste of what this week’s episode has to offer. There are big names like Al “Scarface” Capone, George “Bugs” Moran, and even some Bagelbites (aka Zak Bagans, shout out to ATWWD.) Ian steps in to join us again as Lolo got trapped in emergency land, don’t worry, she is ok and will be back next week. So grab your fedora, a nice glass of whiskey, maybe a cigar, and settle down for the crazy story of the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/todieforpodcast)

Valentine's Day? Absolutely Not! Barely heard of, and painfully misunderstood when it has been heard of, Tu B'Av is not Cupid drawing back his bow to fire the arrows of romance into the hearts of hopefuls. It has nothing in common with a whole mish-mash of a pagan fertility festival with the martyrdom of three saints (of whom one used to perform clandestine marriages – until he was caught). Nor has it anything to do with American gangsters – Al Capone and Bugs Moran, their rivalry or associated massacres on that day and beyond... No. Instead, it becomes the happiest day in the calendar, to rival Yom Kippur (which itself need an explanation). How can it be on par with Yom Kippur and what is so inspiring about the day? Ah – inspiration – that is the key. A bolt of lightning to illuminate the skies. Lasting barely a moment, if you are looking, it directs you. Now let it direct us…

Welcome to Coastal Championship Wrestling Talks! CCW is the premiere professional wrestling promotion in Florida, and we have a very special episode for you. Brought to you by Boca Stone Design and the CCW Training Facility. Love Wrestling? Come Join Us! Ever dream of being a wrestler, referee, announcer, producer, or manager? The CCW Training Facility is South Florida's number one place to be for pro wrestling training. Don't wait any longer! Start fulfilling your wrestling goals and dreams today by calling 954-548-5779. Find us at CCWrestlingFL..com or email us at Nelio@CCWrestlingFL.com. Bugs Moran, the newly crowned Southeastern Heavyweight Champion and tenuous tenant of the CCW Training Facility, comes on to discuss wrestling, his future, life, and more. Follow CCW on Social Media: Facebook.com/CCWEvents Instagram.com @CCWTrainingFacility Twitter: @CCWFL Follow Bugs Moran on Social Media: Facebook.com/thehoboprince/ See the Bugs Moran vs. Vic Arson BLOODBATH at CCW Rising Tide HERE.

Welcome to Coastal Championship Wrestling Talks! CCW is the premiere professional wrestling promotion in Florida, and we have a very special introductory episode for you. Brought to you by Boca Stone Design and the CCW Training Facility. Today's episode is Part 1 of a long form talk with CCW standout The Jackal. In this episode, Jackal speaks about his early upbringing in the African Botswana tribe and his many idiosyncrasies that make him what he is. Enjoy! Love Wrestling? Come Join Us! Ever dream of being a wrestler, referee, announcer, producer, or manager? The CCW Training Facility is South Florida's number one place to be for pro wrestling training. Don't wait any longer! Start fulfilling your wrestling goals and dreams today by calling 954-548-5779. Find us at CCWrestlingFL..com or email us at Nelio@CCWrestlingFL.com. Bugs Moran, the newly crowned Southeastern Heavyweight Champion and tenuous tenant of the CCW Training Facility, comes on to discuss wrestling, his future, life, and more. Follow CCW on Social Media: Facebook.com/CCWEvents Instagram.com @CCWTrainingFacility Twitter: @CCWFL #CCW #BugsMoran #WWE #AEW #ProfessionalWrestling #WrestlingCommunity #ROH #ImpactWrestling #NJPW #Wrestling #SouthFlorida #FortLauderdale #FloridaWrestling #FCW #NXT #WCW #WXW #AlexOcean #WillAustin #PabloMarquez #DanEvans #BrunoSassi #JimmySnuka #RockyJohnson #DaveJohnson #DustyRhodes #AntonioBanks #MVP #TheDudleyBoyz #TeddyHart #WrestlingSchool #TheOrwells #TeenageHalfwayHell #FiteTV #Fite #CecilSharpe #TheJackal #ChaChaCharlie #VinceSteele #Agony #LarryArch #Raw #Smackdown #Dynamite #WorkoutManBilfAnimal #SunRa

Welcome to Coastal Championship Wrestling Talks! CCW is the premiere professional wrestling promotion in Florida, and we have a very special introductory episode for you. Brought to you by Boca Stone Design and the CCW Training Facility. Love Wrestling? Come Join Us! Ever dream of being a wrestler, referee, announcer, producer, or manager? The CCW Training Facility is South Florida's number one place to be for pro wrestling training. Don't wait any longer! Start fulfilling your wrestling goals and dreams today by calling 954-548-5779. Find us at CCWrestlingFL..com or email us at Nelio@CCWrestlingFL.com. Bugs Moran, the newly crowned Southeastern Heavyweight Champion and tenuous tenant of the CCW Training Facility, comes on to discuss wrestling, his future, life, and more. Follow CCW on Social Media: Facebook.com/CCWEvents Instagram.com @CCWTrainingFacility Twitter: @CCWFL Follow Bugs Moran on Social Media: Facebook.com/thehoboprince/ See the Bugs Moran vs. Vic Arson BLOODBATH at CCW Rising Tide HERE. #CCW #BugsMoran #WWE #AEW #ProfessionalWrestling #WrestlingCommunity #ROH #ImpactWrestling #NJPW #Wrestling #SouthFlorida #FortLauderdale #FloridaWrestling #FCW #NXT #WCW #WXW #AlexOcean #WillAustin #PabloMarquez #DanEvans #BrunoSassi #JimmySnuka #RockyJohnson #DaveJohnson #DustyRhodes #AntonioBanks #MVP #TheDudleyBoyz #TeddyHart #WrestlingSchool #TheOrwells #TeenageHalfwayHell #FiteTV #Fite #CecilSharpe #TheJackal #ChaChaCharlie #VinceSteele #Agony #LarryArch #Raw #Smackdown #Dynamite #WorkoutManBilfAnimal #SunRa

No this episode doesn’t recall Joe’s high school dating experience. We take a brief look at the infamous gang wars of the early 20th century as Al Capone and his crew faced off against “Bugs” Moran. What could be more fun than bootlegging, bosses, and bloodshed? Sources 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 … 113 – Valentine’s Day MassacreRead More »

On this day in 1929, seven members of Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang were gunned down in Chicago, Illinois.

On this day in 1929, seven members of Bugs Moran’s North Side Gang were gunned down in Chicago, Illinois. This episode premiered on Friday, February 14, 2020. For more episodes like this one, subscribe to Today in True Crime on Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

14 de febrero de 1929, la ciudad de Chicago pasó a la historia por el brutal asesinato que planearon, supuestamente, Al Capone y Jack McGurn (Machine Gun) sobre la banda liderada por el capo mafiosos, George ‘Bugs' Moran.En plena ‘Ley seca' de EEUU las mafias, tanto italianas como irlandesas, intentaban tener el control de todo el alcohol. Una guerra abierta entre las zonas rivales de la ciudad de los vientos.En este año 2019, se cumple el 90 aniversario de dicho suceso, por lo que era una buena oportunidad de hacer una ficción sonora ‘original', basada en la prensa de la época, recreando el caso, además, de cómo se planeó y se desarrolló.El guion original cuenta con todos los elementos necesarios de la mejor novela negra de gánsteres, viviendo ambientaciones que nos harán adentrarnos en los dorados años 20 del siglo XX.Para la recreación de este radioteatro han sido necesarios nueve actores y actrices de voz, consiguiendo de esta forma un amplio abanico de registros. Tanto la creación del guion, como la dirección de la obra ha sido realizada por Juan Francisco Corredera, locutor de Radio Alicante SER y actor de doblaje, con una trayectoria de más de 20 años al frente a los micrófonos. El cuadro de voces de la ficción sonora, está completado por Paco Gil (Al Capone), Laura Gil Pérez (Moni LeBlanc), Jose Luis García (Bugs Moran), JoseMa Teira (Hoover Preston) y Juan Francisco Corredera (Jack McGurn) y además, las voces adicionales de Noemí Berna, Pedro J. Fernández, Enrique Mensaque y Santi Roca.La ficción sonora ‘La Masacre de San Valentín' ha sido grabada en los estudios de Radio Alicante SER, durante los meses de diciembre de 2018 y enero de 2019.

Usually, you send flowers and chocolate on Valentine's Day, but Al "Scarface" Capone decided he was going to send a bloody message to his longtime rival Bugs Moran. On Feb. 14, 1929, seven of Moran's men from his North Side gang lay dead on a warehouse floor, gunned down by Thompson Submachine guns. Was a power struggle to control the lucrative bootlegging operation the motive for this massacre, or, like love, is this story a bit more complicated?

In the 1920s, Chicago was at the height of its gang activity. Al Capone ran the Southside and "Bugs" Moran ran the Northside. This all came to a head on February 14th, 1929. 7 members of the Northside game were brutally gunned down. Let's discuss what happened!@exroommates | exroommatespodcast@gmail.com

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced today that special counsel Robert Mueller indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities with charges related to interference in the 2016 presidential election. The indictments confused some pundits and politicians on Capitol Hill because no Americans were charged. How does this relate to the allegations of collusion and obstruction of justice we associate with Mueller's investigation? Seth Waxman, a former federal prosecutor, talks about what the indictments say about the direction of the special counsel’s Russia investigation. Professor Robert Spitzer, chair of the Political Science department at SUNY Cortland, discusses the lessons we can learn about gun control from the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago in 1927.

Thank you for listening Capone was widely assumed to have been responsible for ordering the 1929 Saint Valentine's Day Massacre in an attempt to kill Bugs Moran, the head of the North Side Gang. Moran was the last survivor of the main North Side gunmen; his succession had come about because his similarly aggressive predecessors Vincent Drucci and Hymie Weiss had been killed in the violence that followed the murder of original leader Dean O'Banion After Capone was released from prison, he was referred to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for the treatment of paresis, caused by late-stage syphilis. Hopkins refused to admit him based solely on his reputation, but Union Memorial Hospital accepted him. Capone was grateful for the compassionate care that he received and donated two Japanese weeping cherry trees to Union Memorial Hospital in 1939. A very sickly Capone left Baltimore on March 20, 1940, after a few weeks inpatient and a few weeks outpatient, for Palm Island, Florida. In 1946, his physician and a Baltimore psychiatrist performed examinations and concluded that Capone had the mentality of a 12-year-old child. Capone spent the last years of his life at his mansion in Palm Island, Florida. On January 21, 1947, Capone had a stroke. He regained consciousness and started to improve, but contracted pneumonia. He suffered a cardiac arrest on January 22. On January 25, Capone died in his home, surrounded by his family. He wаs originally buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (Chicago). In 1950 Capone's remains, along with those of his father and brother Salvatore, were moved to Mount Carmel Cemetery in Hillside, Illinois https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Capone Public Access America Body Sourced From https://youtu.be/5BVmmt4UG58 PublicAccessPod Productions Footage downloaded and edited by Jason at PublicAccessPod producer of Public Access America Podcast Links Review us Stitcher: goo.gl/XpKHWB Review us iTunes: goo.gl/soc7KG Subscribe GooglePlay: goo.gl/gPEDbf YouTube goo.gl/xrKbJb YouTube “Not for ourselves alone, but that we must teach others.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Crane Neck Nugent, Prohibition TriggerThe Gangster Chronicles 2.4 - Crane Neck Nugent’s career included work with the gang of Fred “Killer” Burke of St. Louis, whom he got to know when they served together as machine gunners in World War I. While no one was ever charged with the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, it is generally agreed that Al Capone hired the Burke gang, whom he called his “American Boys,” to take down his rival Bugs Moran. In this episode, we’ll also hear about Burke’s murder of a policeman in Michigan a few months after the massacre, his capture two years later when some of this information came to light.

Special guest Steve McElroy picked the 1976 film Bugsy Malone for our latest family film review episode. This is one of the weirdest films we've reviewed yet, telling a loose adaptation story of gangster Bugs Moran with a cast of all children. And did we mention it was a musical - albeit, one where only adults (mainly Paul Williams) provide the singing voices? Oh, and it stars pre-fame Scott Baio and Jodie Foster. What'd we think of it? Tune in to find out! Shop at Amazon.com through this link to help support our show!

La mañana del 14 de febrero de 1929, varios miembros de la banda de Bugs Moran, de Chicago, eran acribillados por los disparos de metralletas Thompson y escopetas de cañones recortados en el interior del garaje del 2122 de la calle North Clark, al norte de Chicago. El local era utilizado como garaje de los camiones que traían el licor de contrabando. Fue una ejecución. Los hombres habían sido puestos contra la pared y habían sido fusilados. Más de 400 balas de grueso calibre 45, que las Thompson disparaban a una velocidad de 800 por minuto, hicieron su implacable trabajo. Dos de los asesinos estaban vestidos de policías y los demás con abrigos largos. Pero, ¿quiénes eran estos hombres? ¿Quién había ordenado semejante carnicería? “Sólo Capone mata de esta manera”, le dijo Bugs Moran a los periodistas que corrieron a su casa para conocer su reacción. Efectivamente, era Al Capone, el arquetipo de todos los gánsteres, quien había mandado a sus pistoleros al almacén de la Cartage Company que ese día de San Valentín saltó a la fama. Al Capone, en dura pugna con Moran por el control del negocio del tráfico ilegal del alcohol, fue quien organizó el golpe con la ayuda de sus colaboradores. Moran había sido el heredero de los negocios de Dion O'Banion, muerto cinco años antes, en el norte de Chicago. Cuando la policía llegó al lugar del crimen, uno de los hombres de Moran, Frank Gusenberg, que todavía estaba vivo, se negó a hablar con la policía diciendo: “Nadie me disparó, no voy a hablar”. El único superviviente fue el perro del almacén, gracias a que estaba atado lejos. Fue el que dio el aviso, el que atrajo la atención de los vecinos con sus interminables aullidos. Los asesinados era: Peter y Frank Gusenberg, Albert Kachellek, Adam Heyer, Reinhart Schwimmer, Albert Weinshank y John May. Éste último no tenía relación con el crimen organizado.

This show was based on the life of real treasury dept. gangbuster Eliot Ness, who had in fact played an important part in stopping the power of the notorious Al Capone in 1931 Chicago. The Ness autobiography served as the basis of a two-part semidocumentary dramatization of the Capone affair, presented on a 1959 Desilu Playhouse. It was a huge hit that turned into a regular series the next fall. It followed Ness and his small band of incorruptible agents (called the "Untouchables" by a Chicago newspaper) as they battled the worst people in organized crime. (Ness had in real life disbanded the Untouchables after cracking the Capone case, and had nothing to do with most of the cases dramatized on TV.) The Untouchables went after hoods like Bugs Moran, in whose garage the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place.

This show was based on the life of real treasury dept. gangbuster Eliot Ness, who had in fact played an important part in stopping the power of the notorious Al Capone in 1931 Chicago. The Ness autobiography served as the basis of a two-part semidocumentary dramatization of the Capone affair, presented on a 1959 Desilu Playhouse. It was a huge hit that turned into a regular series the next fall. It followed Ness and his small band of incorruptible agents (called the "Untouchables" by a Chicago newspaper) as they battled the worst people in organized crime. (Ness had in real life disbanded the Untouchables after cracking the Capone case, and had nothing to do with most of the cases dramatized on TV.) The Untouchables went after hoods like Bugs Moran, in whose garage the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place.

My Boy Benny: Billi is still noddling through the previous evening's excitementat Mick's. Why would Bugs Moran's boys dare set foot in Capone's territory so soon after the St. Valentine's Day? Whatever was hitting the streets, it was serious enough to grab a rival