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Written by the Victors: the History Thread (special Valentine's Day edition)
Posted on 2/14/14 at 9:11 am
Posted on 2/14/14 at 9:11 am
A thread for discussion and debate of historical topics, as well as interesting links, articles, and pics.
The Garage
"Al for all and all for Al!"
The one survivor: Highball. He went mad after the massacre and had to be put down. Some say you can still hear the howls of his ghost when you pass 2122 North Clark Street
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The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob associates as part of a Prohibition-era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran. Former members of the Egan's Rats gang were also suspected of having played a significant role in the incident, assisting Capone.
On February 14, 1929, seven members of the North Side Gang, plus gang collaborators Reinhardt H. Schwimmer and John May, were lined up against the rear inside wall of the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side, and executed. Two of the shooters were dressed as uniformed police officers, while the others wore suits, ties, overcoats and hats, according to witnesses who saw the "police" leading the other men at gunpoint out of the garage after the shooting. John May's German Shepherd, Highball, who was leashed to a truck, began howling and barking, attracting the attention of two women who operated boarding houses across the street.
The Garage
"Al for all and all for Al!"
The one survivor: Highball. He went mad after the massacre and had to be put down. Some say you can still hear the howls of his ghost when you pass 2122 North Clark Street
Posted on 2/14/14 at 9:21 am to Kafka
I approve this post. Now if we can do this to the assholes that invented Valentine's day!
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