ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE REVISITED: The story is well known: On the morning of February 14, 1929, five gangsters entered a garage in Chicago and killed seven men. Al Capone, of course, consistent the killings.Or did he do?
In his new book, "Uncle Al Capone: The Untold Story From Inside the family," Deirdre Marie Capone shows take that day.
Populace Enemy No. 1 grandniece provides evidence of decades of research and interviews of what really happened. The belief that his uncle was responsible for the massacre in cold blood that day turned public opinion against his family and caused him many years of sorrow.
His conversations with family members and his personal knowledge of "Uncle Al" has provided information about the notorious gangster than any of his many biographers would have known.
In the article, she offers a careful account of the effect - admitting a telephone call received from his grandfather Al shortly after the shooting - and finds his great-uncle was not responsible for these murders. It as well offers contingents of how this last is affirmed by congeners of single victim, overlooked or suppressed the facts of the investigation, and official statements by the administrator in Chicago ban at the time.
The author writes: "It took me fifty years to fully convince me that at least this one event - a shock, an unforgettable experience for sure -. Has not been ordered by my Uncle Al "
The paperback book of 214 pages, a combination of biography and memory, which includes family pics and formulas, tenders an confidant visibility of the man in arrears the caption and also reveals:
• How Al influenced the career of Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole
• Map of Al to buy the Chicago Cubs and incorporate better conference baseball in the 1930s
• Al part in a eminent dodging from Alcatraz
• What happened to Al had hidden millions.
