11 Things You Didn't Know About Al Capone

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  • @WeirdHistory
    @WeirdHistory  4 роки тому +916

    What are your favorite gangster lines/quotes?

    • @flaviosaucedo4553
      @flaviosaucedo4553 4 роки тому +155

      Weird History You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake

    • @lightningvolt1273
      @lightningvolt1273 4 роки тому +90

      When Montana tells Sosa he’s not a chivato “All I have in this world is my balls and my word and I don’t break them for no one”

    • @Goldrunner1169
      @Goldrunner1169 4 роки тому +139

      "YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE FOOl"

    • @supertimerip
      @supertimerip 4 роки тому +63

      "Say goodnight to the bad guy!"

    • @lanacampbell-moore6686
      @lanacampbell-moore6686 4 роки тому +44

      You'll never catch me Copper lol😂😂😂

  • @endofsociety
    @endofsociety 4 роки тому +3148

    “Do not mistake my kindness for weakness. I’m kind to everyone, when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you’ll remember about me.” ~Al Capone

    • @jpenn466
      @jpenn466 4 роки тому +88

      My most favorite quote ever

    • @jaelge
      @jaelge 4 роки тому +28

      Is that quote really attributed to Capone, or is it from a movie?

    • @j2themac778
      @j2themac778 4 роки тому +138

      " A smile will get you far, a smile and a gun will get you farther" Al Capone

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 4 роки тому +9

      he really say that.

    • @krisla8211
      @krisla8211 4 роки тому

      Steve Tidz English homosexual 😂

  • @AnthonyTNT85
    @AnthonyTNT85 4 роки тому +4900

    He learned Sign Language to talk to his deaf son.. a real Gangster.

    • @adamcross3097
      @adamcross3097 4 роки тому +57

      Nice

    • @WillBlindYouWithLight
      @WillBlindYouWithLight 4 роки тому +160

      I had a close friend that looked alot like Jason Jason momoa. He leaned sign language so that when he stayed with his mother, he could speak with her neighbors, which were elderly good people living in a rough place. He passed at 19, but he would give anyone the shirt off his back. Especially if it gave him a chance to pick up girls lol jk, he really went out of his way to help anyone.

    • @adamcross3097
      @adamcross3097 4 роки тому +65

      Lol my parents are actually deaf but can hear a little bit. I know some sign language. StrangerThingz it doesn't matter that he was a gangster. Maybe he just wanted to be there for his son.

    • @g.j
      @g.j 4 роки тому +20

      @@adamcross3097 and that is cool a good father on that note

    • @tewaimartin538
      @tewaimartin538 4 роки тому +8

      @@WillBlindYouWithLight your friend a legend

  • @mikehughes4969
    @mikehughes4969 3 роки тому +209

    My great grandfather was a brewer in Chicago, and during Prohibition he was one of Capones brewer's, and my grandfather drove one of of his trucks. My great grandfather disappeared under mysterious circumstances, and was discovered dead later on. Capone called my grandfather into his office and told him that he didn't do it, and my grandfather believed him. He told my grandma later on that whatever else he was, Capone was a man of his word. I heard all of this from my grandma. My mother refuses to talk about it.

    • @JohnWick-vb9pc
      @JohnWick-vb9pc Рік тому +3

      🤥

    • @ThomasQuigley-b1b
      @ThomasQuigley-b1b Рік тому +3

      My Great grand father burned Atlanta to the ground after a prolonged fight. Doesn't help but there you go....Be cool.

    • @Winjirotk
      @Winjirotk 8 місяців тому

      Everyone living in Chicago during prohibition era practically Capone's business associates

  • @toddedwards6383
    @toddedwards6383 4 роки тому +866

    My grandfather was in the Purple Gang and during the depression delivered alcohol to Detroit from Toronto. The person buying it all was Al Capone.

    • @saulcontrerasOfficial
      @saulcontrerasOfficial 4 роки тому +5

      Cook

    • @capybara9069
      @capybara9069 4 роки тому +9

      @@saulcontrerasOfficial cock indeed, cock indeed

    • @suave605
      @suave605 4 роки тому +19

      My grandfather was drinking rakija during that time.

    • @tommyguns9008
      @tommyguns9008 4 роки тому +19

      My granddad drank that rock-gut alcohol and then busted a nut

    • @capybara9069
      @capybara9069 4 роки тому

      @JayoJay why thank you

  • @tecumsehcristero
    @tecumsehcristero 4 роки тому +1367

    Chicago still loves Capone. I knew people's grandparents that even in the 1990's wouldn't let anyone speak against Capone. These were good people who never committed a crime too

    • @deja212
      @deja212 4 роки тому +20

      I don't blame em.

    • @semproniusdensus1983
      @semproniusdensus1983 4 роки тому +6

      Steve Tidz how would you know.

    • @dobson.
      @dobson. 4 роки тому +46

      @Steve Tidz Nah, the mob is against crimes against children, especially pedos

    • @Dontrespondtome169
      @Dontrespondtome169 4 роки тому +2

      @Steve Tidz stfu talking down on people u don’t know

    • @Dontrespondtome169
      @Dontrespondtome169 4 роки тому +28

      @Steve Tidz pedophillia isn’t allowed in organized crime google it

  • @reckless1587
    @reckless1587 3 роки тому +600

    3 More things you didn’t know about him;
    1: He’s walkin here
    2: He knows a guy
    3: He’ll bust a few of ya kneecaps

  • @r1reillyxsw
    @r1reillyxsw 4 роки тому +2932

    The whole golfing thing, and cute nicknames, and fancy clothes and cars makes this whole mafia thing sound fun

    • @matchavez8530
      @matchavez8530 4 роки тому +204

      Yeah, if it wasn't for the violence and intimidation

    • @joshliekstwizzlers
      @joshliekstwizzlers 4 роки тому +117

      Until Alcatraz reopens and you get sent there for 20 years

    • @MADMANB68
      @MADMANB68 4 роки тому +35

      Yep until you get whacked. A lot of these gangsters had PTSD and mental problems it definitely didn’t come easy!

    • @amfbolton
      @amfbolton 4 роки тому +8

      Swift Playz 20 years? More like life only death die inmates go there or big gangsters

    • @oswaldwolfman1502
      @oswaldwolfman1502 4 роки тому +10

      Mat Chavez bada bing, baba boom

  • @marsbit1711
    @marsbit1711 4 роки тому +2225

    did they just refer to blood as *gangster juice*

    • @treborironwolfe978
      @treborironwolfe978 4 роки тому +27

      I always thought *"gangster juice"* was what Applewhite served at the infamous Hale-Bopp going away party.

    • @memyself1176
      @memyself1176 4 роки тому +4

      marsbit 😂

    • @macanthony1982
      @macanthony1982 4 роки тому +4

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @johnm3152
      @johnm3152 4 роки тому +11

      Currently referred to as V8

    • @johnm3152
      @johnm3152 4 роки тому +3

      @@treborironwolfe978 believe that may have been Jim Jones Juice

  • @idleonlooker1078
    @idleonlooker1078 4 роки тому +476

    The part about his older brother and push for expiry dates on milk surprised me the most.

    • @robertmanfredthurrigl9424
      @robertmanfredthurrigl9424 4 роки тому +15

      At the turn of the 20th century there were no food standards let alone any expiry dates and many people died of milk that was OFF . Yep milk not only booze could kill you you too provided it was OFF.

    • @VictorLugosi
      @VictorLugosi 3 роки тому +2

      Al Capone was a man of the people, that’s why people in theses areas still love him

    • @idleonlooker1078
      @idleonlooker1078 3 роки тому +4

      @@VictorLugosi Though you state he was a "man of the people", he was also a monster since he "murdered a lot of people - including innocent bystanders" as well.

    • @idleonlooker1078
      @idleonlooker1078 3 роки тому +2

      @Tony Soprano Really? With rampant gangland warfare in Chicago between 1924-29, you REALLY do believe that every hail of bullets and bomb blast NEVER killed or maimed a single innocent bystander? It is well known that a number of victims who were NOT involved in criminal activity were caught and murdered in the cross-fire.
      Go read:
      "Halting the Slaughter of the Innocents": The Civilizing Process and the Surge in Violence in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago"
      Jeffrey S. Adler
      Social Science History
      Vol. 25, No. 1, Special Issue: Bloody Murder (Spring, 2001), pp. 29-52 (24 pages)
      Published By: Cambridge University Press

    • @idleonlooker1078
      @idleonlooker1078 3 роки тому

      @Tony Soprano I'm not going to spoon-fed you, as I've already provided an academically accepted reference on the subject. Therefore, you're either a dumbass lacking brains to realise that, or, a troll. Personally, I think you're both sweetheart.
      😘👍

  • @moomoomoo33ass
    @moomoomoo33ass 4 роки тому +752

    Why block out the faces of Capone’s family??? They’ve been dead for a century . I don’t think anyone will sue lol

    • @gojoluvr28
      @gojoluvr28 4 роки тому +50

      This freakin Guy ikr lmao

    • @nycgirltee
      @nycgirltee 4 роки тому +27

      I was wondering if it's his real family because why block their faces 😂

    • @howardronamald2849
      @howardronamald2849 4 роки тому +26

      Probably to protect their identity from harassment.

    • @moomoomoo33ass
      @moomoomoo33ass 4 роки тому +23

      Howard Ronamald that’s ridiculous .

    • @melophile_69
      @melophile_69 4 роки тому +53

      @@moomoomoo33ass it also may be because their may still may be descendants of capone and his family and they could possibly sue

  • @Thorkildzen
    @Thorkildzen 4 роки тому +3383

    3 more facts;
    He was a heroin user
    He was a cocaine user
    He liked asian girls
    The man was clearly ahead of his time.

    • @mickharrison9004
      @mickharrison9004 4 роки тому +185

      And them drugs, could of contributed to his bravery, off his nut most of the time.

    • @kyle6549
      @kyle6549 4 роки тому +70

      taking notes

    • @chanceDdog2009
      @chanceDdog2009 4 роки тому +167

      Cocaine uses was legally allowed

    • @tonyg3488
      @tonyg3488 4 роки тому +51

      Was you with him to witness these? Would of loved getting on it with Capone

    • @worldaffairs07
      @worldaffairs07 4 роки тому +17

      Guys, lets read something different from this video... Seriously you will get a bit different thing under this article without any ads and login...
      www.hollywoodsmagazine.com/al-capone-crimes/ ... we can read here all the crimes of AL capone under a page...

  • @hitman12
    @hitman12 4 роки тому +405

    My great grand father worked for him. Making bathtub gin. Al capone even sent my great grandmother a hand made dress. He did that for every woman for special events. The best story. Cops came asked if booze was being made. Explosion happened. Grand dad said not anymore. Lol. Best story ever

    • @ashledashnaw2575
      @ashledashnaw2575 3 роки тому +4

      Who was your great grandpa?

    • @fifthbusiness1678
      @fifthbusiness1678 3 роки тому +8

      I’m guessing we’ll never know

    • @JayLupe
      @JayLupe 3 роки тому +10

      Dude now you got everybodys attention. Who was your grandpa?

    • @uncasunga1800
      @uncasunga1800 3 роки тому +11

      @@fifthbusiness1678 he got whacked before he could talk 🎯🩹

    • @angelicmafia326
      @angelicmafia326 3 роки тому

      Cool!

  • @williamhoeweler2343
    @williamhoeweler2343 4 роки тому +738

    The expiration date on milk is pretty cool who would of thought Al capone was responsible for that ! Pretty cool

    • @mudsliemuddy2338
      @mudsliemuddy2338 4 роки тому +27

      The problem is he got into the milk buisness but he was bottling bulls milk.

    • @Kornelius707
      @Kornelius707 4 роки тому +17

      @@mudsliemuddy2338 that joke hits different when you don't get for a good 20 seconds. Lol

    • @HowBlueCanYouGett
      @HowBlueCanYouGett 4 роки тому +3

      Man.. I'm telling you right now. Al capone would have laughed his ASS off at that one.. bravo buddy. Bravo.

    • @GuessMyName234
      @GuessMyName234 4 роки тому +2

      He wasn't all bad look at the good he done feeding the poor with his soup kitchen

    • @mambamentality7617
      @mambamentality7617 4 роки тому +1

      @maestro maestro neither do you

  • @stevecady421
    @stevecady421 4 роки тому +860

    Scarface: "Say 'ello to my lit'le frien'!"
    Syphilis: 🖐😁

  • @DuckyHellBird
    @DuckyHellBird 3 роки тому +120

    Fun fact, northern Wisconsin loved Capone. He would come up to small towns and infuse money into them. Old ppl still talk highly of him.

    • @michaelcoulson7900
      @michaelcoulson7900 2 роки тому +8

      His old hideaway was right next to my cabin in WI.

    • @beverly3397
      @beverly3397 Рік тому +2

      Yes he was love in Wisconsin. I am from the lower part and he would provide top seed for farmers in return for 1 field for him. Bought the tractors which farmers got to keep forever. He had a house down here also, but they let it rot away. Such a shame for it was a beautiful home.

  • @SentMyOwnWay
    @SentMyOwnWay 4 роки тому +852

    A gunfight can happen at any time in Chicago to this day.

    • @m00nbutter7
      @m00nbutter7 4 роки тому +13

      Saddam Hussein
      Fuck you

    • @pandahsykes602
      @pandahsykes602 4 роки тому +24

      Saddam Hussein ya it’s due to all the liberal gun laws and such . Look at Detroit , Michigan- same situation which is the most strict gun control laws yet the highest amount of gun violence .

    • @lostbutfreesoul
      @lostbutfreesoul 4 роки тому +8

      Or any other town in America, rural or otherwise....
      Almost like the country has more guns then it has people!

    • @nejihyuga3
      @nejihyuga3 4 роки тому +62

      James Dean it was full of poor whites before and there was still violence. What’s your point other than trying to be racist?

    • @jacrispy3275
      @jacrispy3275 4 роки тому +14

      @@jamesdean258 - _bruh._

  • @maxshiraz3447
    @maxshiraz3447 4 роки тому +777

    Those were the good ol' days, when only half of Chicago politicians were crooked.

    • @marias7599
      @marias7599 4 роки тому +6

      😂😂😂

    • @TheSchmed
      @TheSchmed 4 роки тому +3

      Hilarious

    • @PublixLover69
      @PublixLover69 4 роки тому +6

      Now every politician is crooked

    • @button4644
      @button4644 3 роки тому +2

      @@PublixLover69 wow is that what he was trying to say?

    • @PublixLover69
      @PublixLover69 3 роки тому

      @@button4644 Well @MaxShiraz was saying back then only half, the politicians 3/4 of them are crooked. There are some good but the big name ones are crooked.

  • @DanSanCode
    @DanSanCode 3 роки тому +352

    They forgot to mention he died a free man and lived the last 8 years of his life home with his family before dying

    • @DollyKauionalani
      @DollyKauionalani 3 роки тому +30

      They said he finished his term and spent the rest of his life battling the disease.

    • @DanSanCode
      @DanSanCode 3 роки тому +7

      @@DollyKauionalani yessir, he should have gotten life considering the evil of his crimes in my opinion.

    • @DollyKauionalani
      @DollyKauionalani 3 роки тому +31

      @@DanSanCode He should have, but his mind was almost gone in those 8 years. It must have been horrible for him to have been a shell of his former self. The king; the Great Capone melted down to a child. His mind was his prison.

    • @kathyr.8135
      @kathyr.8135 3 роки тому +2

      @@DollyKauionalani too bad

    • @nothisispatrick6332
      @nothisispatrick6332 3 роки тому

      @@DollyKauionalani I was thinkin the same thing… Like imagine goin from the big guy, the one ran a whole city, had everyone under his thumb an was smart enough to out run the fbi for years… an now ur nothing…. Shits crazy 🤯 probably killed him on the inside..

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena 4 роки тому +446

    JUDGE: You are hereby Guilty of Tax Evasion and sentenced for imprisonment.
    CAPONE: Is that the best you can do?

    • @treborironwolfe978
      @treborironwolfe978 4 роки тому +3

      NESS:

    • @johnm3152
      @johnm3152 4 роки тому +2

      He was RICO'd

    • @lawrencelewis8105
      @lawrencelewis8105 4 роки тому +9

      Remember Marvin in Sin City? They gave him a jolt in the electric chair and he said, "Is that the best you pansies can do? '

    • @alanfrehley1373
      @alanfrehley1373 4 роки тому +2

      You got nothin', nothin'!

    • @puyearprod.929
      @puyearprod.929 4 роки тому

      You're definitely not even 15 yet

  • @kmelaine
    @kmelaine 4 роки тому +372

    “One even stabbed him with a pair of barber shears....” His stabber’s name is James Lucas, a Texas bank robber. He is a relative of mine and I watched the video to see if he was mentioned. It is still a little bit exciting whenever this info comes up!

    • @pedrolirajr.8001
      @pedrolirajr.8001 4 роки тому +20

      that's kinda dope 👌

    • @LynnAgain83
      @LynnAgain83 4 роки тому +9

      Seriously? Very cool! 👍

    • @juliolarios1408
      @juliolarios1408 4 роки тому +3

      Lucky

    • @robertmanfredthurrigl9424
      @robertmanfredthurrigl9424 4 роки тому +8

      I can see you have a fine bloodline. 'Blood In Blood Out' your family motto. Priceless .Small world isnt it.

    • @kathyr.8135
      @kathyr.8135 3 роки тому +3

      Is that a picture of you because you are strange looking. Ooh and peace , joy and love with God makes me so much happier. He died a sad lonely sinful life and was haunted by the ghost of Jimmy. All he had to do is get on his knees and he would of seen the light . He was blind

  • @maathias31b
    @maathias31b 3 роки тому +192

    My great aunt knew him personally, he loved to help the poor. He was always around the neighborhood helping people. He did indeed help feed the homeless as well... himself. He came from nothing and enjoyed helping others with nothing.

    • @copperfish543
      @copperfish543 3 роки тому +7

      Just a nice all around guy, people love criminals that are alleged "Robin Hoods"

    • @jasontodd8071
      @jasontodd8071 2 роки тому +5

      He was an honorable man and humanitarian!

    • @thesprawl2361
      @thesprawl2361 Рік тому +1

      I mean..so do Hamas. So fucking what

    • @schmidt9746
      @schmidt9746 Рік тому

      Great GUY,HOW ABOUT THE VICTIMS OF THE BASeball bat beatings!

    • @p_9220
      @p_9220 Рік тому

      Yes he was a prophet. In fact, he was the one and only God. 🙏🙏🙏

  • @treborironwolfe978
    @treborironwolfe978 4 роки тому +231

    Sailors looking for booze and prostitutes..
    Some things never change.

    • @T-Bag13
      @T-Bag13 4 роки тому +3

      Booze & blokes bums.

    • @lawrencelewis8105
      @lawrencelewis8105 4 роки тому +2

      when I was in the US Navy in the 1970s, it was booze, prostitutes and drugs.

    • @colinp2238
      @colinp2238 4 роки тому +1

      Rum,bum and records as against wine , women and song.

    • @victor-oq7dl
      @victor-oq7dl 4 роки тому +1

      I wouldn't mind some of their rum.

    • @victor-oq7dl
      @victor-oq7dl 4 роки тому

      @@T-Bag13 I know it was classed as bad luck but surlley they could have at least one woman on board.doh.

  • @DoctorBrute
    @DoctorBrute 4 роки тому +160

    I don’t think he had his own press just because he was vain, I think he wanted to control the propaganda being said about him.

    • @robertmanfredthurrigl9424
      @robertmanfredthurrigl9424 4 роки тому +6

      His craving for publicity got him in the end . alway in the limelight . He treated the press hounds well and many of them were on the take to and on his payroll . He give em a 50 or 100 dollar bill and say Write something nice about me so they did . BUT of course when you get such coverage you are telling the system and the status quo 'Hey i am the one that gets away with it'. So they had to bring in tax returns for they could not link him to any murder let alone proof he ordered any hits. Tax returns were knew in them days and Capone was the reason they introduced it. Before that you did not have to declare anything . Thats when you really could make a bundle and waltz in anywhere for cash was King.

    • @Ronnie-Jones
      @Ronnie-Jones 3 роки тому +1

      The most forbidden documentary in history:..
      “Europa The Last Battle” at archive dot org

  • @Tsiri09
    @Tsiri09 4 роки тому +433

    Sadly, Chicago was safer with Capone's control than it is today.

    • @thomasmartin6299
      @thomasmartin6299 4 роки тому +14

      Doubt it lol

    • @florjanbrudar692
      @florjanbrudar692 4 роки тому +17

      Tina Gallagher Are you serious? It was safer when it had gangsters?

    • @carp2567
      @carp2567 4 роки тому +9

      @@florjanbrudar692 still does

    • @florjanbrudar692
      @florjanbrudar692 4 роки тому

      @@carp2567 Umm... does what?

    • @carp2567
      @carp2567 4 роки тому +12

      @@florjanbrudar692 Chicago still has a lot of crime

  • @expe1240
    @expe1240 4 роки тому +276

    Fun fact: I met alcapones niece she lives in the same rest home as my grandma shes 83 and she has alzheimers. But on her clearer days she has some interesting stories.

    • @hamzahussain1933
      @hamzahussain1933 3 роки тому +8

      Share the stories!

    • @expe1240
      @expe1240 3 роки тому +36

      @@hamzahussain1933 she told me about how when she was a kid she had to be escorted to school by a gang member because Al Capone was at a rivalry with somebody else and they didn’t want her or any of al Capone’s relatives to be kidnapped or hurt.

    • @expe1240
      @expe1240 3 роки тому +19

      @@hamzahussain1933 she was also a total goof and she would just joke around and she was a really sweet old lady!

    • @sarthaktalks2578
      @sarthaktalks2578 3 роки тому +6

      @@expe1240 That's some Interesting stories.

    • @expe1240
      @expe1240 3 роки тому +20

      @@sarthaktalks2578 there were a lot more but I forgot some of them I’ll go and visit my grandma again and hopefully that lady will still be alive

  • @shawnnewsom4492
    @shawnnewsom4492 4 роки тому +143

    Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me. Al Capone

  • @doublep1980
    @doublep1980 4 роки тому +92

    Capone´s brother didn´t got the nickname "bottles" because of their dairy business.
    He got it,because he was the brains of the bootlegging operation and smuggled hundreds of cases of bottles of whiskey,rum and beer,from Canada every week.

    • @joebauer2934
      @joebauer2934 4 роки тому

      Yeah but in atime economyxhift and bootlegging gave world war one solderswho were the first in massive explosion war fair proplehadlived with their faces half blown off wearing porclind masks like my great great grandfa to he

    • @joebauer2934
      @joebauer2934 4 роки тому

      Oh by the way I'm notjoebaudr just using shared phone top two entrysabove supplied byjennifer opdahl

    • @Maginel73
      @Maginel73 4 роки тому

      I was just going to say that.

  • @t-revasaurusrex
    @t-revasaurusrex 4 роки тому +187

    "Al Capone liked nice things..." No shit, who doesn't

  • @juliehenry8284
    @juliehenry8284 4 роки тому +275

    The way he is saying "Al" is driving me absolutely crazy
    "Aaaeeel"

  • @1tarawho
    @1tarawho 2 роки тому +49

    I have read a lot about Capone. I read that he was very kind to poor people and helped many kids and elderly in his area. I live in a very rural part of northern Michigan and there is a brick house in the country by our town that use to be Al Capone's. The basement is full of underground tunnels that lead out to various places deep in the woods. People say this was one of Capone's hiding places and he spent a lot of time up here in our area...super cool fact..

    • @armandozepeda5416
      @armandozepeda5416 Рік тому +3

      There's one house that he owned in fontana, California along with a tunnel also

    • @p_9220
      @p_9220 Рік тому

      Yes he was a prophet. In fact, he was the one and only God. 🙏🙏🙏

  • @my12spoonswithrose43
    @my12spoonswithrose43 4 роки тому +284

    Why do the gangsters of that era seem gentlemenly, despite what they did. Even they they hurt many, they also helped so many. Often if they killed a guy they would look after his family. They did have soft spots.

    • @A_Random_Rat
      @A_Random_Rat 4 роки тому +29

      Gangsters and hoodlums seem to have the same name nowadays, but they are far different- especially when it comes to respect.

    • @angiearbogast5424
      @angiearbogast5424 3 роки тому +26

      Pablo Escobar was the same way. He built churches, schools, soccer arenas, and the local people loved him for it. But he did lots of bad for money and power

    • @ninjaked1265
      @ninjaked1265 3 роки тому +7

      Gangs are the same way even today

    • @Alaska-Jack
      @Alaska-Jack 3 роки тому +19

      A clean-cut dapper appearance and a gentlemanly demeanor I guess is they’re disguise.

    • @Jakob_Herzog
      @Jakob_Herzog 3 роки тому +11

      Not everything is black and white. Just because someone is a criminal doesn't mean they can't do good things. After all I was reading and Al Capone was apparently a good father, despite his son not folllowing his life style.

  • @gregoryhelton2408
    @gregoryhelton2408 4 роки тому +132

    My grandfather knew All Copone. We live in Rockford Il and back in the day Al would come to Rockford for what ever reason and he would always come to my grand father's house when he was a young man. My grandfather used to haul alcohol from Chicago to Rockford. I don't know if that's how they knew each other or what but I always thought grampa was cool as hell..used to love hearing his stories as a child. My grandfather last name was DeBenedetto.

    • @joshglover2370
      @joshglover2370 4 роки тому +5

      That's so cool! 😀

    • @thejuiceofearl6574
      @thejuiceofearl6574 4 роки тому +5

      I had relatives in Rockford and Roscoe Illinois,rumor has it my great uncle used to stash liquor in his buildings that came from Canada in Roscoe until the heat blew over then moved it into Chicago...somewhere there is a letter to him from Al thanking him and inviting him to an opera in Chicago

    • @worldaffairs07
      @worldaffairs07 4 роки тому +1

      Hey Gregory, lets read something different from this video... Seriously you will get a bit different thing under this article without any ads and login...
      www.hollywoodsmagazine.com/al-capone-crimes/ ... we can read here all the crimes of AL capone under a page...

    • @Ijustinsultedyou
      @Ijustinsultedyou 4 роки тому +3

      No he didn’t

    • @userunknown4587
      @userunknown4587 4 роки тому

      @@Ijustinsultedyou shut up

  • @stormrunner9435
    @stormrunner9435 4 роки тому +105

    according to an interview with his niece (i was reading this) he had a soft spot for animals. she recalls him tearing up over a hurt dog. she also claimed that he would only go after the people that got in his way or owed my not their families. sort of lived by the phrase "honor amongst thieves. how much is actually true, i am not sure anymore. my memory of the interview I read is spotty at best. I think there is a PBS program with that same interview as well.

    • @punkrockjoanofarc
      @punkrockjoanofarc 3 роки тому

      I watched that too!

    • @p_9220
      @p_9220 Рік тому

      Yes he was a prophet. In fact, he was the one and only God. 🙏🙏🙏

    • @janko_muzykant4375
      @janko_muzykant4375 Рік тому

      That thing with animals reminds me of Tony Soprano

  • @John-cy9nf
    @John-cy9nf 4 роки тому +88

    Captivating story, Capone is one of those people who changed world society forever. Fantastic video ! Keep them coming

  • @repetemyname842
    @repetemyname842 4 роки тому +143

    Al Capone owned a lake in northern WI. It was a resort for a lot of years called The Hideaway, all the buildings are made with fieldstone exteriors and look awesome. It sold for a few million buck some years back but I think theres plans to reopen it again some day. You could not walk upstairs in the main lodge to see the rooms but everything else was open to the public via tours. Its rumored that he used the lake to fly in whiskey from Canada but it was basically a party spot. His men used to go out and shoot deer with tommy guns.
    Also, another place on Barker Lake was owned by a different gangster and plenty of stories about that, too.

    • @repetemyname842
      @repetemyname842 4 роки тому +9

      @@StacheOperator : They were a spooky bunch, locals would do small jobs for them so I heard some of the stories growing up and my GGrandfather ran into Al and his boys one day. Said Al was a perfect gentleman. They werent looking for trouble when they visited, they liked keeping things quiet but I guess they had some rip roaring parties.

    • @youtubehandle_kate
      @youtubehandle_kate 4 роки тому +8

      Wisconsin Dells has plenty of old ties to the old mob. Great history there.

    • @repetemyname842
      @repetemyname842 4 роки тому

      @@youtubehandle_kate : For sure, that crowd liked having their fun.

    • @SidviciousWisconsin
      @SidviciousWisconsin 4 роки тому +4

      You can still see bullet holes , they claim are from the capones

    • @repetemyname842
      @repetemyname842 4 роки тому +3

      @@SidviciousWisconsin : Thats right, forgot all about that. Also forgot to mention the stone turret that guards the driveway on the way in, many delivery men used to see guys up there on watch- tommyguns prominently displayed.

  • @sacrario02
    @sacrario02 4 роки тому +54

    Fun fact: in italian "capone" means big head or big boss

    • @juliet5944
      @juliet5944 4 роки тому +9

      Haha funny how that’s his biological last name. Like they knew he’d grow up to be that😂😂🤣⛓

    • @sacrario02
      @sacrario02 4 роки тому +2

      @Chief Paragod bruh... I'm italian, dude

    • @sacrario02
      @sacrario02 4 роки тому +3

      @Chief Paragod that's "cappellone" and i wouldn't say that around (it's the tip of the penis but very big)

    • @sacrario02
      @sacrario02 4 роки тому +2

      @Chief Paragod bello, 'nso de che parte see ma da me capone e cappello so' du' cose diverse (capo=testa/superiore) (one=grande)

    • @vvvvvv9735
      @vvvvvv9735 4 роки тому +4

      Your time has expired Chief, what is right is right AND :in italian the substantive capone indicate a big head or a big boss,like Manolo said (bello fra)

  • @watchdealer11
    @watchdealer11 4 роки тому +140

    When you realize you've watched every single Weird History video and have to wait for the next one 😭

    • @wt1370
      @wt1370 4 роки тому +1

      I just found it. Look at me with a ton of new stuff to watch . 😝

    • @BerdFly
      @BerdFly 4 роки тому +4

      I just subbed and this is the first video ive watched from channel. ENVY ME

    • @watchdealer11
      @watchdealer11 4 роки тому +3

      @@BerdFly LUCKY! You'll be in the same boat as us within a couple of weeks

  • @MrLolx2u
    @MrLolx2u 4 роки тому +31

    You missed something tho.
    When Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1942, America was still reeling from it and Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) instantly declared war on Japan on 9th Feburary, the day after the attack and also against Germany at 11th. Despite declaring war, the Secret Service din't have anything to ferry the POTUS around in. Worse still, US had just declared war on 3 nations and with the fear of spies lurking around, ready to assassinate FDR as a moment's notice, the Secret Service was panicking to find a suitable transport with armor to ferry FDR around the country for his rallying speech about the war. Then, somehow, someone remembered they still had Al Capone's green Cadillac V8 Town Sedan somewhere in lockup so they took that out, cranked it up after some light repairs and that somehow became FDR's main limo till the day he died and that is why from then on, almost all of the POTUS's limos were Cadillacs.

    • @Chef_Jeff69
      @Chef_Jeff69 4 роки тому +6

      Jun Kitami they bombed us in 1941

    • @landlockedcroat1554
      @landlockedcroat1554 4 роки тому +3

      germany declared war on america, not the other way around

    • @markdouglas5310
      @markdouglas5310 2 роки тому

      Pearl Harbour attack was on 7th December 1941. I doubt if FDR needed to tour the country rallying support for declaring war on Japan.

  • @AMRCineVerse
    @AMRCineVerse 4 роки тому +24

    The expiration date on Milk, wow I never knew that he had something to do with that.

  • @TheBrokeCollegeStudent
    @TheBrokeCollegeStudent 4 роки тому +139

    Who are you? Your voice is so crisp and clear, and all of your information is so well organized 😌

    • @RNCF215
      @RNCF215 4 роки тому +3

      Damn who are u 😍😍

    • @quanlinglingdingle5969
      @quanlinglingdingle5969 4 роки тому +1

      @@RNCF215 and who the fuck are you😍😍😍🤤🤤🤤🤤

    • @ErikaM760
      @ErikaM760 4 роки тому +6

      Damn who are all of y’all 😍🤣

    • @Swervxo
      @Swervxo 4 роки тому

      Erika M who are you

    • @mexozul
      @mexozul 4 роки тому

      @@quanlinglingdingle5969 who's that stallion staring Cupid's arrows right into my heart😻💖😥😥😍😍😍😰😘😘😱😱😱😱

  • @V.KirishimaCrimsonChaos
    @V.KirishimaCrimsonChaos 4 роки тому +23

    He used to spend lots of time in the Arlington hotel in hot springs Arkansas. Renting out the 4th floor and making one room his personal room because it faced his favorite club. It's now called the Capone suite.

  • @josephconsoli4128
    @josephconsoli4128 4 роки тому +24

    I'm 100% Italian and never glamorize these gangsters. All these decades later they all seem like celebrities, but always remember all the people that suffered and died by their bloody hands. They're the absolute worst human beings that ever lived.

    • @andreaswesterveld
      @andreaswesterveld 3 роки тому +2

      Yeah I really don't get why we glorify these criminals, even cereal murderers like the Zodiac Killer get treated like this mystical, legendary character. Evil isn't genius, it is banal.

    • @copperfish543
      @copperfish543 3 роки тому +2

      Yea and Anthony Fauchi, gives more Italians bad names.

    • @josephconsoli4128
      @josephconsoli4128 3 роки тому +1

      @@copperfish543 I agree.

  • @younesbencherifa
    @younesbencherifa 4 роки тому +89

    Never a better feeling than when you see that "Weird history" has dropped a new video

    • @hankaustin7091
      @hankaustin7091 4 роки тому +1

      agree 100%!

    • @MsTinkerbelle87
      @MsTinkerbelle87 4 роки тому

      Baldie Da Beast hahaha SAME...

    • @younesbencherifa
      @younesbencherifa 4 роки тому +2

      @Baldie Da Beast The comment section was made for feedback and discussion. I came here to give my feedback and express my feelings about this video and channel, so that it maybe gives the motivation that the creator needs to keep on going and do better for the next video. It would be quite boring to be a creator if you only got criticising comments and no supportive comments, what would be the point to make a video then.
      If you're so appalled by comments like mine, you should consider not visiting the comment section at all.

    • @younesbencherifa
      @younesbencherifa 4 роки тому +1

      @@MsTinkerbelle87 Quite funny that you don't understand these type of comments when you made one yourself on another video from this same channel 3 weeks ago. "I love these videos so much!! It's like refresher class😂💕"

  • @Teebiscuit12345
    @Teebiscuit12345 4 роки тому +531

    "The Jeff Bezos of crime." I thought Jeff Bezos already had that title.

    • @johnm3152
      @johnm3152 4 роки тому +28

      The Joseph Kennedy of crime. Capone just got caught

    • @lawrencelewis8105
      @lawrencelewis8105 4 роки тому +16

      @@johnm3152 A very valid point, indeed! right on the money and thanks for that.

    • @jamesdemetro8819
      @jamesdemetro8819 4 роки тому

      Killing people and a drug addict...
      Sums up his story

    • @adamcureface9741
      @adamcureface9741 4 роки тому +14

      Nahh Capone is no where near the title of Jeff Bezos of Crime... The only true holder of that title will always be the OG Pablo Escobar... The money he had converted to todays value would worth him billions of dollars, making Escobar TOP 5 Wealthiest people in the planet, alongside Bezos of course

    • @joeyg2525
      @joeyg2525 4 роки тому +3

      @@adamcureface9741 Escobar had nothing compared to Chapo. The government isn't even sure how much money he had. 18 Billion was just what they could prove. No telling what's sitting overseas and offshore. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if he (or the people that he worked for) are 5x richer than Bezos the "richest man on the planet" my ass. That's on paper. Bezos is a small fish.

  • @BTradez
    @BTradez 4 роки тому +42

    his spirit is probably looking at us wherever he is looking at these gangsters now a days like ... “ clowns “

    • @garrisonnichols7372
      @garrisonnichols7372 3 роки тому +4

      Yep👍

    • @CJ-sz1pw
      @CJ-sz1pw 3 роки тому

      These gangsters are not clowns. They’re by far more powerful and deadlier then him. Nowadays you can die by wearing the wrong color or in the wrong area. That’s why they’re so much gang violence in Chicago. They’re the real definition of a gangster.

    • @robertsr.249
      @robertsr.249 3 роки тому +1

      @Zarius Yt If any of Al’s guys would have shot a kid , there would have been hell to pay . . One quote by one of his “ Boys “ was The big fellow don’t like Innocent bystanders hurt . The party responsible for this would have been punished at the minimum .

  • @SoCalPat
    @SoCalPat 4 роки тому +12

    Great narration keeps me coming back on Sun & Wed mornings.

  • @bubblegum1948
    @bubblegum1948 4 роки тому +38

    Well, there was no "medical treatment" in those days for Syphilis anyway. one usually was given Sulphur by doctors to slow its progression.

    • @karlkomec1427
      @karlkomec1427 4 роки тому +8

      Technically it was sulfa not sulfur. Sulfa was the best try before penicillin.

  • @X-4-2-TV
    @X-4-2-TV 3 роки тому +12

    What i love about this era was how raw and original it seemed. It was like they lived a movie b4 being influenced by the media like today

  • @BossRgr
    @BossRgr 4 роки тому +64

    When he was convicted and transported to Atlanta, he was handcuffed and traveled with my great grandfather Vito Morici. Vito was 18 or 19 at the time, and convicted of grand theft auto. Small time guy cuffed to arguably one of the greatest.

  • @lawrencelewis8105
    @lawrencelewis8105 4 роки тому +36

    It's interesting how back then, there were the urban gangsters like Capone, Dutch Schultz, Luciano and there were rural gangsters like the Barrow Gang, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and so forth. It must have been like a civil war with all that going on.

    • @trevorham2778
      @trevorham2778 4 роки тому

      Heath Ledger J. Kerr voice.. "Choas"

    • @frankthetank1369
      @frankthetank1369 3 роки тому +1

      Those were bank robbers. Capone was a gangster.

    • @lawrencelewis8105
      @lawrencelewis8105 3 роки тому

      @@frankthetank1369 Yes, but didn't the guys like Dillinger and the Barrows have a crew? Seems to me that that makes them gangsters but not like the Mafia. I see what you mean, though.

    • @frankthetank1369
      @frankthetank1369 3 роки тому +1

      @@lawrencelewis8105 yeah the were gangstas. But not mafia. Capone was mobbed up.

    • @lawrencelewis8105
      @lawrencelewis8105 3 роки тому +1

      @@frankthetank1369 I can only assume that you have watched the series "Boardwalk Empire?" If not, watch it!

  • @jldlott
    @jldlott 3 роки тому +13

    Family friend had grandparents who were caught in a crossfire fight involving Capone's henchmen. They were shot, hospitalized and survived. Story goes that Capone paid their medical bills! Much later in life, the family friend visited Capone's grave and spit on it!

    • @MrTruckerf
      @MrTruckerf 2 роки тому

      Appropriate! Gangsters cause a tremendous amount of suffering, to this very day. And the black gangs of today kill far more than the Italian gangs ever did.

  • @harryt4255
    @harryt4255 4 роки тому +462

    Anyone watching this after watching the new Al Capone trailer with Tom Hardy in

  • @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache
    @TheRealGuywithoutaMustache 4 роки тому +8

    To think that his biggest weakness is tax evasion

  • @StayMadLmfao
    @StayMadLmfao 3 роки тому +38

    “Maybe if you got rid of that Yee Yee ass haircut....

  • @joeblow7236
    @joeblow7236 4 роки тому +43

    His brother enforcing prohibition was something I didn't know.

    • @florjanbrudar692
      @florjanbrudar692 4 роки тому +3

      joe blow And Al Capone said in an interview he didn't believe in prohibition of things people wanted because he thought it was an *unjust* law

  • @sistergray977
    @sistergray977 4 роки тому +20

    I love this channel for its weird and energized transitions.

  • @Ursellasw
    @Ursellasw 3 роки тому +15

    “Well I came to Chicago with $40 in my pocket”
    -Al Capone

  • @l1nus0nl1neproductions9
    @l1nus0nl1neproductions9 4 роки тому +162

    Now i imagin a GTA set in the 20s & 30s (yes i know ”Mafia” already been there)

  • @harperchassay1570
    @harperchassay1570 4 роки тому +6

    Al Capone was the reason my great grandfather moved to America from Canada and met my grandpa’s mother. He was a dear family friend who paid my great gran-pére to play violin for him in Chicago. Thanks uncle al

  • @zachhayes5576
    @zachhayes5576 3 роки тому +37

    18 y/o Al be like: "What's this green shit coming out of me every time I take a piss? Eh, I'll just do literally nothing about for the rest of life" lmaoo

  • @1958Shemp
    @1958Shemp 4 роки тому +70

    Say what you will re: Al Capone: He did a GOOD THING regarding milk expiration dates!

    • @donHooligan
      @donHooligan 4 роки тому +6

      soup kitchens during the depression is nothing to scoff at, either.
      that's baller, right there.

  • @johnreidroberts2838
    @johnreidroberts2838 4 роки тому +26

    Al Capone learned to play the banjo while at Alcatraz.

  • @kingmangomotion1956
    @kingmangomotion1956 4 роки тому +20

    "Making Al something like the Jeff Bezos of crime"
    Pablo Escobar had like 40 billion

    • @JerryJB1267
      @JerryJB1267 3 роки тому +3

      Then Escobar is like the John D Rockefeller of crime

  • @TheSameYellowToy
    @TheSameYellowToy 4 роки тому +16

    I'm surprised with the milk tangent, you didn't mention that he supplied milk daily to many poor children in certain areas of Chicago...which was a very smart way to keep poor families in those neighborhoods from ratting on him, since their children relied on the daily milk Al had delivered.

  • @BubbaTheHillbilly
    @BubbaTheHillbilly 4 роки тому +430

    Gangs in 1950 : suits
    Gangs in 2020: underwear & pants

    • @JimmyMcGillsg
      @JimmyMcGillsg 4 роки тому +64

      Actual rich gangs like Capone today also wear suits so what gangs are you talking about poor kids with guns that kill others for 1 grand haha those aren't gangs

    • @Mr.Jtea3
      @Mr.Jtea3 4 роки тому +9

      How does this get any likes so unoriginal so corny

    • @BubbaTheHillbilly
      @BubbaTheHillbilly 4 роки тому +2

      @@Mr.Jtea3 i dont wan't likes and idk what corny means

    • @agenderclownshenanigans4261
      @agenderclownshenanigans4261 4 роки тому +1

      Mr Tomato it means cheesy or unoriginal

    • @BubbaTheHillbilly
      @BubbaTheHillbilly 4 роки тому +1

      @@agenderclownshenanigans4261 but i havn't seen this befor

  • @sarahrients6905
    @sarahrients6905 4 роки тому +14

    My family was part of the Irish mafia. My relatives, including Thomas Kelly is buried here in Minonk, IL. You can find a LOT more information in a book called Capones Cornfields. My family owned Kelly and Cawleys in LaSalle, Il. It's worth a read.

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage 4 роки тому +48

    "Let's see... 9 iron.. 7 iron.. Nah... 45 caliber."

    • @TheSchmed
      @TheSchmed 4 роки тому

      Probably more of a .38, was a revolver, and I’m sure not a Colt Peacemaker from the 1860s in 45 LC.

  • @nickscott478
    @nickscott478 4 роки тому +103

    I’d like to see one of these for Lucky Luciano

    • @deja212
      @deja212 4 роки тому +4

      Same

    • @awwskit9753
      @awwskit9753 4 роки тому +2

      He was lucky.....the end

    • @bodyofalegend
      @bodyofalegend 3 роки тому +2

      Agree! After making a video on Capone on my UA-cam channel, I'm thinking of making one on Luciano next. I just need to figure out how to tell his story alongside the theme of my channel

  • @aleksandargrum
    @aleksandargrum 4 роки тому +24

    Stephen Graham did amazing job in Boardwalk Empire.

  • @sickdrummer3831
    @sickdrummer3831 4 роки тому +14

    Fact: My grandpa was well aquatinted with Mr Capone. Grandpa passed away in the 70’s. The stories that I was told by him is nothing close to any documentaries out there.

    • @surfnetarmada
      @surfnetarmada 4 роки тому +1

      Crazy Whop i’m very interested in the stories if you’d be willing to share!

    • @sickdrummer3831
      @sickdrummer3831 4 роки тому +1

      Blue Money Almighty ya I have some actual paperwork and pictures of my grandpa with Al and hand written notes from and to. I’ll dig em out and Give me your email and I’ll be happy to share

    • @surfnetarmada
      @surfnetarmada 4 роки тому

      Crazy Whop thank you so much

    • @sickdrummer3831
      @sickdrummer3831 4 роки тому +1

      Blue Money Almighty when I dig em out I’ll take some pics and send em. And the notes grandpa kept.

    • @howardronamald2849
      @howardronamald2849 4 роки тому +1

      I would love to hear some stories as well!

  • @bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish
    @bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish 4 роки тому +17

    You never joined Al when he’d say “ let’s go out for a few shots”

  • @tysongames2750
    @tysongames2750 3 роки тому +12

    As a 3 year old, my next door neighbor was Al Capone's Madam, and ran all his brothels. A very sweet and religious woman, you never would have known.

  • @jasonkesser
    @jasonkesser 4 роки тому +6

    Weird history is some of the best stuff on UA-cam.

  • @lanaesworld6976
    @lanaesworld6976 4 роки тому +21

    I love this channel and this narrator

    • @tomhardy7718
      @tomhardy7718 3 роки тому

      Lanae's World You are welcome dear and thanks for being my good fan💓 so tell me for how long have you being my good fan?💓

  • @mattiefiggs2901
    @mattiefiggs2901 3 роки тому +5

    Got a lot of love and respect for Mr.Al Capone!! He’s Italian and lived in Chicago most of his life I’m from Chicago and I’m also Italian!!

  • @skipjackjohnson5528
    @skipjackjohnson5528 4 роки тому +65

    Favorite gangsta quote.... "Im innocent!"

    • @markcadieux3445
      @markcadieux3445 4 роки тому +5

      I don't like robbing banks and killing people, but it keeps me out of trouble. Al Capone.

    • @TheChosenOne161
      @TheChosenOne161 4 роки тому +1

      skipjack johnson no those quotes are by politicians

  • @heathermedling1313
    @heathermedling1313 4 роки тому +22

    I never knew his nickname with friends and family was "Snorky" that's hilarious!!

  • @zekek3777
    @zekek3777 4 роки тому +6

    A video on the lesser known families in the midwest would be interesting! The focus on the bigger families in NY and Chicago makes sense due to their popularity, but it would be interesting to find out more about everyone else throughout the country!

  • @Bb186fo
    @Bb186fo 4 роки тому +54

    Sounds like its narrated by Stephen colbert

  • @vendweler
    @vendweler 4 роки тому +22

    I had to find the nearest Gas Station ⛽️ when the Notification Bell 🔔 rang

  • @emitindustries8304
    @emitindustries8304 3 роки тому +2

    It's also a little known fact that Capone did a ventriloquist act with a dummy on his knee. He named the dummy "Woodrow", as in Woodrow Wilson, whom he said he despised, but secretly admired.
    Al did his act for his fellow crime bosses, who were expected to attend, or else. And applaud, or else.
    "Woodrow" did silly, juvenile jokes while sitting on Al's knee. He would fart, burp, and sneeze at inappropriate times during his delivery. Al was amazingly good at not moving his lips during his performance. Many members of the audience actually thought that the dummy "Woodrow" could talk. Al would frequently point out, at the end of his act, that the dummy was just that; a dummy.
    However, after he set the dummy down on the floor, it would continue to talk, telling Al to come back and put him in his proper carrying case. Al even had fishing lines, invisible to the audience, pull the dummies arms and head up, while Al continued to "throw" his voice. Assistants, off stage, pulled on the lines to continue the illusion.
    The audience would be dumbfounded. Some thought Al was a magician, or had mystic powers. Maybe Al had given life to a puppet. Of course, having inhuman, otherworldly powers would be a benefit for a powerful crime lord. Al let that myth circulate. He could only become more feared with that belief.
    One time, an assistant fishing line manipulator, off stage, behind the curtain, mumbled that if the audience knew of the gimmick, Al would loose face. Since Al's audiences consisted of potential rivals, and enemies, such knowledge could bring him down.
    Not having mystic powers meant he could be dealt with like anyone else. As in "KILLED".
    However, before this potential career ending fact was exposed, the unnamed assistant "disappeared"! And by disappeared, I mean made into another dummy for Al to use in his act. Bones, teeth, even skin. Gruesome, but Al loved it. Al named this new dummy "Elliott", like the lawman trying to put Al in jail.
    It's all true, but strange.

    • @emitindustries8304
      @emitindustries8304 3 роки тому +1

      Yes! It's true. You can read about it in one of Capone's autobiographies, that he wrote while in Alcatraz. Al was a brilliant, prolific writer, and not wracked with brain rot, like the video claims.
      He might have gone on to be a Pulitzer Prize winner, but Elliott Ness was jealous of his talent, and promoted the "Tertiary Syphilis" condition of Capone. Ness probably had Capone killed in jail, so the truth wouldn't be known.
      Brian Epstein wasn't the first!

  • @sawahtb
    @sawahtb 4 роки тому +11

    Capone didn't hurt America that much, and apparently someone had his taxes.

  • @oblio2255
    @oblio2255 4 роки тому +5

    Here’s one for you... My grandfather was a psychiatrist in Atlanta, worked at the Penitentiary there and played chess periodically with him while he was there.

  • @pmishke
    @pmishke 4 роки тому +16

    The one that got me was him shooting himself on the golf course. But guns and booze never mix and it doesn’t surprise me.

  • @vexationo
    @vexationo 4 роки тому +16

    “Avoid the clap” - Jimmy Dugan

  • @robertschlesinger1342
    @robertschlesinger1342 4 роки тому +9

    Very interesting and worthwhile video. Al Capone was also reputed to have been instrumental in getting Route 66 built. This famous highway could be used to transport contraband such as alcoholic beverages between Chicago and LA, and points in between.

  • @coldsauce882
    @coldsauce882 Рік тому +9

    You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
    Al Capone

  • @terrancebigham6765
    @terrancebigham6765 4 роки тому +15

    A TV movie was made about James Capone some years ago, titled “The Lost Capone”.

  • @stevedalzell9258
    @stevedalzell9258 4 роки тому +11

    The milk story is inaccurate! When he was a young boy the milk that was at his “school” was regularly out of date and he hated tasting bad milk so he had the idea as an adult kingpin to donate milk to orphanages with the “fresh” date written on the bottles and eventually it became common practice.

  • @truecrimefan837
    @truecrimefan837 4 роки тому +12

    Capone was run out of New york due to him stepping on toes of the wrong people.

  • @cdhaddock
    @cdhaddock 4 роки тому +65

    you get a like for the really terrible Edward G Robinson impression..... see? see?

    • @phantomstranger8959
      @phantomstranger8959 4 роки тому +2

      Ya see Yaaa

    • @silvervalleystudios2486
      @silvervalleystudios2486 4 роки тому +1

      Little Caesar was a classic. He was also awesome in Key Largo. Very hard to mimic that dude.

    • @MorrigansRaven3944
      @MorrigansRaven3944 4 роки тому

      Lol 👍

    • @lawrencelewis8105
      @lawrencelewis8105 4 роки тому

      @@silvervalleystudios2486 He was awesome in every thing he ever did! Watch "A Slight Case of Murder" from about 1937- It's a Damon Runyon story and Eddie is amazing in it! Don't ask questions, see? just watch that movie, see!

  • @makaylabailey6674
    @makaylabailey6674 4 роки тому +7

    “The OG pimp my ride” lmaoo the narrator is so funny 😂 I love it

    • @tomhardy7718
      @tomhardy7718 3 роки тому

      Makayla Bailey You are welcome dear and thanks for being my good fan💓 so tell me for how long have you being my good fan💓

  • @tomservo5347
    @tomservo5347 4 роки тому +6

    "You can get more with a kind word and a gun, than with just a kind word." I see Chicago has changed little.

  • @tcmaddox
    @tcmaddox 4 роки тому +14

    His family was educated and respectful. Also he came from nothing.

  • @williamtoad8040
    @williamtoad8040 4 роки тому +48

    0:54 damn he REALLY resembled his mother

  • @sajad4482
    @sajad4482 3 роки тому +4

    "YOURE EITHER AT THE TABLE OR ON THE MENU"-Al Capone

  • @ST-fw5iq
    @ST-fw5iq 4 роки тому +7

    4:05 "gangster juice" was my favorite. Great video, thanks.

    • @tomhardy7718
      @tomhardy7718 3 роки тому

      Tiffany T You are welcome dear and thanks for being my good fan💓 so tell me for how long have you being my good fan?💓

  • @skyden24195
    @skyden24195 4 роки тому +39

    The thing about milk interests was something I did not know. Nice.

    • @nickmoser7785
      @nickmoser7785 4 роки тому

      I didn't know about the milk thing or baddy shot himself with the rest I did.

    • @DShaneSands
      @DShaneSands 4 роки тому

      Pretty sure he had something to do with getting milk into schools as well somehow

    • @brianmosser5209
      @brianmosser5209 4 роки тому

      @@nickmoser7785 yea me either its a neat bit of info for sure.

    • @mudsliemuddy2338
      @mudsliemuddy2338 4 роки тому +1

      Problem was he was bottling it with 10% bulls milk to stretch the profits

    • @joshglover2370
      @joshglover2370 4 роки тому +1

      @@mudsliemuddy2338 🤢

  • @NRNF1776
    @NRNF1776 2 роки тому +8

    Its crazy how many 'big shot' narcissistic famous men fell due to relatively 'smaller' crimes like tax evasion, and lost their mind due to syphilis...
    I was actually really surprised about the syphilis thing with Capone

    • @MrTruckerf
      @MrTruckerf 2 роки тому +2

      I imagine he was, too.

    • @NRNF1776
      @NRNF1776 2 роки тому

      @@MrTruckerf lol