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  • @robertsr.249
    @robertsr.249 4 роки тому +312

    My very favorite Al Capone quote was “you can get a lot further with a kind word and a gun , than just a kind word “

    • @amado4249
      @amado4249 2 роки тому +15

      Capone didn't end up in a very agreeable place in his life. His decisions had serious ramifications on society and in his personal life. I don't think there is room to glorify his crimes. It wasn't just about him opposing Prohibition, but capitalizing on people and profiting through violence, fear, and exploitation. How did he get far in life? In the end, he died young and he died mostly alone. He had a gruesome and slow death, as well. His slow and painful death was a direct result of poor living habits and extreme debauchery. Its sad, really. A terrible way to go. A sad legacy to leave behind.

    • @yourmomshouse6984
      @yourmomshouse6984 2 роки тому +3

      @Napoleon Bonaparte did Civilization get it from Al Capone? 😂

    • @TeIwiNgaroRameka
      @TeIwiNgaroRameka 2 роки тому

      @@yourmomshouse6984 🤣

    • @secretname2670
      @secretname2670 Рік тому

      @@amado4249 he had both impact on society and everyone he disliked, he made a profit from basically an idea and only thing stopping him was poor healthcare and bad habits. Sounds like the american dream to me

    • @amado4249
      @amado4249 Рік тому +4

      @@secretname2670 I have to disagree with you. His life was an extreme distortion of the American dream.

  • @TheJaybugg311
    @TheJaybugg311 5 років тому +568

    "It was my own fault, publicity, that's what got me" Now we have guys/girls on social media talking abt and showing off illegal gains like it's legal. Crazy world this.

    • @4Getter
      @4Getter 4 роки тому +11

      Ward Cleaver you’d be surprised, it’s all races.

    • @rhyno8644
      @rhyno8644 4 роки тому +8

      @@woezacardoza5659 🤔 Well golly geez Wolly. If Blacks and Hispanics are bringing in half or even the majority of drugs into the country(without one single train airplane or international shipping company) with by far the most addicts globally then how come neither the price nor quality is ever once remotely affected no matter how much is seized?
      👀 Thats a practical question Beave!

    • @rhyno8644
      @rhyno8644 3 роки тому +1

      @GIANTS 1921-1922 Look everyone. This is an ignorant attempt at being clever. Dont let the fact that it makes absolutley no sense distract you from how stupid this idiot sounds.

    • @user-mq2mz9ll8h
      @user-mq2mz9ll8h 3 роки тому +8

      @@4Getter nah just blacks

    • @Daniel-ng7oe
      @Daniel-ng7oe 3 роки тому +4

      Don't kill a bunch of people on a holiday with men dressed up as cops. Saint Valentine's Day Massacre. Too big a headline.

  • @selectiveamnesia5565
    @selectiveamnesia5565 5 років тому +259

    Al actually tried to pay his taxes when confronted but the gov't would not allow him to they wanted him gone.

    • @AZB2000
      @AZB2000 3 роки тому +4

      @@MM-eo2oz Capone was a hero

    • @diptonsauce1985
      @diptonsauce1985 3 роки тому +7

      Funny, since we refused to pay taxes to England... what a wild country we live in

    • @jasonstevenson110
      @jasonstevenson110 3 роки тому +54

      @@AZB2000 How any people died for this "hero" ? He was a criminal. Capone lost - age 48 when he died. Crime rarely pays in the long run. Capone had a good run then became just another loser.

    • @AZB2000
      @AZB2000 3 роки тому +13

      @@jasonstevenson110 Prohibition was an unjust law, the government shouldn’t have a say in it, Capone was providing the people what was rightfully theirs

    • @AZB2000
      @AZB2000 3 роки тому +5

      @@jasonstevenson110 and not to mention he became an absolute legend in the process

  • @Twocoolman115
    @Twocoolman115 3 роки тому +216

    Ladies and Gentlemen, always remember to pay your taxes. Because if there is one organization you do not want to piss off, it’s the IRS.

    • @prometheus6413
      @prometheus6413 3 роки тому +40

      The Joker: “I’m crazy enough to take on Batman, but the IRS. No Thank you”

    • @pierreperez8082
      @pierreperez8082 2 роки тому +1

      @@prometheus6413 n

    • @DavidSanchez-el4bg
      @DavidSanchez-el4bg 2 роки тому +3

      Fucc the irs there the real criminals

    • @mrjackelbox4418
      @mrjackelbox4418 2 роки тому +2

      @@DavidSanchez-el4bg agreed to be honest idk trust a gangster over the government most any day

    • @Markbeb3
      @Markbeb3 2 роки тому +3

      Fuck The IRS

  • @syourke3
    @syourke3 5 років тому +590

    He should have started his own church, then he wouldn’t have had to pay income taxes!

    • @MrJoe-yw5ex
      @MrJoe-yw5ex 5 років тому +21

      Plus he should have never sat down with the irs.

    • @POCOHONTAS1875
      @POCOHONTAS1875 5 років тому

      He'll yeah or no dam tithes 🍺😊

    • @Jimmybones100
      @Jimmybones100 5 років тому +31

      These are real gangsters,they respect God despite everything they do.

    • @c.c.244
      @c.c.244 5 років тому +2

      Let me see here strike Bill Gates,this is a read I was Jesus Christ "6'2 4cm Top" "Baghdad zip code eternal life,read it forever . . .",this is the comment "and it with" full tonge over grill Death forever sex no period,fine **s! ***re's,Gothic.

    • @user-kj7qw4rx3k
      @user-kj7qw4rx3k 5 років тому

      Facts !!!

  • @petermastrogiacomo9444
    @petermastrogiacomo9444 2 роки тому +81

    People don't realize he was only 33 at the height of his power.

    • @AllenHanPR
      @AllenHanPR 2 роки тому +5

      You were already considered an old man at that age, people had low life expectancy at that time.

    • @alecgurney9305
      @alecgurney9305 2 роки тому +16

      @@AllenHanPR back in the 1800s yeah lmao

    • @kingduckford
      @kingduckford Рік тому +13

      @@AllenHanPR That's not how life expectancy works. The average is just a worthless number that had no bearing on how long people actually lived. Infant and child mortality had more to do with low average numbers than how long people who actually reached adulthood lived.
      Most people who didn't die before age 18 tended to live into their late 50's or early 60's. Even during the most brutal of medieval times, this was mostly true. Even if "average life expectancy was 40 years old at this time" people healthy enough to survive to adulthood made it into their 50's.
      30 years old was not considered old age.

    • @wil7228
      @wil7228 Рік тому +1

      25 when he became a leader of his syndicate.

    • @user-kh6yw2wi1s
      @user-kh6yw2wi1s 5 місяців тому

      ​@@AllenHanPRno crap it was between two wars most were dead by 18

  • @zooeyhall
    @zooeyhall 7 років тому +535

    If Al Capone would have gone straight, he would have been a highly successful businessman. He took risks, knew how to exploit money-making opportunities, had a knack for organization and management. The perfect CEO.

    • @mic7able
      @mic7able 7 років тому +20

      zooeyhall Less crooked than today's lot!

    • @marilynhudson8426
      @marilynhudson8426 7 років тому +47

      Mick G. And the gangsters from that era..Didn't go around BLASTING CHILDREN, like what is going on in Chicago NOW.

    • @VegasRT500
      @VegasRT500 6 років тому +21

      Capone was only a criminal and nothing more. If Capone wasnt involved in crime he would have been dirt poor or in prison. So same end result.

    • @SJM6791
      @SJM6791 6 років тому +20

      You’re absolutely right about Capone. Hell, I’d argue that most of today’s drug dealers would be successful if they went legit. However, it’s very hard to go legit when you get a taste of easy money.

    • @delstrain8590
      @delstrain8590 6 років тому +2

      Murder Inc became JP Morgan now most dont know who Lepke was > WHO? Google him. "Those were some tough Jews"

  • @CURVEDGLASS123
    @CURVEDGLASS123 4 роки тому +275

    He ran into that court like a boss.

    • @ubb262s
      @ubb262s 4 роки тому +27

      And left a convict

    • @elizabethmills1286
      @elizabethmills1286 4 роки тому +2

      Lol?

    • @elizabethmills1286
      @elizabethmills1286 4 роки тому +1

      I mean, it’s most likely not funny but the way you typed that

    • @tonywaldon7801
      @tonywaldon7801 3 роки тому +2

      He was the boss, he bought his Cadillac from emil denemark cadillac in chicago 46th and pulaski

    • @titaniumguy1634
      @titaniumguy1634 3 роки тому +4

      @@elizabethmills1286 I mean, he is a boss.

  • @samspade3227
    @samspade3227 5 років тому +151

    My aunt born in 1900 met him. As a boy she would tell me stories about living in Chicago in the 1920s. She said he would act as a host in his clubs; sit at their table and tell jokes then on to the next. She said he was a very nice and generous man.

    • @dins5066
      @dins5066 5 років тому +24

      Yeah sure she did, cool story though.😉

    • @icyz1609
      @icyz1609 5 років тому +5

      Sam Spade geez if she’s still alive she’d be 119 I don’t believe you at all

    • @knockoutgymbradford
      @knockoutgymbradford 5 років тому +30

      IcyZ he never said she was still alive

    • @icyz1609
      @icyz1609 5 років тому +1

      explorationofspace Space when was she telling him these stories 1960

    • @Msflamingo-wl4qo
      @Msflamingo-wl4qo 2 роки тому +9

      His Auntie would've been 70 in 1970. If he was born let's say, in 1965, he would've been 5 in 1970. That means in 2021 he'd be....wait for it (doing math in my head) 56 now. 😊 Cool story!

  • @mike-ns6sw
    @mike-ns6sw 5 років тому +124

    Everybody gangster
    Till your taxes don't add up

    • @NtoTheM
      @NtoTheM 3 роки тому +8

      You can behead a politician on live television and are more likely to get away with it than with cheating the IRS.

    • @coachevy2851
      @coachevy2851 3 роки тому

      😆😆😆😆

    • @rellfromcentral4343
      @rellfromcentral4343 4 місяці тому

      ​@@coachevy2851😂😂😂😂

  • @Squids45
    @Squids45 5 років тому +445

    A real gangster in my eyes! Not like these lames today.

    • @mrdontpl8y
      @mrdontpl8y 4 роки тому +22

      Stfu

    • @djt372
      @djt372 4 роки тому +83

      Imagen idolizing a cruel psycopath

    • @Commievn
      @Commievn 4 роки тому +34

      Different era, different people.
      Back then, the Irish, Jewish and Italian mobs rule the underworld.
      Today it's the Latinos and Africans.

    • @anthonynegron788
      @anthonynegron788 4 роки тому +14

      @@Commievn so called "blacks" of the western hemisphere aren't Africans.

    • @Supreme_321
      @Supreme_321 4 роки тому +2

      @@Commievn How many Irish so called 'gangsters' can you name then?! You'd better get on Google and try and find one that we've heard of??!!

  • @delona6485
    @delona6485 6 років тому +26

    The entire case against Capone was a joke. Today those charges would never have stuck and that sentence would have been dropped in appeals!

  • @MABGaming01
    @MABGaming01 6 років тому +815

    "Illegal income is taxable"
    Hahahahahahha

    • @thecostlypanda
      @thecostlypanda 6 років тому +10

      Free to play Gamer shiiiiiiiiit fuck that.

    • @brandonselitetv1436
      @brandonselitetv1436 6 років тому +3

      Quite Gamer it is.

    • @Scyllax
      @Scyllax 6 років тому +23

      All income is taxable.

    • @TheEpicProjects300K
      @TheEpicProjects300K 5 років тому +10

      Laundering surcharges. Just look at Scarface in 1983 when Tony is trying to negotiate percentages with the banker

    • @jerry85g7
      @jerry85g7 5 років тому +35

      The Gov't are the biggest gangsters

  • @anthonyvinetta1718
    @anthonyvinetta1718 2 роки тому +31

    Chicago was safer with al Capone running it than it is today..... R.I.P. Al

  • @tragicmontana202
    @tragicmontana202 4 роки тому +24

    “They couldn’t find an elephant in a phone booth” 😂😂

  • @youngone4028
    @youngone4028 10 років тому +158

    Anyone who says he couldn't survive this age is right, because he'd be probably be killed of siphilis, or of old age.

    • @capone8556
      @capone8556 9 років тому +24

      Siphillis IS one of the 2 things that killed him.

    • @jackieoman6695
      @jackieoman6695 5 років тому +5

      Well if you die of old age then you survived it geez crazy ass !

    • @dontsubscribetome3262
      @dontsubscribetome3262 4 роки тому

      @@jackieoman6695 not if he died Before now like if he died in the 80s

    • @jackieoman6695
      @jackieoman6695 4 роки тому

      @anglekan ball sack

    • @thesage90
      @thesage90 4 роки тому +4

      How you not know you have syphilis or gonorrhea, that man was burnin forever lol

  • @anunnakiarandio4244
    @anunnakiarandio4244 5 років тому +75

    Years later Jhon Gotti made a similar mistakes to much publicity.. 👀

    • @ellemathews9840
      @ellemathews9840 4 роки тому +10

      Yup and he talked to much in that one apartment that was bugged. He should have known better AND he was warned about the publicity shit and didn't listen... ego too big !

    • @lockinload23
      @lockinload23 3 роки тому +1

      @@ellemathews9840 Gotti had no problems going to jail, his motto was death or jail, that’s the life they wanted and damn did they live it

    • @Dylski.
      @Dylski. 3 роки тому +2

      Al capone could've lived a pretty good life once he got out if he actually got his syphilis treated 😂

    • @anunnakiarandio4244
      @anunnakiarandio4244 3 роки тому +1

      He never did idiot.. 🖕

    • @bug_zzz
      @bug_zzz 3 роки тому +2

      yep ;-) LOL

  • @cynthiaerickson3646
    @cynthiaerickson3646 4 роки тому +17

    He was in his 20's when he ruled chicago.today most 20's yr old still live at home,won't learn a trade,are grown children,period.in the early 80's in the logging town i lived in,all the gippo log crews were own by men in their 20's.wow,what a differance now

    • @supercarnitas
      @supercarnitas 4 роки тому +10

      A lot was different then, can’t really compare and then shame

    • @MH-vp7lf
      @MH-vp7lf 3 роки тому +6

      Homes are a lot harder to buy today in your 20s than it was then. 2 different eras

    • @Topearner11
      @Topearner11 3 роки тому +3

      I wish I could buy a home for 5k

    • @darkvioletskull
      @darkvioletskull 2 роки тому +1

      How ignorant you are. Yuck!

    • @user-uh6lm5wv6n
      @user-uh6lm5wv6n Рік тому

      @@MH-vp7lf what a load of crap. 50 years ago my migrant parents to Australia who couldnt speak English and worked menial jobs owned 2 houses by the time they were 25 and were paying interest in the 20% range while raising 2 kids. Today these dumb shits want to ride skateboards and scooters into their 40s while dropping thousands of $$$ on tattoos

  • @Mane_ea
    @Mane_ea 10 років тому +296

    His mistake was: Not hiring the best tax expert lawyer at that time who offered him 100k to represent him, but he went for a cheap , good but not expert on taxlaw attorney. And thats wat cost him this trial

    • @Nuzz604
      @Nuzz604 5 років тому +26

      Where's Saul Goodman when you need him?

    • @MacMac1313
      @MacMac1313 5 років тому +12

      @Basic_Assumption I've been to court before. Not on tax evasion or anything of that sort but if you have a good lawyer to represent you 90% of the time they will put up a good fight before they go down. Mine were very calculating and knew the weaknesses of those " peace officers " they were going up against and they mopped the floor with the only asshole that showed up. Absolutely destroyed him. We went on a three hour lunch break and if I were him I would not have came back. Which is why I'm confident that anybody who has real long money could actually get one of these lawyers who can 90% of the time beat a case. Like anything in life, some lawyers are good at what they do and some are not.

    • @lilysansetsukonnoriri3612
      @lilysansetsukonnoriri3612 5 років тому +1

      @Basic_Assumption stop commenting on a 5 year-old comment

    • @geomodelrailroader
      @geomodelrailroader 5 років тому +1

      That would have done him nothing. He was guilty and all he got was a one way ticket to Alcatraz for 11 years.

    • @tommyaction5489
      @tommyaction5489 4 роки тому +4

      he was given 11 years be4 THE trial started ,,, President orders lol new mafia like donald dump lol

  • @Jasonlords
    @Jasonlords 9 років тому +467

    Boardwalk Empire left so much good material on the table.

    • @mthwr
      @mthwr 7 років тому +1

      Jason Lords agreed

    • @mthwr
      @mthwr 6 років тому +3

      Jeff Cockmann gyp was a real btw

    • @mthwr
      @mthwr 6 років тому

      Jeff Cockmann Jeff Cockmann oh sorry i missed up been a long time since a seen this show i thought you talked about lucioano

    • @KillaSin515
      @KillaSin515 6 років тому +3

      The Show was about Nucky's Empire hence Boardwalk Empire name. Al Capone played a part.

    • @tcjester89
      @tcjester89 6 років тому +21

      It's still the best gangster show we've gotten since The Sopranos/The Wire.

  • @davezinetti666
    @davezinetti666 Рік тому +6

    At 1:25, I liked when the cameraman was panning those three guys sitting at the table. One was smiling the other looked up and tried to hide his face. I thought that was comical

  • @Mynamesalexa
    @Mynamesalexa 4 роки тому +25

    Pay your taxes.
    The lowest legal rate you can.

  • @billboyer2694
    @billboyer2694 5 років тому +21

    I was charged w tax evasion for marijuana back in the 80's. Fkn crazy.

  • @keaganchipps739
    @keaganchipps739 4 роки тому +39

    1:25 dudes like nah stop recording me bro

  • @jamaaldaynitelong8367
    @jamaaldaynitelong8367 3 роки тому +9

    The music during this time was excellent.

  • @davidruffin9585
    @davidruffin9585 3 роки тому +9

    My dad always said that a slow dime beats a fast dollar.

  • @kevinkelly5569
    @kevinkelly5569 5 років тому +15

    1:28 might be the realest reaction to a cameraman in History!

  • @zoesdada8923
    @zoesdada8923 5 років тому +37

    The real crime was income tax

  • @donkeyslayer677
    @donkeyslayer677 5 років тому +118

    Robbery: Taking your money against your will.
    Taxes: Taking your money against your will.
    What's the difference?

    • @fvd6553
      @fvd6553 5 років тому +16

      I dont mind paying texas as long as its spend well and comes to the benifit of soceity. Peiple dont want to pay it but complain about bad infrastructure etc etc. Come on man think

    • @SteveLeicht1
      @SteveLeicht1 5 років тому +8

      Meanwhile religious child molesters pay no taxes and evade jail time through payoffs.

    • @erichodge567
      @erichodge567 5 років тому +15

      Dear Donkey,
      The robber that took my money didn't use it to pay for the soldiers, investigators, and researchers who protect me. Do you get it now? So put down whatever Ayn Rand book you're reading at the moment and join us here in the real world.

    • @SteveLeicht1
      @SteveLeicht1 5 років тому +1

      @@erichodge567 Do you get your from a well that you own? Do you keep Russia from invading your town? Obviously there is a huge amount of corruption...often legalized, but you can't just say you don't rely on government and military.

    • @marcelrodriguez2067
      @marcelrodriguez2067 5 років тому +2

      @@everydayisabadday idiots like you any other country is 3rd world. Fuck off dude, you can live in one of the Caribbean islands and live like a king without having to pay tax.

  • @MacMac1313
    @MacMac1313 5 років тому +20

    Now look at all those fedoras. Such a good look.
    Gentleman recognize Gentleman.
    Capone looking Sharp in all his videos too.

  • @Robert-nb6cc
    @Robert-nb6cc 5 років тому +13

    People are going to drink,I know that and you know that, All I do is act on it.
    Al Capone

    • @tonywaldon7801
      @tonywaldon7801 3 роки тому +3

      Joe Kennedy said the same thing, he was a bootlegger, made a fortune, then his son grew up to become president

  • @socalcraigster
    @socalcraigster 4 роки тому +24

    Capone agreed to a plea deal with the prosecution for tax evasion two year sentence. The judge rejected it and made him stand trial with a substituted jury. No movie or tv show I’ve seen has ever shown what actually happened. I’m sure Capone and the prosecution were shocked by the judge’s refusal to accept the deal.

  • @jermainescott6012
    @jermainescott6012 8 років тому +135

    capone was that true Italian OG.

    • @thebaddog4104
      @thebaddog4104 6 років тому +2

      The Fox was a genius

    • @Scyllax
      @Scyllax 6 років тому +4

      No. He was not Sicilian and not a member of The Mafia.

    • @Scyllax
      @Scyllax 6 років тому +3

      He couldn't be a made man because he was not Sicilian nor of Sicilian descent. He was Neapolitan. The Cosa Nostra worked with him because he owned Chicago. His "Murder Incorporated", Anastasia's group of killers, killed mostly civilians, and unaffiliated criminals.

    • @michellejohnson8650
      @michellejohnson8650 6 років тому +1

      He Was A Straight Boss. .

    • @thebaddog4104
      @thebaddog4104 5 років тому

      @Greg Sam Vita I'll check it out...thanks

  • @chrisruiz2017
    @chrisruiz2017 5 років тому +6

    Amazing to see actual footage of this fossil Gangster.

  • @Grassyknolldallas
    @Grassyknolldallas 6 років тому +2

    He had a safe house in the river bottoms 30 miles east of kc. Very nice looking place in the middle of miles of cornfields and 5 cellars, which was used to store booze

  • @icanfly2245
    @icanfly2245 2 роки тому +11

    Imagine doing 10+ years for dealing in alcohol then finding out on release it was legal to do so,

    • @cat3584
      @cat3584 2 роки тому +4

      I think they cared more about the public murder

  • @michaeltarewicz6660
    @michaeltarewicz6660 4 роки тому +27

    AL Capone! My favorite mobster! 🇮🇹

  • @jamescoombs2569
    @jamescoombs2569 4 роки тому +3

    The night Chicago died,was a song that relates to the era 😎

  • @musoshamwale3593
    @musoshamwale3593 3 роки тому +2

    I can only remember him saying, you can get far with a kind word but you can get further with a gun than with just a kind work..
    Am from Chicago.

  • @petermorris9818
    @petermorris9818 Рік тому +1

    How great and unusual to have a truly articulate and interesting narrator

  • @leela1970
    @leela1970 5 років тому +23

    The one thing i do admire is that Mr. Capone fed many poor and hungry citizens during the great depression, operating a multitude of soup kitchens ... coming from an italian background, i can say that does warm my heart because food is what we italians will always share to comfort others and show our gratitude ...:) xox

    • @MetalGearTenno
      @MetalGearTenno 2 роки тому +3

      Aswell as sharing the fascism that the Italians invented in 1921 under Mussolinis first ever Fascist party.
      Im sure you will find some way to flip that historical fact into some romanticize version to warm your heart to.

    • @Davidpromaster
      @Davidpromaster Рік тому

      That was exactly the point. To win over simple minded people like you into believing that what he was doing was good for the poor and unfortunate people.

  • @hode107
    @hode107 4 роки тому +12

    11 years in jail for not paying taxes? or what the hell

    • @victorcarrillo1570
      @victorcarrillo1570 3 роки тому +3

      Deep inside the law had in mind the St. Valentin killings. Capone was not charged but they knew he was behind those gruesome murders.

    • @TheSaltydog07
      @TheSaltydog07 Рік тому

      He did not serve out 11 years.

  • @MalteseFilippo27
    @MalteseFilippo27 10 років тому

    ken burns can you tell me the name of this documentary?!! thank you!

  • @ahmadguided5143
    @ahmadguided5143 Рік тому +1

    Just was who had a very strong will and courage and had no doubts going through his goals. Usually such kind of people live expressive fast temped life, but short life. Good physical health and lot of bits of charm. Real leaders skills. Shining up like a rear comet, leaving the long trace. And there an important point - they have no fear of death, that means - no fear to live.

  • @alexbowman7582
    @alexbowman7582 4 роки тому +9

    Funny that most of his charges should have been struck off by the statute of limitations. Did the government bribe/threaten his lawyers.

  • @DomenicoGalante
    @DomenicoGalante 11 років тому +4

    you know ...I thought of that very deeply for some time now and always wonder about it but the reality is very few old time gangsters would survive nowadays and even become something in their lives.Dispite there were some smart people back then , they did what had to be done in their time with their concepts,they used the resources available in those days in their advantage like we can do today with our own , maybe we will not be able to survive in 2113 with our concepts and education now.Salute

  • @Classicrocker6119
    @Classicrocker6119 4 роки тому +3

    I could listen to Peter Coyote read the phone book and still be intrigued.

  • @TonyRomearound
    @TonyRomearound 6 років тому +9

    It was Al Capone's idea to put expiration dates on milk

    • @ivandaykov904
      @ivandaykov904 2 роки тому

      After poisining him self with expired date milk (:

  • @stephenpaul1371
    @stephenpaul1371 4 роки тому +12

    All them dead people
    Now two hundred years from now we all be dead.isnt life wonderful

    • @thecookandthecookie3593
      @thecookandthecookie3593 4 роки тому +2

      Death is apart of life man. Don't worry about death worry about life! If you're alive than celebrate! death is fast

    • @jorgegaytan3012
      @jorgegaytan3012 4 роки тому

      @@thecookandthecookie3593 👍🙌

  • @paulinesau8701
    @paulinesau8701 5 років тому +19

    It was my own fault that got me..."publicity".. seems John Gotti wasn't taking notes

  • @Meg_Lovegood
    @Meg_Lovegood 6 років тому +2

    did you add sound.... lol why?!?!?!?

  • @AhmedM10106
    @AhmedM10106 3 роки тому +3

    After Carlo Gambino is Al Capone. The man is a legend

  • @billmatrisch4129
    @billmatrisch4129 5 років тому +4

    always found it interesting there are no audio recordings of Capones voice. Nobody knows what he sounds like. Just like Carlo Gambino, no audio recordings

    • @bevothecuntofallcunts9202
      @bevothecuntofallcunts9202 5 років тому +1

      Bill Matrisch i have A few audios Of Him And Meyer an also others Thats cause My Great Grandpa Was Capones Go To Guy For Transportation

    • @mike-ns6sw
      @mike-ns6sw 5 років тому

      @@bevothecuntofallcunts9202 sure bud

    • @fugazijesus3589
      @fugazijesus3589 4 роки тому

      @@bevothecuntofallcunts9202 I have a 9 bedroom, 4 bathroom, 2 kitchen, 4 car garage, Olympic sized swimming pool, and an NBA regulation size basketball Court on my beach house in Idaho, I'll trade my house for those recordings. Beach front property in Idaho is increasingly becoming harder and harder to find, so this is an amazing deal, let know know ASAP...

    • @j2fh791
      @j2fh791 3 роки тому

      There is a recording of al capone stupid UA-cam it

  • @edwardjnarrojr3135
    @edwardjnarrojr3135 2 роки тому

    The Fallstaff amendment caused a dislocation in the alcohol beverage market. Caused an increase in pricing.

  • @judymotto236
    @judymotto236 3 роки тому +2

    Everybody gangsta until a real gangsta shows up

  • @ronalbertson9995
    @ronalbertson9995 5 років тому +5

    He should have share his profits with government and he would be ok.

  • @dannydanko4627
    @dannydanko4627 5 років тому +40

    Taxes should be a crime, not evading them.

    • @sssttt90
      @sssttt90 4 роки тому

      The Law okay, then go live in Hongkong a first world place where income tax is zero, then come crying to me bitch

    • @sssttt90
      @sssttt90 4 роки тому

      Bob Marleys Final Dreadlock that’s super complicated question but the very simple answer is through the of lease of land/property, and the obvious through attracting international business by their low tax policy. Keep in mind I’m no expert, and my usual comments are just got shits and giggles.

    • @user-vl5qg5rf4n
      @user-vl5qg5rf4n 4 роки тому +1

      You literally benefit from income taxes daily... if you want to think taxes should be a crime. then go live off the grid. completely self sufficiently (but don't use any public roads to get there) then you can complain about being taxed. until then, you're just a hypocrite with no point.

  • @Harris666Steve
    @Harris666Steve 3 роки тому

    What's the piano piece around 3:35 ???

  • @georgeamador5592
    @georgeamador5592 5 років тому

    What’s the name of this documentary ?

  • @richardthornton7518
    @richardthornton7518 6 років тому +3

    Hear is a key question: Why did Capone in Chicago get 11 years for tax evasion and Joseph Kennedy in Massachusetts get nothing for his bootlegging?? Paid taxes?? Had everyone in the Irish Mafia paid off including law enforcement?? Historical question of great importance because Joseph Kennedy built his fortune on the illegal liquor trade!!

  • @mortalclown3812
    @mortalclown3812 5 років тому +23

    Peter Coyote: one of the great American narrators

  • @cliffdavis9618
    @cliffdavis9618 6 років тому +1

    And as a kid in the streets i was told by an og/cluck real gangsters don't go to jail for they crimes they go for tax evasion. I moved in these street differently from that day on. I was a listener & observer. Never blame no one for the cards i was delt. I made my choices.

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet Рік тому

    Ken Burns 🔥brilliant team he has ...enjoy his documentaries as much as BBC documentaries 👏

  • @dbrown9495
    @dbrown9495 3 роки тому +3

    Sometimes you have to play the fool! When you get too big, you have to break things down and be legal.

  • @coachevy2851
    @coachevy2851 3 роки тому +7

    The difference between gangsters then and gangsters now is that back then they invested in property. Gangsters now are tweaked out.

    • @mike7984
      @mike7984 3 роки тому

      There are no real gangstas now a days. There’s drones and IT specialist who can take u down with the snap of a finger. It’s about being a real man. Raise ya kids.

  • @geavonni24gw
    @geavonni24gw 5 років тому +1

    Publicity that s what got me. Nowadays it's social media that gets them.

  • @houssineelghamarti4505
    @houssineelghamarti4505 11 років тому +2

    Even you or somebody. Or nobody #capone #legend

  • @dpj1
    @dpj1 5 років тому +3

    2:31 I would be livid if someone served me a beer with that much head 😝😂

  • @63bplumb
    @63bplumb 6 років тому +3

    "Judge got wind of it" like he was honest............in Chicago at that time period! Or even Now! lol

  • @cmasseylynch
    @cmasseylynch Рік тому +2

    He was making $100 MILLION dollars a year . Then along came Eliot Ness and his team...

  • @afshinsooferian8616
    @afshinsooferian8616 3 роки тому

    Having bank accounts in foreign countries and earning interest is also taxable in US.

  • @moistteeny2898
    @moistteeny2898 5 років тому +3

    My great great grandfather worked with al Capone

  • @simonmadi1177
    @simonmadi1177 6 років тому +51

    Did eveyone wear hats back in the 30s?

    • @cougarhunter33
      @cougarhunter33 5 років тому +5

      No, but when you have black and white film, you have two options. Blues and greens are going to look black.

    • @icyz1609
      @icyz1609 5 років тому +2

      simon madi yes that was InStyle till the 70’s

    • @signemariager2424
      @signemariager2424 5 років тому +14

      @@cougarhunter33 he said hats not black hats

    • @jerry85g7
      @jerry85g7 5 років тому +1

      I love it

    • @edwardmcdowell7294
      @edwardmcdowell7294 5 років тому +3

      they didnt die from sun cancer but from a gun called tommy.

  • @coolcat6303
    @coolcat6303 5 років тому +1

    Great documentary. Also great narration by actor Peter Coyote (E.T., Timerider, Sphere, etc).

  • @consistxncy
    @consistxncy Рік тому +1

    Al got done dirty back in the day the corrupt of the government has never left since its inception. Even 100 years ago the justice system was corrupt.

  • @kyokogodai-ir6hy
    @kyokogodai-ir6hy 6 років тому +2

    Good citizens of Chicago. Never been such a person.

  • @fortunatoofamontillado1059
    @fortunatoofamontillado1059 4 роки тому +8

    Capone was a business genius.. If he were legit.. he would be running one of the top Fortune 500 companies.. if not , two or three of them!!

    • @fortunatoofamontillado1059
      @fortunatoofamontillado1059 4 роки тому

      @Arn does I dont think the Gvt gave Al syphyllis .. He was a real hound for the whores and cocaine ... Plus , they got him on tax evasion!

  • @mauri9289
    @mauri9289 5 років тому

    What documentary is this?

  • @ilcanalediwilly
    @ilcanalediwilly Рік тому

    My father was born in his own city of origin and from which his family came (Castellammare di Stabia)

  • @davidedwards3361
    @davidedwards3361 6 років тому +42

    Al Capone was finally sent to prison for failing to lodge tax papers. Today America has a president that BRAGS that he hasn't paid tax. My, how America has fallen,

    • @daleolson3506
      @daleolson3506 6 років тому +3

      David Edwards it wasn't legal to evade then. They changed the laws now ,they don't pay tax and its legal.go figure😎

    • @CGoody564
      @CGoody564 5 років тому +8

      Actually, Trump has paid taxes; what he hasn't done is make his tax records public. Saying he hasn't paid income tax is downright defamatory.

    • @hellogoodbye2424
      @hellogoodbye2424 5 років тому +4

      Trump pays his taxes idiot

    • @themanoftheeraalcapone9220
      @themanoftheeraalcapone9220 5 років тому +1

      Hello!!Goodbye!!! He went bankrupt 3 times!

    • @hellogoodbye2424
      @hellogoodbye2424 5 років тому +2

      The man of the era Al Capone What does that have to do with him paying his taxes

  • @Daniel-nf8pp
    @Daniel-nf8pp 4 роки тому +8

    Meyer lansky was much better in staying out of prison.

    • @humbertoflores2545
      @humbertoflores2545 4 роки тому +1

      He was keeping his business underground, low profile.

  • @erenadoo9270
    @erenadoo9270 5 років тому

    i just watched ''the untouchables'' and here i am now.

  • @Grinchcringe
    @Grinchcringe 2 роки тому

    Jonathan is the type of guy you always see at 2am in the corner of your room.

  • @bigjuice7020
    @bigjuice7020 4 роки тому +7

    Al capone might of been a gangster but a very smart business man.💰

  • @SKY-jv9ue
    @SKY-jv9ue 6 років тому +15

    By 1931, Capone's only rival was special Agent, Eliot Ness, and his Untouchables! They were a team of 11 agents, who helped bring Capone's beer racket down. Ness and his men attacked Capone's breweries, and cut a big part of his illegal income off. Ness and his men truly deserve all the glory they have gotten over the years.

  • @homestead3314
    @homestead3314 4 роки тому +2

    AL CAPONE AND EL CHAPO are very similar in ways they both were the heaviest moving Smugglers and Both Smuggled in Chicago,Similarities in Ruthlessness,but also They Both helped people and did the Robin Hood deal opened up soup kitchens and built places to live companys to work and not to mention both of there downfalls was Publicity they couldn't stay out of the Light

  • @old65rocker
    @old65rocker 6 років тому

    Elephant in a phone booth great line lol

  • @Gamedice197
    @Gamedice197 4 роки тому +5

    All Iam going to say is that Al is a real gangster unlike these wannabes now

    • @vestibulate
      @vestibulate 4 роки тому

      Mr Raymond Valachi Any relation to a certain squealer who ratted out his confederates in the Genovese mob?

    • @user-vl5qg5rf4n
      @user-vl5qg5rf4n 4 роки тому

      And that isn't something to be proud of...

    • @Gamedice197
      @Gamedice197 4 роки тому

      @@user-vl5qg5rf4n Iam not saying it is so stop being one of them people that are so stupid and don't understand what iam saying

    • @tonywaldon7801
      @tonywaldon7801 3 роки тому

      Today they call themselves gangsters, there thugs, and slugs, capone was a gangster, when you mention is name you automatically think of chicago

  • @kazimarkennedy8509
    @kazimarkennedy8509 5 років тому +4

    Everybody's a dirty rat now that's that 🐀

  • @MapleSyrupPoet
    @MapleSyrupPoet 2 роки тому

    Capone had quite the profile ...deep soul

  • @tardlyfe3571
    @tardlyfe3571 3 роки тому

    4:37 what an awesome cameo

  • @SJM6791
    @SJM6791 6 років тому +6

    I have some experience in this area. When the Federal Government wants to get you they’re 99% likely to succeed.

    • @wqqwqwwqwqqw3024
      @wqqwqwwqwqqw3024 6 років тому

      Did anybody ever escape then?Seems like even if you beat then once they just keep coming back with charges till they get you on one .Seems like they have fixed jury who would put a girl scout for selling cookies without a permit to jail for life /temporary evidence to put you away even if you are innocent .

  • @solomonking5097
    @solomonking5097 7 років тому +23

    The so called judge handling Al Capone case was also involved I bet smh.....

    • @alalducente
      @alalducente 6 років тому +2

      so called? you dumb fuck

    • @Scyllax
      @Scyllax 6 років тому

      No. He was chosen because it was his turn. He was tipped off by the head of the IRS team investigating Capone, who was tipped off by the local feds. The IRS accountants and detectives spent four years working up the case against Capone, according to the head of the group, who wrote a book on their investigation, which was not triggered by any informant, but by the records of a bookmaker, whose records traced back to an alias of Capone.

  • @leodarden4650
    @leodarden4650 2 роки тому +1

    Al Capone and baby face nelson are my two favorite gangstars

  • @Mikey_The-Pikey
    @Mikey_The-Pikey 2 роки тому

    This guys a legend to me I even got a poster of him on the wall🤣

  • @user-sh5iu1lq6x
    @user-sh5iu1lq6x 8 років тому +5

    does anybody saw al capone talking?

    • @a_random_orthodox_Christian
      @a_random_orthodox_Christian 8 років тому +4

      I would like to wat he sounds like

    • @ericfitz4927
      @ericfitz4927 8 років тому +1

      +faty Mix me 2 man

    • @Hujtir9
      @Hujtir9 8 років тому +12

      Great grammar everyone. *slowly start to clap*

    • @clintonsherwyn7736
      @clintonsherwyn7736 8 років тому +3

      +Caleb Staley lmao

    • @fugazijesus3589
      @fugazijesus3589 4 роки тому

      Let me help you out here, try it this way ok?.... Did anyone see Al Capone talking? Or, Has anyone seen video footage of Al Capone talking?...

  • @adrian.6272
    @adrian.6272 3 роки тому +3

    Al Capone is the definition of a real gangster all these other wanna be are lame

  • @runner2008
    @runner2008 Рік тому

    "But where he's going he'll have time and nothing but."

  • @OurWorldofDanceSport
    @OurWorldofDanceSport 3 роки тому +2

    The movie about him is awesome

  • @silvanonovalis-kj2dx
    @silvanonovalis-kj2dx 3 роки тому +4

    Capone should have created his own foundation only for the purpose of money laundering as Russians do in America. Lucky Luciano was much smarter than he was.

    • @tonywaldon7801
      @tonywaldon7801 3 роки тому +2

      Lucky might have been smarter, but al was the man