AL CAPONE

The roaring 20’s for many people may bring to mind flappers or changing times of a positive nature. But on the flip side of the coin during that decade were a lot of activity in the crime world as well and in magnitudes no one could predict beforehand. Breweries, smoking, swearing, cheating, gambling, frequenting places called speakeasies which sold alcohol during the Prohibition, brothels and murder were headline news for much of this time for …

…until he died on January 25, 1947 of a cardiac arrest 8 days after his 48th birthday. So many different things happened during the course of this man’s life, many unbelievable to the world that lived during that era ~ most of which may be overlooked as being somewhat normal in our world of chaos and havoc of how we live at current day. His name, although in a negative thought, will live on for years to come.