Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Prohibition Prescription
The 18th amendment to the United States Constitution was passed in 1919 which prohibited the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol. It did not prohibit the owning or consumption of alcohol. People were able to get their alcohol from the local pharmacy with a doctor's prescription. If the pharmacy would run out of their monthly supply, they would go to a local supplier who would make the alcohol out of wood alcohol which caused people to go blind among other problems. The government decided that the 18th amendment was to difficult to enforce so the 19th amendment to the United States Constitution was passed ending Prohibition in the United States in 1933. On that date my uncle Al Capone was in prison for doing things that were now legal. There is much more to this story that will come later.
Saturday, December 23, 2017
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays
Deirdre
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
Al Capone sits in prison as Prohibition ends.
On this date in 1933, Prohibition ended in the United States while my uncle Al Capone and his brother, my grandfather Ralph Capone, sat in prison serving time for income tax evasion. BTW in 1991 the American Bar Association retried my uncle for income tax evasion, using a real judge and jury, plus all of the evidence from the first trial. and he was found 'Not Guilty' on all counts. The income tax farce was purely political. If my family was still running the outfit on this date, they would have been awarded by the government and be given a license to run the first legal liquor distribution company in America.
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Al Capone is my uncle and also my Godfather.
On November 15, 1939 my uncle Al Capone was released from Federal Prison
and returned to Chicago. My grandfather Ralph, Al's older brother and
business partner, arranged for a big 'coming home' party. Of course my
father and mother were there, my mother due to give birth to me in
January, my uncle Al was to be my Godfather. My mother told me that
everyone there saw that Al was not acting in a normal fashion. He would go up to his sister and ask "Who are you?" Then he would go up to another person asking the same question. Then he went back to his sister, my
aunt Maffie, and ask the same question again, "Who are you?" My grandfather knew he needed some help. He called around and found a doctor in Baltimore. My family the next day took him to Baltimore where a doctor diagnosed that he was given drugs in prison that they claimed would treat his syphilis. My uncle was given injections of mercury in the Federal Prison hospital on Terminal Island. The hospital immediately began treating him by leaching the poisons out of his system. He was still in the hospital when I was baptized. In my book you will see copies of the telegrams that Al and his mother sent to my parents. His son stood in for him but in reality my uncle Al Capone is also my Godfather.
aunt Maffie, and ask the same question again, "Who are you?" My grandfather knew he needed some help. He called around and found a doctor in Baltimore. My family the next day took him to Baltimore where a doctor diagnosed that he was given drugs in prison that they claimed would treat his syphilis. My uncle was given injections of mercury in the Federal Prison hospital on Terminal Island. The hospital immediately began treating him by leaching the poisons out of his system. He was still in the hospital when I was baptized. In my book you will see copies of the telegrams that Al and his mother sent to my parents. His son stood in for him but in reality my uncle Al Capone is also my Godfather.
Monday, April 3, 2017
The other side of Al Capone
I was interviewed today, April 3, 2017 on the Bob Harden Show Radio Show in Naples, Florida. You can listen to the interview here.
http://bobharden.com/another-side-al-capone/
http://bobharden.com/another-side-al-capone/
Wednesday, February 8, 2017
The St. Valentine's Day Truth
The St. Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago in 1929 not only made headlines but it almost destroyed my Capone family. No Capone had anything to do with this crime. Here is an excerpt from my book, Uncle Al Capone - The Untold Story from Inside His Family.
The St.
Valentine’s Day Massacre happened on the morning of February 14, 1929, St.
Valentine’s Day. Seven men sat in a
garage at 2122 N. Clark Street waiting for George “Bugs” Moran, chief of the
North Side gang. They were also waiting
for a delivery of booze “hijacked off a boat”.
Later that
afternoon they were all planning to go to Detroit to pick up some whisky.
Pete
Gusenberg and his brother Frank who were both payroll robbers, James Clark a
stickup man, Johnny May a safe-blower, Al Weinshank a speakeasy operator, Adam
Heyer the owner of the garage and Dr. Reinhardt Schwimmer who was an
optometrist and a german shepard dog who was chained to one of the trucks were
the occupants in the garage.
The garage
door opened and two men dressed as policemen entered the garage followed by
three other men. All seven occupants
were machine gunned down instantly, the dog was unharmed.
An inquiry
by police and the state’s attorney identified three men. Fred Burke, Jack McGurn and John
Scalise. And what my grandfather told me
you have never read anywhere before.
“So what I'm telling you Deirdre,
is that the Valentine’s day fiasco came as a complete surprise to me and Al. If
we had planned it we would have gotten Moran, and not some of those other guys
who were no threat to us. But Al was
right. He did get blamed for it. And. to this day, some people even
think he did the shooting.”
Friday, December 23, 2016
Uncle Al Capone - The Untold Story from Inside His Family: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays
Uncle Al Capone - The Untold Story from Inside His Family: Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays: My wish for all of us during the 2016 holiday season are days filled with love, health, safety, laughter and family. Thank you all for your ...
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