He closed many of Capone’s breweries and speakeasies, and slowly brought his empire down. Convicted of Income Tax Evasion The federal government finally managed to arrest him by prosecuting him for income tax evasion in 1931. He was tried, found guilty, and sentenced the next year to 11 years in the federal penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia. But he was still able to oversee his criminal empire from his cell. In 1934, he was transferred to the new federal prison at Alcatraz Island, built to hold the country's worst criminals, in San Francisco Bay.
All of the nine men were arrested and taken to the Jackson County jail in Scottsboro, Alabama. That night, a mob gathered outside the jail. But the Governor sent the National Guard in to protect the young men, who would become known as the Scottsboro Boys. A crowd of ten thousand men came to
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The sheriff struck the rope with an ax and sprang the trap door, and John's body dropped. His pulse did not stop beating for thirty-five minutes. Just over a month earlier, John Brown had been tried and convicted of murdering four whites and a black man, conspiring with slaves to rebel, and with treason against Virginia. The sudden rush of the trial, it's ill-prepared counsel, Brown's suffering physical condition, being tried in a state court for a federal crime, and overall nature of the indictment fueled the fire of those who argued the fairness of the trial. To this day, Americans are divided on on the question: Was John Brown a martyr to be admired or a
The officer, who is not being identified to protect his cover, was attacked in Cancun. The officer was vacationing with several colleagues when he recognized the Hells associates during a trip to a bar. The defendants allegedly noticed him when he pulled out a camera to snap some pictures of them. Police say the officer was grabbed and taken into a nearby tent where he was held for several hours and beaten mercilessly.
Over 80 volunteers were beaten by white mobs or racist police officers and three men, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on 21st June, 1964. Just think of how far someone could go just for their different skin color. It’s unbelievable and dreadful. Overall, the Ku Klux Klan is a dangerous group that should be avoided. They are non-Christian, non-Jewish, and especially non-negro.
The Letter for Change In the spring of 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested on April 12 for his protests and demonstrations and sat in a cell of a Birmingham jail. Eight of Alabama’s top white religious leaders issued a formal statement calling the boycott of white stores in Birmingham “unwise and untimely” (King, Martin Luther, 1929-1968). Some people believed the issue would be resolved on its own time and Dr. King was just stirring the pot and causing trouble. Others agreed with Dr. King that racism had to be addressed directly and immediately. Most of Dr. King’s followers believed his arrest was unjust and he should have been instantly released.
The Three (3) Most Important Lessons America Learned From the Watergate Scandal “What is morally wrong can never be politically right” (Zeifman 210). This was said by President Abraham Lincoln and can be applied to many aspects of our American culture, most notably the controversial Watergate Affair. On June 17, 1972, five men attempting to break into and wiretap the Democratic National Committee offices located in the Watergate complex were apprehended by the police. These five gentlemen along with two other accomplices were tried and convicted in January 1973. These seven men were either directly or indirectly employees of President Nixon’s re-election committee and many persons, including the trial judge, John J. Sirica, suspected a conspiracy involving higher-level government officials.
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Biological Criminal Behavior Debria Andrews August 10, 2015 CJS/231 Professor Jacqueline Waltman Charles Joseph Whitman was born June 23, 1941 he was a student at the University of Texas at Austin who had shot and killed 14 people which include those who survived the initial shooting but later died as a result of their injuries and he wounded 31 others from the observation deck of the University’s Main Building of the University of Texas at Austin on August 1, 1966 after murdering his wife and mother, and before being shot by Austin police. Once the autopsy requested in the suicide note left by Whitman revealed that he had a brain tumor. This had led to speculation that the tumor was responsible for his rampage. At the age of