St Valentine's Day Massacre Research Paper

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Avery Heldt Mrs. Wassmer Amstuds/period 6 22 February 2012 The St. Valentine’s Day massacre During the 1920s, gang warfare had ruled the streets, Al Capone’s gang and Moran’s gang had been rivaling since the beginning. Al capons associate jack McGurn, told Capone of his plan to get rid of Moran’s gang once and for all. On February 14th, 1929; known as the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, not many died but jack McGurns plan went into effect, some less important people did die, and interesting events occurred during the massacre. Al Capone was visiting with family one day, when his associate jack McGurn came by with an interesting request. He told al Capone of his plan to get rid of Capone’s rival gang Moran. How he was to have a bootlegger who was loyal to Capone, lead Moran and his gang into a garage under false information that Moran was to receive smuggled whiskey at a very cheap price. Then men loyal also to Capone would…show more content…
The hit men hired to kill Moran and his men, two were dressed as police men, and two others were dressed in normal civilian clothes. The entered the garage pretending it was a busting, and lined the men against the wall, when Moran’s gang turned themselves to the wall, the hit men pulled out their machine guns and opened fire among the unsuspecting men killing all but one. Then after they had done their job, they men dressed in civilian clothes acted as captured criminals, in case any witnesses saw them exiting the premises. Moran’s men had thought it was a bust when the “policemen” had entered the garage, they would have never guessed it was going to be a surprise attack from Al Capone, and McGurn. Moran had never gone to the building at all, Moran was running late and was driving to the garage, but when he saw the police cars, driving in the same direction, he told his driver to turn around and he fled the area, not knowing of the plan or what was going to

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