Very interesting and balanced presentation. My grandmother (only 7 at the time) lived around the corner from the SMC Cartage Company and its gruesome place in history as site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. She didn't specifically remember hearing gunfire but very clearly recalled all the cops responding to it and subsequent uproar about it.
I used to watch "The Untouchables" late at night with my grand-father back in the early 70s. It was a nice clean show that left me with a nice clean memory. TMc
The prohibition movement should be a lesson that the government should take.There are a lot of things that they are trying to do that are not popular but they are trying to anyway
Ness did not really have anything to do with taking capone down. True he investigated the tax angle, but he did put it together. Also he was not going around slapping gangsters like the untouchables tv series and movies. He wouldn't have been alive long. The only time when he and capone saw each other, was when capone was on his way to prison. People need to stop trying to make him bigger than he was.
Al Capone was a hood and a murderer, etc. But he gave the BEST business advice. When the press asked if he put his money into the stock market, Al replied; "Naw boys. That's a racket." Never has any better business advice ever been given since. Ironically and sadly enough, Ness died an alcoholic disgraced cop. He never did the exploits attributed to him.
bruh thats legit terrible advice XD. maybe back then when there was no SEC etc. but the stock market has and always will be a great place to put your money.
@@taylorcliff6609 yeah? Tell it to the people who lose their asses when this grift crashes every few years. I put mine in tangible things like real estate or buying an existing successful business. You can throw yours away if you like
@@justiceforall6412 can lose with real estate just as fast, depending where you live and especially now that banks are raising interest rates anyone with a mortgage at a floating rate is going to lose money. smart investors diversify into every investment opportunity including property and businesses, there is no rule to sticking to one. ive lived off my $6000 monthly dividends for the last 3 years. i dont have to work for the rest of my life because of my stock portfolio. if you plan for quick returns then don't invest at all. the s m p 500 has an average annual return of 13.6%. the issue isnt the stock market, its uneducated people having no clue where to put their money.
@@justiceforall6412 starting a business is also a gamble as there's no 100% guarantee that is will work. most business fail and lose money in their first 3 years of operations so your logic here is just wrong statistically. the stock market isnt a scam by definition. just because you don't understand it, doesn't make it a scam. the only people that lose money in the stock market are just uneducated and have no idea what their doing and just jump onto a bandwagon expecting massive returns over night. when covid hit i moved all my money out of transportation and energy into eCommerce and health care. so far im up 300%. havent lost a single dollar in the last 15 years of me buying stock. lost several houses due to the housing market crashing and had several businesses fail due to inflation and increased interest rates though. all investments are gambles, if they say its 100% guarantee then its a scam by definition.
And to this day, alcohol is a major problem in many places. Increasingly harsh sentences against drinking and driving has helped, including driving under any other influences, but it still happens every day, everywhere. In some European countries, it zero tolerance. Get caught drinking and driving and you no longer have a license to drive, forever.
Remember the rather homely broads with the signs saying "Lips that touch booze will never touch mine!" And the guys with signs that say "Promise?" I dont know if this was a mock up or not. I sincerely hope not.
I applaud the altruism of the ladies, but I would tell the old lady at 0:10 - 0:15 to go home, mind her own business, and keep her nose out of mine. If I want to drink, that is my concern and not hers. I would have said the same thing to the Ant-Saloon League too.
Maybe she was, however perhaps she was one of a long line of women abused and beaten by drunken men who made her life one of fear...or lost a husband, child or parent to the poison of alcohol and witnessed its effects on her neighborhood and wanted to change ...or maybe she was just a joyless conservative christian, in any event very bold for any woman in those times, whether you agree or not but it seems that any other explanation might be a bit much for you to consider 🤔
Part of the problem with this documentary is that you don't get to touch on all the innocent people killed by the FBI pursuing the gangster of the 30s.
3:10 illegality is opportunity. that's why we have such huge problems with people making, selling, and trafficking shit like weed, cocaine, heroin, meth, fentanyl, and other illegal drugs that have been banned over the years. as long as there is a black market for illegal narcotics we're going to have as much problems with those as we did with alcohol during prohibition. portugal decriminalized pretty much every drug and when they did all the problems that came with it like the numbers of overdose deaths and crimes dropped significantly
Those types of policies work everywhere BUT the USA. Whenever things are legalized here, everybody goes crazy. Look at today and all the meth head parents dying with their kids in the car and that will tell you what will happen when all drugs are legalized. Especially with the much lower moral standards of today.
My thought as I started watching this. If you don't want to drink alcohol (I drink very little) then don't, but leave others to do as they see fit. You can see just how successful Prohibition was.
@@harrietharlow9929 It was successful in certain places, especially in the south, and lasted until the 1960s, possibly 1970s. Prohibition didn't start crime or organized crime, nor did it end when it was repealed. It grew and grew until the 1970s, when American cities were run down, and very dangerous.
They didn't even need to bribe the military. The United States didn't have any laws against it at the time so it was completely legal for a civilian to buy a machine gun until 1936.
Alphonsus qas a good old boy .2 members of his organisation .sneked behind his back then tried to take over the business ess .he battered there heads in with baseball bat .DONT CALL ME SCARE FACE . He made some snide remarks to some guys sister and had his face razored 4 his troubles
still is to this day depending where you live. in my country the sale of alcohol is still illegal without a license to distribute or going through a brewer. you cant just make your own and sell it to people. kinda interesting thing to point out, as this is how the cannabis market currently is. you can get permits to grow cannabis where i live but only for export, if you sell it in the country, you go to jail. really backwards laws around these things.
Now they where the real gangsters not these fakes today lol they did bad yup but the still respected people... lmao we want beer i need that but saying I want beer mmmm beer
There is another Capone type individual now living in Florida who is even more evasive who is now being investigated for income tax evasion. Let's hope the full extent of the law deals him prison time.
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