Erin Blakemore is a Boulder, Colorado-based journalist. Learn more at erinblakemore. Al Capone's criminal record in Learn more about the biography of Al Capone, one of the most infamous prisoners of Alcatraz.
The Al Capone biography starts in Brooklyn in He was born to Italian immigrants that came to the US in Alphonse Gabriel Capone was the one of nine kids. His family included seven boys and two girls. He was the fourth boy born in the family. Capone grew up in a rough neighborhood.
The biography of Al Capone continues when he quits school at the age of fourteen. Capone became involved with Johnny Torrino early in his life. A prominent gang leader in New York, Torrino took Capone under his wing and became his mentor. A few years later, Torrino recommended him to another friend, Frankie Yale.
The role with Yale was Capone's first role in an organized crime ring. While working at the bar, Capone got into a fight which left the infamous scars on his face. A few weeks later, he married the mother of his child, Mary "Mae" Coughlin. For a short time after the birth of his son and his marriage, Capone took on a legitimate job and removed himself from the criminal world. However, he remained in close contact with both Yale and Torrino.
Years earlier, Torrino moved to Chicago and was steadily building his organization. Torrino saw a huge opportunity for further expansion when the Prohibition Law passed in The biography of Al Capone continues when he was recruited by Torrino. He moved to Chicago in This move proved to be a significant turning point in Capone's life. Together, they built the biggest and most profitable bootlegging business in Chicago. In , Capone was ready to take out his larger rival, George "Bugs" Moran.
He instructed his gang to take out Moran's entire organization from the bottom up until everyone was gone. His organization pulled together a plan to meet up with the rival gang on Valentine's Day. Moran's gang originally thought the meeting was to buy unbelievably cheap liquor. When they arrived, they ran into Capone's crew in police uniforms. Thinking they were busted by the police, Moran's gang lined up along the wall to be arrested.
Capone's gang proceeded to shot them one by one. Al Capone was one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. But he was headed to a place just as notorious as he was — Alcatraz — 22 acres of pure discipline in the middle of the chilly San Francisco Bay. This is because of all the brown pelicans de Ayala saw, but the name later morphed into Alcatraz.
In , a military prison was built on Alcatraz , which opened in the s. The island was also the home to the first lighthouse on the West Coast, in It was a federal prison, a concrete and steel box that gained notoriety for containing the worst criminals. In , Alcatraz became part of the National Recreation Area, after a two year occupation — by a group of Native American activists, led by Mohawk Richard Oakes.
The group cited a treaty that granted unoccupied federal land to Native Americans as motivation and right to take over the island. Every year the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon challenges athletes to do what was once deemed impossible—swim from the island to the shores of San Francisco.
Alphonse Gabriel Capone, a. Scarface a nickname given after a fight, when his face was sliced with a blade , was destined to become an Alcatraz inmate. His life of crime started as a child, when he ran with street gangs. At 20, he moved to Chicago, a town he quickly became the boss of.
To offset this, Al Capone would give back to the community regularly. History Vault. Middle East. Westward Expansion. Art, Literature, and Film History. Sign Up. American Revolution. World War I.
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