Initially known locally as a brawler, Ross joined a local gang as a teenager, running errands with Jack Ruby (who would later become world-famous for murdering Lee Harvey Oswald) for mobster Al Capone ...
He was a mobster - but not a monster - according to those who knew him best. Now new psychological research on Al Capone has thrown fresh light on the potential cause of his brutality. And a ...
For a man who once bestrode the criminal underworld as the 'Scarface' of Chicago, pleading with his doctor constipation pills might have seemed beneath Al Capone. But that is exactly what the ...
On this day in 1931, Al Capone, who had reportedly boasted, “They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money,” was found guilty of tax evasion. Alphonse Gabriel Capone was born in Brooklyn, New York ...
During Franklin D. Roosevelt's 12 years as U.S. president, cars became far more than just transportation at the White House. They served as symbols of visibility, security, and presidential authority.
Al Capone is the most infamous gangster in American history. This larger-than-life figure terrorized the streets of prohibition-era Chicago, yet his boisterous personality and extravagant lifestyle ...
Bust-down watches—the rap-world colloquialism for timepieces encrusted in aftermarket diamonds and gemstones—seem like an invention of recent history. In the early 2000s, especially, there was no ...
Al Capone's rise to power is chronicled during Prohibition. Hailed as an anti-hero and feared as a cold-blooded crime lord, Al Capone's bootlegging exploits, celebrity and ruthless activities made ...
Al Capone's Patek Philippe pocket watch will hit the auction block at Sotheby’s in June, carrying a pre-sale estimate of $80,000-$160,000. The watch was passed down through generations of the Capone ...