Scarface
Quite a lot has been written and said about Al Capone in newspaper and magazine articles, books, and movies that is completely false. The cliche for gangsters in that era is that they were born in Italy. For many that is a true statement. For Alphonse Capone it is not. He was born in Brooklyn on January 17, 1899.What kind of people were his parents, giving birth to one of the world's most notorious criminals? Was Al Capone abused as a child? Did he spend his tender years in the company of murderers and thieves? Definitelynot. "...nothing about the Capone family was inherently disturbed, violent, or dishonest. The children and the parents were close; there was no apparent mental disability, no traumatic event that sent the boys hurtling into a life of crime. They did not display sociopathic or psychotic personalities; they were not crazy. Nor did they inherit a predilection for a criminal career or belong to a criminal society... They were a law-abiding, unremarkable Italian-American family with conventional patterns of behavior and frustrations; they displayed no special genius for crime, or anything else, for that matter."(1) Al Capone started to attend school
Education for Italian children was very poor in those days. One night while waiting on a table he made the mistake of rudely hitting on a young woman. Al met his future wife Mae Coughlin when he was nineteen. Even though Al was conveniently in Florida, the police, the newspapers, and the people of Chicago knew who was responsible. It was a sharp plan that was intelligently carried out except for one thing, Bugs Moran wasn't killed like planned. Al's face was cut three times and although the cuts healed without delay, the scars would now be a part of him forever. When a man assaulted Capone's friend Jack Guzik, Al hunted him down and shot him dead right in the middle of a bar. Despite all this he worked faithfully at exceptionally boring jobs for six years to support his family and at this point no one would have thought his future would turn out how it did. Capone and sixty-eight members of his gang were charged with some 5,000 separate violations of the Volstead Act, some of them going back to 1922. From Torrio, a young Capone learned invaluable lessons that were the foundation of the criminal empire he built later in Chicago. Her brother punched him in the face as a result. The school system was prejudiced against Italians and didn't do much to encourage any interest in higher education. The income tax cases took precedence over the Prohibition violations.
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