When the 18th Amendment outlawed alcohol in 1920, it set the stage for an underground empire unlike anything America had seen before. Prohibition-era gangsters stepped into the void, building fortunes ...
ORANGE CITY, Iowa (KTIV) - Some of you have probably heard of famous gangsters like Al Capone, John Dillinger, and Bonnie and Clyde. This gangster isn’t nearly as well-known. But his murder case was ...
In this episode of Bloomin' Legends, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods dive into the bullet-riddled life of Legs Diamond, the Prohibition-era gangster who survived so many assassination ...
During Prohibition, countless speakeasies sprang up, and while many have closed, a few exist where you can experience the ...
Before gangsters were glamorized by movies and myth, they were known (and feared) as shadowy figures carving out power in cities like Chicago and New York. From prohibition-era mobsters slinging ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: National Archives at New York City has hosted 1 event in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first program was a 2013 Speech. Author and history professor Marc Mappen talked about ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Al Capone wasn't just one of the biggest distributers of bootleg alcohol during Prohibition, he also embraced his notoriety in some flamboyant ...