Philippe LABRO interviewed by Pierre DESGRAUPES for his book "un américain bien tranquille", tells how Al Capone, head of the Chicago mafia, who commissioned many crimes, finally fell for simply not paying his taxes and was sentenced to eleven years in prison.
Philippe LABRO interviewed by Pierre DESGRAUPES for his book "un américain bien tranquille", tells how Al Capone, head of the Chicago mafia, sponsored one of the most famous killings in American history. He got rid of seven people belonging to an enemy gang at once.
Luigi Barzini, an Italian journalist and MP, talks about the generosity of Al Capone. Despite his status as head of the underworld in Chicago, he gave to good works and founded soup kitchens or asylums.
Colonel Leon TURROU, former member of the FBI, tells how Al Capone died. He died as a result of a syphilis he had contracted in his youth. After his detention at Alcatraz, his condition deteriorated and the disease turned into neurosyphilis. His health was severely damaged and he died on 25 January 1947 of cardiac arrest on his property in Miami Beach. Then, following the question of a viewer, the colonel refutes the hypothesis that Capone (unlike Lucky Luciano) worked for the American secret services.
In Saint Pierre and Miquelon, an interview with Henri MORAZE, who at the time of Prohibition sold alcohol to American gangsters. He talks about how easy it was to do business with Al Capone, the mob boss in Chicago, and how accessible he was.
Philippe LABRO interviewed by Pierre DESGRAUPES for his book "un américain bien tranquille", evokes the childhood of Al Capone, who became head of the Chicago mafia in the 1920s and coming from a poor family of Neapolitan immigrants.
John KOBLER author of the book "Al Capone and the Gang War in Chicago", evokes the fortune of Al Capone. After the chief of the Chicago underworld was forced to pay his taxes and all his fines, little remained. The writer says that after his death, his wife and son were left destitute.
Dominique LAPIERRE, author of "Les caids de New York", evokes Prohibition in the United States, time in the 1920s when the sale of alcohol was prohibited, and of Al Capone head of the Chicago mafia that prospered thanks to this business.
Philippe LABRO interviewed by Pierre DESGRAUPES for his book "un américain bien tranquille", tells how Al Capone, head of the Chicago mafia, innovated by implementing new methods of assassination in American gangsterism such as machine guns or car rides.
Philippe LABRO is interviewed by Pierre DESGRAUPES for his book "Un Américain peu tranquille", he tells why Al Capone, famous head of the Chicago mafia, embodies the myth of the American gangster and how he evolved in parallel with the American society of the time.