Students' project

1. AMERICAN GANGSTER

2. AL CAPONE

3. BIOGRAPHY

5. He was born in January 17, 1899 in Brooklyn, New York

6. He grew up in a rough neighborhood and was a member of two "kid gangs," the Brooklyn Rippers and the Forty Thieves Juniors. Capone quit school in the sixth grade at age fourteen. EARLY CRIMINAL CAREER

7. Capone's first arrest was on a disorderly conduct charge while he was working for Yale. He also murdered two men

8. CHICAGO He arrived in Chicago in 1919. There he was elevated to handling the Four Deuces bar and given responsibility for much of the alcohol and prostitution in the city of Chicago

9. St. Valentine's Day Massacre

10. Capone's most notorious killing was the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, two of Capone's men killed seven men in a garage of a building

11. Capone's "Free Lunch" Restaurant Capone was the first to open soup kitchens after the 1929 stock market crash and he ordered merchants to give clothes and food to the needy at his expense

13. PRISON TIME

14. In May 1932, Capone was sent to Atlanta, a tough federal prison. He was then transferred to Alcatraz, where tight security ensured that Capone had no contact with the outside world

15. DEATH He died on January 25, 1947 from cardiac arrest. Capone was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chicago's far South Side