Today in Chicago History: St. Valentine’s Day Massacre on Clark Street
1951: “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre II.” Sugar Ray Robinson won the middleweight championship from “Raging Bull” Jake LaMotta on a 13th-round TKO at Chicago Stadium. LaMotta, who had never been ...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: When Boxing Stole February 14th
On February 14, 1951, love took a backseat as boxing stole the spotlight with one of the most brutal fights in history. Jake ...
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When Al Capone’s Henchmen Marked Valentine’s Day With a Bloody Massacre
The infamous mob assassination, which took place on this day in 1929, resulted in the deaths of seven men linked to gangster George "Bugs" Moran ...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Corman, a set-happy director, lets the furniture generate most of the suspense in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre. You're on the edge of your seat, in anguish: Will the next chairs zipping into ...
The 'other' Valentine's Day: Al Capone, the Chicago massacre and the Mafia
Although the undisputed protagonist of the syrupy day of Valentine's Day is the priest who married Roman soldiers and was beheaded for it - the Church, by the way, erased him from ...
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Then: LAW SCHOOL LAB ADVANCED STUDY OF BALLISTICS
Calvin Goodard helped bring down Chicago gangsters involved in St. Valentine's Day Massacre. Calvin Hooker Goddard, the “father of forensic ballistics,” advanced the system of matching bullets and ...