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Subj: Today in History - Feb 14
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1929
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Four men dressed as police officers enter gangster Bugs Moran's
headquarters on North Clark Street in Chicago, line seven of
Moran's henchmen against a wall, and shoot them to death. The St.
Valentine's Day Massacre, as it is now called, was the
culmination of a gang war between arch rivals Al Capone and Bugs
Moran.
George "Bugs" Moran was a career criminal who ran the North Side
gang in Chicago during the bootlegging era of the 1920s. He
fought bitterly with "Scarface" Al Capone for control of
smuggling and trafficking operations in the Windy City.
Throughout the 1920s, both survived several attempted murders. On
one notorious occasion, Moran and his associates drove six cars
past a hotel in Cicero, Illinois, where Capone and his associates
were having lunch and showered the building with more than 1,000
bullets.
A $50,000 bounty on Capone's head was the final straw for the
gangster. He ordered that Moran's gang be destroyed. On February
14, a delivery of bootleg whiskey was expected at Moran's
headquarters. But Moran was late and happened to see police
officers entering his establishment. Moran waited outside,
thinking that his gunmen inside were being arrested in a raid.
However, the disguised assassins were actually killing the seven
men inside.
The murdered men included Moran's best killers, Frank and Pete
Gusenberg. Reportedly Frank was still alive when real officers
appeared on the scene. When asked who had shot him, the mortally
wounded Gusenberg kept his code of silence, responding, "No one,
nobody shot me."
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre actually proved to be the last
confrontation for both Capone and Moran. Capone was jailed in
1931 and Moran lost so many important men that he could no longer
control his territory. On the seventh anniversary of the
massacre, Jack McGurn, one of the Valentine's Day hit men,was
killed him in a crowded bowling alley with a burst of machine-gun
fire.
McGurn's killer remains unidentified, but was likely Moran,
though he was never charged with the murder. Moran was relegated
to small-time robberies until he was sent to jail in 1946. He
died in Leavenworth Federal Prison in 1957 of lung cancer.
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