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Left: Gangster Al Capone poses for a mugshot on his arrival at the Federal Penitentiary at Alcatraz on Aug. 22, 1934 in San Francisco, California. Photo by Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs ...
Pictured is Al Capone, along with two photos of the Naniboujou Lodge, where he is rumored to have stayed. The Lodge, built in the late 1920s, is located along Minnesota's North Shore.
The evocative name refers to a detention, processing and deportation camp for undocumented migrants that sprang up in a blink ...
From Al Capone to George "Machine Gun" Kelly, more than 1,500 men were incarcerated at Alcatraz during the nearly 30 years it was in operation in the San Francisco Bay. The infamous prison-turned ...
In 1931, Capone was sent to prison for tax evasion and served six and a half years, most of them at the Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. He was released in 1939 and later returned to his Palm ...
How Syphilis And Madness Set The Stage For Al Capone’s Death Ullstein Bild/Getty Images The former mob boss was reduced to ...
In 1934, Alcatraz Prison, situated on a small island off the coast of San Francisco, California, opened. Until 1963, “The Rock” was home to more than 1,500 hardened criminals, including Al ...
Land in the Everglades once designated to be a jetport, is now being turned into a detention center for migrants and being ...
The federal prison on Alcatraz Island housed notorious U.S. criminals such as Al Capone before it closed in 1963, becoming one of San Francisco's most popular tourist destinations. While Trump ...
Alphonse Capone, more commonly known as Al Capone, was a gangster based in Chicago during the Prohibition Era. He was incarcerated at Alcatraz from August 1934 through January 1939, according to ...
Al Capone’s wife Mae attempts to hide her face as she goes to visit her husband at the Alcatraz hospital on March 1, 1926. Capone was suffering from a mental illness brought on by tertiary syphilis.