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1929
Saint Valentine's Day Massacre
February 14, 1929
In a Chicago garage, men dressed as police lined seven members of Bugs Moran's gang against a brick wall and cut them down with tommy guns. It was Al Capone's work, though Capone was in Florida with an alibi. Prohibition-era gangland violence had reached a spectacle threshold, and America was both horrified and thrilled.
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