Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...
On Valentine’s Day 1929, four men connected with Al Capone’s Chicago gang killed seven rivals with Thompson machine guns, better known as Tommy guns. The bloody massacre shocked the nation, making ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Nicknames made the gangster, and certainly added to their roguish mystique. But there was nothing romantic about their weapon of choice: the rapid ...
“Machine Guns Murder Novelty for Last Year,” the headline on a Jan. 1, 1927 Tribune story on the previous year’s murder rate read. The sub headline was: “Killings Fewer Here, But more Spectacular.” ...
Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...
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