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At 10:30 in the morning on Saint Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, 1929, seven men were murdered at the garage at 2122 North Clark Street, [2][3] in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were shot by four men using weapons that included two Thompson submachine guns. On February 14, seven members of Moran’s operation were gunned down while standing lined up, facing the wall of the garage. Some 70 rounds of ammunition were fired. When police officers from St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, mass murder of a group of unarmed bootlegging gang members in Chicago on February 14, 1929. The bloody incident dramatized the intense rivalry for control of the illegal liquor traffic during the Prohibition era in the United States. On the seventh anniversary of the massacre, Jack McGurn, one of the Valentine’s Day hitmen, was killed in a crowded bowling alley with a burst of machine-gun fire. As for Jack McGurn, he was assassinated by three men using machine guns on February 15, 1936, one day after the seventh anniversary of the St. Valentine’s Day massacre, at a Bowling Alley. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Feb. 14th, 1929. Seven men machine-gunned to death in Chicago. Al Capone was suspected, but as The Mob Museum will show you, nothing was what it seemed. On February 14, 1929, seven members of Chicago's North Side Gang were killed in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre — and the prime suspect was Al Capone. Soon they would all be dead, victims of the most infamous unsolved crime in U.S. history, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The massacre changed everything. Though Americans had never As he lay dying from 14 bullet wounds, Frank Gusenberg refused to break his code of silence and told the police “no one, nobody shot me”. When the news of the massacre broke later that day, there was outcry across the US because of the levels of violent crime that prohibition was causing. Six of the victims died in the garage; Frank Gusenberg was taken to a hospital but died three hours later, refusing to name who was responsible. Though the plan had been carefully crafted, one major problem occurred. Generations of Americans assume that Al Capone was responsible for the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the execution-style slaying of seven associates of rival mobster George "Bugs" Moran in a The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre was the murder of seven members and associates of Chicago's North Side Gang on Saint Valentine's Day 1929. The men were gathered at a Lincoln Park, Chicago, garage on the morning of February 14, 1929. The men who died on February 14, 1929 were members and associates of the North Side gang, run by George ‘Bugs’ Moran. Watch a special about the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre on HISTORY Though Capone was the prime suspect, to this day no one has taken credit for the St. Valentine's Day MassacreFPG/Getty Images Five of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre victims. On Feb. 14, 1929, Frank Gusenberg was Chicago Tribune, February 15, 1929. In the state’s attorney’s investigation last night of the “north side massacre” in which seven men were shot dead against a wall in a garage at 2122 N. Clark street yesterday morning a dovetailing of underworld rumors developed a double motive. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Feb. 14th, 1929. Seven men machine-gunned to death in Chicago. Al Capone was suspected, but as The Mob Museum will show you, nothing was what it seemed. The actual massacre is also dramatized in Roger Corman‘s 1967 film The St. Valentine‘s Day Massacre. From The Untouchables to Boardwalk Empire , Peaky Blinders to The Simpsons , the specter of Al Capone‘s Chicago and the St. Valentine‘s Day Massacre continues to loom large as a symbol of the Prohibition era‘s lawlessness, corruption Seven men were gunned down in the St. Valentine’s Day massacre in Chicago in 1929, a hit believed ordered by Al Capone in an attempt to wipe out rival George “Bugs” Moran. Moran died Feb The St. Valentine's Day Massacre was a particularly bloody chapter in organized crime history. Seven men from Chicago's North Side Gang, headed by George Clarence "Bugs" Moran, were murdered by Thompson submachine guns in a warehouse on Valentine's Day, 1929. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the shooting of seven people (six of them gangsters) as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago, Illinois, in the winter of 1929: The South Side Italian gang led by Al "Scarface" Capone and the North Side Irish/German gang led by George "Bugs" Moran.
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