can someone give me a very brief explanation about what happened at the valentines day massacre?

Question

i am having a valentines party and the massacre is the theme. i want to put a poster up and would like to put a message regarding the massacre for people who don't know what happened, also so they have an idea what to wear. thanks

Answer 1

Seven people were trapped and murdered 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.

On the morning of Thursday, February 14, St. Valentine's Day, seven members of George 'Bugs' Moran's gang were lined up against the rear inside wall of the garage of the S-M-C Cartage Company in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago's North Side. They were then shot and killed by five members of Al Capone's gang (two of whom were dressed as police officers). When one of the dying men, Frank "Tight Lips" Gusenberg, was asked who shot him, he replied, "Nobody shot me." Capone himself had arranged to be on vacation in Florida at the time.

Answer 2

There is a movie of the same title "The St.Valentine's Day Massacre". I think the famous American gangster Al Capone had something to do with it, but not sure if there was ever sufficient evidence for a conviction. It was a Mafia contract as far as I recall. You should easily be able to get much more info from the Web. Al Capone never got convicted for booze running or anything like that, he finally got convicted on non-payment of income tax - how silly is that? He was born in New York but was an active member of the Mafia in Chicago in the 1920s and 30s. It make the booze run from Canada that much easier.

Al Capone's famous slogan was "give the people what they want."

Answer 3

For a city that is so filled with the history of crime, there has been little preservation of the landmarks that were once so important to the legend of the mob in Chicago. Gone are the landmarks like the Lexington Hotel, where Al Capone kept the fifth floor suite and used the place as his headquarters. But most tragic, at least to crime buffs, was the destruction of the warehouse that was located at 2122 North Clark Street. It was here, on Valentine's Day 1929, that the most spectacular mob hit in gangland history took place..... the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

The building was called the S-M-C Cartage Company and was a red, brick structure on Clark Street. The events that led to the massacre began on the morning of the 14th. A group of men had gathered at the warehouse that morning, set up by a Detroit gangster who told Moran that a truck was on its way to Chicago.
One of them was Johnny May, an ex-safecracker who had been hired by George "Bugs" Moran as an auto mechanic. He was working on a truck that morning, with his dog tied to the bumper, while six other men waited for the truck of hijacked whiskey to arrive. The men were Frank and Pete Gusenberg, who were supposed to meet Moran and pick up two empty trucks to drive to Detroit and pick up smuggled Canadian whiskey; James Clark, Moran's brother-in-law; Adam Heyer; Al Weinshank; and Reinhardt Schwimmer, a young optometrist who had befriended Moran and hung around the liquor warehouse just for the thrill of rubbing shoulders with gangsters.
Bugs Moran was already late for the morning meeting. He was due to arrive at 10:30 but didn't even leave for the rendezvous, in the company of Willie Marks and Ted Newberry, until several minutes after that.

While the seven men waited inside of the warehouse, they had no idea that a police car had pulled up outside, or that Moran had spotted the car and had quickly taken cover. Five men got out of the police car, three of them in uniforms and two in civilian clothing. They entered the building and a few moments later, the clatter of machine gun fire broke the stillness of the snowy morning. Soon after, five figures emerged and they drove away. May's dog, inside of the warehouse, was barking and howling and when neighbors went to check and see what was going on... they discovered a bloody murder scene.

Moran's men had been lined up against the rear wall of the garage and had been sprayed with machine-guns. They killed all seven of them but had missed Bugs Moran. He had figured the arrival of the police car to be some sort of shakedown and had hung back. When the machine gunning started, he, Marks and Newberry had fled. The murders broke the power of the North Side gang and Moran correctly blamed Al Capone. No one will probably ever know who the actual shooters were, but one of them was probably Machine Gun McGurn, one of Capone's most trusted men.

As to dress, see the second link provided. In essence 1920-30's style dress. Violin cases should be optional for the men.

Answer 4

damn r u in a fit, explain to her that everything happens for a reason, and that there is a time and a season for everything, there was a time for her birth, marriage and for this valentine's day and that everything was predestined by God and nothing was a mistake, she wasn't a mistake. Tell her u love her and don't care about the three celebrations just tell her to look at the plus side three gifts, three dates (BUY THE GIFTS AND TAKE HER ON THREE DATES OR ONE EXTRA EXTRA SPECIAL DATE) LIKE MAYB BOOK A WHOLE RESTAURANT FOR JUST THE TWO OF U

Answer 5

A rival Chicago mafia gang got machine gunned down in a basement garage. Brief enough?

Answer 6

was a mafia type hit on a rival gang where they machine gunned about 20 of them in a bar

Answer 7

"people were killed" is as brief as it gets or "murder"