Randa Abdelfattah and Ramteen Arablui
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
February 14th, 1929.
Around 10 in the morning, a Cadillac pulls up to a garage on the north side of Chicago.
Four guys jump out of the car.
Two are dressed in police uniforms.
Inside the garage, they find seven men, six of whom are members of a gang led by George Bugs Moran, who runs things on the north side.
Cops come around all the time looking for a bribe, just the cost of doing business.
Moran's men do as they're told, hand over their guns, line up against the wall.
But then, suddenly, Thompson machine guns appear from under the coats of the cops, and they start firing.
Seventy rounds later, Moran's men lie slumped on the ground in a pool of their own blood.
The shooters get back in the Cadillac and drive away.
It turns out they weren't cops, and when the actual police arrive on the scene, they find one man barely still alive.
When asked who had him shot, he replies, No one shot me.
Three hours later, he dies.
And the question remains—
Who was responsible for this?
Newspapers around the country seize on this story, calling it the Valentine's Day Massacre.
Valentine's Day Massacre, turned by police the most dangerous man alive, was sought over the nation today.
No arrests were made, but when George Moran is asked about it, he doesn't hesitate.
He says, Only Capone kills like that.