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  Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong was the greatest of all Jazz musicians.
The band was renamed Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra and was one of the most popular acts of the Swing era.
For the next nine years the Louis Armstrong Orchestra continued to tour and release records, but as the 1940s drew to a close the public's taste in Jazz began to shift away from the commercial sounds of the Swing era and big band Jazz.
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  Louis Capone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis Capone (1896 - 4 March 1944) was an American organized crime figure.
Louis Capone died in the electric chair in Sing Sing Prison on the night of 4 March 1944, the same night that his boss Buchalter was executed.
Capone was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, New York City, USA.
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 Al Capone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capone's downfall occurred in 1931 when he was indicted and convicted by the federal government for income tax evasion and sent to the notorious island prison Alcatraz.
Capone was notorious during Prohibition for his control of the Chicago underworld and his bitter rivalries with gangsters such as Bugs Moran and Hymie Weiss.
Capone stated he was a Republican because he was a "business man." Capone was reputed to have several other retreats and hideouts including French Lick, Indiana, Hot Springs, Arkansas and Johnson City, Tennessee.
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 Louis Capone: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Louis Capone (1896 - 4 March, 1944) was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) organized crime (Underworld organizations) figure.
Louis Capone died in the electric chair (An instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair) in Sing Sing (additional info and facts about Sing Sing) Prison on the night of 4 March, 1944, the same night that his boss Buchalter was executed.
Capone was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, New York City (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center), USA
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 Louis Buchalter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (6 February 1897 - 4 March 1944) was a Jewish American mobster who was the notorious head of Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
Born Louis Bookhouse on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Buchalter, as a young man, became a member of the Amboy Dukes, a street gang in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville named after Amboy Street (a local road).
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, arguably one of the most powerful figures in organized crime history, was executed in Sing Sing's electric chair on 4 March 1944.
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 Encyclopedia: Louis Capone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Capone was a member of a murder-for-hire gang made up of street-level Jew ish and Italian-American gangsters working out of Brooklyn, New York during the 1930s.
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (12 February, 1897 - 4 March, 1944) was a Jewish - American mobster who was the notorious head of Murder, Inc, the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, arguably one of the most powerful figures in organized crime history, was executed in Sing Sing 's electric chair on 4 March, 1944.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Louis-Capone   (774 words)

  
 Al Capone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899–January 25, 1947), more popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was a famous American gangster in the 1920s and 1930s, although his business card is reported to have said he was a dealer in used furniture.
Capone quit high school at the age of fourteen when he fought with a teacher and worked odd jobs around the New York borough, including a candy store and a bowling alley.
Capone and his era were highlighted in the 1959 television film The Untouchables and its feature film and television series remakes which has created the popular myth of the personal war between the crime lord and Eliot Ness.
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 PoolSites.net, Pool and Billiard Web Site Design Solutions
Capone Custom Cues is one the worlds most prestigious cue maker companies.
Their new website allows them to be able to easily manage cues and cue inventory.
Capone Custom Cues are guaranteed indefinitely against construction defects that are not the result of warpage or abuse.
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 Louis Buchalter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The rubout of Dutch Schultz (additional info and facts about Dutch Schultz) on 23 October, 1935 was a major killing for the group, as was the murder of Louis Amberg the same day.
Buchalter naturally attracted a lot of attention from the FBI (A federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice) during the early 1930s (The decade from 1930 to 1939), but thanks to bribed federal judges and having other friends in high places, got off scot-free every time.
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, arguably one of the most powerful figures in organized crime (Underworld organizations) history, was executed in Sing Sing (additional info and facts about Sing Sing) 's electric chair (An instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles a chair) on 4 March, 1944.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/lo/louis_buchalter.htm   (777 words)

  
 The Capone Connection
When Al Capone (born 17 January 1899 in Brooklyn, New York) was growing up and becoming a small-time hustler in Brooklyn during the 1900s and 1910s, his family resided in the vicinity of the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Capone's mother was Teresina Raiola (the daughter of Angelo Raiola), born in Italy on 28 December 1867.
He says that Capone's attorneys attempted to make offers-in-compromise to the IRS concerning the taxes that it was alleged that he owed, but those prosecuting the case wouldn't allow it, even though they were accepting such offers in many other similar cases.
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 AMERICAN ORGANIZED CRIME: Hymie Weiss
Al Capone's new driver Robert Barton (brother of the injured Sylvester) was driving the Torrios that day and was hit in both legs, while the Torrio family dog was killed by a stray bullet.
Capone was in his headquarters at the Hawthorne Inn in Cicero when a cavalcade of 8 limousines pulled up and poured submachine gun fire into the hotel.
Capone set up a sniper in a room next door, and another in a hotel room at number 1 West Superior Street.
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 Clearance sale on CAPONE: THE MAN AND THE ERA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Capone is a masterful portrait of an extraordinary time and of the one man who reigned supreme over it all, Al Capone.
Capone's supposed acts of kindness are given prominent treatment, as if playing the patron were some sort of offset to his thuggishness rather than an expression of it -- dominance by other means.
Capone as an Italian immigrant was considered as 'an alien element contaminating clean native shores with disease, throwing the nation's economy into turmoil with cheap labor and corrupting Anglo-American institutions with rapacious feudal codes.'
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 Louis Capone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Louis Capone (1896 - 4March 1944) was an American organized crime figure.
Capone was a member of a murder -for-hire gang made up of street-level Jewish and Italian-American gangstersworking out of Brooklyn, New York during the 1930s.
This gang, who came to be known in the news media as Murder, Inc., carried out gangland murders in the New YorkCity area under the direction of Louis Buchalter and Albert Anastasia.
www.therfcc.org /louis-capone-269609.html   (127 words)

  
 An Evening With the Pops, Part II or, Louis Louis, We Gotta Go Now
Well, kids, when last we left Louis Armstrong; he had solidified his place as America's first legitimate jazz superstar on the basis of his seminal recordings with his Hot Five and Hot Seven ensembles, was married to a legumicidal maniac and trusting his fortunes to a mobbed-up dandy who shared his neckwear with Al Capone.
Louis Armstrong, on a disputed turn where she claimed she was only holding out one finger (the rare “dynamite beats rock” gambit) while Louis claimed that she was indeed holding out two fingers and rock beats scissors in any court in the land.
Louis understood something his detractors could not grasp, that it is the grinning jaw of the jester which often speaks the truth with more razor-sharp relevance than the frowning maw of the most dire academe.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=18755   (1352 words)

  
 Frankie Yale   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Capone asks his old friend Frankie Yale to oversee safety of booze shipments enroute to Chicago.Yale is upset that Capone has chosen Tony Lombardo to be in charge of the Unione Sicilana without talking about it first with Yale.Yale favors another man.Yale starts to become arrogant and talks bad about Capone.
James D'Amato calls Capone from New York telling him that Yale is indeed dipping into the Capone shipments.Capone is furious.The next day D'Amato is found out and shot while standing on a corner.One bullet in the head and chest.
Capone learns of this and immediately sends a death squad.Four killers are sent to New York in a Packard.The Packard has either Illinois or Indiana license plates.Yale is at his bar when a phone call comes in stating somehing is wrong with his wife.
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 American Experience | The Fight | Famous Friends | PBS
Joe Louis and Max Schmeling were respected athletes in their own nations and celebrities around the world.
Capone once invited Schmeling to a party, but was arrested that day.
Louis' wife, attorney Martha Jefferson, represented Hoffa in hearings before Congress.
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 Louis Buchalter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (6 February 1897 - 4 March 1944) was a Jewish - American mobster who wasthe notorious head of Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
Born Louis Bookhouse in the Brownsville neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York, Buchalter was a member of the Amboy Dukes, astreet gang in Brownsville named after Amboy Street (a local road), as a young man. He became involved in push cart shoplifting and by 1919 had served two prisonterms.
In the early 1930s, Luciano, Buchalter (who had taken on the nickname Lepke,meaning "Little Louis" in Yiddish), and Johnny Torrio (the former Chicago boss and mentor of Al Capone) formed the National Crime Syndicate, an umbrella organization of all major organizedcrime groups coast-to-coast.
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 The Last Days of Lepke Buchalter
Condemned to the electric chair with Lepke were Emmanuel "Mendy" Weiss and Louis Capone, for the murder of candy storeowner Joseph Rosen; and Joseph Palmer and Vincent Sallami, for the murder of Brooklyn detective Joseph Miccio.
Weiss and Capone were optimistic too that if reprieve came for the boss that they would escape the electric chair too.
With the witness room packed with 36 on-lookers, Louis Capone was the first to take his turn in the hot seat.
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 Louis Buchalter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (6 February, 1897 - 4 March, 1944) was a Jewish-American mobster who was the notorious head of Murder, Inc, the enforcement arm of the National Crime Syndicate.
He is the only major mob boss to have ever been executed by a law-enforcement agency or state for his crimes.
Born Louis Bookhouse in the Brownsville neighbourhood of Brooklyn, New York, Buchalter was a member of the Amboy Dukes, a street gang in Brownsville named after Amboy Street (a local road), as a young man. He became involved in push cart shoplifting and by 1919 had served two prison terms.
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 Al Capone
Capone, Al (Alfonso or Alphonse Capone), 1899–1947, American gangster, b.
Capone was indicted (1931) by a federal grand jury for evasion of income tax payments and was sentenced to an 11-year prison term.
In 1939, physically and mentally shattered by syphilis, Capone was released.
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 Rick Porrello's - AmericanMafia.com - Allan May, Organized Crime Historian and Journalist
Condemned to the electric chair with him were lieutenants Emmanuel “Mendy” Weiss and Louis Capone, for the murder of candy storeowner Joseph Rosen; and Joseph Palmer and Vincent Sallami, for the murder of Brooklyn detective Joseph Miccio.
Weiss and Capone were optimistic too that if reprieve came for the boss then they would ride his coattails to safety from the hot seat.
With the witness room packed with thirty-six on-lookers, Louis Capone was the first to take his turn in the hot seat.
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 Al Capone - All About All findings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
FBI mugshot of Capone, 1931 Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947), more popularly known as Al "Scarface" Capone, was a famous American Gangster in the 1920s and 1930s, although his business card is reported to have said he was a dealer in used furniture.
Capone was a member of a murder -for-hire gang made up of street-level Jewish and Italian-American gangsters working out of Brooklyn, New York during the 1930s.
The narrator retells his mother's anguish in awaiting news of the fate of her husband, a Chicago cop.
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 toco - pafg08.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Austin Anthony CAPONE was born on 17 Apr 1988 in Washington, NJ.
Lindsay CAPONE was born on 2 Aug 1991 in Washington, NJ.
Nathaniel Louis CAPONE was born on 19 Jun 1996 in Phillips burg, NJ.
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 Amazon.com: "Louis Capone": Key Phrase page
Louis Capone, for instance, had excellent connections with the Purple Mob in Detroit in the loan-shark operation, which covered a wide portion...
Louis Capone broke his nose years before, so now, when he looked at you, his nose seemed to be looking elsewhere.
killers were the hit men; Paul Berger was the finger man; Sholem Bernstein the wheel man; and Louis Capone (no relation to Al) the planner of the escape route.
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 Louis Capone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Louis Capone - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
This page was last modified 12:48, 23 Jun 2005.
This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Louis Capone contains research on
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 Better Than Nothing
Reles was part of a gang battling for control of rackets in Brownsville that killed off their main rivals to consolidate their control.
Reles was associated with Louis Capone, who was in the Anastasia orbit.
Reles, through Capone, sometimes did some favors for Anastasia as a way to curry favor, probably a handful of hits.
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 The St. Valentine's Day Massacre: The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone
The target of the murder squad was indeed Bugs Moran, but the 'American boys,' who were dressed as policemen and arrived in two bogus police cars, arrived early at the garage where the massacre took place.
This brazen event was not pleasing to the New York mob because it drew too much attention to federal authorities and the public in general.
Although Al Capone didn't know it at the time his heyday as the Chicago crime czar were on the downswing, with Frank Nitti ready to take...
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