AnnotatedBibliography (2)

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Annotated Bibliography

Primary:

"Al Capone Pictures and Images." Getty Images. <https://goo.gl/pCUI3F> 02 Mar. 2017.

The pictures this source provided us with were extremely helpful on our website. We
found many pictures we did not know existed, and each picture we chose synchronized
well with certain parts of our website. Getty Images made it efficient for us to collect
many pictures in one source, and saved a lot of our time.

"Gangster Al Capone Charged on Income Tax Violations." Crime and Punishment: Essential
Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 15-
16. Gale Virtual Reference Library. 14 Oct. 1931.<https://goo.gl/6WLuN2> 2 Dec. 2016.

This article helped show us the significance Al Capone had in Chicago, and how the
people viewed him. We found this information helpful when writing our process paper,
and also referred back to it while creating the tax evasion section of our website.

Helvering, Guy T. “A Narrative Briefly Descriptive Of the Period 1919 to 1936 .” Intelligence Unit
Bureau of Internal Revenue Treasury Department, 11 Oct. 1943.
<https://goo.gl/1ZWMni> 20 Dec. 2016.

Guy T. Helvering provides us an overview of Al Capone during the 1920’s and 1930’s. It
did a nice job describing why he committed his crimes, and gave us details about his
business in Chicago. We used this website to get the gist of Al Capone’s life while he
was a gangster, and to further explain his mob life.

Herrick, Ralph, and Al Capone. “Interview of Al Capone.” Al Capone Trail, University of
Missouri, 17 Apr. 1931. <http://famous-trials.com/alcapone> 20 Dec. 2016.

In this transcript of an interview with Al Capone, revenue agent Ralph Herrick questions
Capone about his income. Capone agrees to answer all of the questions honestly
without admitting to any criminal action. This helped us get a glimpse of his income
history, and get a view of the suspicions the IRS had about Al Capone’s income.

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“Letter in Response to Al Capone.” Treasury Department of Internal Revenue Service, 8 July
1931. <https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/file-1-letter-dated-07081931-in-re-alphonse-
capone.pdf> 20 Dec. 2016

A letter by three Internal Revenue Agents includes information about Al Capone’s plans
to follow through with his schemes. In this letter, they state how Al Capone had many
ways of running his business, and how he used people to cover his traces. Reading this
letter allowed us to have a better understanding of the techniques he used to organize
his income.

"St. Valentine's Day Massacre." Crime and Punishment: Essential Primary Sources. Ed. K. Lee
Lerner And Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. Detroit: Gale, 2006. 106-108. Gale Virtual
Reference Library. 14 Feb. 1929. <https://goo.gl/m7Q3O9> 2 Dec. 2016.

The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre became more understandable after reading the
article. It gave us more detailed information of what we already knew about the event,
and helped create a clearer picture in our minds. This was used on our website for a
better description of the event, and how Al Capone was tied into it.

"The Gangster as Tragic Hero." American Decades Primary Sources. Warshow, Robert. Ed.
Cynthia Rose. Vol. 5: 1940-1949. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 43-45. Gale Virtual Reference
Library. 1948. <https://goo.gl/ZuRYF0> 2 Dec. 2016.

“The Gangster as a Tragic Hero” gave a description of Al Capone’s lifestyle, and what he
did as a gangster on his day-to-day life. We used this to get an idea of Al Capone’s
personality, and what kind of attitude he had towards Chicago.

"U.S. v. Alphonse Capone." American Decades Primary Sources. U.S. District of Northern
Illinois, Eastern Division, Ed. Cynthia Rose. Vol. 4: 1930-1939. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 339-
341. Gale Virtual Reference Library. 17 Oct. 1931. <https://goo.gl/QtHXKG> 2 Dec.
2016.

This site helped us get an understanding of Al Capone’s early life. It included a very
interesting story of how Al Capone came to be a gangster, and what influenced him to
take on the position. Information like this was extremely helpful in the beginning of our
website.

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Wilson, Frank J. “FJW-LD.” Received by Mr. Irey, IRS, Treasury Department of Internal
Revenue Service, 18 Apr. 2012. <https://goo.gl/bRh4Xf> 20 Dec. 2016.

Frank Wilson, an agent that worked for the IRS, wrote this letter to inform his chief about
the Capone investigation. We are very lucky that we were able to find a pdf of this letter,
as it was greatly helpful, and gave us an insiders look on the IRS’s plans to incriminate
Al Capone of tax evasion, and gave us background information we could use when
editing our website.

Wilson, Frank J. “FJW-MD.” Received by Chief Irey, Intelligence Unit, Bureau of Internal
Revenue, 8 Apr. 1931, Chicago, Illinois. <https://goo.gl/rAjJ5Q> 20 Dec. 2016.

A message from Frank Wilson states that there was a meeting held to go over all the
clues and records towards Al Capone. In the meeting they talk about many events
Capone contributed to and how they all tied back to him. This source showed us the
IRS’s perspective and the stages they took for the investigation of Al Capone.

Secondary:

"Al Capone Came to Atlantic City." Press of Atlantic City. 16 Jan. 2017. <https://goo.gl/mjswvU>
02 Mar. 2017.

This website didn't just give us important facts about his life, but provided us with a
picture. It also talked about what was happening during this time period, and how Al
Capone’s gang followed through with their crimes. We got new information from this text,
and we were able to use it in our website to talk about how he changed Chicago.

“Al Capone.” Chicago History Museum, 24 June 2016. <https://goo.gl/Xb9ToV> 11 Nov. 2016.

We first started researching about Al Capone at the Chicago History Museum. Their
website gave us a basic timeline of his life, and went over everything from his childhood
to his death. We found this very informative, and used it to incorporate some ideas into
our entry.

"Alcohol and Al Capone." Alcohol and Al Capone. Virginia Edu, n.d. 06 Feb. 2015.
<http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/ALLEN/ch10.html> 7 Jan. 2017.

This website provided us with an extremely detailed list of Al Capone’s crimes and
businesses was included throughout the website, and it gave us an idea of just how
wealthy Al Capone really was. We had a very good view on this aspect of his life after
reading this website.

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Capone, Deirdre Marie. "Uncle Al From Inside His Family." My Uncle Al Capone.
<http://www.unclealcapone.com/> 02 Mar. 2017.

While getting information from this site, it showed us a different point of view of Al
Capone. Deirdre was Al Capone's great niece and she shared how hard it was for
Italians in America during this time, and gave as a peek at Al Capone’s personal life.
This information was used to describe the life he lived, and helped us prepare our
interview questions for Deirdre.

"Crime 1920-1940." Historic Events for Students: The Great Depression. Ed. Richard C. Hanes
and Sharon M. Hanes. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2002. 123-145. Gale Virtual Reference
Library. <https://goo.gl/lbCQuY> 2 Dec. 2016.

The authors of this website provided us with an overview of Al Capone’s crimes and how
he went through with them. This helped us have an idea on why Al Capone was labeled
“Public Enemy Number One” in Chicago. In the first part of our entry use this information
to deeply explain the details of Al Capone’s crime life.

Eig, Jonathan. “The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and Al Capone—Excerpt from Get Capone.”
Chicago Magazine, 10 Apr. 2014. <https://goo.gl/HXgyPL> 11 Nov. 2016.

Jonathan Eig, a professional Al Capone researcher, provided an deep explanation of
what exactly happened in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. We were able to get a
clearer picture of the event, and created a section about these situations. When using
this information for our website, we found this was one of best sources on the event.

Hales, Taylor, and Nikolas Kazmers. “Al Capone - Background Information.” Al Capone –
Background Information, University of Michigan, 2002. <https://goo.gl/ruIaO7> 11 Nov.
2016.

This website was where we began looking into the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. It
gave us the basic story, what happened, and who was involved. This source gave us
enough background information so we were able to understand the massacre better.

"Italian-Americans." Countries and Their Cultures. <http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Ha-
La/Italian-Americans.html> 02 Mar. 2017.

This source gave us a view on Italians and their immigration to America. It described the
struggles they went through during the 1900s, and how they were one of the lowest
class of immigrants. We used this information to get a second point of view from Al
Capone’s perspective, and use that to better understand his actions, and why he did
them.

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Kobler, John. “Snorky.” Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone, New York, 1971, pg. 13–18.

The first chapter of this book by John Kobler provided us with incredibly detailed
information. It helped us create captions for our pictures, and created a clear view of Al
Capone when he was new to the gangster life. We also distributed some of these facts
into the first half of our website.

“People & Events: Al Capone.” PBS, IPTV, 2000.
<www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/miami/peopleevents/pande01.html> 20 Dec. 2016.

PBS provided us with a page that contained a biography about Al Capone’s life. This
helped us understand more about his crime, provided us with specific facts about his tax
evasion, and listed several events that followed his arrest.

"St. Valentine's Day Massacre: My Al Capone Inspiration." The Mob Museum. 23 June 2015.
<https://goo.gl/1onBBl> 02 Mar. 2017.

The Mob Museum was very helpful during the creation of our website. It provided
pictures, artifacts, and other evidence from the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre. We
used this information to add to what we already had in our website about the event.

“The Life and Crimes of Al Capone, Iconic American Gangster.” About.com Education, 29 Feb.
2016. <http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/Al-Capone.htm> 12 Nov. 2016.

The first section of this website gave us a descriptive biography about Al Capone, which
contained some of information that first educated us about him. The second section
focused on the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, which we used in a separate part of our
entry.

"The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre." American Decades. Ed. Judith S. Baughman, Vol. 3:
1920-1929. Detroit: Gale, 2001. Gale Virtual Reference Library. <https://goo.gl/RLDqeh>
2 Dec. 2016.

While researching at the UNI Library, we came across this very informative resource
about the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. We used this website to go through and get
valuable information that we used later on to describe why this was such a big scene.
The information we gathered from this website was extremely useful, and helped us tell
the story of this event.

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United States Department of Justice. “Al Capone.” FBI, FBI, 20 July 2016.
<www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/al-capone> 20 Dec. 2016.
We found this website from the FBI extremely reliable, as it was written by part of the
government. It equipped us with many valuable facts; another part of the website
included pictures the FBI took while investigating Al Capone, which were very unique to
look at. A lot of this research assisted us in the website we created.