Frank Gusenberg (1893 - 14 February 1929) was a gangster and a victim of the Saint Valentine's Day massacre in Chicago, Illinois. Year 1893 ( MDCCCXCIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For other uses see Gangsta. A gangster is a criminal who is or at some point almost invariably becomes a member of a persistent violent The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union.
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Early life
Frank "Tight-lips" Gusenberg and his older brother Pete grew up tough on the North Side of Chicago. Peter Gusenberg ( 1888 - February 14, 1929) and his brother Frank were prominent members of Chicago's North Side Gang, the main rival After graduating from petty crime into more serious offenses, they teamed up with Dean O'Banion, Hymie Weiss, and other members of the local mob scene. Charles Dean O'Banion ( 8 July 1892 &ndash 10 November 1924) was an Irish-American mobster who was the main rival of Johnny Earl "Hymie" Weiss ( January 25, 1897 - October 11, 1926) was a Polish-American mobster who became a leader of the Prohibition After the 1924 murder of O'Banion, Gusenberg joined his friends, led by Hymie Weiss, in getting revenge on the Capone mob. Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17 1899 &ndash January 25 1947 commonly nicknamed Scarface, was an Italian American Gangster who
The Gusenberg Brothers and the Chicago gang wars
Frank Gusenberg participated in the gargantuan drive-by shooting in the North Side performed on Capone's headquarters, the Hawthorne Hotel in Cicero, Illinois, riddling it with thousands of bullets on September 20, 1926. Cicero is an Incorporated town in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Events 451 - The Battle of Chalons takes place in North Eastern France. Year 1926 ( MCMXXVI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. According to many accounts, the second to last car stopped in front of the hotel restaurant where Capone was cowering and Frank's brother Pete emerged, clad in a khaki Army shirt, brown overalls, and carrying a Thompson submachine gun fitted with a 100-round capacity drum. The Thompson submachine gun is an American Submachine gun that became infamous during the Prohibition era Kneeling in front of the doorway, Gusenberg emptied the entire drum into the restaurant, and then casually strolled back to his car, which then sped off to safety.
The attack worked. Capone was petrified and requested a sitdown between the two gangs. However it failed. Hymie Weiss was murdered three weeks later, and over the next couple years, the North Side Gang continued to weaken. The North Side family Gang, also known as the North Side Mob, was the dominant Irish-American Mafia criminal organization (although a large number of The North Siders especially wished to kill Jack McGurn, as he was rumored to have been the machine-gunner who killed Weiss. Jack "Machine Gun" McGurn (1905&ndash February 15, 1936) was a key member of Al Capone 's Chicago -based criminal organization known On at least two occasions, the Gusenberg brothers tried to kill McGurn. Despite wounding him several times, Jack survived the attempts on his life.
By late 1928, the leader of the North Side Gang, Bugs Moran, struck an alliance with Al Capone's rival Joe Aiello. Year 1928 ( MCMXXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. George Clarence "Bugs" Moran was born Adelard Cunin on August 21 1891 according to his biographer (see BugsMoran Giuseppe "Joe" Aiello ( 1891 - October 23, 1930) was a Chicago bootlegger during the 1920s and early 1930s who had a longstanding bloody The latter, assisted by the Gusenberg brothers, killed Antonio Lombardo and Pasqualino Lolordo, presidents of the Unione Siciliane. Antonio "The Scourge" Lombardo (1892 &ndash September 7, 1928) was an American Mobster. Pasqualino "Patsy" Lolordo (d January 8, 1929) was an organized crime figure and head of the Chicago chapter of the Unione Siciliana The Unione Siciliana (often incorrectly called Unione Siciliane) was a Sicilian-American fraternal organization which eventually was rumored to have controlled much of the It was from these murders that the plot to get rid of Bugs Moran sprang.
Final days
On February 14, 1929, members of the North Side gang gathered at a garage behind the offices of S. Events 842 - Charles the Bald and Louis the German swear the Oaths of Strasbourg in the French and German Year 1929 ( MCMXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. M. C. Cartage Company. Inside were Pete and Frank Gusenberg, Albert Weinshank, Adam Heyer, James Clark, John May, and Reinhardt Schwimmer. Five men of Capone's Gang drove to the garage in a stolen police car. Two of the men, dressed as police, entered the garage, pretending they were conducting an ordinary raid, and lined Moran's associates up against the wall. Once the men's backs were all turned, facing the wall, two other men of Capone (with civilian clothes) entered the room with machine guns and, along with the "cops", cut loose on the seven men, pounding 70 bullets into them in what would become known as the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago
When police arrived at the scene Frank Gusenberg, despite having 22 bullet wounds, was the only victim still alive. He was taken to the Alexian Brothers hospital in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The Alexians, Alexian Brothers or Cellites are a Catholic religious institute or congregation specifically devoted to caring for the sick which has its Elk Grove Village is a municipality located in northeastern Illinois adjacent to O'Hare International Airport and the City of Chicago. When asked "Who shot you?" Frank replied, "Nobody shot me" denying any justice to the murderers.
Although the killers (widely believed to have been members of Al Capone's gang), wiped out Bugs Moran's mob, they missed Moran himself. Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone (January 17 1899 &ndash January 25 1947 commonly nicknamed Scarface, was an Italian American Gangster who Upon seeing the squad car, he drove past the garage he was planning on entering. Like his associates, he had been fooled into thinking there was a police raid in progress.
In popular culture
- Frank Gusenberg would be portrayed in two movies about the era; In Roger Corman's The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967), Gusenberg was played by David Canary and in Capone (1975) by Ben Marino. Roger William Corman (born April 5 1926) sometimes nicknamed "King of the Bs" for his output of B-movies (though he himself rejects this as inaccurate The Saint Valentine's Day massacre is the name given to the murder of seven people as part of a Prohibition Era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. David Hoyt Canary (born August 25, 1938 in Elwood Indiana) is an Emmy Award -winning American actor who starred in both Soap Capone ( 1975) is an American crime film directed by Steve Carver and the film stars Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, Susan Blakely Year 1975 ( MCMLXXV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
- Gusenburg was inspiration for the Simpsons character Johnny Tightlips who doesn't give any information away and answers very vaguely. The Springfield Mafia is a fictional Italian organized crime syndicate based in Springfield in the Animated Television series The Simpsons
External links
- Frank Gusenberg at Find-A-Grave
- My Al Capone Museum: St. valentine's Day Massacre victim's statistics
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