Al Capone All-American: Jake Lingle and the Media

When a popular crime reporter for the Chicago Tribune is executed in broad daylight, all eyes turn to Capone. In the penultimate episode of "Al Capone All American," the heat is on, and Dan and Alana find not all is what it appears as the tides change on the public’s perception of our infamous mobster.

Sources

Historian Mario Gomes's excellent website, My Al Capone Museum (https://www.myalcaponemuseum.com/)

The great Chicago history site Chicagology (https://chicagology.com/)

Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness and the Battle for Chicago by Max Allan Collins & A. Brad Schwartz

All Things Considered by Howard Vincent O'Brien

Capone: The Man and the Era by Laurence Bergreen

Mr. Capone: The Real - and Complete - Story of Al Capone, by Robert J. Schoenberg

Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone by John Kobler

Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend by Deirdre Bair

The Wicked City: Chicago From Kenna to Capone by Curt Johnson with R. Craig Sautter

Al Capone’s Beer Wars: A Complete History of Organized Crime in Chicago During Prohibition by John Binder

Gangland Chicago: Criminality and Lawlessness in the Windy City by Richard C. Lindberg

Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation by Marc Mappen

The Outfit: The Role of Chicago's Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America by Gus Russo

Newspapers and magazines: The Chicago Tribune, The Daily Worker, Time Magazine, New York Daily News, Chicago Magazine.

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