Born in January 1917 to Italian immigrant parents, Louis Zamperini grew up as one of Californias most known troublemakers. He was a smoker by the age of five and a drinker by age 8, and stole anything that he could. One day he left behind his life full of crime in high school and decided to join the track team. Encouraged and trained by his older brother, Pete, he soon became one of Californias best athletes, and broke the high school mile record by running a mile in 4 minutes and 21 seconds. After
Before he was a teenager, John and his brothers Richard and Peter aided a gang by running errands for them. When John was fourteen years of age he attempted to pilfer a cement mixer and ended up dropping it on his toes and crushing them. Young Gotti was more interested in becoming street smart than earning an education by attending classes. He was known for bullying others and ditching school. Many of his teachers viewed him as both a troublemaker and a disturbance.
This is a story about a famous mobster. Born September 4, 1913, Brooklyn, New York, Mikey Cohen. Mikey Cohen was born into a poor Jewish family just like most other American Gangsters. Mikey started out hustling newspapers in New York City. At the age of 9 his family moved from Brooklyn to Los Angeles (The Mob Museum).
He started his robbery spree because he was poor, but then he enjoyed it so robbed when he was bored. He became a gangster because during some robberies he accidentally killed someone. This is his motive for his crimes that heavily impacted
John Dillinger was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He impacted many people during his time and still has impacted people to this day. John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903. His parents were, John Wilson Dillinger and Mary Ellen Lancaster. Dillinger’s mother passed away when he was only three.
John Dillinger was born June 22, 1903 in the struggling city of Indianapolis, Indiana. He was brought up
john dillingers was one of the most notorious “ gangster” in this time period. people called him a thug people called scum but everybody respected him. he wasnt one to bow down to anyone nobody could tame him or keep him from getting what he wanted. John dillinger was born on june 28 or june 23 into a middle class family in oaks hill section in indianapolis. John dillinger's father was a very hard working man.
John Dillinger was known to be a notorious criminal and a bank robber during the time of the Great Depression. John Dillinger was born on June 22 1903 in Indianapolis Indiana. When John was three years old his mother, Mary Ellen died of a stroke. His older sister Audrey who raised him until she got married a year later and his father, John Wilson Dillinger got remarried in 1912.
The other most prominent gangster was based in New York and his name was Charles “Lucky” Luciano. He is an Italian immigrant originally from Naples who started working for an illegal gambling business at the age of 23, he quickly became New York’s top bootlegger and multimillionaire by the mid-1920s (Prohibition Profits Transformed the Mob). In 1931, he rose in popularity after he killed his longtime boss Masseria suspecting that he was planning to murder him. He later became the head of one of the five families under his new boss Maranzano (Prohibition Profits Transformed the Mob). However, Luciano later killed him too after finding out he was out to get him which automatically gave Luciano the role of ultimate leader of the New York Mafia
Leading up to the Normandie's accidental fire that took place on February 9th, 1942 Charles "Lucky" Luciano was serving his sixth year of his 30 to 50 year sentence. Luciano was one of the country’s' most notorious criminals and the so-called father of modern organized crime in the United States. In 1939 when the Normandie arrived in the New York Harbor under the US Navy, Luciano started to plan a way to get released with the help of Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, and Moe Polakoff. Luciano's idea was to create a sabotage incident on the Normandie and then to fix it, so the US Navy would be forced to come to him for his assistance. Luciano would provide help during World War II in exchange for a release from the man who put him behind bars Thomas
Luciano then received a 30 to 50-year prison sentence, the longest ever handed down for such a crime (Feder, 1954). He was incarcerated in the Dannemora Prison in New York, called the “Siberia” of organized crime (Feder, 1954). 5. Luciano always had a loving passion for crime and never gave up on it through thick and thin. With the love for crime came the problem of not being able to have a love life because most women don’t want to date the boss of a crime family (Feder, 1954).
During the the Mafia including Torrio and Capone got stupid rich. Once Torrio had crazy money he eventually retired from the mafia in 1925 giving Prostitution, gambling, bootlegging and other illegal activities to the one and only Al Capone aka (scarface). This was the start of organized crime in the
What many don’t know about him though is that his childhood didn’t show any signs that he would become the most famous gangster of all time. Al Capone had a pretty average childhood. Born in Brooklyn on January 17 1899, he was the son of two Italian immigrants. He was a good
The American Mafia is a highly organized society of criminals also known as la cosa nostra, “things of ours”, by the government. The society is also known as the Italian-American Mafia, the American Mafia is anything but fabricated. John Gotti is no where near a humbled plumbing supplies salesman, he had a totally different persona, a dangerous mobster. John Gotti wasn't just any mobster he was the boss of the powerful Gambino crime family located in New York City. John Gotti was an entirely different man with secrets unperceivable by the naked eye.
According to Al Capone, a biography on the gang leader himself, “The media made him out to be a “superstar” of the underworld” (Luciano). They took a man who did terrible things and made him look like he wasn’t the cold blooded killer he was. Some people even credit him with being the cause why law enforcement went corrupt (Luciano). The damage caused left America with some work to
