Machine Gun Kelly: Depression Era of Notorious American Gangsters. Blaze A. Jones Pioneer Jr. Sr. High School. U. S. History Mr. Erik Riise March 1, 2024 Machine Gun Kelly: Depression Era of Notorious American Gangsters. George Kelly Barnes, also known as “Machine Gun Kelly”, earned his nickname by committing several crimes using his signature gun, the machine gun. Kelly was very successful in the crime industry, ranging from bootlegging to kidnapping. He tried legitimate work but failed and chose to go into crime instead because it was easier. Kelly also ran around with many other criminals, which pulled him into the life of crime. George Kelly Barnes was a notorious criminal who started as a bootlegger, ended …show more content…
Kelly, Keating, Holden, and Harmen met up with Frank Nash and Harver Bailey and they also joined the Keating Holden gang and they started a string of robberies (Kathy Alexander, 2022). The Keating and Holden gang had a lot of issues with their guys. This was only the start of the gang and their havoc they were about to release in Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The robbery of the Keating and Holden gang. The first bank they robbed was on July 15, 1930 at William Minnesota making away with $70,000 dollars in cash (Kathy Alexander, 2022). After the first robbery a conflict occurred between some of the gang members led by Vern Miller which ended with 3 gang members shot dead at White Bear Lake (Kathy Alexander, 2022). The three gang members that were shot dead were Mike Rusick, Frank “Wennie” Coleman, and Samuel “Jew Sammy” Stein. The Keating and Holden gang was pretty brutal and did not care if they were their own men. The Keating and Holden gang didn’t get affected by the 3 men and just kept moving on with more robberies. The robbery that set them up for life, but at a cost. The robbery in …show more content…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) started investigating on July 24th, an exhausting search for the kidnappers later identified as Kelly,Kathryn and Harvey Alexander, 2022). The FBI had a hard time finding Kelly and his partner. The FBI was successful in putting pieces together to find them. The arrest of Machine Gun Kelly. Kelly was arrested on September 26, 1933 by the FBI and Memphis Police (Kathy Alexander, 2022). Kelly was sent to a Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas and was later sent to Alcatraz. Kelly got what he deserved by going to prison. This was the end of Kelly and he never got out of prison. George Kelly Barnes would serve his time in Alcatraz and also in a Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas where he died of complications of a heart attack. George and Kathryn Kelly were sentenced to life in prison for the crimes of kidnapping and robbery. References River, C. & Co., 2024. Machine Gun Kelly: The notorious life and crimes of the depression era. gangster. Charles River Editors, Inc. Biography.com - Editors. d. (2021, April 16). Machine Gun Kelly Biography. https://www.biography.com/crime/machine-gun-kelly Kathy Alexander/Legends of America. 2022 November -. George “Machine Gun” Kelly
George Moran, better known as Bugs Moran was born on August 21 1891. He became affiliated with several gangs shortly after moving to the north side of Chicago. He was nineteen years old at the time. Before he turned twenty-one, he had already been incarcerated three times. His parents were of French and catholic descent. His father was from Alsace-Lorraine, and his mother from Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada. Many believe that Moran chose to turn to life of crime late in his teenage years. However, his jump into organized crime began as a result of prohibition.
In Firearms: A Global History to 1700, Kenneth Chase investigates why Europe perfected firearms when the Chinese invented them. Kenneth Chase is an attorney at law who received his PhD in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University. He uses primary sources in the form of texts and paintings as well as secondary sources in this monograph to trace the origin and spread of firearms. He also uses these sources to characterize militaries and determine why they used or did not use firearms. Chase dismisses the notion that the discrepancy between Eastern and Western firearms development was the result of cultural aversion. If anything, he argues that Europeans were more averse to firearms due to its association to Satan and a general
Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd was a famous robber who was blood hungry and willing to do anything. He was the one that supposedly killed the 4 cops during the Kansas City Massacre on June 17, 1933. Pretty Boy was known for his constant run in with the law and his robberies. He always seemed to avoid getting arrested. Only a few times did he get arrested, but it never stopped him from getting out and continuing his crime spree.
On March 4,1934, Nelson got in a car accident which was his fault. The other driver got out of his car and started to yell at Nelson, who pulled out his gun and shot the driver three times in the head, and then sped off. Two days later the Dillenger- Gillis gang robbed a bank in Sioux City, South Dakota. The very next day, he robbed another bank in Mason City, Iowa, killing one employee and leaving with $52,000.
to James “Tiger” Knowles, Tiger brought a borrowed firearm. Henry Francis Hays took part in
George “Bugs” Moran was one of the most famous gangsters of all time due to his fame during the prohibition era, and constant fighting with Al Capone (“Bugs Moran” National Crimes…par. 3). He was also one of the very few gangsters who was actually street smart because of his crime starting at such a young age (“Bugs Moran” par. 2). He got the nickname of “Bugs; because he was a rather violent criminal, so everyone thought he was “buggy” (Bardsley par. 1). His “buggy” attitude showed by him driving his rival gangs absolutely nuts making most of them, especially Capone, regret that they ever left New York and stepped foot in Chicago (Keefe 6). One of Moran’s rival gangsters once stated, “If I’d known what I was getting into, I’d never have left the Five-Point outfit in New York” (Keefe 6). Although Moran has been rather a mystery until now, his legacy of being the powerful leader of the north side gang will last forever (Keefe 9).
On May 27, 1980, Henry Hill signed an agreement with the United States Department of Justice Organized Crime Strike Force and became an FBI informant. Hill testified in court against his former associates to avoid going to prison for his crimes or getting killed by a mobster. Hill’s testimony led to fifty convictions.
Although the leader of the Clanton Gang was dead, the family carried on. Billy and Ike Clanton were two of the participants in the most famous gunfight of all. The ...
Capone lived in Alcatraz for 11 years and when he got out he fell ill with Neurosyphilis and died from his disease on january 25 1947.
The topic of gun control became an element for discussion among Americans in the early 1930s when mob and gang crime was at an all-time high. The term “Gun Control” refers to a set of laws set in p...
Frank Lucas (born September 9, 1930[4] in La Grange, North Carolina and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina[5]) is a former heroin dealer, and organized crime boss in Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was particularly known for cutting out middlemen in the drug trade and buying heroin directly from his source in the Golden Triangle. Frank Lucas is popularly known for smuggling heroin using the coffins of dead American servicemen,[6] a claim his South Asian associate, Leslie "Ike" Atkinson denies. [7] He is the subject of the 2007 film American Gangster.
George “Bugs” Moran was not born in Chicago as thought by many people. He was born to Polish and Irish immigrant parents in 1893. Although, he was shortly moved to Chicago where it all started. Moran joined many different gangs throughout his childhood and teen years. He committed more than 20 known robberies and was imprisoned three times before he was just 21 years of age. He was soon very important to a man’s gang that called themselves the Dion O'Banion's North Siders. Moran eventually became the head man of the North Siders when both of his predecessors were shot by Al Capone’s hit men. While he was still involved in this gang, he was the gun-man that tried to knock off Johnny Torrio. Moran was also in the lead car in the famous car cavalcade that drove past Al Capone's Cicero headquarters, The Hawthorn Inn, firing over 1000 shots into the building. The gangs’ war ended with the St. Valentines Day massacre.
The Kansas City Gun Experiment was a study that took place between 1992 and 1993. The goal of the study was to examine if increased police patrol in a “hot spot” of the city would help to reduce the amount of gun-related crime. The data collected by the research team was solely quantitative as it mainly consisted of statistics and other data numerical in nature of the increase/decrease of gun violence in these beats. After the twenty-nine week period of the study, the experiment’s findings showed that an increase in police patrol, as well as seizure of illegally carried guns, did help to eliminate gun-related crimes.
No other weapon in my opinion has changed the face of the battlefield as has the machine gun. It's design and and association with mass death makes it a great and powerful weapon. Two men, Hiram Maxim and Richard Gatling, made huge impacts in the development of the Machine Gun and bringing it to use in the military. These two brilliant men designed capable and reliable versions of Machine guns in a time when everyone was making unreliable models. However before we get into discussion about the inventions of Hiram Maxim and Richard Gatling, it's important to understand how machine guns were developed.
That evening Daryl and Jasper were heading down to the showers to wash all of the animal blood and guts from their bodies. They had just returned from a successful hunting trip, and even though he was 9 years old, Jasper was proving to be a quick study. He was light on his feet, quiet and he was quick. Jasper had caught a total of 10 squirrels with his bow. Daryl couldn’t have asked for a better hunting partner. He was damn proud of the boy.