Saint Valentine's Day The Massacre Continues
March, 1990
Call me a sentimentalist, call me a romantic, but when Saint Valentine's Day rolls around every year, I am reminded that it marks the anniversary of that wintry day in Chicago in 1929 when Al Capone's bootleggers machine-gunned six members of the Bugs Moran gang. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre helped convince Americans that nine years of Prohibition was not only failing to stop alcohol abuse but actually making it worse. In fact, it was making everything worse: It reduced the country's socia...
