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This Week: Mata Hari, The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Young Guns

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Movie Review - A Winter's Nightmare

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre involves organized crime and gangs, more specifically the Chicago mob led by Al Capone. The movie has its own dramatic license to fill in some holes because we don't really know the full story of exactly what happened inside that Lincoln Park neighborhood garage on Clark Street at 1030 AM on February 14, 1929. This depiction comes from a movie released in 1967 that was named after the event we just heard described, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. As the story goes, the Northside Gang supposedly hijacked some of the Chicago whiskey outfits as well as killing Bugs Moran himself.

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