Kaitlin montgomery biography

The movie begins with some text on screen setting up the situation. The year is and, according to the film, Prohibition has caused war in the streets of Chicago. On one side you have law enforcement, and on the other you have organized crime led by the infamous Al Capone, who&#;s played by Robert De Niro in the movie.

Specific scenery, of course, is made up, but this whole setup is true.

In October of , and after years of petitioning and lobbying by anti-liquor groups around the nation, the U.S. Congress added the 18th Amendment to the Constitution and officially made the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages illegal. As you can probably guess, it was a law that wasn&#;t loved by everyone.

While legal production of alcohol was prohibited, that only served to create a black market for the production and sale of liquor.

With a lot of money to be made free of taxes and government oversight, it was the perfect scenario for a crime boss by the