The St Valentine's Day Massacre Author:Boris O'Hara Chicago, The Roaring Twenties: An hour and a half before noon on Friday, February 14, 1929, the 2100 block of Chicago's North Clark Street was quiet. A light snow was falling and the temperature had dropped to eighteen degrees above zero; it was not a day to be outside. — Inside the S.M.C. Cartage Company garage, seven men waited patiently for ... more »a special truck delivery. They did not know how long they would have to wait...they did not know that two men in police uniforms would arrive instead...they did not know when they lined up with their hands against the wall that two more men stood behind them with submachine guns leveled at their backs...
But in five seconds they found out. One hundred .45 caliber bullets and two shotgun blasts told them all they were ever going to know.« less