Capone Al - Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the American Dream

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ABS

A. Brad Schwartz (Personal Collection)

BOP-AP

Comprehensive Case Files of Inmates Incarcerated at U.S. Penitentiary, Alcatraz, ca. 1924ca. 1988; Record Group 129 (Records of the Bureau of Prisons), National Archives and Records Administration, San Bruno, CA

CCF

Criminal Case Files 1892; Record Group 21 (Records of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Chicago); National Archives and Records Administration, Chicago, IL

CDN

Chicago Daily News

CDT

Chicago Daily Times

CEA

Chicago Evening American

CEP

Chicago Evening Post

CHE

Chicago Herald and Examiner

CN

Cleveland News

CP

Cleveland Press

CPC

Cleveland Press Collection, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH

CPD

Cleveland Plain Dealer

CRCC

Calumet Region Community Collection, Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL

CT

Chicago Tribune

DMM

David Mamet manuscripts, Lilly Library Manuscripts Collection, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

ENPS

MS3699 Eliot Ness Papers/Scrapbooks Collection No. 171, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH

FBI-AC

Federal Bureau of Investigation File on Al Capone, FBI Records: The Vault, https://vault.fbi.gov/Al%20Capone (accessed August 12, 2015)

FBI-AJ

Federal Bureau of Investigation file on Alexander Gleig Jamie, obtained by ABS through a Freedom of Information Act request, February 11, 2016

FBI-DA

Federal Bureau of Investigation file on Desi Arnaz, FBI Records: The Vault, https://vault.fbi.gov/Desi%20Arnaz (accessed February 22, 2017)

FBI-EN

Federal Bureau of Investigation File on Eliot Ness, FBI Records: The Vault, https://vault.fbi.gov/Eliot%20Ness (accessed August 12, 2015)

FBI-ENA

Federal Bureau of Investigation Applicant File on Eliot Ness, obtained by ABS through a Freedom of Information Act request, February 3, 2015

FBI-RIR

Federal Bureau of Investigation file on Robert Isham Randolph, obtained by ABS through a Freedom of Information Act request, March 22, 2016

FBI-SVDM

Federal Bureau of Investigation File on the St. Valentines Day Massacre, FBI Records: The Vault, https://vault.fbi.gov/St.%20Valentines%20Day%20Massacre (accessed August 12, 2015)

FJW

Frank John Wilson Papers, Collection No. 8312, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY

GEQJ

Donated Materials, Johnson Papers; National Archives and Records Administration, Chicago, IL

GH

George Hagenauer

HHPL

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA

HVO

Howard Vincent OBrien Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago, IL

IRS-1

W. C. Hodgins, Jacque L. Westrich, and H. N. Clagett, Memo In re: Alphonse Capone, 7244 Prairie Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, July 8, 1931, Internal Revenue Service, Historical Documents relating to Alphonse (Al) Capone, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/file-1-letter-dated-07081931-in-re-alphonse-capone.pdf (accessed August 8, 2015)

IRS-2

Frank J. Wilson, Summary Report In re: Alphonse Capone, Lexington Hotel, 2300 Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, Ill., December 21, 1933, Internal Revenue Service, Historical Documents Relating to Alphonse (Al) Capone, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/file-2-report-dated-12211933-in-re-alphonse-capone-by-sa-frank-wilson.pdf (accessed August 8, 2015)

IRS-3

Frank J. Wilson to Elmer Irey, March 27, 1931, Internal Revenue Service, Historical Documents Relating to Alphonse (Al) Capone, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/file-3-letter-dated-03271931-to-chief-irey-from-sa-wilson.pdf (accessed August 8, 2015)

IRS-4

Frank J. Wilson to Elmer Irey, April 8, 1931, Internal Revenue Service, Historical Documents Relating to Alphonse (Al) Capone, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/file-4-letter-dated-04081931-to-chief-irey-from-sa-wilson.pdf (accessed August 8, 2015)

JBC

James B. Cloonan (Personal Collection)

JIG

Jacob I. Grossman Collection on Al Capone, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL

KC

Records of the Senate Special Committee to Investigate Organized Crime in Interstate Commerce, 195051 (Kefauver Committee); Record Group 46 (Records of the U.S. Senate); Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

KDB

Karl & Doug Bretz (Personal Collection)

LAT

Los Angeles Times

MAC

Max Allan Collins

MM

Calvin Goddard Collection, Mob Museum, Las Vegas, NV

Ness MS.

Untitled manuscript by Eliot Ness, Roll 1, Folder 2, Eliot Ness Papers and Scrapbooks, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH

NLEM

Collection of the National Law Enforcement Museum, [2012.39.4], Washington, D.C.

NOF

Notorious Offenders Files, 19191975; Record Group 129 (Records of the Bureau of Prisons), National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD

NYT

New York Times

OPF

Official Personnel Folder, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO

OPF/ATF

Official Personnel Folders from the National Personnel Records Center (St. Louis), held by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, Washington, D.C.

PCF

Prohibition Case Files; Record Group 21 (Records of the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, Chicago); National Archives and Records Administration, Chicago, IL

PCHS

Potter County Historical Society, Coudersport, PA

PU

Records of the Prohibition Unit, Record Group 58 (Records of the Internal Revenue Service), National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD

PWH

Paul W. Heimel (Personal Collection)

RIR

Robert Isham Randolph Scrapbooks, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL

RM

Rebecca McFarland (Personal Collection)

RRPAC

Records Relating to the Prosecution of Alphonse Capone, 19301931; Record Group 118 (Records of U.S. Attorneys, 18211994), National Archives and Records Administration, Chicago, IL

SLS

Scott Leeson Sroka (Personal Collection)

SPD

Records of the Office of Community War Services, Social Protection Division General Records, 19411946; Record Group 215, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD