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Jack Ruby was born under the name Jacob Rubenstein. He was a nightclub owner in Dallas, Texas, and changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in December of 1947. Ruby put his name in history forever, under the heading; Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald. He committed this act only two days after Oswald had assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy. Jacob Rubenstein was born in 1911. The exact day of his birth is uncertain and has been reported on various dates from March to June. The most common date of birth is said to be March 24, 1911. Rubenstein...
In the 1930s, one name struck particular fear into the heart of every lawman. John Herbert Dillinger. He was considered public enemy number one by the US Justice Department, and was responsible for the death of an East Chicago police officer in 1934. Infamous for a string of successful bank robberies, no one has yet had the courage to even estimate how many thousands this notorious gangster stole over the years.
John Dillingers life involved more thrills than modern day action movies. Born to an extremely average mid-western family in June of 1903, Johns mother died when he was only three...
The infamous gangster, Charles Arthur Pretty Boy Floyd, was not romanticized by the press like his contemporaries. Instead, he was portrayed as a cold-hearted ruthless criminal, who in reality did not commit many of the crimes attributed to him.
Charles Arthur Floyd was born on February 3, 1904 in rural Georgia. His family remained in Georgia until Floyd was ten years old, then they moved to Oklahoma. In Oklahoma, Charles Pretty Boy Floyd worked on his familys dirt farm. They struggled for years through drought and hardship until the area became part of the great dustbowl. He married at the age...
Al Capone was an infamous American gangster in the 1920s and 30s also known by the name Scarface. Born in Brooklyn, New York was where he started his career as a so called used furniture dealer. Capone then moved to Chicago, Illinois where he became the citys most notorious mafia figure. By the end of the 1920s he was placed on the FBIs Most Wanted List. Capones activities helped Chicago gain the reputation of a lawless city during the Prohibition Era...
