The year after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, police raided the Michigan home of gangster Fred Burke, left, and seized a small cache of weapons, including two Tommy guns used in the ...
CHICAGO (Tribune News Service) — Except for Al Capone, Gen. John Thompson would be forgotten by all but serious devotees of military history. The two never met, being cut from different cloth.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The year after the St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, police raided the Michigan home of gangster Fred Burke, left, and ...
The gun’s alternate moniker was the “Chicago Typewriter” — the rapidly fired bullets echoing the click, clack of typing. The Thompson submachine gun was smaller and thus an easier to use version of a ...