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The Secret Six was a name given (by James Doherty of The Chicago Tribune) to six influential businessmen in Chicago who organized the business community against Al Capone.
The Secret Six is a 1931 American pre-Code crime film starring Wallace Beery as "Slaughterhouse Scorpio", a character very loosely based on Al Capone, and featuring Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Marjorie Rambeau and Ralph Bellamy.
The so-called Secret Six, or the Secret Committee of Six, were a group of men who secretly funded the 1859 raid on Harper's Ferry by abolitionist John Brown. Sometimes described as "wealthy," this was true of only two.
Oct 9, 2023 · The ‘Secret Six’ who helped bring down Capone. by: Larry Potash. Posted: Oct 9, 2023 / 04:45 AM CDT. Updated: Oct 10, 2023 / 07:26 AM CDT. SHARE. This is an archived article and the...
Al Capone and the crime crusaders are now dead. Everyone has heard of Scarface Al, but few have heard of the Secret Six. Hoffman argues correctly that in destroying Capone the crusaders made Chicago a better city. Yet many foreigners still think of Chicago as "the gangster city."
Oct 9, 2023 · The “Secret Six” Who Helped Bring Down Capone - YouTube. WGN News. 488K subscribers. 0. No views 2 minutes ago. Elliott Ness and the Untouchables, along with Treasury agent Frank Wilson, were...
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Aug 30, 2016 · ‘The Secret Six’ was a name coined by Chicago Tribune reporter James Doherty to six influential Chicago businessmen (including the president of Sears- Roebuck)who organized the business community against Al Capone and were instrumental in obtaining his conviction on tax evasion.
