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Al Capone and President Franklin D. Roosevelt
History and war makes strange bed fellows. Do you know of the infamousrelationship between Chicago Gangster Al Capone and President Franklin D.Roosevelt? If you did«I would be truly impressed. The following facts didn·tcome to light until recently when official secret documents were made publicabout events of World War II. The following are some of these interesting andhistoric facts:
Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone
(born January 17, 1899 ² and died January 25,1947) was as we all know and have seencountless movies portrayed how hecontrolled Chicago and his Prohibition eracrime syndicate through violence, intimidation and murder.Al Capone ironically is known for a couple of real ´firstsµ. The first ´firstµ is thathe·s credited with having helped in designing and owning the first known´bullet proof carsµ. In 1928, Al allegedly went to his friends at a local ChicagoCadillac dealership and together with the specifications allegedly supplied by Alhimself, they made the world·s first and second ´Bulletproof or armoured carµdesigned to protect people. The 1928, 341A Cadillac Town Sedans were orderedin the name of Mr. Brown, one of several aliases used by Al and hisorganisation.Al Capone·s original cars, similar to the one shown inthe photo were green with black fenders. The reasonthat Capone wanted them in this colour combinationwas that they were identical to those cars used by theChicago Police Department and higher ranking city 
 
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officials. The car itself weighted a whopping 9000 pounds, 3000 pounds of it was bullet-proof armour under the standard bodywork. The windshield and other windowswere made of inch thick recently developed bullet proof glass. It was alsobelieved to have had flashing red lights behind the grill and a real police siren.Some sources say that it was also the first private car to be fitted with a policeradio. Al had his friends at Cadillac make 2 identical cars.According to former US Secret Service,Special Agent, Mike Reilly on Monday the8
th
of December 1941, the day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbour andother United States military installationson the Hawaiian Islands, that nearly every radio in America was tuned in andwaiting to hear President Franklin D.Roosevelt address the US Congress andask that they declare a state of war with Japan.However, late in the evening of the 7
th
of December 1941, the US SecretService, led by Reilly decided that a ´bullet-proofµ car was needed immediately to protect President Roosevelt from possible assassins in America who weresympathetic to Japan or Germany. However, at that time federal lawsprohibited the purchasing of any automobile that cost more than 750 USDollars. A bullet-proof car would have certainly cost more than that. There wasno time to wait for the US lawmakers to pass legislation allowing for such avehicle to be purchased, there was definitely not enough time to build one andit was needed immediately.
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