As President Donald Trump called for the reopening of Alcatraz in a Sunday evening Truth Social post, many Americans were reminded of the notorious prison off the coast of San Francisco, California.

But a more storied use of the “Tommy gun,” as it was dubbed, was employed by minions of Capone, the nattily dressed king of the Chicago underworld in the 1920s and ’30s. On Feb. 14,1929, gangsters ...

Alcatraz Island is most well known for its prison, that housed notorious inmates such as Machine Gun Kelly and Al Capone. What may surprise you is that Alcatraz has a long and storied history, playing ...

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. Thompson, a khaki-clad military man who ...