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That Time Al Capone Ran A Soup Kitchen
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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
May 27, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Al Capone is rightly remembered as of the most notorious gangsters in US history -- but for a time residents of Chicago also thought of him as a benefactor. As people struggled to survive the Great Depression, Capone, in an apparent act of benevolence, founded a free, no-questions-asked soup kitchen to feed the hungry. In today's episode, Ben and Noel explore how the kitchen came to be, how it functioned -- and what Capone's true motivations might have been.
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Released:
May 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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