What Followed the St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Reenactment of the killing of seven men on Al Capone's orders. Cosa Nostra News is pleased to present the following story by author Chriss Lyon , who wrote the true crime book "A Killing in Capone's Playground." Everyone has heard of the infamous St. Valentine’s Day Massacre , the 1929 slaughter of seven associates of the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran during the Prohibition Era . Not many are aware of the events that followed, however, which exposed small town America to the inner workings of big city brutality.