Revisiting Atlantic City's Historical 1920s Crime Summit
Al and Nucky stroll; they are the ones with hats. From PressofAtlanticCity.com: As a historian, Marc Mappen doesn't like people who deal more in myths than facts when writing about the same subjects he does. In Mappen's new book, "Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation," he raises serious doubts about a legend about Atlantic City that has survived for more than 80 years - the 1929 gangster conference that supposedly involved mobsters from multiple cities, including Al Capone from Chicago and Lucky Luciano and Frank Costello from New York. Mappen, a Highland Park resident, believes only Capone and other Chicago underworld criminals were at the conference at that time in Atlantic City.