Casts from the Past

Saturday, July 26, 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In honor of this celebration, the FBI has published a book entitled, “The FBI: A Centennial History, 1908-2008″.

You can purchase hard or soft copies from the Government Printing Office or …

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On the morning of Thursday, February 14, 1929 St. Valentine’s Day, Al Capone sent a bloody .45 caliber Valentine when five members of George ‘Bugs’ Moran’s gang were lined up against a brick wall of the garage of the SMC Cartage Company in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago’s North …

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