Time to Remember Crime and Prohibition

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See footage of smugglers trying to outrun the US Coastguard, mobster Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond, the imprisonment of John Dillinger and Al Capone at the racecourse., Material from the 1950s newsreel documentary series Time to Remember tells the story of the media circus that surrounded notorious gangsters and other Depression-era criminals in the USA, encapsulated in the kidnapping of Charles and Anne Lindbergh’s baby. Includes footage of rumrunners trying to outrun the US Coastguard and beat prohibition; mobster Jack ‘Legs’ Diamond; John Dillinger behind bars; Al Capone at the racecourse; and the Lindbergh baby murder trial of Bruno Hauptmann.