Eliot Ness: The Untouchable Lawman
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2022
- In the 1920's, the mob ruled Chicago. Al Capone had lawmen, the police force, and politicians under his thumb, but it was Eliot Ness, a federal agent with the Prohibition Bureau, who became the biggest thorn in Al Capone's side. Along with his band of Untouchables, Ness would make history for his fearless raids on Al Capone's bootlegging operations, earning himself a place in the annals of criminal history.
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"Now let me welcome everybody to the Wild Wild West, a state that's untouchable like Eliot Ness"
Oh, you must be talking about the place where you never find a dance floor empty; and pimps be...
@@skyden24195 I see, on a misson for them greens
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@@hannahterry6316 lean mean making money machines serving fiends
@Ajit Adonis Manilal we were in the middle of a game
1:00 - Chapter 1 - Early years
3:20 - Chapter 2 - Meet the untouchables
6:40 - Chapter 3 - It's raiding men
10:45 - Chapter 4 - Behind bars
14:55 - Chapter 5 - Ness vs the butcher
Fun fact: After Capone was put away law enforcement had no clue who ran the Chicago mob until the late 70s. Knowing that Capone was such a public figure which was his downfall, Chicago mob leaders did everything they could not to be noticed, stayed out of the limelight, and hid in plain sight. While Capone made his mark in Chicago, don't forget he was run out of New York. Ness also took a lot of heat in Cleveland. While Ness had his theory on who the Butcher was, others believed it was a vagrant. Ness had ordered the evacuation and burning of several shanty towns within the city of Cleveland, which started to turn the public against him. However, Ness believed this move was to help clean up the city. By removing the shanty towns, a lot of the vagrant crime, low level prostitution, and drug crimes went with them as the vagrants went elsewhere. Ness's first divorce, high profile drinking, and a hit-and-run car accident that was looked the other way by authorities signaled the end of his popularity in Cleveland.
Every Italian in Chicago knew who ran the outfit after Capone. People were just smart enough back then to realize LE aren't your friends either.
So sad for a prohibition agent to end up hard drinking...
im surprised that this video didnt mention the burning of kingsbury run. that was the lowest point in his role in cleveland imo
He died of syphilis,,,how did he get it?!?!
My great grandma was a flapper who drank in speakeasies. She was telling me that places got raided so often that she would keep a bar of soap and other things she might need in a bag with her in case she had to spend the night in jail. Apparently back then they didn't provide toiletries and whatnot at the jails
You are too funny Pinky Jujubean
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@Michael Jones she was a flapper🤣
@Death2trumptards!💀 🔪 "Tell me you don't know what a flapper is without telling me you don't know what a flapper is." ;)
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🤣 is that really something to be proud of?
Imagine if Brian De Palma would have made a sequel to "The Untouchables" in which Elliot Ness (played again by Kevin Costner) investigates the crimes of the Torso killer. It would have been AWESOME
In De Palma's version Ness would've actually solved the case.
He did, it's called Dressed to Kill or Body Double haha.
i believe there was a tv movie with robert stack as ness doing just that
@@ryancoulter4797 It's on TH-cam, called The Return of Elliot Ness.
I agree with you 💯 since I love the movie and all ❤
Yo! I was *waiting* for you to cover Eliot Ness! A true badass lawman.
That butcher case is so much scarier if you look into the PA swamp murders. It seems pretty obvious it was the same person because the MO is identical and this guy was known to operate on a train route attached to Cleveland, sometimes butchering Hobos on the train itself.
I’d love to see a related follow-up on Casual Criminalist!
Yes
My Great-Grandfather died the same day as Eliot Ness. May 18, 1957. But, although Ness was just 54, my great-grandfather lived a full 87 years. Born in 1869
Elliot Ness reputation greatly exceeded his accomplishments
Says a guy who didn't put away Big Al
And this is the video I was watching when I found out about the queens passing. RIP your majesty.
“You think, eventually, that nothing can disturb you and that your nerves are impregnable. Yet, looking down at that familiar face, I realized death is something to which we never become calloused”
Elliot Ness
Maybe for someone who hasn't lived.
Death is literally the ultimate adventure!
Prohibition was an exercise in futility.
Thanks for this informative summary. Easy to follow and understand
The untouchables was one my favorite television shows back in the day.
This video is really good. I think a video on hoover needs to be done
Future Video suggestion -
Eamon DeValera (1882-1975) - prominent political leader in 20th century Ireland who, after the Irish war of independence from 1919 to 1921, was in the public eye for over forty years from 1922 until his death were he served as head of government (Taoiseach) and head of state (president). He was nearly executed in the Easter Rising in 1916 and was key in putting into place the new constitution on 1937. A very prominent figure in Irish history.
He's also rumoured to have done some not so nice things like take some funds he got In the USA for the rebellion for himself. And of course that he danced around dealing with the British making Micheal Collins the face for the treaty, making him the guy to blame. Then also that he put out and/or planned the hit on Micheal Collins 100 years ago.
DeValera escaped execution alongside Padraic Pearse and the others solely because he held dual citizenship in Ireland and (I believe) Portugal. Incidentally that's where his very not-Irish last name came from. I might be getting some details wrong but I believe his father was a Portuguese diplomat or other official and that meant the British couldn't execute deValera without causing an international spat. So they sent him to prison instead. All the rest were shot and buried in a grave full of quicklime to make sure the bodies were destroyed and could not be disinterred and put into a martyr's monument.
Could you please do a Biographics on Hawaii’s Queen Lili’uokalani??? I think if you do a bit of genuine research/ digging you’ll find an interesting story that needs to be better known. Love the channel.
file under: gangsters with official paperwork vs gangsters who only care about money as paperwork
I've wanted this for so long.
Not sure how you get ideas submitted for Casual Criminalist, but the connected story to Elliot Ness, the Torso Killer, would be a great episode.
“It’s Raiding Men” 😂 Underrated Pun in a Great Video.
Great job! How about a Bio about Queen Elizabeth II who passed away today. She had been Queen since 1952. What a woman! Rip.
An updated video of her will do.
Well researched and presented, as always. I would suggest a similar profile on Australia’s most decorated soldier of WWI Albert Jacka VC.
He was also awarded the Military Cross twice
"You don't mess with Eliot Ness!"
Ok... I won't. Geesh.
17:01 - Wow 😮 He's truly a man to be revered
If only he were alive today, he'd do better to endure youths won't turn to a life of crime out of poverty 😔
I love your site.
Simon, you should make compilation videos where you put together past episodes on related topics (maybe even across channels). That would be awesome.
Bryan Cranston narrated a very good four part history documentary a few years ago, exactly as you described. He looked at time in a non-linear fashion.
Please post more videos about
- Presocratic philosophers (Thales of Miletus, Empedocles, Parmenides, Anaxagoras, Heraclitus)
- Gustave Le Bon
- Cicero
Simon and crew please give us a biographies on legendary Bill Hicks
I’d love to see you do a documentary on the Borgia family
The video was great. The queen is dead, long live the king
What a coinkidink.
I have the complete Robert Stack episodes and yes, dated but quite fun to watch.
All sorts of future stars had early roles on The Untouchables.
Worth a look!
Sometime you should do Gorbachev since he passed last week.
Totally agree with you Devin Allen 🍃
YAAAASSSSSSSS! I love the untouchables!! I always thought Ness was a badazz!
Interesting video
Hey Simon, one suggestion I was thinking you should eventually do a biographics video on as soon as you can on home run king Hank Aaron whenever you can along with American sniper Chris Kyle.
Thank you.
Hey Simon, I was thinking since you have already done a video about the life of the late Queen Elizabeth II you could perhaps do a video about Princess Anne? I think she’s by far the most interesting member of the royal family, and has committed her life to serving others through her many charities, only to have much of it overshadowed by her reputation with the media and her then sister in law Diana getting all the praise. She’s done so much from competing in the Olympics to working sometimes over 500 events in a year. Perhaps you could even do a small introduction with some personal thoughts about Queen Elizabeth at the start of the video?
I still want to campaign for a Biographics on the former WWE CEO Vince McMahon! I know Simon has said publicly that he doesn't watch wrestling, however his story is truly fascinating!
Yeah he's awful.
@Michael Jones yes former as of a month or two ago, he still has shares and his vote weighs like 80% but Triple H is over creative of Raw and Smackdown (it shows too much better shows) and PLE (or ppv) they have also improved. Stephanie McMahon and Nick Kahn (no relation to Tony Kahn) are sharing CEO duties both are over separate things by their strength.
He’s not dead yet
It's not as fun to cover still living people in case they do something worth remembering in the future.
@Death2trumptards!💀 🔪 as of a little over a month ago Vince was forced to step down from his company because of a still ongoing sex scandle he is being investigated for where he paid off employee(s) of the company with corporate funds to hush up about sexual relationships he has had with them!. The investigation is still ongoing so more details may come out, but he fully stepped down from all his roles, including CEO and head written of the company. Although he still holds his shares of the company and that allows him to be still Chairman of the board, he has absolutely no control over the company on any day to day operations. Although he may still have a lot of influence as his daughter and son in law basically run the company now.
People seriously underestimate the power of 2 way radio!!! I mean it meant you didn’t just have to outrun the one car, now you had to outrun a radio wave!!! A seriously good decision!!!
Can you do a video on Emmet Till, since the biopic is coming out soon?
The Golden Girls reference to Eliot Ness brought me here. 🙃 Many (now) obscure gems in that show.
The Untouchables was the flagship TV series for the new Desilu Productions Studio.
Still waiting for that overdue Abraham Lincoln biography, c'mon I know it has to be in the works
He did it. Search for The Wrasling President
So nice to watch this and not once hear "Chi-kahhhh-go"
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@biographics since the recent passing of her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II would you update your biographic on her and her large impact on world history
0:01 C'mon, Simon! - You're British, and you could've said that in your best Sean Connery impression !
"Thatsh de Chicago waiy!"
I hear his brother, Loch, was quite the monster.
Anyone know the name of the song that starts at 10:40?
Still waiting for the biographies of Sasaki Kojiro and Césare Borgia. I think they will be amazing.
If you have and I missed it I’m sorry, please make a video on Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. He was the commander of the 20th Maine Volunteers at Gettysburg on Little Round Top. Before that he was a professor of Bowdoin College in Maine and later four term governor of Maine.
I was brought into Chamberlain lore from a friend of many years who can claim this great man as an ancestor. Simon this seems to be right up your alley. He deserves to have his life narrated by you.
Capone also organized soup kitchens for the common man during the depression. Don't get it twisted. If you were a civilian, as from most bootleggers, you didn't need to fear Capone.
Don’t forget that Capone was an expert at managing public perception and good publicity. He may have done some things such as this but it doesn’t excuse the fact that he was an irrationally violent criminal.
Eliot should be an example of how to do drug war. Go only after the big fish. Everything lower that The Big Mans' entorage or slightly lower entorage should be monitored, but absolutely ignored to save lives of citizens. Go after the big wigs only.
(dont argue against reality, all deaths die to drug war stand at the doorstep of DEA, they are worse than all of cartels combined.
Or just , ya know, not do the drug war…
@@PhuckedUpPhilosophy Not happening, government is too involved, the industry is too big to fail.
For now...
Wanna win the war on drugs? Kill the bankers that launder the money from the Cartels. That'll be the end of the drug cartels.
14:50 Now, where have I heard about this one?
Speaking of the name Eliot, you should cover the singer/songwriter Elliott Smith.
Never heard of him.
@@Elainerulesutube he's most known for doing the soundtrack to Good Will hunting
Please make a video about Chris hani🇿🇦
Homeboy does look like a badass.
The Great Lakes Brewing Company in Cleveland, Ohio sells an amber lager named after Elliot Ness. It's quite good, and I always think about of Kevin Costner when I drink it.
My God man no one else is saying it but love the beard style. Looks great
So when’re we going to get the Elizabeth II video?
He was a hero amongst heroes but died very young from a heart attack.
So I know you've already done the Kray Twins. But since you've now done Eliot Ness you should do Nipper Read the guy that caught the Kray Twins
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Al Capone was basically told to cut out the same level of violence that he did at the St Valentine's Day Massacre at the Atlantic City Conference. Luciano and company hated the bad publicity. So, that's probably why Capone didn't try to be as heavy-handed with Ness.
Capone was largely tolerated by the East Coast Mob, not seen as an equal. Nucky Thompson apparently got pissed at Capone for making a scene over a mix up at his hotel where Capone's rooms were cancelled when he arrived in Atlantic City for the conference.
Thompson was said to have man handles Capone, grabbing him by the arm and said, " YOU FUCKERS COME WITH ME NOW!"
Also a delicious beer (by Great Lakes Brewing)
Can you do one on Nellie Bly?
08:26 - A sullen face 😂
Already showing he's not to be tangled with!
Wasn't he the strong inspiration for
- Rex Banner in The Simpsons? -
Episode that follows exactly the same prohibition law
Constantly targeting Moes tavern.
@@duncancurtis5971 Er no
Neighbourhood friendly pet shop actually 😂 haha
@@eaphantom9214 the best damn pet shop in town!
@@philthornton1382 Alright but remember, baby turtles 🐢 and alligators 🐊 may seem like a cute idea for a pet.... But when they grow up.... Let's go boys
Lol 😂
But, but Dean Winchester was told he never said that's the Chicago way 🤣 sorry I couldn't resist
Did Ness really lose the "game" in Kingsbury Run, didn´t the incidents stop when the slum area was removed?
Please do Queen Elizabeth Rip the queen
He did one about her 4 years ago. But we do need an updated version .
Please do Booker T. Washington next
Thats so untrue!
You never talked about his "burial"! Because there was concerns about his body being tampered with, he was cremated and the ashes scattered at a pond in the historic Lakeview Cemetery. He's right next to the Garfield Memorial.
Hey Simon! Back again with another suggestion. Still appreciate you doing one on Kennecott copper mine and John Moses Browning with his 1911. My suggestion for today is a video on the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and how he went from an actor and comedian to a modern Churchill.
I imagine most documentary ideas on Zelensky are waiting for the war to be over so they can include all of the struggle and accomplishments he hasn't even endured yet.
I think calling him a "modern Churchill" is more than a bit over the top... The similarities end after you account for military failures and abolishment of opposition parties. Zelensky is not at all as eloquent or diplomatically gifted as Churchill was. Besides him being propped up by the western media establishment, he's not much of an actor or let alone statesman.
Churchill was a evil person don't compare him
@@Vidhur
You forgot to mention Churchill committed genocide in India
@@CuriousMindTH-cam Ukraine has been oppressing minorities in the Donbas since well before the occupation of Crimea or the Ukrainian civil war, Zelensky is a part of that oppressive machine, he didn't stop it, so if anything, that's an *actual* comparison. The propaganda shield defending from criticism on their human rights abuses and the laughable praise of them both being "democratic" are the main things they have in common. In every other regard, Churchill was a much more talented man than Zelensky is.
as I kid I loved the untouchables, the older I get I find myself agreeing more with Al Capone, lol. But Ness seemed kinda based in some respects.
I share the same birthday and city,I like it
J Edgar Hoover plz
Are there any modern Untouchables?
Yay. A bio on Elegent Mess. (Bugs Bunny fans will get the reference).
The barrels were steam cleaned. That tells me that Capone's company wasn't selling bathtub blindness but quality hooch.
Do one on queen Elizabeth II
And to think, had there not been prohibition, he'd probably have just been an average Joe Nobody, sat at a desk pushing papers about, but noooooo, had to take the people's booze away... :P
He was from Florence sc
I'd think the main problem with the war against illegal brewing, is that so few people wanted prohibition. You can only really enforce a law if most people WANT it. "I want a drink, but the only guy who can provide the beer is a gangster? Suddenly he's my mate and i'm going to close my eyes to all the other stuff". Bloody stupid idea, like criminalising drugs. And before anyone says anything, I've seen first hand what drugs do. It's just that if it's illegal, it's worse.
I'm sure you did one on Queen Elizabeth II, but it's time for another one. RIP to your great Queen!
I’m wondering if you all would ever be willing to do one on Governor George Wallace? I think his trip from moderate to the face of segregation, his presidential campaign and assassination attempt, all the way back to moderate is an interesting story. Just how chasing the vote and populism can change someone for the worse.
Elliott Ness was a pencil pusher. His run-in with Capone and his untouchables story is more fictional than anything else. In his later years, he decided to sell a fictional story of his prohibition days.
Had Ness had his car stolen omg.
Do Omar Al Mukhtar
Elliot Ness was an ALCHOHOLIC? The wheels of fate are perverse indeed.
I liked him better than pretty much any gangster. I liked lots of gangster. Any cop that did what he did. Got to respect not just his job but the man.
Gotta say.... if someone offered me $37,000 A WEEK to turn a blind eye... I'd probably do it !
We missed out on having official boi agents solving murder mysteries...
Would you be intersted in ever covering Srinivasa Ramanujan?
I need more ancient famous people
"honest cops"...lol good one.
You forgot to mention the Black Dalia , he also tryied to find her killer. In my opinion, Ness was a national hero
I'm addicted to pigger nussy 🤠
Elliott Ness 1949 ghost written book he took the credit for putting Al Capone in prison
The main reason no one was caught was because elliot ness always told reports before the raid so they could gain fame so capone got tips off the reporters
Just an interesting fact that shows how much fame can be gained over time just due to rumors