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I actually got to hold those 2 Thompsons!
About 2 years ago there was a display at the OGCA (Ohio Gun Collectors Association) meeting put on with both of the actual Thompsons used in the Massacre...These are in the possession of a Sheriff's Department in Michigan and one of their Deputy's gave a very great program on the guns and the Massacre...when the program was over almost everyone attending left the room, but I stayed and talked to the Deputy...I asked him if I could pick up the Thompson's...he told me yes...go ahead and pick them both up...the actual machine guns used in the massacre...as I was holding them I actually got a weird feeling (hard to explain) that I had the actual guns used in the Massacre in my hands...I will never forget that experience...there are probably other members here on this Forum that were there also...if so please chime in...Roger
About 2 years ago there was a display at the OGCA (Ohio Gun Collectors Association) meeting put on with both of the actual Thompsons used in the Massacre...These are in the possession of a Sheriff's Department in Michigan and one of their Deputy's gave a very great program on the guns and the Massacre...when the program was over almost everyone attending left the room, but I stayed and talked to the Deputy...I asked him if I could pick up the Thompson's...he told me yes...go ahead and pick them both up...the actual machine guns used in the massacre...as I was holding them I actually got a weird feeling (hard to explain) that I had the actual guns used in the Massacre in my hands...I will never forget that experience...there are probably other members here on this Forum that were there also...if so please chime in...Roger
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Found in the home of Fred Burke (a known Capone mobster and believed to possibly be one of the gunmen in the massacre) in Berrien County, St. Joseph, Mich.
Tommy guns from St. Valentines Day massacre of 7 Bugs Moran gang members by Al Capone'''s men are in Berrien County, Michigan - ABC7 Chicago
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That explains the tradition of flowers. Funerals have flowers
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Careful, she may decide to do some beheading herself. Being as though she is just starting out it might be with "the small head".
My gf is currently on a crocheting binge. She's made me a scarf and is now making two others for a couple of her retired faculty friends.
She told me that the term tricoteuse was used to describe women who would knit by the guillotine during public executions during the Reign of Terror:
From the above Wikipedia article:
She told me that the term tricoteuse was used to describe women who would knit by the guillotine during public executions during the Reign of Terror:
From the above Wikipedia article:
Tricoteuse is French for a knitting woman. The term is most often used in its historical sense as a nickname for the women in the French Revolution who sat in the gallery supporting the left-wing politicians in the National Convention, attended the meetings in the Jacobin club, the hearings of the Revolutionary Tribunal and sat beside the guillotine during public executions, supposedly continuing to knit. The performances of the Tricoteuses were particularly intense during the Reign of Terror. 
I remember the phrase at the time " No body kills like Capone" so true
This reminded me of when I worked for Vancouver Opera many years ago and we did Francis Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites, "a fictionalized version of the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelite nuns who, in 1794 during the closing days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, were guillotined in Paris for refusing to renounce their vocation."
In the final scene, the nuns walk, one by one to the scaffold, erected just off-stage, singing the Salve Regina. KA-CHUMP! (our sound effect was a meat cleaver chopping a cabbage, slowed down)... brief pause... singing... KA-CHUMP! ... each time with one less voice, until the last voice was silenced. Curtain.
The opera was not well known to the Vancouver audience and I saw several pretty shaken people exiting the theatre!
In the final scene, the nuns walk, one by one to the scaffold, erected just off-stage, singing the Salve Regina. KA-CHUMP! (our sound effect was a meat cleaver chopping a cabbage, slowed down)... brief pause... singing... KA-CHUMP! ... each time with one less voice, until the last voice was silenced. Curtain.
The opera was not well known to the Vancouver audience and I saw several pretty shaken people exiting the theatre!
