May 11, 2011, 8 pm to 9 pm in the library: A. Irving, K. Cheng

Meeting Highlights

• Garage Band has jazz music that can be used as background.
• A. Irving installed Audacity; K. Cheng was assigned to use it during recording
• Opening sentence of podcast (by K. Cheng): (cheery jazz music opens) Happy Valentine's Day everyone. We here at The Pushers are celebrating today of love and red hearts. Specifically, we are celebrating with our love of bullets as they pierce the hearts of our rivals and make them burst with red blood. That’s right! Today we are celebrating the anniversary of Chicago’s notorious St. Valentine’s Massacre!
• Discussed format of show. Wikipedia page for St. Valentine's massacre was used as template for topics: Begin by discussing rivalry between Italians and Irish that led up to massacre, then describe the event and the victims, followed by the investigation, and close with recommendations on other sources and cite depictions of event in fiction.
• A. Irving found copies of original FBI on investigation of the massacre
• A. Irving will research events before and during the massacre: prohibition that created organized crime, the Italian-Irish rivalry that led up to it, the victims, etc.
• K. Cheng will research events following the massacre: the FBI investigation, what happened to respective gangs, pop culture and urban legends

Next meeting: E block on Friday