80 Years Later, Infamous Al Capone Photo Debunked

Chicago -- Free-Press-Release.com-- Sep 25, 2011 -- Audie Award-winning narrator Scott Brick has collaborated on a recording of Arthur Nash’s short story “Snapshot Heard ‘Round the World”, based on a lost interview with the late Frank Zak of the Chicago Daily-Times. Within it, Zak – a rookie in September 1931 but by the 1990s in rapidly failing health – admitted he ambitiously ‘staged’ the portrait that caused such a furor.

Until now, little was known about the often-published image beyond Hartnett’s alleged reply to a disapproving Commissioner of Baseball: "OK, but if you don't want me to have my picture taken with Al Capone, you go tell him!" Nash and Brick pair up to rework this amusing chapter in the history of photojournalism, as well as the folklore of Chicago’s underworld and professional baseball. Available to all media representatives.

Scott Brick is an American actor, writer and prolific narrator of audiobooks including In Cold Blood, Dune, Fahrenheit 451 and Helter Skelter. He has narrated works for high profile authors including Tom Clancy, Stephen J. Cannell, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, Clive Cussler, and Robert Ludlum, among others.

Arthur Nash is an advisor to the City of Las Vegas’s “Museum of Organized Crime & Law Enforcement”, a.k.a. the “MOB Museum”. His 2010 photographic essay titled ‘New York City Gangland’ (www.New York City Gangland.com) was praised as “The Eye-Catching Crown Jewel of Mafia History.”

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