Assassination of Johnny Lazia was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Missouri, 1934.
Johnny Lazia, the gangster who ran Kansas City's rackets under the protection of the Pendergast political machine, was machine-gunned outside the Park Central Hotel on Armour Boulevard in the early morning as he arrived with his wife. Lazia had controlled bootlegging, gambling and the North Side vote for the machine and had become 'the supreme gang boss' of the city, but after the Union Station Massacre, which he was suspected of helping arrange, he grew a political and criminal liability. Bullets recovered from his body were reportedly linked to the massacre, fueling theories that an ally engineered his death. His killing removed the dominant figure of Kansas City's Prohibition-era underworld and exposed the deep entanglement of the city's organized crime with its ruling political machine.
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