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- Tony Berardi was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for American Experience (1987), Crime Inc. (1984) and Mobsters (1997). He was married to Lucille H. Berardi. He died on July 13, 2005 in Kankakee, Illinois, USA.
- SpouseLucille H. Berardi (her death, 6 children)
- His father was a railroad worker who was killed in an accident on the job.
- News photographer with the Chicago Evening American who famously captured the grisly images of the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago. His other famous pictures include images of the first nuclear bomb test, and the infamous 1934 snap of criminal John Dillinger leaning against Lake County, Indiana, prosecutor Robert Estill.
- Son Tony Jr.; daughters Carol Dalissandro, Virginia Hermes and Tricia Wille; stepson Robert Trumbull; and stepdaughter Patricia Dvorin.
- Son Tony Berardi Jr. followed in his father's footsteps and became chief photographer for the Chicago Tribune.
- Photographed famed gangster Al Capone numerous times, including the first posed news photos the kingpin agreed to sit for, and during Capone's trial and conviction for tax evasion.
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