Count Dante's Chicago Stomping Grounds 15 Locations

Count Juan Raphael Dante (born John Timothy Keehan; February 2, 1939 – May 25, 1975) was an American martial artist figure during the 1960s and 1970s.
This video was alot of fun to make. I love the whole John Keehan aka Count Dante story. I never read a story about anyone quite like it, So i was hooked right from the start! I have been researching & traveling all around Chicago to find these locations so i can visit & records these historical Chicago locations. I really hope you like what i put together to share with you All. This one means alot to me. Keehan was born in Beverly, Chicago, on February 2, 1939, His father, Jack, was a physician and director of the Ashland State Bank, and his mother, Dorothy, often appeared on the society pages of the Chicago Tribune. Keehan attended Mount Carmel High School. Most notable of the early masters he trained under was sensei Robert Trias. Keehan, after gaining his black belt in karate, went on to become a sensei himself.
In 1967, Keehan legally changed his name to Count Juan Raphael Danté, Keehan was prone to boasts that furthered his reputation, his most notorious one being that he'd participated in secret "death matches" in Thailand and China, winning by killing opponents in front of crowds numbering in the thousands.
He began heavily promoting himself via comic book ads as the Deadliest Man Alive. One had only to mail order his instructional booklet World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets (in which he outlined the "Dance of Death") to also receive a free Black Dragon Fighting Society membership card. These comic book ads account for much of Count Dante's lasting notoriety in pop culture. They read
Yes, this is the DEADLIEST and most TERRIFYING fighting art known to man and WITHOUT EQUAL. Its MAIMING, MUTILATING, DISFIGURING, PARALYZING and CRIPPLING techniques are known by only a few people in the world. An expert at DIM MAK could easily kill many Judo, Karate, Kung Fu, Aikido, and Gung Fu experts at one time with only finger-tip pressure using his murderous POISON HAND WEAPONS. Instructing you step by step thru each move in this manual is none other than COUNT DANTE — THE DEADLIEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED.
The Chicago Dojo War incident of April 24, 1970, where Dante and some of his students performed a dojo storm on Green Dragon Society's Black Cobra Hall. Upon storming the school, they attacked the rival dojo's students. The brief battle resulted in the death of one of Dante's friends and fellow sensei, Jim Koncevic.
Former mob lawyer Robert Cooley states in his autobiography When Corruption was King that he represented Count Dante during the trial following the 1970 Dojo War incident. Cooley recalls that Dante was ultimately acquitted but not before both sides were given a stern lecture by the judge citing everyone at fault. Cooley also suggests that Dante was a mastermind in the notorious 1974 Chicago Purolator vault robbery in which the amount of $4.3 million was stolen. While not one of the suspects in the trial, Dante was allegedly questioned by Illinois grand jury and ultimately passed a lie detector test. Dante died shortly before the trial was completed which resulted in the conviction of all but one person involved. Count Dante died in his sleep of internal hemorrhaging caused by a bleeding ulcer, on May 25, 1975. Rest in Peace John & Jim
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