John Dillinger:"Public Enemy No. 1" Notorious bank robber John Dillinger is said to have been set up at the Biograph theater in Chicago and shot to death by FBI agents on July 22, 1934. John Dillinger:"Public Enemy No. 1" Notorious bank robber John Dillinger is said to have been set up at the Biograph theater in Chicago and shot to death by FBI agents on July 22, 1934.
The morbidly curious pass by the body of John Dillinger at the Cook County morgue.More related links:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/americana/dillinger/dillingermain.htm
http://www.historynet.com/picture_of_the_day
http://www2.indystar.com/library/factfiles/crime/history/dillinger_john/dillinger_john.html
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/dillinger/13.html
http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihVideoCategory&id=5200
Everybody and everything else was responsible for his life of crime, poverty, resented stepmother, strict father, etc. Nothing was ever his responsibility.
And why does the MSM create hero’s out of these people? Bonny and Clyde come to mind ... the real hero’s were the FBI ....
He committed a federal offense only when he drove a stolen car across state lines. So bank robbery wasn’t yet a federal crime. When did it become one?
The FBI moved Cumpanas first to Detroit and then to California, where she received a $5,000 reward. In 1935, she informed reporters of the deal to keep her in the country, but deportation proceedings had already begun. She appealed the decision to deport her and her case was heard in Chicago on October 16, 1935. In January 1936, the court agreed with the lower court and Cumpanas was deported to Romania in April 1936, where she lived until her death from liver problems in 1947.
If this is true, it might help to explain why "The Man From the South" by Ted Weems & His Orchestra, a song inspired by Al Capone, was one of the bestselling records of 1930.
John Dillinger, the last of the old time American outlaws.
I had no idea I was going to get right in to my favourite computer pastime- research. I got fired up on this one. All part of an incredible history of life and times in America. Not a criticism though.
Across the river from where I live is Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. For years people would mention to wide eyed visitors about the Dillinger legend. Now fast fading unfortunately. It was in that peaceful community that John Dillinger rolled in. He was with his friend Johnny Hamilton.
Facts are there. What the legend is and it fleshes out that era, is of his three day stay. Johnny got shelter with his sister and the two men relaxed briefly. I heard they bought candy for kids. Then the grapevine told them of the FBI. Winging their way to St Ignace, fifty miles south. No airport I guess locally.
John and Johnny got in their big black sedan and headed west. I know there are two big highways west. I travel the nearest west road. It is the State Highway M28 ,often and wonder which one it was. I
Nit picking here though. I may be wrong, but the article may not have mentioned the actual adverse event at Little Bohemia. A gas station owner and two CCC men, were finishing their meal and a few beers. They left with their car radio on. They failed to hear the FBI yelling "stop".
A volley of shots killed the gas station owner and wounded the two CCC(Civilian Conservation Corps) men.
Hamilton's sister got a year for harbouring a fugitive. Kindly persons intervened and she was released after six months. So many people wanted to see the garage where Dillinger's car was parked, that it was set afire- pity.
And heroes are still made of such men, only now they are called "gangstas" instead of "gangsters".