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Nov 9, 2009 · John Dillinger was a Depression‑era gangster, famed for his daring bank robberies and jail breaks, until he was shot to death by FBI agents in July 1934.
John Herbert Dillinger (/ ˈ d ɪ l ɪ n dʒ ər /; June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He commanded the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing twenty-four banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times and escaped twice.
Jul 21, 2019 · On July 22, 1934, American gangster John Dillinger was shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago's Biograph Theater, where he had just seen the Clark Gable movie "Manhattan Melodrama" with two female companions.
Jun 2, 2023 · Updated June 5, 2023. After a year of robbing banks, John Dillinger died on July 22, 1934, when federal agents shot and killed him as he left a movie in Chicago, Illinois. On July 22, 1934, federal agents surrounded Chicago’s Biograph Theater and waited for their target.
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Aug 2, 2019 · Family members obtained a permit to exhume Dillinger's body sometime before mid-September, according to the Indiana State Department of Health, and a History Channel spokeswoman confirmed to...
Aug 4, 2014 · In September 1924, a 21-year-old Dillinger was sent to prison after being nabbed in a botched robbery on an elderly grocer. The young hood spent the next eight and a half years doing time with ...
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John Dillinger is an adrenaline-fueled narrative that reignites America’s fascination with the suave but deadly desperado who was the FBI’s first “Public Enemy.” Dubbed “The Jackrabbit” because of the way he leaped over bank cages and railings, Dillinger and his bank-robbing gang cut a criminal swath yet to be equaled.
