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  1. George Kelly Barnes (July 17, 1900 [1] [2] – July 18, 1954), [3] better known by his nickname " Machine Gun Kelly ", was an American gangster from Memphis, Tennessee, active during the Prohibition era. His nickname came from his favorite weapon, a Thompson submachine gun. He is best known for the kidnapping of oil tycoon and businessman ...

  2. Aug 16, 2021 · Shutterstock. A few years later, Machine Gun Kelly died in July 1954. His cause of death: heart attack. Though he had famously proclaimed that he'd be out of prison by Christmas when he spent his first few months there, he eventually realized it was the end of the road.

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  3. AllThatsInteresting.com, April 24, 2018, https://allthatsinteresting.com/george-machine-gun-kelly. Accessed May 19, 2024. Prohibition-era gangster George "Machine Gun" Kelly pulled off one of American history's most infamous crimes and thought he got away with it. Then his victim got revenge.

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  4. Apr 2, 2014 · Machine Gun Kelly was an American bootlegger, bank robber and kidnapper who made headlines in the 1930s. He was sentenced to life in prison along with wife Kathryn Kelly in 1933.

  5. George Kelly and his gang kidnapped a. wealthy oil magnate in 1933. Kelly was captured. by FBI agents. It was 75 years ago today—September 26, 1933—that wanted gangster George “Machine Gun”...

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  7. Aug 30, 2023 · August 30, 2023. Eminem, Machine Gun Kelly Cooper Neill/Getty Images; Venla Shalin/Redferns/Getty Images. The man who shot and killed three Black people at a Dollar General in Jacksonville...

  8. By 1933, the FBI was on the trail of ‘machine gun expert’ Machine Gun Kelly. Meanwhile, Kelly and Kathryn were planning a kidnapping that would earn them more money than ever before. A year earlier, the couple had partnered with gangster Eddie Doll to kidnap wealthy manufacturer and banker Howard Arthur Woolverton, which would be resolved ...

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