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Jul 21, 2019 · The body of slain outlaw John Dillinger is placed in a police wagon from Alexian Brothers Hospital en route to the Cook County Morgue in Chicago, Ill., July 23, 1934. Dillinger died on his way to the hospital after being shot by federal agents in front of the Biograph Theatre in Chicago. (AP Photo) ASSOCIATED PRESS.
- John Dillinger’s Early Life and Petty Crimes
- The Infamous Crime Spree of Public Enemy No.1
- The Final Tip That Led to John Dillinger’s Death
- The Aftermath of John Dillinger’s Death
John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He grew up in the Oak Hill neighborhood, a middle class town where his father worked as a grocer. As PBSnotes, Dillinger’s father was alternatively severe and indulgent with his son, sometimes beating him or locking him in the house, and sometimes giving him candy and permis...
On May 10, 1933, John Dillinger was released from prison. A little more than a month later, he robbed his first bank, the New Carlisle National Bank in Ohio, and stole $10,000 from the bank’s vault. Dillinger and several of his accomplices went on to rob four banks, two grocery stores, and a drug store, absconding with more than $40,000 in just fou...
Following a near miss in Wisconsin, federal agents received a tip that changed everything. According to the FBI, the Romanian-born madam of a brothel named Anna Sage (real name: Ana Cumpanas) contacted agents on July 21, 1934, claiming to have information about John Dillinger. She told them that she was planning to attend a movie with Dillinger the...
By the time John Dillinger died in July 1934, he’d become both beloved and reviled in the United States. Some saw him as a good-for-nothing criminal, but others considered him something of a Depression-era folk hero. “Why should the law have wanted John Dillinger?” one man wrote to a newspaper in Indianapolis, according to The New York Times. “He w...
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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, 2024 · Chicago Tribune historical photo. John Dillinger's body lies in the Cook County morgue after he was shot and killed by FBI agents on July 22, 1934, at the Biograph Theater in Chicago.
Dillinger was hit four times from six shots, three of them were minor and one hit him in the back of the neck severing two arteries, his spinal cord, and flying through his brain and out the front of his face. Dillinger dropped to the floor face first, dead.
John Herbert Dillinger, Jr. was a Midwestern bank robber, auto thief, and fugitive who captured the national imagination until the FBI caught up with him in 1934.
On July 22, 1934, 85 years ago, FBI agents shot and killed Dillinger during a confrontation. Dillinger, whose name once dominated the headlines, was a notorious and vicious thief.