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Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.
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Philip Alston Willcox Purvis (born 1943), son of Melvin...
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Mar 9, 2020 · Purvis led manhunts for Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd before resigning from the agency in 1935. He served in Army Intelligence during World War II, rising to the rank of colonel, and helped compile evidence against Nazi leadership for the Nuremberg Trials.
Melvin Purvis (1903-1960) Share: William J. Helmer. Like his boss J. Edgar Hoover, Melvin Purvis was a middle-class Southerner. He also had a law degree and, like many young lawyers,...
A documentary about the life and death of Melvin Purvis, the FBI agent who captured John Dillinger and other notorious gangsters in the 1930s. Learn about his early years, his relationship with J. Edgar Hoover, and the mystery behind his gunshot wound.
Jun 22, 2011 · Legendary Lawman Melvin Horace Purvis, Jr. This month’s lawman is most noted for the capture of John Dillinger and the less than stellar history between J. Edgar Hoover and himself. He had a...
Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.
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Oct 3, 2005 · Alston Purvis, a CFA professor and the son of legendary FBI agent Melvin Purvis, writes a book about his father's war against crime and J. Edgar Hoover's war against him. He exposes how Hoover persecuted and blocked his father, who killed Dillinger and Floyd, from the bureau and the public.
