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  1. Death of America's First Public Enemy #1

    Date(s): July 22, 1934 Location: Cook, Illinois Tag(s): John Dillinger, FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, Biograph Theater, Public Enemy #1 

         America’s first Public Enemy Number One, John Dillinger, was an idolized gangster who robbed and killed during the Great Depression. Considered a Robin Hood character by the public, in reality he was a prosaic gangster and a cold hearted killer. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agents C.B. Winstead and C. O. Hurt gunned down John Dillinger on July 22, 1934, outside the Biograph...