john dillinger

     

In 1934 in Chicago, soon before his death, he had painful plastic surgery that left him looking pretty much the same

Trivia about john dillinger

  • "Shot Dead By Federal Men In Front Of Movie Theatre" read his 1934 front-page obituary
  • A 1934 headline read, he "used wooden gun to escape"
  • This Public Enemy No. 1 robbed Midwestern banks until 1934 when he was done in by the Woman in Red
  • In 1934 he got the FBI on his trail by crossing the Indiana-Illinois line; he didn't live much longer
  • On Jan. 15, 1934 he held up the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indiana (& didn't stop to see a movie)
  • This daring public enemy's high-profile career lasted only from June of 1933 to July of 1934
  • Crown Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of 3 Vice Presidents & this Public Enemy No. 1
  • He once said, "I don't smoke much, and I drink very little. I guess my only bad habit is robbing banks"
  • His fateful July 22, 1934 night at Chicago's Biograph Theater might be featured on "Biography"
  • On March 3, 1934 this Public Enemy escaped from Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Ind., allegedly using a wooden gun
  • Pretty Boy Floyd became the new public enemy number one after this man was killed in Chicago in 1934
  • Chicago's Biograph Theater was the site of this gangster's 1934 death
  • Chicago FBI head Melvin Purvis helped engineer the killing of this man in 1934
  • 2 months after Bonnie & Clyde were shot down in Louisiana, he got it outside the Biograph in Chicago