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00:19the gangster through the eyes of Hollywood for a generation of moviegoers the mobster and the
00:25bank robber are a new breed of folk hero to a public hungry for sensation there seem lives of
00:32glamour excitement and daring but the true stories of the men and women on whose careers
00:37Hollywood builds an industry are both more sorted and more tragic may 23rd 1934 law enforcement
01:00officers inspect the bullet riddled car of the legendary Bonnie and Clyde still inside lie the
01:06bodies of the couple who are America's most wanted outlaws amongst the lawmen of Texas it was widely
01:16believed that Clyde Barrow possessed an uncanny sixth sense which served to warn him of impending
01:22danger but on this occasion Clyde's intuition had failed him in their three-year career of robbing
01:30banks and gas stations Bonnie and Clyde had between them murdered 12 men most of their victims were
01:36police officers Clyde Barrow was an expert marksman Bonnie Parker was feared as one of the most ruthless
01:45gangsters who had ever lived finishing off a wounded patrolman with two shotgun blasts she is heard to
01:51remark that his head bounced just like a rubber ball a long campaign to capture or kill Bonnie and Clyde
02:02Clyde had led police to a lonely gravel road in the state of Louisiana the tip-off had revealed that
02:07the pair would take this route on their way to an isolated farmhouse hideout for three days and nights
02:15six officers lay in wait amongst the trees at nine o'clock in the morning of May 23rd their patience
02:25was
02:26rewarded as Bonnie and Clyde's car came within range it was met by a hail of gunfire the high-powered
02:38police
02:38rifles were loaded with steel jacketed bullets dozens of shots penetrated the door and Clyde's side of the
02:44car many paths clean through Clyde's body through Bonnie and exited through the door on her side of the
02:50car death was instant the vast arsenal of weapons that Bonnie and Clyde had in their possession astonishes
03:08the lawmen hidden on the back seat of the car under a blanket are two sawn-off shotguns two automatic
03:16rifles 10 automatic pistols and 1500 rounds of ammunition the police officers who tracked and
03:27killed Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker will become for a time national heroes but in the romantic legend
03:36which will grow around the memory of Bonnie and Clyde they will come to be seen as cold-blooded and
03:42heartless killers Bonnie's burial was attended only by close friends and relatives numbering
03:51about 150 including her sister Billy Mace who was a prisoner of the law charged with the killing of
03:57two date highway patrolmen for which crime her sister Bonnie had been accused Billy Mace was attended at
04:03the funeral by two deputy sheriffs and a matron of the jail Clyde Barrow's mother and father seen in
04:08the background and his brother also paid their respects to the girl who was Clyde's only friend and who
04:13died by his side in the last few words of Bonnie's own poem which he penned just prior to her
04:19death to a
04:20few it means grief to the law it's relief but it's death to Bonnie and Clyde
04:46it is back in the 1920s that the romance of the gangster first captures the imagination of the
04:52American public the causes prohibition prohibition is the most unpopular law ever passed in the United
05:10States the price of prohibition will be heavy it will be the direct cause of the greatest crime wave
05:16in American history the bootleggers and the racketeers will become public heroes supplying
05:22what most believed to be a legitimate demand there is literally authorities can do to stamp out such a
05:29lucrative trade prohibition will produce some of the richest most powerful and most admired gangsters
05:37in the United States it is in rural America that prohibition has its roots in the small frontier towns and
05:54across the Midwest an anti vice movement has been growing steadily since the 1840s the crusade for total abstinence
06:04from alcohol has been gaining momentum for the men who work the isolated farms and ranches of the West visits
06:12to a town can be weeks apart
06:14when they do visit many drink until they drop in the eyes of the respectable drink becomes associated with fighting
06:21prostitution and gambling
06:25the anti saloon league finds little difficulty in persuading many that the answer is total prohibition
06:31it is widely believed that if alcohol is banned then vice will disappear with it
06:37a vocal and organized political lobby begins to work on the candidates of Republican and Democratic parties
06:55it is the first world war which finally opens the door to prohibition
07:00much of the campaign against prohibition is funded and organized by brewers
07:05many of these are German Americans
07:07they also fund such groups as the German American Alliance
07:12when America enters the war the German Alliance is banned
07:20the brewers try to buy newspapers to publicize the campaign against prohibition
07:24but are accused of plotting against America's entry into the war
07:34beer is fast becoming unpatriotic
07:44in 1917 in the throes of war hysteria
07:48Congress passes the 18th amendment to the Constitution
07:51proclaiming a total ban on alcohol
07:54in the following 16 months
07:56forty five states endorse prohibition
08:00on January 17th 1920
08:03the Volstead Act is passed
08:05giving the authorities powers of enforcement
08:08the anti saloon league hails prohibition
08:10as the dawn of clear thinking and clean living
08:28the innate cynicism of many Americans towards their politicians is confirmed
08:33the comedian will Rogers remarks
08:36with Congress every time they make a joke it's a law
08:40and every time they make a law it's a joke
08:45by the time Congress realizes its mistake
08:48it will be too late
08:50organized crime will have arrived to stay
09:00from the beginning the enforcement of total prohibition
09:03is almost impossible to achieve
09:06near beer beer with less than one half percent alcohol is still legal
09:11breweries can still operate
09:12but to produce near beer the real beer must be made first
09:16and the alcohol removed
09:21some brewers quickly realize the profit potential of supplying with near beer the alcohol
09:26which has been removed from it
09:31an alternative favored by many bootleggers
09:33is to add to near beer a finely judged quantity of industrial alcohol
09:37the manufacturer of which is still legal
09:43during the years of prohibition
09:44U.S. industrial alcohol production will rise from 28 million gallons a year
09:49to 180 million gallons
09:56such poor and dangerous substitutes are not for the rich
09:59they can afford real whiskey or brandy smuggled from Canada
10:03over five million gallons are illegally imported every year
10:11smuggling cases of brand name spirits is for the most part
10:14a business dominated by small-time operators
10:17the only qualification is a fast boat and a lot of nerve
10:23but the real money is elsewhere
10:25in illicit breweries, distilleries and speakeasies
10:34it is clear that in the major cities anyone who can organize
10:37the thousands of small-time bootleggers into a full-scale industry
10:41will make a fortune
10:51in Chicago
10:52only one man has the necessary power
10:55he is Diamond's Jim Colossomo
11:03Colossomo had risen from working as a street sweeper
11:05to owning a pool room in a saloon
11:07he is the Italian protégé of two Irish politicians
11:11John Coughlin and Michael Kenna
11:16Alderman John Coughlin is one in a long line of racketeers
11:20to climb to political power in Chicago
11:22he and his partner Kenna
11:25have collected a fortune in bribes
11:27from Chicago's thriving trade in prostitution and gambling
11:30Jim Colossomo's job was to deliver to them
11:34by any and every means
11:36the valuable Italian vote
11:43under the protection of Chicago's corrupt politicians
11:47Colossomo forges the beginnings of an empire
11:54Colossomo quickly finds that success has its price
11:57there is one threat from which his political masters cannot protect him
12:08he has been receiving threats from a shadowy extortion syndicate
12:12calling itself the black hand
12:14in response he sends to New York
12:16for someone he can trust to organize his protection
12:24Johnny Torrio is a product of New York's notorious five points gang
12:28and has already proved his worth
12:30as a reliable and vicious hoodlum
12:39Torrio not only deals ruthlessly with the black hand extortionists
12:43he expands Colossomo's chain of brothels
12:46and extends his business into gambling
12:53at the start of prohibition
12:55it is Torrio who masterminds Colossomo's move into bootlegging
13:04Johnny Torrio has already acquired a protégé of his own
13:07he has brought from New York
13:09a young member of the five points gang
13:11Alfonso Capone
13:13his nickname is Scarface
13:20He has brought his business
13:21equally proficient with a gun or a knife
13:23Capone has given a job at the Colossomo Café
13:26in spite of its outward appearance
13:29Colossomo's is one of Chicago's most luxurious clubs
13:43Soon Capone is promoted to become one of Jim Colosimo's personal bodyguards.
13:57At the beginning of the Prohibition era, even transatlantic liners from Europe docking in the United States have their beer
14:04and spirits confiscated.
14:11All over the country, Prohibition enforcement agents are already tracing sources of illegal alcohol and making their arrests.
14:20But in Chicago, where rackets of all kinds are protected by the powerful, arrests will be few and far between.
14:31In Chicago, the potential value of the bootlinging industry runs into hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
14:37For $5,000, almost anyone can be killed.
14:46Prohibition brings with it a wave of gangland murders.
14:51The near civil war into which Chicago will plunge will claim as one of its first victims Jim Colosimo himself.
14:58He is shot dead in the foyer of his own Colosimo Cafe.
15:01It is rumored that behind the murder are Johnny Torrio and his sidekick, Al Capone.
15:25Jim Colosimo's legacy of clubs, speakeasies and gambling houses passes the Johnny Torrio.
15:35By 1922, he is paying Al Capone the enormous sum of $2,000 a week to run his chain of
15:42brothels.
15:43Now Johnny Torrio makes him the offer of a partnership.
15:49Capone will get half the proceeds of bootlegging, plus one quarter of the profits of the remaining rackets.
15:58Capone does not hesitate.
16:00At 23, he is on the road to earning a new nickname, the Big Shot.
16:16By 1924, Capone runs an illegal casino.
16:20161 speakeasies are open night and day.
16:23He controls a string of brothels.
16:27Capone and Torrio are earning $100,000 a week.
16:42The greatest obstacle to the ambitions of Capone and Torrio is the racketeer Deono Banyan.
16:52O'Banyan's territory is on the north side and his headquarters are fronted by a flower shop.
17:00O'Banyan is credited with 25 killings.
17:03He is renowned for carrying three guns and being able to shoot with either hand.
17:09On November 4, 1924, O'Banyan is murdered in cold blood in the front of his flower shop.
17:17The assassin has been hired by Torrio and Capone.
17:24O'Banyan's funeral is a lavish affair.
17:27His coffin is silver and bronze.
17:29The funeral cottage is accompanied by 26 truckloads of flowers.
17:34A single basket of roses carries a card with a message from Al.
17:39It is the beginning of a gang war in Chicago which will leave almost 500 dead.
18:12It is the end of a gang war in Chicago.
18:18The end of a gang war in Chicago.
18:45The man is in the middle of a gang war.
18:47He has a virtual monopoly of bootlegging in the city.
18:53Johnny Torrio has retired to Italy.
18:56Capone is a successor.
18:58He is now earning $105 million a year.
19:05Capone's lifestyle is that of a prince.
19:07He is impeccably tailored.
19:09He wears a rose in his buttonhole and a diamond solitaire in his tie pin.
19:15The diamond is the unmistakable sign of a big shot.
19:23Capone has two fortified headquarters in a sprawling estate in Palm Island off Miami Beach, Florida.
19:29But the price of Capone's success is living in a state of constant fear.
19:34He buys an armored limousine fitted with bullet-proof glass.
19:38It weighs seven tons and costs $20,000.
19:41A fortune in 1927.
19:50Capone fears only his fellow racketeers.
19:52He believes he has little need to fear the law.
19:58He's bought politicians, judges and policemen.
20:02He has bribed juries.
20:04If things misfire and one of his men is sentenced,
20:08a friendly governor will grant early parole.
20:20By 1929, gang warfare has flared up once more in Chicago.
20:24The new leader of the O'Banion gang has sworn that the old vendetta must continue.
20:34Bugs Moran has acquired his nickname because whenever he loses his temper,
20:39he seems to go insane.
20:41He terrifies even his own men.
20:44But Capone has decided to strike first.
20:47On February the 14th, St. Valentine's Day, 1929,
20:52seven of Moran's top men are lured to a garage and shot dead.
20:59Al Capone has arranged a cast iron alibi.
21:02He is discussing his Miami home with a municipal official.
21:20By 1929, Al Capone is so wealthy he can afford to lose $10 million at the racetrack.
21:27He once has an IOU for half a million dollars accepted without question.
21:34At the peak of his career, Capone now controls 10,000 speakeasies.
21:40His alcohol, gambling and prostitution rackets earn him an astonishing $12 million a week.
21:48The St. Valentine's Day massacre has confirmed Capone as the big shot.
21:53It will also prove his downfall.
21:55So great is the public outcry that the authorities are forced to prove once and for all that Capone is
22:01not above the law.
22:03He is arrested, charged with possessing a concealed weapon and jailed for a year.
22:08Dozens of his breweries and distilleries are raided and destroyed.
22:13In one year, 50 of his heavy trucks are seized.
22:17For Al Capone, it is the beginning of the end.
22:38While Capone serves his time believing that on his release he can simply pick up where he left off, the
22:44outside world is changing.
22:51The stock market has crashed.
22:53The United States is sliding into the Great Depression.
22:56Three million men are out of work.
23:02The public mood of tolerance for the big time racketeer is turning to contempt.
23:08The authorities now Brown Capone, public enemy number one.
23:17In June 1931, Al Capone is indicted on the charges that will end his career.
23:23He is convicted of tax evasion, fined $50,000 and jailed for 11 years in a federal penitentiary.
23:49By the end of 1931, it is clear to all but the most die-hard temperance campaigners that prohibition has
23:56been one of the greatest mistakes in American history.
23:59It has been an unmitigated disaster, virtually handing the country over to the mobs and the racketeers.
24:11All over the United States, anti-prohibition parades attract up to 100,000 marchers.
24:17In 1932, the Democratic Party adds the repeal of prohibition to its list of election promises.
24:26The result is a landslide victory for Roosevelt and the Democrats.
24:30In February 1933, prohibition is repealed.
24:54The repeal of prohibition is greeted with delight by the vast majority of the American people.
25:01Alcohol is not only legal, but it costs a fraction of the price once demanded in speakeasies.
25:06The government gains a new source of revenue from taxation.
25:10Breweries and distilleries promise tens of thousands of much-needed jobs.
25:24But the repeal of prohibition will not spell the end of organized crime in America.
25:30Rich beyond their wildest dreams, the criminal syndicates simply turn to other rackets.
25:41In 1939, Al Capone is paroled from jail after serving eight years of his sentence.
25:47He retires to his estate at Palm Island, the estate where he had once entertained 100 guests at a time
25:54at weekend parties.
25:55The style with which Capone will surround himself until the day of his death will be a strange mixture of
26:01the luxury of his days as a big shot and the sparse and ascetic life of the penitentiary.
26:08In 1947, at the age of 48, Al Scarface Capone dies of pariasis of the brain.
26:16Its cause was the syphilis he had contracted during his days as the manager of Johnny Torrio's brothels.
26:31The gangsters of the 1930s are a new breed.
26:34Not for them the luxurious life of the prohibition racketeer or the protection of grateful politicians.
26:41It is the era of the fugitive bank robbers, their lives a cycle of hold-ups, shoot-outs and wild
26:47spending sprees.
26:53Most, like Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow and pretty boy Floyd, end their days on a mortuary slab, their bodies riddled
27:01with police bullets.
27:10A few are taken alive to await the agonies of the electric chair.
27:19Of all the many outlaws who will become household names in the 1930s, one will be idolized above all others.
27:27John Dillinger, also known as Snake Eyes.
27:35In a ten-year career of lawlessness, Dillinger will become the hero of the American press, hailed as the new
27:41Jesse James.
27:43By the day of his death, he will be the United States' official public enemy number one.
27:54John Dillinger was born in Indianapolis on June 22nd, 1903.
28:04His father, John Dillinger Sr., ran a grocery store.
28:16The family lived in this modest house in a peaceful part of town.
28:28When Dillinger was four years old, his mother died.
28:31Soon after, his father sells the grocery store and moves the family to the country.
28:50The young Dillinger grows up on a farm in Mooresville, Indiana, southwest of Indianapolis.
28:56His dislike of small-town life is intense.
29:05In 1924, at the age of 21, Dillinger marries.
29:09The marriage lasts only two years.
29:15Soon after the break-up, Dillinger takes his first step into the world of serious crime.
29:28An ex-convict, who manages the baseball team for which Dillinger plays, recruits him as an accomplice in a robbery.
29:35The pair hold up the local grocery store, but the venture misfires.
29:44Dillinger is arrested and charged.
29:46He is advised to plead guilty on the promise of a lighter sentence.
29:53He does, and is rewarded for his cooperation with a jail sentence of 14 years.
30:04Never again will Dillinger trust anyone but himself.
30:07And never again will he allow himself to stand in a court of law.
30:17In May 1933, Dillinger is paroled from Michigan State Penitentiary, having served nine years.
30:23He emerges into an unfamiliar world.
30:29The United States is deep in the misery of the Great Depression.
30:34It is a time when men can be sold to employers at a public auction of labor.
30:45With no training and little education, Dillinger is faced with a bread line, or at best, a meager living.
30:55But John Dillinger has no intention of going straight.
30:59In prison, he has already learned the rudiments of his future trade.
31:08Within weeks of leaving jail, Dillinger has assembled a gang.
31:13In less than four months, they raid a string of roadhouses and banks in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania,
31:18netting tens of thousands of dollars.
31:22But Dillinger has been clearly identified by witnesses.
31:25He has a characteristic habit of vaulting bank counters during the course of his robberies.
31:33Dillinger's haul of cash is to be put to a particular purpose.
31:36He has not forgotten his former convict friends still languishing in Michigan State Penitentiary.
31:45Preparations for a jailbreak are put in hand.
31:49Dillinger arranges that guns be smuggled into the prison.
31:53But on December 22nd, 1933, with preparations made for the jailbreak of his friends, Dillinger's own luck runs out.
32:07Police raid the boarding house run by the married sister of one of the convicts.
32:12Before he can reach for his gun, Dillinger is dragged from the woman's bed and arrested.
32:17On December 28th, he is transferred to Allen County Jail in Lima, Ohio.
32:29By now, Dillinger's convict friends have made good their escape from Michigan Penitentiary.
32:36They are quick to return Dillinger's favor.
32:44Posing as police, they enter the Lima Jail and shoot the sheriff dead.
32:48Dillinger and his rescuers make good their escape.
32:53Realizing they are marked men, the gang's first move is to attack a police station,
32:58stealing a submachine gun, sawing off shotguns and pistols.
33:03In their first bank raid together, Dillinger and his new gang robbed $28,000.
33:09Their next target is the First National Bank in East Chicago, Indiana.
33:15As the raiders run from the bank with $20,000 and two hostages,
33:19Dillinger shoots a police officer dead.
33:22For the first time, he is wanted for murder.
33:30Eleven days after the East Chicago robbery, Dillinger and his gang are arrested without a fight in the town of
33:36Tucson, Arizona.
33:39Three members of the gang were staying at a local hotel when the building caught fire.
33:46They offered a fireman $12 to carry out their trunks.
33:49In their room, the gangsters arsenal of weapons was in plain view and the police were immediately tipped off.
34:07Defying strict legal processes, the authorities bundle Dillinger into an aircraft and fly him from Arizona to Indiana.
34:15In Arizona, he is wanted only for robbery.
34:17In Indiana, he faces murder charges in the electric chair.
34:23Struggling and swearing continually, Dillinger is chained to a seat for the entire trip.
34:28I have to do the evening at Sunday at Jacksonville, Arizona.
34:40I could not lie about him at Seville at a mouth with a jail because he was killed right off.
34:56Jennifer has promised Smierton, motherfucker.
34:57In some dioces of the thấyam allgullen
34:57in用意 of smoke rises from Stalin chains, Dillinger
34:57arrived as Donald Nelson Glen Vonnegut, the jederaxe
34:58at the chicago municipal airport on the night of january 30th 1934
35:05the atmosphere is charged with excitement he is besieged by reporters and cameramen
35:14already the reality of dillinger the bank robber jailbreaker and cold-blooded murderer
35:19has been overtaken by dillinger the legend
35:32dillinger is rushed from chicago airport to lake county jail at crown point indiana
35:43there he is placed in the custody of sheriff lillian holly
35:46the sheriff boasts to newsmen that she can keep john dillinger he boasts that she cannot
35:54in an extraordinary testimony to the strength of the dillinger myth the county prosecutor
35:59robert estelle and the sheriff pose for photographers with the outlaw the prosecutor's
36:05arm rests affectionately on dillinger's shoulder
36:13while dillinger awaits trial in the lake county jail
36:16his gang are transferred to ohio to be tried for the murder of the sheriff of lima
36:23on their arrival in ohio they are met by heavily armed guards and driven in convoy
36:28to the columbus ohio prison within weeks dillinger's three accomplices will be tried and convicted of
36:34murder shortly afterwards two of them will die in the electric chair
36:43at lake county jail vigilance is being gradually relaxed
36:49armed guards no longer patrol the adjoining streets
36:55but there are still six armored doors between dillinger and freedom
37:02working secretly dillinger uses two razor blades to carve a fake revolver
37:07from a piece of old washboard
37:11brandishing his piece of wood dillinger disarms his guards taking one hostage
37:18through a kitchen and out a side entrance dillinger and a fellow prisoner
37:22herbert youngblood stroll unmolested at gunpoint their captive guard leads the way
37:34youngblood climbs the high backyard gates to check the street beyond dillinger and his hostage
37:40casually stroll through the police garage it is unlocked and unguarded
37:50the street outside is quiet with their hostage the two outlaws turn left into an alley and make for the
37:56side door of the main street garage
38:00the garage owner is taken hostage
38:08adding insult to injury dillinger and youngblood with their hostages escape in a car belonging to sheriff
38:15lillian holly within days both the sheriff and the county prosecutor will have lost their jobs
38:29a postal worker has witnessed dillinger's escape phoning the police station he is told that he is crazy
38:36he is forced to tell his story three times before he is finally believed
38:48in his greatest feat of daring so far dillinger has made one fatal mistake
38:53by crossing state lines in a stolen car he has become the legitimate prey of the fbi
39:03by 1934 under the direction of j edgar hoover the fbi has created a new type of law enforcement officer
39:10the special agent hoover believes that the fbi must become the most dedicated group of lawmen in the country
39:17the flag incorruptible and utterly single-minded do you solemnly swear to support and defend the
39:24fbi recruits undergo a rigorous program of training and weaponry federal law and forensic science
39:35at the agent's disposal are the fbi's own sophisticated laboratories for the identification
39:42of blood samples fibers or poisons taken from the scene of a crime the bureau has also assembled the
39:49largest collection of firearms in the country virtually any bullet can be matched to the type of gun from
39:55which it was fired
40:02soon after dillinger's escape from lake county jail a special dillinger squad is assembled
40:09its members are determined to capture the outlaw alive or dead
40:33dillinger's trail from crown point first takes him to chicago where he abandoned sheriff lillian holly's
40:40car dillinger is twice spotted by detectives but escapes by march 13th he is in mason city
40:49by the following day he has reached saint paul minnesota and has teamed up with his girlfriend billy
40:54frescetti
40:58the landlady of the boarding house at which the couple are staying tips off the police billy and dillinger
41:04escape by a back staircase and a hail of bullets dillinger is shot in the leg
41:13in the town of port huron the fbi have cornered dillinger's fellow jailbreaker herbert youngblood
41:19in a vicious gun battle with police youngblood wounds the local sheriff and kills the deputy sheriff
41:27believing that dillinger must be somewhere in the vicinity armed agents mount roadblocks around the town
41:36but they are searching in vain john dillinger is in minneapolis having his leg wound treated
41:43the treatment will cost the doctor two years in jail
41:49a few days later dillinger and his girlfriend billy are sighted in carthage illinois
41:55on april 6th they abandoned their car in moncato innesota
42:02another stolen car takes them to noblesville indiana
42:05only a short distance from dillinger's hometown of mooresville
42:26on april the 8th dillinger takes billy frescetti to meet his father on the family farm
42:34even john dillinger senior has succumbed to the dillinger myth
42:38he believes that his son robs banks but would never kill
42:43he is convinced by the outlaws claim that he would never hurt anyone
42:48the fugitive's family has been quick to cash in on the sensation caused by dillinger's exploits
42:54they have traveled from state to state speaking in cinemas and dillinger's loving and generous nature
43:04by april 12th dillinger is in the town of warsaw indiana billy frescetti has been arrested in an fbi
43:11trap dillinger has now acquired a new accomplice homer van meter the pair decide to replenish their
43:18armory from the town police station
43:28at two o'clock in the morning on the warsaw main street they kidnapped jed pettinger the only police
43:34officer on duty and force him to hand over the keys to the police arsenal
43:40inside the police station pettinger had grabbed the machine gun wielded by dillinger
43:48while the two struggled homer van meter could not get a clear line of fire
43:52instead he struck the officer with the butt of his revolver knocking him cold
44:05fbi activity in and around chicago has become intense dillinger and van meter head north
44:11meeting en route with tommy carroll baby face nelson and their girls
44:21what is needed is somewhere quiet and isolated somewhere to lay low for several weeks
44:26on the shore of star lake they find just the place they've been looking for
44:31it is the little bohemia roadhouse
44:34the proprietor and mr wanaka become suspicious
44:39the fbi are summoned and surround the house
44:42but the barking of mrs wanaka's dogs alerts the gang
44:48immediately there is a burst of gunfire in the ensuing battle three local men
44:53driving by in their car are hit by police bullets one is killed
45:03dillinger and the gang flee by a rear window leaving their girls hiding in the basement
45:08dillinger van meter and tommy carroll make off by the lakeshore
45:15babyface nelson hangs back shooting and killing fbi's special agent w carter bomb
45:26the special agent is the 14th death to result from dillinger's exploits
45:30in the aftermath of the little bohemia shootout dillinger and his gang hijack a car from a local
45:45couple the following day the car is spotted and chased by police tommy carroll is fatally wounded but the
45:52arrest escape unhurt dillinger realizes that his face is now far too recognizable for safety
46:00his solution is to have plastic surgery it is a crude and dangerous process and his appearance is
46:06altered little no plastic surgeon can disguise the eyes which gave dillinger his nickname
46:23at noon and saturday june 30th 1934 john dillinger stages his last bank robbery
46:31with the streets of south bend indiana crowded with saturday shoppers dillinger and homer van meter
46:37walk casually into the merchant's national bank dillinger announces his presence by firing a burst from his machine gun
46:53the gang kill a policeman and escape with 28 000
46:57they force hostages to ride the running boards of their getaway car
47:00but police open fire regardless wounding two hostages
47:11in spite of the lengthening trail of dead and wounded the exploits of john dillinger continue to arouse
47:18the admiration of the american public but the federal authorities are determined that the scourge must end
47:25j edgar hoover chief of the fbi takes the unprecedented step of putting a price of ten thousand dollars on
47:33dillinger's head
47:39it is a friend of dillinger's a brothel manager s called anna sage who takes the bait
47:46dillinger has planned to visit the biograph cinema in chicago with anna sage and some friends
47:55fbi agents are ready and waiting it is july 22nd 1934
48:06at 10 30 p.m the show is over dillinger and his companions leave the cinema
48:14suddenly sensing that he is in danger dillinger begins to run it is too late without warning the
48:21agents open fire dillinger reaches a nearby alley before falling to the ground with four bullets in
48:29america's body america's public enemy number one is dead
48:34so
48:44so
49:13There is a strange
49:15postscript to the story of John Dillinger. Several witnesses to the
49:19shooting outside the Biograph Cinema claimed that the man shot had brown
49:24eyes. Dillinger's eyes were a distinctive steely gray. For years it will be widely
49:34believed that the dead man was not John Dillinger but a stooge set up by
49:39Dillinger's friend Anna Sage. It is a powerful testimony to the enduring
49:44strength of the legend of John Dillinger.
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50:32Thank you for listening.
50:53You