Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Public Enemy Number One: John Dillinger


John Herbert Dillinger Jr. as original birth name was from a serene city in Indianapolis born on June, 22 1903, where he quickly began his delinquent behavior at very young age.  After maturity, John Dillinger became the foremost notorious criminal of the 1930's by always charming the media with his handsome smirk and courtesy. Therefore, “bank robbers were not particularly viewed as terrible criminals by the average American. There was even a touch of Robin Hood when bank robbers destroyed all of the mortgage records at the banks they hit". Calm and collect as a man and full-time  bank robber who viewed by public another victim of the depression era in America trying to find his way out. Somewhat after the event of John Dillinger "Ambush" in Racine, Wisconsin a gentleman named Grover Weyland stated " one of the robbers of the getaway car-later identified as Makely-had cursed, and Dillinger had told him to cut it out, because of the presence of a lady in the car"(Burrough 165). This is only one a multiple occasions of Dillinger either putting a member of gang in their place, or making his popularity increase of his iconic image of a hallmark figure to others of era, only to mock him later.
Dillinger’s head is going to be called eventually and price will be paid, it is expected from someone who evaded arrest, broke out of jail using a wooden gun, or the infamous thirteen banks we know him for. The much acclaimed Dillinger as the most wanted man in the mid finds his match from a relatively new entity, “His nemesis was the federal government's Department of Investigation headed by J. Edgar Hoover, which put a price of $10,000 on his head". The picture on left illustrates: “Wanted Dead or Alive” it demonstrates the eager to do away with Dillinger. They agency did just that after John Dillinger’s short life of dying after his 31st birthday outside Chicago cinema on July, 22 1934
Sources
 Allan, and Marilyn Bardsley. "John Dillinger: Bank Robber or Robin Hood— Little Bohemia — Crime Library on TruTV.com." TruTV.com: Not Reality. Actuality. www.trutv.com. Web. 04 May 2011. http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/gangsters_outlaws/outlaws/dillinger/1.html>.
Burrough, Bryan. "Ambushes." Public Enemies. Australia: Penguin, 2009. 165+. Print.

Hamilton, Marybeth. "Dillinger's Wild Ride." History Today 60.4 (2010): 57. World History Collection. EBSCO. Web. 2 May 2011.

PictureSource:
http://captnsblog.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/baseball-infamy-john-dillinger-%E2%80%93-from%C2%A0the-bushes-to-robbing-banks/

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