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John Herbert Dillinger (/ ˈ d ɪ l ɪ n dʒ ər /; [1] June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster during the Great Depression.He commanded the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing twenty-four banks and four police stations.
The Biograph Theater on Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, was originally a movie theater but now presents live productions.It gained early notoriety as the location where bank robber John Dillinger was leaving when he was shot down by FBI agents, after he watched a gangster movie there on July 22, 1934.
Mary Evelyn "Billie" Frechette (September 15, 1907 – January 13, 1969) was an American woman known for her personal relationship with the bank robber John Dillinger in the early 1930s. Frechette is known to have been involved with Dillinger for about six months, until her arrest and imprisonment in 1934.
Two relatives of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger who plan to have his remains exhumed say they have “evidence” the body buried in an Indianapolis cemetery beneath a gravestone bearing ...
History from the front pages of The Cincinnati Enquirer from July 23 includes John Dillinger slain, Johnny Bench and Barry Larkin in the Hall of Fame.
Relatives of notorious 1930s gangster John Dillinger who plan to have his remains exhumed say they have "evidence" the body buried may not be him
Charles Batsell "Charlie" Winstead (May 25, 1891 – August 3, 1973) was an FBI agent in the 1930s–40s, famous for being one of the agents (along with Clarence Hurt and Herman "Ed" Hollis) who shot and killed John Dillinger on July 22, 1934, in Chicago, Illinois.
In The Dillinger Dossier, author Jay Robert Nash maintains that Dillinger escaped death at the Biograph Theater simply by not being there. In his stead was a "Jimmy Lawrence", a local Chicago petty criminal whose appearance was similar to Dillinger's. Nash uses evidence to show that Chicago Police officer Martin Zarkovich was instrumental in ...