John Dillinger - Public Enemy #1 Taken Down | History In A Nutshell Shorts

John Herbert Dillinger is remembered as arguably the most infamous bank robber in American history. Dillinger’s crime spree across the Midwest lasted from June 1933 to July 1934. The FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover assigned South Carolina’s own “G-Man” Melvin Purvis to hunt down and put an end to Dillinger once and for all. Thanks to the efforts of Purvis’ FBI team and local law enforcement, Dillinger’s life of crime ended outside of Chicago’s Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934.  
 

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