80th Anniversary: Death of Gangster John Dillinger Helped Lead to Creation of FBI
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gangster John Dillinger was the fed’s first Public Enemy Number One. It was June 22, 1934, and Dillinger was wanted for at least 12 bank robberies, four police department robberies and the murder of a police officer. Outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, agents from the Department of Investigation of the Justice…