The Greatest Bank Robber Of The 20th Century | The Story Of John Dillinger | Timeline

my name's dan snow and i want to tell you about history hit tv it's like the netflix for history hundreds of exclusive documentaries and interviews with the world's best historians we've got an exclusive offer available to fans of timeline if you go to history hit tv you can either follow the information below this video or just google history hit tv and use the code timeline you get a special introductory offer go and check it out in the meantime enjoy this video [Music] [Music] this is john dillinger the greatest bank robber of all time within a few months of the start of the american great depression of the 1930s this small-time crook would become public enemy number one he was even more famous than al capone and bonnie and clyde john dillinger was born in 1903 he lost his mother at a very early age and was raised with iron discipline by his father after a troubled adolescence he enlisted in the navy but later deserted [Applause] in 2003 the fbi declassifies its secret files on john dillinger and the writer byron burrow uses this new information to tell the true story in his book public enemies on which michael mann's film script is based john dillinger was you know kind of the quintessential depression era bank robber he was a nobody from nowhere one saturday night when he was a kid i want to say he was 21 unemployed he mugged the grocer in his hometown outside indianapolis indiana and he got sent to prison and for a good long time for something in the order of 10 years as i recall and he did hard time and in prison he met bank robbers he met crooks it was a school for crime and when he came out he not only wanted to be a bank robber but and this is one of the things that distinguishes dillinger from others he wanted to rob banks with a specific goal in mind and that was to raise enough money that he could buy guns to smuggle back into prison to get his friends out in 1933 when dillinger's exploits as a gangster becoming a legend america is in the depths of the great depression american industrial production has fallen 50 since 1929 13 million americans are unemployed in 1933 when roosevelt becomes president of the united states 25 percent of the working population is unemployed two million people are homeless [Applause] hunger marches multiply of people demonstrate in the streets of the largest cities strikes break out across the country [Music] [Music] it was a time where many if not most of americans had lost their jobs or were losing them had lost income and they blamed the bank [Applause] and john dillinger who wasn't hurting them seemed like a perfectly harmless charming smiling fella who was going after the banks he became you know not only an anti-hero but a hero to a whole generation of americans [Music] the story of the bank robber john dillinger is intimately linked with that of john edgar hoover the longest serving head of the fbi hoover will use the hunt for dillinger to consolidate his power which will last for more than 50 years the war on crime eighteen short months at the beginning j edgar hoover was a nobody if you're living in iowa if you're living in florida if you're living in los angeles you've never heard the name j edgar hoover 18 months later jade good hoover is a media star he is a household name the the genesis of j edgar hoover's fame the genesis of genesis of his power the birth of the modern fbi is all during this 18 months so while you may say john dillinger was not a national menace clearly there was significance national significance to this war on crime period the action uh during the great crime wave during the book during the movie uh took place on the great plains of america which is you know look somewhat like the russian step i suppose which basically is right down the middle of america from the rockies to the mississippi river that was really where poverty had struck the worst i mean you've seen the graves of wrath it seemed like the whole state of oklahoma was getting in cars and going to california [Music] [Applause] [Music] so the poverty there was the worst but also it was immensely attractive to criminals and especially bank robbers because remember almost anyone can rob a bank the challenge is always getting away bank robbers want a road that goes for 200 miles and they can drive flat out 90 miles an hour and get away fast so the combination of poverty and i think the geography is really what made the great plains kind of the premier battlefield of this area [Applause] we forget this was barely 75 years ago frank sinatra was an 18 year old singing songs marlon brando was a kid ronald reagan was already broadcasting on in radio of the 20th century it was yesterday [Music] the war and crime that we discussed today really began with an event in june 1933 called the kansas city massacre in this case a gentleman named frank nash sometimes known as jellynash and a couple of fbi agents had arrested him down in arkansas and we're taking him back to leavenworth prison in kansas city via the train station in kansas city what happened when the fbi took frank nash off the train in kansas city and they were joined by other fbi agents and kansas city cops it didn't matter several unknown assassins opened up with thompson guns kill i believe i want to say six of the law enforcement a men uh including an fbi man and including frank nash it was this event the kansas city massacre that led the attorney general and j edgar hoover to declare america's first ever war on crime they were going to go after the gangsters they were going to go after the bank robbers and they were going to bring them down and of course it became a much bloodier much more complicated war than i think they had anticipated right in the wake of the the kansas city massacre dillinger was released from prison in may 1933 and he immediately went to robbing banks [Music] at fbi headquarters in washington dc j edgar hoover becomes deeply concerned about these repeated bank robberies and the inability of the local police to stop them [Music] [Applause] [Music] but really the years in 1933 1934 when dillinger and the others were at large was not the beginning of a crime wave it was the end of a crime wave that began in the mid mid 1920s which was largely the result of technology outstripping the legal system two things in particular i'd mentioned the the new v8 engine which uh an awful lot of criminals could get their hands on when lawmen couldn't allow bank robbers to easily out distance local law enforcement and also the introduction after world war one of the thompson submachine gun which took fire power from you know one-shot pistols to thousand shot a minute guns which also criminals could get their hands on but by and large a county sheriff in rural nebraska wasn't going to have it he was going to have a model a and a bird gun and a bunch of you know sharp bank robbers out from chicago with v8 engines and thompson sub machine guns they could practically hold rob the whole state of nebraska [Music] meanwhile at the fbi hoover takes action training his agents to fight the gangsters with these new weapons [Music] one of the other things that made robbing banks in the early 1930s relatively easy was how fragmented american law enforcement was by and large if you if you robbed the bank in county a and you managed to escape across the county line certainly across the state line [Music] those authorities in the county and the state couldn't come after you they could call ahead to someone and say oh by the way would you mind picking up a criminal for us that didn't happen too often [Music] what's important to understand and what's seldom understood is how incredibly compacted all these events were the very month that the warm crime started the month of the kansas city massacre was the same month that john dillinger robbed his first drugstore and his first bank so his emergence directly paralleled that of this new federal war on crime when the feds were out there wanting to take people down and the whole rise and fall of bonnie and clyde of john dillinger of pretty boy floyd was all in this two-year period 1933 to into 34 and it really formally ended in january 1935. this is not stretch out over five years or ten years this was all inside 18 to 24 months there was an awful lot going on just about every single day [Music] [Applause] one of the things that made dilliger such an appealing figure was not just that he robbed banks but he that he escaped from jail and he did it twice the first time was he was arrested while visiting a girlfriend in dayton ohio in september 1933 at which point his gang of buddies they came and broke him out of jail murdering the sheriff i should say and that's really what started once dillinger united with his group of prison pals that he'd gotten out that really started the first reign of the the first dillinger game it's amazing to think about this the fbi had no powers of arrest if you are a bank robber and i'm an fbi man i can't arrest you i have to call a sheriff to arrest you worse i can't carry a gun they had no authority to carry guns they were babes in the woods who unfortunately would only learn how to fight crime after one too many funerals and really what happened in 33 and 34 was that the federal government in the person of j edgar hoover and the fbi finally got involved my name is richard hack and i wrote puppet master the secret life of j edgar hoover it was a time when there was no central organization of anything in this country there were certainly no computers there was no central filing system there was no fingerprinting that was kept on an organized basis there was not even a reporting of criminals at large between one city to the next because at the time the bureau of investigation was extremely corrupt it didn't take much to become an agent in fact they would pay people one dollar a year give them access to stationary and name them agents and they could do what they basically wanted in the name of the federal government in 1924 president calvin coolidge decides that the time has come to root out corruption in the american administration and clean up the justice department and its bureau of investigation and the new attorney general harlan stone decided to clean up the bureau of investigation and he turned to jagger hoover this young man still in his 20s saying can you do this job and hoover said i can do the job but i won't do the job if i have got to answer to anyone else but you at the age of 30 hoover becomes director of the fbi a position he will hold for 48 years until his death hoover decided to make the bureau of investigation not only a perfect organization as far as the legal aspects were concerned but he wanted to make it a glamorous organization where that agents would want to join he was a famous trumpet man from out chicago way he had a boogie style that no one else could play he was the top fan of his craft but then his number they made him blow up you go for his uncle sam it really brought him down because he couldn't jam the captain seemed to understand because the next day the cap went out and drafted abandoned out the company jumps when he plays he decided to centralize the rudimentary taking a fingerprint identification so what hoover did was say all of you let's put all the fingerprints in one spot i'll give you total access to anything you need and at least we'll all have access to everything that we know all at the same point [Music] using these new methods hoover will eventually accumulate files on more than 150 million americans at fbi headquarters files are held on every criminal outlaw and suspect in the country a new extremely powerful and efficient agency is being created dillinger and his gang have yet to realize this [Music] after he had robbed so many banks during 1933 uh dillinger and his gang wanted um wanted to take a vacation and this is where things would horribly arrive for the gang misery everywhere initially they went down to daytona beach in florida where they were for new year's eve they went down and took in some dog races in miami [Music] you know the great love of dillinger's life was billy frechette they clearly connected they were two kind of depression-era refugees who really had nowhere to go and nothing to do but take care of each other the fbi files reveal the important role played by the gangster's women in this era [Music] the role of women in the war on crime has always fascinated me because if you imagine that 30 of american men were out of work imagine their powerlessness and their poverty well imagine a woman for whom in those days it was much more difficult to find a job you found a whole legion of women during the great depression who were more than willing to take in the bet take inhabit the bed of a bank robber if he took care of them basically here is the story about little joe crew and all the things he done for his gal named lou when lou said joey i want diamonds galore he rounded up the gang and robbed a jury's dog women like billy john dillinger's girlfriend a simple soul a hat check girl basically who didn't ask too many questions as long as john dillinger took care of her you also found women like ma barker who was the mother to any number of criminal bank robbers who was more than happy to just go along with it because the alternative to them was abject poverty living as my barker did in a tar paper [Music] your name shack shoot him herman [Music] and then you had women like uh bonnie parker who was clyde barrow's girlfriend who i find far less sympathetic because she could have continued working as a babysitter or a waitress but she was just bored [Music] you know it wasn't so much poverty she wanted excitement in her diary she wrote things like you know tuesday nothing happened why won't something happen she read movie magazines and gangster magazines and wanted her life to be exciting so there were those women too poverty drove a lot of women into the the beds of gangsters but they're always going to be people like bonnie parker who frankly did it for the excitement at the beginning of 1934 dillinger and his gang take just a few days vacation very soon they are back robbing banks again they got tired of florida they decided they'd go out west they'd go to arizona to tucson so they all went separately dillinger actually went back via chicago where he stupidly tried to tried to rob a bank with one other person and during that robbery in east chicago kill the police detective the one confirmed murder that dillinger clearly is guilty of [Music] [Applause] afterwards he and billy frechette headed out route 66 through chicago through st louis to tucson and unfortunately in tucson members of his gang were recognized by the local police not the fbi the local police and the local police arrested them one by one uh pete pierpont charles magley each of them and finally they took in dillinger and none of them dillinger any of his pals could believe they'd been arrested by a bunch of you know local yokels uh and of course jade hoover was beside himself and angry in anger because if dillinger was to be arrested it should be by the fbi but no uh and uh they then extradited john dillinger back to the state of indiana to stand trial for the murder of this police detective and it was really there that some of the greatest exploits some of the greatest moments of dillinger's criminal career took place once dillinger is returned to the state of indiana in january early february of 1934 he is put in the jail at crown point and it's an absolute mob scene when they take him from the airport to the jail uh people lining the roads wanting to get a look at this master criminal more famous than al capone [Applause] and they ultimately when they get into the jail with flashlights popping and people yelling johnny johnny and all the reporters crowd into the jail and there's this famous in fact one of the most famous photographs of an american criminal ever was when dillinger put his arm on the shoulder of the local prosecutor and answered all the reporters questions with a smile on his face uh easy going he was nothing like a criminal he seemed to the eyes of millions of americans who saw him in newsreel footage of this moment of these interviews he seemed like just another farm boy he didn't deny that he robbed banks he didn't deny that he'd broken his friends out of prison he said basically anybody would have done it for their friend he didn't seem dirty or or threatening at all and so to an america to a country that was so angry at the banks that wanted the banks hurt and dillinger was doing that he didn't seem to be like such a a bad fellow at all so it though that interview the interviews that he did at crown point really took dillinger out of the mold of just a criminal to a national figure and an international figure after this he's being written about in the papers in london in paris and frankfurt in hamburg everywhere he he really becomes the world's most famous criminal one thing that irritated jagger hoover was hearing about bank robberies in this country there at the time bank robberies was the easiest way for someone to get access to cash it was a war [Music] and like in any war there were legends glorifying heroes and villains alike yeah all my buddies wanted to be firemen or farmers or policemen not me i just want to steal people's money [Music] gangsters through chicago were were legendary they not only were very successful they were very popular the fact that there was somebody named pretty boy floyd the machine gun kelly drove hoover up a wall he saw children emulating these gangsters these bad guys and he was all about straight up right righteous and decided to go after them with a vengeance and did he put all the efforts of the bureau of investigation to apprehending these people and more than that he turned it into a publicity campaign another part of his genius and and i don't hesitate in using the world word is that hoover understood that he was doing battle place he was doing battle not only in the battlefield of guns and bullets but of ideas and images hoover and the fbi were very very effective in elevating the image of the fbi agent both in terms of j edgar hoover himself and later one of his top agents melvin purvis as clean cut effective men you can trust men you'd have your daughter's date and that's basically who fbi agents were as a matter of fact they were men cut out of the same cloth as hoover well-educated white men always very few jews who worked tirelessly to bring in criminals that really was not an overstatement the fbi was full of eager ardent young men who perhaps couldn't find any other type of job at the moment who were thrown into the war on crime really without knowing too much about how to do it yet [Music] the g-man this is a bureau of scientific crime detection new modern up to the minute inaction day and night the fbi never sleeps the g-men have become a legend on the covers of magazines and on the front pages of the newspapers g-men became a thing to be reckoned with you didn't want to fool with the g-man because the g-man was even more romantic and successful than the gangsters and one after one these gangsters fell and were apprehended [Music] it was extraordinary because throughout the country people were afraid and enamored of these g-men and it's because of j hoover that they became heroes and they started to show up in movies the no longer was the bad guy the one to win at the end it was the g-man who who won at the end of the day and literally did put this country on the path of law and order in a major way [Music] [Music] while hoover's search for the gangsters intensifies dillinger pulls off his most spectacular exploit to date by escaping from crow point county jail movie news of the exploit covers the whole story to the delight of the american public [Music] in spite of all this guard he escaped once more using the sheriff's car by driving this stolen car across the indiana state line of chicago he violated a federal law for the first time and that put the g-man [Music] only four days after his escape dillinger resumes his criminal activities [Music] day by day the dillinger legend grows it is rumored that he pretends to sell alarm systems to the victims when he is planning a robbery a story even circulates about how he and his gang pass themselves off as a movie crew on location to a publicity-hungry bank in ohio [Applause] it wasn't really until after the crown break jailbreak that jager hoover told his agent his top agent melvin purvis who was a a young man 29 with not a lot of law enforcement experience that he wanted him to bring in john dillinger and in those early weeks after crown point purvis and the fbi found that you know saying you wanted to bring in john dillinger was a lot easier than doing it in fact purvis himself knew very little about how to do what he needed to do when he wanted to put wiretaps on the phones he literally had to call a lawyer in washington and asked how to do it his information was bad he had very few informants on the streets of chicago and so i guess there's no action that for a solid month the fbi found no trace of dillinger the the fbi ultimately found a dillinger entirely by accident dillinger course had moved to the minneapolis-st paul area which was a real haven for bank robbers kind of an open city if you will where he had formed the second dillinger gang with a character named babyface nelson real name lester gillis and babyface nelson was a psychopath not to put to find a point on it he was a psychopath he was a character out of the movies a young man who literally cackled or laughed when he was shooting his thompson submachine gun up and down a street dillinger was a cool character didn't want to kill unless he had unless his own life was in danger babyface nelson didn't care who killed in any case uh dillinger and billy frechette had uh rented a room under a fake name in a very nice lovely neighborhood of st paul and their landlady got suspicious because they came and went it odd hours they had odd-shaped luggage and she literally went down to the fbi uh office in saint paul and says i have a bank robber living in my in my apartment building and the fbi kind of went uh but you know she wouldn't leave without being listened to so the man in charge sent two young agents in saint paul they went and knocked on the door billy frechette initially said just a second my husband's uh indisposed and after a few moments dillinger didn't come to the door but his tommy gun did [Applause] the fbi agents ran as fast as they could and at that time another member of dillinger's gang drove up and there ended up kind of a wild gunfight there in front of the apartment building as it happened dillinger and billy frischette managed to get away but as they were driving away dillinger found out that he'd been shot in the leg apparently by one of his own bullets a ricochet in the wake of crown point and saint paul dillinger's fame was higher than it would ever be my little girl you know i love you and i long for you each day my little girl i'm dreaming of you and all the pressure uh all the focus of finding him fell on melvin purvis uh the chicago fbi and purvis fame as a result arose in parallel with dillinger purvis enjoyed talking to the press he had an ego he was a fine a sharp dresser at least initially hoover didn't mind that too much because he liked purvis a lot but two things ultimately caused hoover to sour on purvis one was the fact that purpose was so awful at tracking down dillinger as we now know but the fact that purvis's fame was growing as high as j edgar hoover's and uh while i think hoover's jealousy can be overstated i think it's pretty clear it was there uh so uh as dillinger's fame rose so did purposes ultimately the the longer dillinger was at large the tensions grew between purvis and hoover and if you go back and read their memorandum their phone calls i mean it's all right there it's pretty clear that while a lot of people think hoover was jealous of purvis and i think there's probably something to that but i think that can be overstated the fact was hoover was a purpose it was just a series of blunders raiding the wrong apartments um letting dillinger get away of course the famous battle at the little bohemia lodge in northern wisconsin was just about the bro the the straw that broke hoover's back the climax really the moral and the narrative climax of the entire war on crime is probably the infamous battle of little bohemia in which um after a series of of bank robberies and escapades uh dillinger and babyface nelson and uh the rest of their gang and girlfriends decided they need a weekend away to kind of get their heads together plan their next move and so they gather at a small inn in far far northern wisconsin called little bohemian [Music] dillinger and nelson in his game kind of took it over for the weekend the problem was their fame had become so widespread that their their faces were on the front of all the newspapers including the chicago tribune and the end's owner saw it the man called dillinger into his office showed him his picture in the paper and said you're john dillinger [Music] and diligent turned to it said don't worry i'm john diliger but i'm not here to hurt you we just need some quiet time well um the man did not not worry he he was quite worried he had his wife he had extended family who worked there and basically what happened was members of his family called the fbi in chicago put forward directly to melvin purvis who put together a team to go to little bohemian [Music] so on a you know a cold sunday afternoon in uh in april of 1934 you get two dozen fbi agents led by melvin purvis descending by automobile and airplane from chicago and saint paul because they are fairly confident they have john dillinger and babyface nelson holed up in this little end [Music] at this point fbi agents had been carrying guns for basically six or nine months very few of them not only knew how to use guns but had ever fired a gun at someone and here they were going to be taking on the nation's leading gangsters who had thompson sudden machine guns [Music] unfortunately the moment they do that are some dogs outside that begin barking so dillinger sees oh my goodness the fbi is coming after me far worse it's very dark this is the north woods of wisconsin and three men who had been drinking there in the bar that night jump into their car and as the fbi rushes up dogs begin barking suddenly this car the radio blaring can't hear anything can't hear anybody saying stop three men in this car suddenly start turning down this long driveway going directly toward the fbi purvis all his men are yelling stop fbi stop fbi and the fbi shoots this card pieces [Applause] they kill one of the men they badly injure two two others at which point you know dillinger because of this sideshow dillinger and babyface nelson and all the rest are able to jump out the back of the inn and in the woods they all become scattered some of them babyface nelson exchange gunfire with fbi agents but they get away dillinger and two others managed to get to another nearby end where they steal a car and get away babyface nelson as luck would have it stumbles on to a house about a mile away where a number of fbi agents then show up looking for a telephone looking for a car looking for help they don't know what's going on and they drive up and who's standing there in the driveway babyface nelson who immediately takes them for what they are fbi agents now he opens up on their car and then babyface nelson takes their car and gets away by the time dawn rose you had a number of men killed john dillinger and babyface nelson had all disappeared melvin purvis had gone from being fairly well thought of to suddenly the stupidest the dumbest law enforcement agent in the country i mean most of america didn't know what the fbi was the first time a lot of americans had ever heard of it was oh they're the idiots who let dillinger get away at little bohemia at that point it was very clear hoover was just about on the verge of firing purvis and then the actual straw that broke the camel's back was when the fbi had babyface nelson's wife under surveillance and somehow although purvis was personally responsible for the surveillance babyface nelson managed to go to this woman's house in the middle of chicago and spirit her way to go a robbing banks with him right under melvin purvis's nose that hoover didn't fire purvis but he sent in one of his own men from washington a desk man named sam calley to take charge of the manhunt for john dillinger after little bohemia diligence fame had never been higher he is on the front pages of national newspapers and international newspapers every day people think they see him in canada in california on a ship to london everywhere and as a result of his fame the rest of the the american press suddenly starts writing about other bank robbers and start wanting to elevate them toward dillinger's level of fame and one of those was bonnie and clyde [Music] john dillinger was a big time criminal who robbed big time banks clyde barrow and bonnie parker were nobodies from dallas who mostly bumped off drug stores and filling stations and an occasional bank if they could [Music] but as luck would have it they were killed in may 1934 by a posse in northwest louisiana at the height of this dillinger mania proudly posing with his g-men for the movie tone news hoover is only too glad to present the brutal killing of bonnie and clyde [Music] and as a result these two-bit criminals their deaths are suddenly you know trumpeted on the front page of the new york times the first time of course that they've ever been mentioned on the new york front page of new york times is their deaths but as a result really because of dillinger's fame you get fame that gravitates toward nobodies like bonnie and clyde as well as people like pretty boy floyd babyface nelson machine gun kelly and others whose names we we still know today in the spring of uh of 34 billy frischette got arrested by melvin purvis of all people one of the few people pervis actually managed to arrest and dillinger was absolutely stricken just beside himself in tears watching her be arrested because he was actually there in fact while you can say purvis was brilliant for arresting her it would have been a little bit smart if he realized dillinger was parked around the corner after that dillinger was just kind of paralyzed with with grief he wanted he wanted to storm the jail and free her and it only when his buddies finally convinced him that this would be ridiculous did he give up on that [Music] during this period he finally kind of constructed a new hideout for himself with a woman who was had run a whorehouse in northern indiana for years named anna sage [Music] the story of dillinger's demise like all the events in this story happens incredibly fast it happens in 24 hours as a matter of fact dillinger is staying in the apartment of anna sage she happens to be a romanian immigrant and she's about to be deported and so she approaches the fbi and tries to cut a deal that she can stay in the country because she is the one person in the world who knows where john dillinger is staying she says basically that she and her girlfriend paulie hamilton and john dillinger are going to go to a movie the next night [Music] so the next day all the fbi men every fbi man in chicago gathers in the downtown office of the fbi it's hot it's 95 it's 98 it's 100 degrees and these men sit there all day in their suit jackets waiting waiting for the call where is this woman is this woman for real i don't think she's for real she's another kook like the dozens of other kooks we've had before and finally in the early evening she calls and she says that she and polly hamilton and john dillinger are going to be at the biograph theater where there's a movie called manhattan melodrama melvin purvis and a dozen fbi men are sitting directly in front of the biograph when early that evening purvis physically sees suddenly john dillinger walked by the right side of his car door with polly hamilton with anna sage in her famous orange skirt and they go into the movie theater [Music] there are you know two dozen fbi agents out there there there's some indiana police there are chicago cops and they wait they wait for two hours diligent finally emerges around 10 30. purvis is standing in front of the box office and he is to give a signal he's to light a cigar when he sees dillinger come out and that's when everybody's supposed to move in they're not too clear about what they're going to do when they move in but it's pretty clear that they're going to shoot him [Music] dillinger walks out he turns left purvis lights his cigar and nobody nobody sees it one of them charlie winstead a texas fbi agent who had come up to chicago to be put on the case because he was so good with guns mothers to his friend that still injured the one in the hat they walk behind him 10 20 feet and at some point dillinger senses it he turns around he looks directly into charles winston's eyes and he knows it [Applause] [Music] four shots are fired two hit dillinger one goes into the back of his skull exit through his eye dillinger falls right there at the base of an alley he's dead within seconds they got him outside this motion picture theater wild excitement dillinger killed by federal agents commanded by inspector samuel cowley assisted by east chicago indiana police the belongings of public enemy number one three men couldn't carry dillinger's collection of deadly weapons seized at various places he had this automatic in hand when killed his fingerprints the infallible sign he spent five thousand dollars to have them altered with acid but it failed three hundred points of similarity remained his face made over but the g-men recognized him the eyes and the shape of his head [Music] [Music] the death of dillinger marks the end of the reign of the gangsters and the birth of the modern fbi headed by the now all powerful j edgar hoover there are three needs in america today in law enforcement the elimination of politics from law enforcement emphasis on efficiency and cooperation between police agencies we should all be concerned but one goal the eradication of crime the federal bureau of investigation is as close to you as your nearest telephone it seeks to be your protector in all matters within its jurisdiction it belongs to you that means gangsters you can't get away with it little girl you know i love you and i long for you each day

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Length: 51min 29sec (3089 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 31 2021