John Herbert Dillinger Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Template:Multiple issuesJohn Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster and bank robber in the Depression-era United States. His gang robbed two dozen banks and four police stations. Dillinger escaped from jail twice; he was also charged with, but never convicted of, the murder of an East Chicago, Indiana police officer who shot Dillinger in his bullet-proof vest during a shootout, prompting him to return fire. It was Dillinger's only homicide charge.In the heyday of the Depression-era outlaw, 1933–34, Dillinger was the most notorious of all, standing out even among more violent criminals such as Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde. (Decades later, the first major book about '30s gangsters was titled The Dillinger Days.) Media reports in his time were spiced with exaggerated accounts of Dillinger's bravado and daring and his colorful personality. The government demanded federal action, and J. Edgar Hoover developed a more sophisticated Federal Bureau of Investigation as a weapon against organized crime and used Dillinger and his gang as his campaign platform to launch the FBI.After evading police in four states for almost a year, Dillinger was wounded and returned to his father's home to recover. He returned to Chicago in July 1934 and met his end at the hands of police and federal agents who were informed of his whereabouts by Ana Cumpănaş (the owner of the brothel where Dillinger sought refuge at the time). On July 22, the police and Division of Investigation closed in on the Biograph Theater. Federal agents, led by Melvin Purvis and Samuel P. Cowley, moved to arrest Dillinger as he left the theater. He pulled a weapon and attempted to flee but was shot four times and killed.
Lopsided, foxy smile. It was Dillinger's subtle act of defiance aganst all authority figures.
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These few dollars you lose here today are going to buy you stories to tell your children and great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments in your life; don't make it your last!
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They're not going to get me.
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OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal.
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What do you expect me to do about it?
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My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!
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I rob banks for a living, what do you do?
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Now nobody get nervous, you ain't got nothing to fear. You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is!
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No; small timers get into it, and ruin it for everyone.
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All my life I wanted to be a bank robber. Carry a gun and wear a mask. Now that it's happened I guess I'm just about the best bank robber they ever had. And I sure am happy.
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I don't smoke much. And I hardly ever drink. I guess you could say that robbing banks is my only bad habit.
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Fact
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John Dillinger was due to meet up with Baby Face Nelson and Homer Van Meter on July 23rd, 1934 - the day after he was killed. They were supposed to meet with Chicago fixer Jimmy Murray to go over the details of a proposed million dollar train robbery. Murray had previously masterminded the train robbery at Roundout, Illinois committed by The Newton Brothers (as seen in the film "The Newton Boys"). However, once Dillinger was killed, the train robbery was abandoned.
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Although John's last name is pronounced "Dillin-grrr" by the press and public (like the "derringer" pistol), his last name is actually pronounced "Dil-linger" with a hard "G" sound as the family has a German heritage.
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Was once a professional baseball player.
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Deserted from the U.S. Navy.
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Insisted that all the members of his gang address him by his first name.
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Exactly 26 days before Dillinger was gunned down by the FBI, he actually died on an operating table while under anesthetic. Doctors quickly revived him, however.
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True Crime author Jay Robert Nash has always insisted that the FBI mistakenly killed a smalltime hoodlum named Jimmy Lawrence, and that the real John Dillinger remained at large.
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Chicago's Biograph cinema closed its doors for the final time on July 13th, 1974. Some forty years to the day of his death (22nd July, 1934) outside its doors.
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Dillinger was informally named America's first Public Enemy Number One in a speech given by U.S. Attorney General Homer S. Cummings on June 22nd, 1934.
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