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Infamous America

BABY FACE NELSON Ep. 5 | “The Little Bohemia Shootout”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.73K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

After two robberies that featured gun battles, the Nelson-Dillinger gang needs some time to cool off. Baby Face Nelson heads out west to do a little business, and then reunites with the gang at the Little Bohemia Lodge in Wisconsin. Unbeknownst to the gang, FBI Agent Melvin Purvis has organized an ambush at the lodge. The gang shoots it out with the agents, and Nelson commits the crime that will soon make him the most wanted man in America. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons. Hit “JOIN” on the Infamous America YouTube homepage.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm4V_wVD7N1gEB045t7-V0w/featured For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. To purchase an ad on this show please reach out: blackbarrelmedia@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Spark your creativity with the Sims. Sometimes you might feel like you're not creative

0:07.0

and you have to go in search of your creative spark again. Maybe this is catching up with creative

0:11.9

friends, experimenting with a new look or trying out a new recipe.

0:16.0

And thanks to The Sims, inspiration is just one game and one spark away.

0:21.0

Ready to spark something? Download The Sims 4 and play for free. In less than two years, Lester Gillis, aka George Nelson, nicknamed Babyface Nelson,

0:49.7

had gone from being a chauffeur from a Reno-Nevada gambling czar to the leader of a bank robbery crew out of St Paul,

0:56.5

Minnesota. Nelson had partnered with the most famous outlaw in the land, John Dillinger, just three days after Dillinger's dramatic escape

1:06.0

from the Crown Point Jail in Indiana.

1:09.0

Their combined crew had knocked over a bank in Sioux Falls, South Dakota to the tune of $46,000,

1:15.0

more than a million in today's money.

1:18.0

The press had gone wild with speculation after the Sioux Falls job.

1:22.0

No one in the bank had identified Dylinger. with speculation after the Sioux Falls job.

1:22.9

No one in the bank had identified Dillinger,

1:25.4

but the list of suspects was short,

1:28.0

a Dillinger gang, the Carpice Barker gang,

1:31.0

and Pretty Boy Floyd. George Machine Gun Kelly was already behind bars at America's first federal prison Leavenworth

1:38.0

and was just a few months away from arriving at America's most notorious prison, Alcatraz.

1:45.0

Bonnie and Clyde were still on the loose somewhere down around Texas,

1:50.0

but they never strayed too far from their southern roots.

1:53.2

South Dakota would have been way out of their comfort zone.

1:56.7

So it was almost certainly Dillinger and his less famous partner Nelson

2:01.2

who hit the bank in Sioux Falls.

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