BEST OF (#51 of 502) JOHN DILLINGER PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 (PT 1)
1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast
Jon Hagadorn
4.4 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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In the episode we take a look at the life and early career of America's most notorious gangster, John Dillinger. His gang, within a one year period from 1933 to 1934 robbed 24 banks and 4 police stations, killing or wounding a number of policemen and creating fear and panic in 5 states, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Indiana.
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| 0:00.0 | The Chained out of myself Chained out of this death cell by myself |
| 0:35.6 | Oh chain of this death cell by myself. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh, chain of this death cell by myself. |
| 0:48.3 | And my girl, she got, she got somebody else. |
| 1:00.1 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries Podcast. |
| 1:01.1 | This is your host, John Hagadorn. |
| 1:03.6 | Today, Public Enemy Number 1, John Dillinger, Part 1, Rush to Infamy. |
| 1:10.8 | The Great Depression of the 1930s brought untold hardship to millions of Pallinger. Part 1. Rush to Infamy. |
| 1:16.2 | The Great Depression of the 1930s brought untold hardship to millions of unemployed Americans who had lost their farms or their jobs, while at the same time it created a crime wave, |
| 1:21.6 | the likes of which hasn't been seen since. It made heroes out of robbers and killers, |
| 1:26.3 | as well as crime fighters. |
| 1:28.1 | It elevated J. Edgar Hoover to hero status and brought lasting fame to the FBI. |
| 1:33.9 | It made the newspapers and radio owners wealthy beyond belief, |
| 1:37.5 | and it created a new breed of criminals who thrived on all that media attention. |
| 1:42.6 | We've done stories on Ma Barker and her killer brood, |
| 1:45.5 | on Dutch Schultz, and on Bonnie and Clyde, |
| 1:48.4 | but of all the gangsters and criminals of the 30s, |
| 1:51.1 | and there were many, it was John Herbert Dillinger, |
| 1:54.2 | who became the face of the gangster era |
| 1:55.9 | and a hero to a large swath of America's downtrodden. |
| 2:00.3 | Why anyone would respect and even worship violent |
| 2:02.8 | killers is a mystery I can never understand, but Dillinger, who, between September of 1933 and July of |
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