DILLINGER Ep. 1 | "Birth of a Criminal"

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Public Enemy No. 1 — that was John Dillinger in the early 1930s. He robbed banks and took hostages and shot it out with the cops for 13 months. But before he was the first celebrity criminal in modern America, he was an unskilled petty thief who idolized the Old West outlaw Jesse James. For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Fever tree Mediterranean tonic water
0:02.9	Pfft!
0:03.9	Made with zesty lemon time from a small family farm in Provoz
0:08.7	and essential oils from herbs that grow in the Mediterranean sunshine.
0:13.5	So, if three quarters of your G&T is a Fever tree tonic,
0:18.8	maybe it's time to call it a T&G.
0:22.4	Fever tree. Mix with the best.
0:26.9	Oh, that takes me straight to the med.
0:31.9	There's an old Clark Gable film, mostly forgotten today,
0:35.9	called Manhattan Melodrama.
0:37.9	If it's remembered at all, it's not because of the plot,
0:40.9	where two childhood friends grow up to be a gangster
0:43.9	and a district attorney.
0:45.9	And it's not because of the cast, which included the first pairing
0:48.9	of William Powell and Murna Lloyd,
0:50.9	who would go on to star together in the immensely popular
0:53.9	Thin Man series of films.
0:55.9	It's because of what happened after the 830 PM
0:58.9	showing at the Biograph Theater in Chicago, Illinois,
1:01.9	on July 22nd, 1934.
1:04.9	That night, the captivating journey of the most infamous
1:08.9	gangster in America came to an end.
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