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1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

JOHN DILLINGER PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1 (PT 1)

1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast

Jon Hagadorn

Society & Culture, History

4.41.7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2020

⏱️ 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. Catch ALL our author interviews in one place here at 1001 History's Best Storytellers! Android devices: https://podbay.fm/p/1001-historys-best-storytellers (cut and paste into your url) Apple devices: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 NEW 1001 Ghost Stories & Tales of the Macabre is now playing at Apple Podcasts! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-ghost-stories-tales-of-the-macabre/id1516332327 NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: ​​https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr. Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Oh, She ain't down in the death cell by myself.

0:39.0

Oh, chain in the death sold by myself.

0:45.0

And my girl, she got,

0:50.0

she got,

0:51.0

she got somebody else.

0:55.0

Hello everyone and welcome back to one

0:57.0

2001 Heroes, Legends, Histories, and Mysteries Podcast.

1:01.0

This is your host, John Haggorn. Today, Public Enemy Number One, John

1:06.3

Dillinger. Part one, Rush to Infamy. The Great Depression of the 1930s brought untold hardship to millions of unemployed Americans who had lost their farms or their jobs.

1:19.0

Well at the same time it created a crime wave the likes of which hasn't been seen since.

1:24.0

It made heroes out of robbers and killers as well as crime fighters.

1:28.0

It elevated J Edgar Hoover to hero status and brought lasting fame to the FBI. It made the newspapers and radio

1:35.6

owners wealthy beyond belief and it created a new breed of criminals who thrived

1:40.0

on all that media attention. We've done stories on Ma Barker and her killer

1:44.7

brood, on Dutch Schultz, and on Bonnie and Clyde, but of all the gangsters and

1:49.8

criminals of the

1:55.0

30s and there were many. It was John Herbert Dillinger who became the face of the gangster era

1:56.0

and a hero to a large swath of America's downtrodden.

2:00.0

Why anyone would respect and even worship violent killers is a mystery I can never understand

2:05.7

But Dillinger who between September of 1933 and July of 1934 was responsible for the killing of 10 men and the wounding of seven of jailbreaks during which guards and sheriffs were killed and wounded, was to the 30s,

2:25.5

what Jesse James was to the 1870s and 1880s. He was a hero to many.

2:31.5

When news of Dillinger's death outside the Biograph Theater on July 22nd, 1934

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