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🗓️ 7 December 2020
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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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