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John Dillinger’s Jailbreak

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🗓️ 3 March 2026

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

March 3, 1934. Notorious bank robber John Dillinger stages a daring escape from an “escape proof” jail in Crown Point, Indiana with the help of a wooden gun. This episode originally aired in 2022.

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Music do it the right way with Indeed. It's August 14th, 1933, at a bank in Bluffton, Ohio.

0:49.3

As the notorious bank robber John Dillinger approaches two bank tellers, he flashes a thousand-watt

0:55.2

smile.

0:57.0

Behind him, three of his men carrying submachine guns storm into the bank.

1:01.9

One of the men fires into the air to show the employees that they mean business.

1:06.2

Still smiling, John slaps a burlap sack on the counter and demands money from the safe.

1:11.6

The bank tellers have no choice but to comply.

1:14.6

But one of the bank employees triggers the alarm.

1:17.6

John frantically stuffed whatever cash he can get his hands on into the burlap sack,

1:22.6

and that he and his men rush out the front door.

1:25.6

Outside, they fire their guns into storefront windows along the street to frighten off any pursuers.

1:32.3

John and his men then hop into their car and speed away.

1:39.1

John Dillinger is the newest member of a gang led by a criminal named Harry Pierpont.

1:45.6

John met Harry when they were both locked up in an Indiana state prison. But before John made parole, Harry gave him clear

1:51.0

instructions to amass enough money to pull off a daring mission to break Harry out of prison.

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