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It's done in Okima, Oklahoma.

Two cars, a Plymouth and a Ford wind down the sleepy dusty streets.

In each car sit men with stockings and handkerchiefs over their faces,

pistols and machine guns in their hands.

For most people, 1934, five years into the Great Depression,

was a hard year.

But the men in these cars,

the O'Malley gang, they are not most people.

They stop in front of two banks across the street from each other.

The Depression is the golden era double heists in American history.

As the

rays of light bounce off the bank windows, the O'Malley gang strikes,

taking two separate banks at once.

Inside, they tie and gag employees,

force a bank officer to open the safe.

Word of the robberies splashes across local newspapers.

Two institutions held up, bandits leaving 15 tied.

Okima's two national banks were robbed simultaneously of $19,000 Saturday.

The robberies were staged with clock-like precision and the gang fled. Eventually the bandits get caught. One of them a

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