About this episode
During the Great Depression, Newsreels about John Dillinger, the first gangster declared Public Enemy #1, drew cheers from movie audiences across America and hisses when pictures of J. Edgar Hoover appeared on screen.
Crowd Outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater After John Dillinger was shot in 1934
Agents from what would become the FBI killed Dillinger in a hail of gunfire while leaving Chicago’s Biograph Theater on July 22, 1934.
The case put the FBI on the map and, to this day, plays a major part in the bureau’s historical legacy.
But questions persist about whether the FBI killed the real John Dillinger or a stand-in resembling the gangster so he could make a getaway.
Travis Thompson, the great-nephew of John Dillinger and a veteran law enforcement officer in Indiana has
