John Dillinger Research Paper

John Dillinger was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He impacted many people during his time and still has impacted people to this day. John Herbert Dillinger was born on June 22, 1903. His parents were, John Wilson Dillinger and Mary Ellen Lancaster. Dillinger’s mother passed away when he was only three. John’s father then remarried and they moved to a close by town called Mooresville. He then quit school and started a job in a machine shop and a furniture factory. After his jobs, Dillinger joined the Navy in 1923, but was quickly discharged for being absent without leave. A year later he then married Beyl Hovious in 1924. While at his job he got drunk with a friend and tried to rob a grocery. He was sent to state prison

Dillinger’s gang included, Lester “Baby Face Nelson” Gillis, which was another notorious criminal. Before robbing a bank, the gang would scout it out and learn its operations before robbing it. The gang’s operations were working throughout their sprees. They soon had gotten hundreds of thousands of dollars from the heists they had pulled. The gang had also killed 15 people, including police throughout their rampage. As the gang grew more notorious through the Midwest, they were almost implicated with every crime that had happened through the Midwest, even if they were or were not involved with it. During January of 1934, while on a heist, John had got brought into a shooting with a police officer. Dillinger had shot and killed that police officer. After the heist and the shooting, the Dillinger gang was brought into custody a week later in Arizona. Dillinger was sent to Indiana for the killing of the police officer, William O’Malley. Some of John Dillinger’s major crimes involved robbing banks, and even robbing police

Anna had told the agents that she would let them know what theater they would be attending. She would also be wearing an orange dress, so that the agents would be able to know that it is her. On July 22, Anna Sage had contacted the agents to confirm the plans. She still didn’t know what theater they were going to attend. Both agents and police officers were sent to both theaters just in case. At 8:30 P.M., Anna, Dillinger, and Polly arrived at the Biograph Theater. Purvis then got the other officers from the Marbro to come to the biograph. Dillinger had then came out of the theater at 10:30 P.M.. Purvis was standing just outside and the signal for the other men to engage was for him to light a cigar, which he did. Dillinger had soon found out what was happening, and he grabbed his pistol and quickly ran to the alley. Three FBI agents fired five shots and three of the five shots hit Dillinger. John Dillinger then went down to the pavement, and at 10:50, July 22, 1934, he was pronounced dead at the Alexian Brothers Hospital. (FBI,