Photo provided by CHRISS LYON
Tommy gun used in St. Valentine’s Day Massacre in Chicago on Feb. 14, 1929, which was not part of John Dillinger’s operation, the submachine gun a popular weapon of Prohibition Era mobsters.
March 29, 2020
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Story of John Dillinger, J. Edgar Hoover and the Lady in Red
John Herbert Dillinger was one of America’s most famous criminals in the 1930s, a group that included Al Capone, Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bugsy Siegel and Lucky Luciano. He was only 31 when the FBI got him in a shootout coming out of a movie theater and betrayed by his landlady.