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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.

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
March 29, 2020 1 a.m.

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.