John Dillinger
- 1903 - 1934
- Born Indianapolis Indiana to a middle class family and the youngest of two children
- His father was a harsh disciplinary on John
- His Mother died when he was only three from a stroke, so his older sister who was 15yrs his senior raised him till his father remarried
- As a child he constantly got in to trouble committing small time crimes with his gang called The Dirty Dozen
- John quit school at sixteen because he was bored and wanted to start working
- In 1923 stole a car to impress a girl, but was caught and arrested. John however was able to escape.
- Knowing he couldn’t return home after the theft john joined the navy after going basic training john decided the military wasn’t for him and left after five months and returned to Indiana
- In 1924 John met and married Beryl Ethel Hovious they would later divorce because she couldn’t take john life style anymore
- The love of his life would be Billie Frechette
- Dillinger was a huge fan of baseball, he played himself before he became a full time criminal and even when he was being hunted by the FBI he would try and see a cubs game when he could
- One of the most notorious and glamorous of all the depression outlaws and the only one besides Pretty Boy Floyd to have a folk hero status that Jesse James had
- Robbed a least a dozen banks and blamed for a dozen more
- One of his fellow gang members later in his career would be Baby Face Nelson
- He captured twice and escaped twice, once using a wooden gun
- Was shot four times coming out of a movie theatre by Melvin Purvis and other FBI agents on July 22, 1934
- The day after his death 15,000 people came to view his body
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