Hoping for another chance at glory, he applied for a job with J. Edgar Hoover ... 2012.39.2 Hoover extended his hand to Melvin Purvis after the slaying of John Dillinger, but the good will ...

38 Super semiautomatic gun stored among Dayton History's 100,000 artifacts is a reminder that a Dayton landlady helped capture the man J. Edgar Hoover ... bank robber John Dillinger on Sept.

His father, John Wilson Dillinger, owns a grocery store. April 12: Dillinger marries 16-year-old Beryl Hovious. May: J. Edgar Hoover is appointed acting director of the Bureau of Investigation.

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. Edgar Hoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, Protestant, middle ...

Gangster John Dillinger was the fed’s first Public Enemy Number One ... The nationally publicized capture catapulted J. Edgar Hoover and his “G-Men” into heroes, prompting Congress to approve the ...

John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, DC in 1895 and spent most of his life there. His final resting place is near his childhood home, by Capitol Hill. Washington through and through, it's ...

Of them, none is more notorious than John Dillinger ... while leaving ordinary citizens alone. As Dillinger becomes a folk hero, FBI head J. Edger Hoover is determined to stop his ilk by assigning ...