John Dillinger
| Description: |
John Dillinger, Jr. was a bank robber and gangster born in Indianapolis, Indiana. During the Great Depression, he led the Dillinger Gang, accused of robbing 24 banks and 4 police stations in the Midwest. He was imprisoned multiple times and escaped twice, including the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana in 1934. In the photograph, he is holding a Thompson submachine gun and the carved wooden gun he purportedly used to force the guards to release him from Crown Point, while standing in front of his childhood home in Mooresville. |
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| Origin: | 1934-04-08 |
| Source: |
http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll13/id/5364 |
| Collection: |
Indiana State Library Photograph Collections |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
Copyright Undetermined |
| Geography: |
Mooresville, Indiana, United States |
| Subjects: |
photographs portraits Dillinger, John, 1903-1934 bank robbers gangsters criminals men firearms Thompson submachine gun buildings |
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