Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1

Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1

20 mins | Nov. 1, 1934

Propagandic newsreel commissioned by J. Edgar Hoover to make the FBI's killing of John Dillinger seem more heroic, after a public outcry complained that the government's shooting a man in the back while leaving a movie theatre was cowardly.

Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1

20 mins | Nov. 1, 1934

Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1
Propagandic newsreel commissioned by J. Edgar Hoover to make the FBI's killing of John Dillinger seem more heroic, after a public outcry complained that the government's shooting a man in the back while leaving a movie theatre was cowardly.
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