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Public Enemies & Keystone Cops

By Peter Carlson | American History  | one comment  | Print This Post  | Email This Post

A few weeks after Dillinger’s death, Hoover ordered his underlings to create a display outside his office—a glass case containing the bank robber’s gun, straw hat and death mask. The strange shrine remained until Hoover died in 1972.

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When the director was an old man, an interviewer asked him to name his greatest thrill.
Hoover didn’t even have to ponder the question. “The night we got Dillinger,” he replied.

Peter Carlson is the author of K Blows Top: A Cold War Comic Interlude Starring Nikita Krushchev, America’s Most Unlikely Tourist.

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