DILLINGER: PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1

5.0

1934

20 min.

en

Original Title

Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1

Overview

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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