DiscoverByte Sized Biographies…John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part One)
John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part One)

John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part One)

Update: 2025-12-27
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In thirteen months, John Dillinger transformed himself from inconsequential ex-con to the most famous criminal celebrity in US history and the first Public Enemy Number One.


<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3308" style="width: 500px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3308">John Dillinger, at the height of his fame</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3310" style="width: 251px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3310">Homer Van Meter</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3312" style="width: 407px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3312">Tommy Carroll</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3314" style="width: 500px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3314">Billy Frechette, wanted poster</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3316" style="width: 960px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3316">Dillinger arrest location, Tucson, Arizona</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3318" style="width: 860px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3318">Biograph Theater, early morning July 23, 1934</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3320" style="width: 960px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3320">Chicago alley where Dillinger was shot</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3322" style="width: 960px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3322">Dillinger family plot, Crown Hill Cemetery</figcaption></figure>
<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_3324" style="width: 500px;"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-3324">One of several Dillinger death masks</figcaption></figure>
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John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part One)

John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part One)

Philip D. Gibbons