Talk:John Dillinger

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Why Feb 23rd?

The Public Enemies List was released by the Chicago Crime Commission, not the FBI. The FBI has a "Most Wanted" list, but it was not created until 1950.

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Why were his fingers scarred with acid?

They scarred with acid because he didn't want to be indentified by the FBI. --Comrade Nick 02:56, 19 May 2004 (UTC)

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What year was he born? The top says 1903, but the bottom says 1902.

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I've added the poem at the bottom which is supposedy where the lady in red story comes from.

Read "The Dillinger Dossiers" By J.Robert Nash for a good angle as to how Dillenger set up "Jimmy Lawrence" to effect his own escape. According to Nash, Dillingers finger print files were missing from the Cook County (Chicago) files for over twenty years, and now the F.B.I. has them? And wha about the open cuts on the face of the body -the result of having been shoved to the ground and fired upon from above-which the F.B.I. describes as "scars, as a result of inept plastic surgery? randazzo56

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It is too bad that the original authors did not attempt to distinguish between the members of the "first Dillinger gang" and members of the "second Dillinger gang." As a result, the piece forces one to conclude that the author(s) know very little about Dillinger and his gangs.

Contents 1 Was it Dilinger? 2 Wooden and/or potato gun? 3 Eerie 4 Family Background

[edit] Was it Dilinger?

Are there any sources for that section? I'm adding a factual accuracy dispute tag to it 199.126.137.209 05:09, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

== Townsend Darcey? ==...

Why are most of the edits changing the name of the mug shot? Why is it Townsend Darcey and not Dillinger?

I'd just take it out. This is an encylopedia, supposed to be FACTS. People can go elsewhere for Conspiracy Theories or whatever the hell you concider stuff like this. (-Kid. 12:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC))

[edit] Wooden and/or potato gun?

According to series D episode 11(Deprivation) of QI, and this page, Dillinger carved a potato into the shape of a gun, blackened it with iodine or bootblack, and used it to escape. According to the article, he painted a wooden gun with bootblack. Which is true, or did he try the same trick twice? In Take the Money and Run, Woody Allen's character carves a gun out of soap and blackens in with bootblack, which according to QI was inspired by Dillinger's escape. boffy_b 14:45, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Eerie

Does anyone else find it a bit eerie that the final scene in Manhattan Melodrama has the lead character walking to his own execution, and moments after watching it, the unknowing Dillinger walked to what was essentially his own execution? Kasreyn 07:11, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

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In the "Death" section it says:

"Earlier in the day, Sage had called Purvis and told him that Jimmy Lawrence was going to the movies that night and might even go to two seprate shows just to avoid the murderous heat that was smothering Chicago that week. "

Is this factual, or is it attempting to imply the conspiracy theory that Jimmy Lawrence was killed instead of Dillinger?Ormaybemidgets 21:15, 4 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Family Background

Isn't the biographical section a bit inadequate? What sort of family was John Dillinger from? (I know they were Quakers, but I don't know any more than that.) What were his parents' names, and what did they do for a living? Did he have a middle name? Did he have any sisters and brothers? What was his childhood like? Tom129.93.29.149 04:14, 26 August 2007 (UTC)