Purvis: Part One Of Three
2010; University of Iowa; Volume: 40; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.17077/0021-065x.6853
ISSN2330-0361
Autores ResumoIn 1932, J. Edgar Hoover placed him in charge of the Chi cago office of Hoover's new Division of Investigation, which soon be came the FBI.Over a six-month period in 1934, Purvis's pursuit of the nation's most famous "Public Enemies" put him in the spotlight.Apparently envious, Hoover drove him from the Bureau the following year.After leaving law-enforcement, Purvis married and raised three children, making his living as a radio broadcaster and as the head of the "Junior G-man" public relations campaign for Post Toasties cereal.Some important dates:June, 1933?Under the suspected direction of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangsters ambush police and agents transferring a prisoner in Kansas City, killing three policemen and Special Agent Ray Caf frey, the first "G-man" to die in action. March, 1934?Bank robber John Dillinger escapes from jail in Indiana and crosses a state line, making himself a federal fugitive.May, 1934?Under Purvis's direction, federal agents ambush Dillinger and Lester Gillis?aka "Baby Face Nelson"?at the Little Bohemia Inn on Star Lake, Wisconsin.Both criminals esc?pe while two by standers are killed.Later that night in a second gunfight Nelson kills one of Purvis's agents before escaping again.July, 1934?Purvis heads a team of agents and local police who assas sinate John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago.October, 1934?Purvis participates in the killing of Pretty Boy Floyd in a cornfield near Wellsville, Ohio.November, 1934?Baby Face Nelson dies in a shootout with federal agents on an Illinois roadside.Two agents also die.
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