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Experience of my Famous Uncle, Melvin Purvis, with Hoover's Jealousy and with Nazi Hermann Göring

2016; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 29; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/08998280.2016.11929465

ISSN

1525-3252

Autores

S. Robert Lathan,

Tópico(s)

Race, History, and American Society

Resumo

n 1934, Th e Literary Digest's poll of the 10 most famous people in America named Franklin D. Roosevelt number one and Melvin Purvis number two.Purvis, in charge of the Chicago offi ce of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), became famous in the 1930s for bringing down the notorious outlaws John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd ( Figure 1 ) .Melvin was born in 1903 in the small town of Timmonsville, South Carolina, with a family of six sisters and two brothers.He was devoted to all his sisters, especially my mother,

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