George "Baby Face" Nelson

This is the Story of Lester Gillis , aka George Baby Face Nelson . Along with John Dillinger , Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie and Bonnie and Clyde . They terrorized the mid west in the early 30's
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[@ummi_isa3torrence362]

Great Story I was glued in as usual

[@djking8740]

You the god bro this gone be a good one got his book on my nightstand right now on my life

[@youtubecommentrater3379]

That's 🔥🔥

[@petermonck5448]

Always excellent 👍🙏😎

[@patdjames6177]

And then SHOTS rang out!!!!!! Good job on this bro you kept it interesting and in great detail 👍👍

[@user-qt7nq5xl1m]

I was viewing your channel this afternoon looking for a new upload and here it is a couple hours later... Oh yeah, and the shots rang out 😅

[@lazyeight01]

Another hit Boss. Keep ‘em comin’.

[@pauliedibbs9028]

Ayyyyy!! Now that's class :)

[@afewbadmen.]

Thanks so much pal. I got you!!!

[@YungSaulzOfficial]

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[@YungSaulzOfficial]

​@@pauliedibbs9028pls can rate my new song for me

[@afewbadmen.]

@@YungSaulzOfficial you have a song?

[@djking8740]

Awwww shit my idol Lester Gillis wow that’s crazy 💯💯💯💯💯

[@kideos3236]

Wonderful information well researched as usual!

[@LiberMan11]

Masterfully narrated! Another masterpiece from the boss! Thank you! My envelope is on the way!

[@franciscastiglione5832]

Just came across your stuff today and I love it. You do a great job structuring historical accounts and details into a narrative that feels very much like a film. There isn’t a lot of speculation and what ifs, but it does a great job in capturing the romanticized view of the time period. I’m not sure I’m explaining it well, but that’s the best way I can. On a side note though: every time I hear “babyface” Nelson, I think of that scene from “O’ Brother where art thou?” Where in the escaping car chase, he’s shouting his Tommy gun at some cows, and Delmar says “Oh George; not the livestock”. Lol😂 sorry sorry. Can’t help it. Awesome research on the video!

[@nikkipacheco6835]

Walked into a police station with Tommy guns & demanding vest & gun's!! Wow they just don't make em like that anymore 💯

[@rafaelramirez1507]

You always got these great videos 👍👍

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

Thanks AFBM❤

[@johnfabio1781]

My man that music is amazing 😊

[@vikmarisco5679]

Great work as always boss. Ive read Alvin karpis autobiographies. Facinating guy!

[@alanlangley7246]

They all had something in common they were all broke .😂

[@Timsmith13911]

Thanks boss excellent work as always

[@tommroz5539]

Again Great Job! Love you're Voice! Thks !

[@johnnelson9252]

This is largely the version I heard. If you're ever in Logan, Utah, go to the engineering building at USU. It's named after Sam Cowley, one of the two FBI agents who were killed in that last fight. There's a plaque on the wall describing the details of the gunfight. It reads like a screen play, not as good as your telling. Good job sir!

[@guymurdoch9304]

Good content mate definitely one of the best

[@user-oq3sx7ql2u]

Yessir excellent storytelling 👌👍👏💯 Babyface Nelson when out like a G 😉😉😉

[@leeryan1969]

Well presented bro

[@outie-dg8jh]

Great work BOSS, I just broke that thumb button for trying to give me some wooden nickels 💥🔥💢💯

[@somaliano99kingkonghimself75]

Great vidoe again love it

[@JasonRobinsonjr-xx7uv]

Right on.

[@cherylmaggard9118]

Good story teller 🐎

[@teddrickjohnson3580]

And I was just sitting sitting here thinking about checking in wit da boss to get the skinny...🔥👍

[@Neverhome365]

It’s so crazy the details that was in your story telling great job. Still missing a lot of details about lake Geneva lake Como where they were driving to the French country inn. But the g men were already waiting for him. The owner of the inn was a bootlegger named Hobart Hermansen that married bugs Morans x wife Lucille Logan . Which is a way better story than that public enemy movie lol The footage is funny because it shows mountains but it was on route 14 in Barrington Illinois by the McDonald’s . But still better story telling then I could have ever done.

[@IceNiner199]

Another GREAT video, Boss! I'd like to request a video on the infamous Bank Robber John Dillinger! 😀

[@keithharrison9797]

AWESOME , TOTALLY AWESOME !

[@DatboiTrey]

48 hours late but I’m here boss man whacked the like button on da way in

[@afewbadmen.]

No worries Trey

[@idiotwind2248]

Interesting trip out of the big cities and organized crime 👍 Shots were ringing out in the farmlands of the Midwest too....

[@GIjoe614]

Dam they robbed the police station lol now that's gangsta

[@HandyMan657]

Thank ya, papa. Take care

[@doggiemike5773]

I'M HERE BOSS 👊🏼

[@elvinkrigsman6956]

Wow, he ran with Tony accardo

[@oldmansportsog2514]

Just found this channel and love it. Great work Sir! You should check out Denver’s Little Joe Romo

[@afewbadmen.]

Welcome to the gang pal 💥💥💥

[@justinevans125]

Brilliant story

[@derka346]

Great videos like usual 🎉

[@pingadulce663]

Good shit

[@r.shanethompson7933]

The magazine capacity of Nelson's "Baby Machine Gun" a Colt 1911 chambered in .38 Super and customized by San Antonio gunsmith Hyman Lehman was actually 21 rounds (iirc). It is a single stack magazine and 50 rounds would be to long for practical use.

[@r.shanethompson7933]

Lebman not Lehman. Damn autocorrect made an auto-mistake.

[@afewbadmen.]

lol thanks I have the pic of his gun . I couldn’t show it on KZbin

[@r.shanethompson7933]

@@afewbadmen. It was a wicked little beast. The .38 Super was capable of penetrating most of the "bulletproof" vest of that era. It had the muzzle brake and forward grip on there to help keep the muzzle from rising in recoil with such high rate of fire. It's thought that Eddie Bentz is the man who introduced Nelson to Lebman. Nelson took his family and spent Thanksgiving with Lebman one year. Law Enforcement actually recovered an almost identical gun from Dillinger's apartment in St.Paul and it is believed that Nelson gifted it to Dillinger after his Crown Point escape. When the FBI raided Lebman in 1934 they found an incomplete one chambered in .45acp (it had an 18 round magazine capacity vs. 22 for .38 Super). He stated he was building it for the (by then) deceased Homer Van Meter. Lebman's other "signature" weapon was a Model of 1907 .351 caliber Winchester, modified to full auto with muzzle brake or suppressor and forward mounted pistol grip and 15 or 20 round extended magazine. Tuscon PD recovered two (1 with suppressor, 1 with muzzle brake) from the gang when they were busted there. Lebman was a very interesting character. Pretty Boy Floyd was killed carrying two 1911 Colt's with one being modified to fire full auto but no other modification and it is unknown if it was a Lebman gun. Seems unlikely, as it lacked the additional features he provided on guns of his design.

[@user-vj9zy9zu2e]

Fire

[@potheadmike8510]

Baby Face Nelson sounded like a good kid that wanted to do bad.

[@user-vj9zy9zu2e]

Also Toney Fats Serlarno and Toney Ducks there underrated facto got plenty more i would like for you to do keep the work coming your the Best

[@SunnyBoyy448]

There’s no rest for the wicked. Not in this life or the next

[@MichaelLove-wl2ti]

I wonder who was his female companion she must have loved him and felt really safe around him!♥️❤

[@altagraciaadames3483]

Fun Fact: Baby Face Nelson was soo 🔥 bad a$$ even AL Capone aka The Real Scarface, though Lester was to violent to work for him. Wow boyhood chums, with what many consider the most powerful Mafia boss, Tony Accardo 👏

[@1stMartialSageUnderHeaven]

Good content but I think you should change your name from A Few Bad Men to Shots Rang Out, just a thought 😊😂

[@justred5164]

You can’t tell me Hoover wasn’t a black man !!!!

[@user-vj9zy9zu2e]

I love this channel your the best facto another show claims they the best itsbok but FBM is the ultimate best keep them coming in Boss facto do one one the Kray Brothers for London let them know you the best

[@afewbadmen.]

I will do the Katy’s sometime this year

[@afewbadmen.]

Krays

[@PabloEscobar-vw7gw]

A video about the New Orleans mob in the 1870s -90s with Charles Matranga ,Giuseppe Espposito ,Joseph Macheeca and tony provenzano would be great

[@afewbadmen.]

I have some New Orleans books that I haven’t cracked yet give me sec

[@warreporttv8316]

The fact that he stayed with native Americans for a few nights is crazy

[@terrancethompson9138]

Talking about LAWLESS😬

[@connormurphy7684]

Always thought the forgotten hero of the Baby face Nelson story was Sam Cowley!

[@antouttaqb2423]

What’s the background song

[@isaiahsalazar2431]

duke ellington "the mooche"

[@isaiahsalazar2431]

what movie clips were you showing?

[@afewbadmen.]

Dillinger 1973 and baby face Nelson 1957

[@NoDiddyllc]

Still waiting for something from Boston, and not whitey. Something on the patriaca family or Charlestown

[@afewbadmen.]

👍🏼

[@ahmentv7042]

EXCELLENT!!!!!

[@user-vj9zy9zu2e]

Also got people from Italy I would like you to do from Corleone Sicily hope I spelled it rite also the Russian Mob

[@Cracktaculus]

Those bank robbin' criminals were the real-deal desperado psychos

[@Melissa-SC73]

Nelson & his wife had 2 children, correct? What became of them and when did his wife pass away?

[@acb723]

Damnn Babyface jacked about 500,000 in today's money from homie and his wife in gems 😮😮🤯🤩

[@JMTrucking1417]

Xcellent vids but tht bkground violin mannn omg

[@afewbadmen.]

That’s Duke Ellington bro. And they are clarinets 😂 thanks for watching.💥💥💥

[@zombie_snax]

Lolz, he was always telling everyone he was retired and then he'd rob like 4 banks.

[@charlesandrews2360]

Very entertaining but Alvin karpis wasn't from Chicago

[@afewbadmen.]

I don’t remember saying he was from there . But that they met there.

[@charlesandrews2360]

​@@afewbadmen. At around 12:50 you said he was from the same Chicago neighborhood as Gillis. It's no big deal, it just threw me for a loop because I thought I knew all the major criminals who came from that area. What's the neighborhood where my grandfather grew up. It happens but I enjoy your videos so keep on makin em.

[@afewbadmen.]

Yea it happens. Thanks for watching. And thanks for the correction I make mistakes but I want to know the truth.💥💥💥

[@JamesLee-uz2ju]

🫡💯🫡💯🫡💯👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

[@jamesgilbert91]

I wonder if Shane GILLIS has any relation?

[@dismothafuka405]

More of the midwest gangs. Maybe some biker gangs.

[@warrenrosen132]

Thompson seemed to jam alot.

[@afewbadmen.]

His was home made. A modified 45 with a Thompson grip. Pretty much like a switch on a gloc now

[@afewbadmen.]

I couldn’t show the pic on KZbin

[@ELWRP]

The biggest gangster

[@user-lr4sg2ms7i]

I enjoy your presentations. You are well informed & your narration is very good. However, you made a mistake in your identification of Homer Van Meter. At 13:30 you identify the man pictured as Van Meter. Actually, it is John Paul Chase, a loyal criminal/co-conspirator of Baby Face Nelsons. At 27:28, you show a gallery photo of 6 criminals. Look closely at the 5th photo, middle photo, bottom row. That is Homer Van Meter. He is distinguish by his half lidded, sleepy looking eyes. Every photo that I have seen of him, Van Meter has that same sleepy look.

[@afewbadmen.]

Thanks sometimes the google search screws me. 👍🏼

[@dwayneglover914]

BOSS BABY FACE NELSON WAS TRUE BAD AZZ🎉🎉 NUFF SAID.

[@neilledejongh1290]

YES BUT JOHN DILLINGER WAS THE TRUTH

[@rodneyroyal9686]

I dont believe some of this. No way Nelson got out of the car and took the time to say "...I know who you are, you're G men and you have vests on ect....." while the armed G men just sat there???😂 Doesn't make any sense Sounds like a movie 😂 Also radios in cars in the 20s early 30s? idk just wondering?