John Dillinger: Enemy of the Public | Natural Born Outlaws | Depression Era Crime

John Herbert Dillinger was an American gangster during the Great Depression. He led the Dillinger Gang, which was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times and escaped twice
Infamous villains the likes of Machine gun Kelly , Pretty bow Floyd, and Baby face Nelson show how hard , mean and desperate you have to be to earn the title of Public enemy.
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[@constableconstable2563]

The fact he was able to escape the FBI with a injured leg must of been so humiliating for Hoover, probably bruised his massive ego.

[@Bootmahoy88]

This is a superb series! Damn. From the acting, which, for reenactments, is superlative to the direction to the use of comic strip type images, it's all fantastic. I feel like I stumbled onto a gold mine.

[@NoiseOrdinance704]

Indeed

[@stevenbrian3001]

I second that just flawless

[@GreatDetecting]

👍🏻

[@seanmartin699]

Agree with that

[@meghanmisaliar]

Absolutely. I'm impressed.

[@cindyrussell1581]

Johnny Depp did an outstanding job in that movie, next to secret window, public Enemy was my two favorites.

[@keithharrison9797]

Johnny Depp did a good job of playing the part of Dillinger , but in my opinion , Warren Oates done the most outstanding job in playing the role of John Dillinger !!!!!

[@cindyrussell1581]

@@keithharrison9797 never seen that one, but in my opinion and eyes Johnny Depp does the best at everything.

[@keithharrison9797]

@@cindyrussell1581 Watch " Dillinger " that came out in 1973 , I GUARANTEE you wouldn't think so much of Johnny Depp after watching that. I like Johnny Depp's movies too , but when I saw Johnny Depp as Dillinger , I didn't think he played the part right. That's how much better Warren Oates done the job. Rather than arguing, just watch the one that came out in 1973 !!!!

[@cindyrussell1581]

@@keithharrison9797 Thanks, I will check it out.

[@keithharrison9797]

@@cindyrussell1581 Right on , you'll definitely like it

[@bonitamartin4954]

When my mother was a little girl, she and her siblings and neighbor kids found an abandoned car and played in it for several days before one of them mentioned it to an adult. Upon discovery, the police identified it as John Dillinger's car. Parents were pretty freaked out.

[@kirkgriffin3336]

Sure, Jan.

[@GreenTruckFromCaseOhGrocery]

@@kirkgriffin3336 calm down kirk

[@davec.3129]

I really like this series. It's gotten my renewed interest in some of these old cases and characters

[@JayCity10]

I think it will win some type of an award.

[@josephfast5887]

This mini series is well produced.

[@CissyBrazil]

Me too!

[@CissyBrazil]

@@JayCity10 That would well deserved!

[@bullast2046]

The actor has the Peter Griffin chin

[@seanmartin699]

Really enjoy these, love the multimedia,and animation etc

[@tiptopdadddy]

Lots of Dillinger history is still accessible in the Indy metro area; the Haag drugstore location in Irvington, the bank on Massachusetts Ave and the bar where he drank before the stick up, the machine shop where he worked as kid, the grocery store in Mooresville and his grave at Crown Hill Cemetery. Heck, both his boyhood home in Indy and teenage home in Mooresville still stand.

[@GreatDetecting]

Great show really enjoyed it 😃

[@perryjohnson6248]

Thank you for another great video and I still say crime does not pay

[@certinstructorron4050]

Good videos about those criminals for the old days!

[@kennethhector4733]

Dillinger 1973 was the best Dillinger movie ever!!!

[@ashlaunicaalpari4584]

Great documentary

[@NightBeastCars]

Amazing video!!

[@kacieogle513]

Dillinger was never a " idiot" . Kids nowadays can't name what continent we are on! Unfortunately, sad and true!

[@Stray1One]

You are correct,an American girl who just got her GED couldn’t even point we’re America was on a map,

[@queenofnyc5584]

@@Stray1One And you don’t know the difference between where and we’re lol.

[@meghanmisaliar]

@@Stray1One *where

[@meghanmisaliar]

@@queenofnyc5584 he's not lying though. American kids aren't the brightest.

[@mrsx7944]

@@Stray1One that doesn't surprise me.

[@tallboy7736]

Sad part is they really don't mention the innocent that where murdered by the F.B.I in the woods of of Wisconsin what a shame!!!

[@davidewaldt734]

31:36 they mentioned it

[@mrsx7944]

They did mention that. A few times.

[@meghanmisaliar]

You clearly weren't paying attention. That was mentioned. Repeatedly.

[@Rocks_Dad]

They suppressed that. J Edgar Hoover belonged in the prisons he sent the criminals he caught. He was a very bad person. I believe the agents were overwhelmed with pressure to catch Dillinger. I'm willing to bet they shot Dillingers doppelganger and hushed it because that would have been absolute embarassment and the end of Hoover and the FBI. ( all my opinion of course)

[@greasercody01]

They don't much like talking about little bohemia

[@davec.3129]

Public Enemies with Johnny Depp is a rare well made "recent" crime movie

[@meghanmisaliar]

Definitely. It's a flawless movie. JD should've won an Oscar. Also for Black Mass.

[@asullivan4047]

I'm going to make it a point to purchase that movie 🎥 ( DVD)😉. I haven't been to a movie 🎥 theater in 30-years😲. Uncle Johnny went from robbing pirate. To robbing bank heist nam.

[@hquinn8635]

Public Enemy is one of my all time favorite gangster movie next to Scarface . Love the animation also in this doc. I never knew he wrote a letter to Ford praising about how fast it was in police chases 🤣

[@bekeneel]

So that "escape proof" jail was really like how it was portrayed in the movie, lol. How seriously incompetent that could happen?

[@meghanmisaliar]

Agree. Public Enemies was a perfect movie.

[@bradmeeds1226]

@@meghanmisaliarit was a good movie but not very historical accurate

[@meghanmisaliar]

@@bradmeeds1226 it's a movie. It doesn't have to be historically accurate. If you want 100% accuracy you should watch a documentary. All movies take dramatic license.

[@meghanmisaliar]

@@bradmeeds1226 it didn't have to be. Its not a documentary.

[@liliann8346]

that is a horrible prosthetic chin--

[@davec.3129]

It's just a tad bit too big

[@Stray1One]

That chin reminds me of my ex,

[@JayCity10]

Who Jay Leno? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@meghanmisaliar]

@@davec.3129 Yep. The cleft is too deep. Looks unnatural.

[@calken546]

Dillinger and Clyde Barrow both wrote Henry Ford about his Ford V8.

[@asullivan4047]

Very true -!!!😉 Unfortunately Uncle Henry didn't take those letters. And use them for advertising his Ford V-8 sedan. Sales would have increased 10- fold.😉.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent still -motion photography pictures/animated caricatures/acting reenactments/detailed maps. Enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Special thanks to veteran law enforcement officers/news media personal. Making this presentation more authentic and possible -!!!😉. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024 ) 🌈🎉😉.

[@lcthedon]

1 and only true gangster, Depp played him well in the film

[@janaskibo871]

Very good. Always loved Gentleman Johnny. Good on you Mr. Purvis!!! You deserved to be recognized for your hard work and dedication. Not Hoover's pettiness.

[@spartan_warrior5927]

Too bad Pervis “accidentally” shot himself while cleaning his gun a few years later.

[@davec.3129]

He was an ambush artist and enflamed federal overreach

[@corybritton1966]

Not trying to defend or excuse Dillinger at all but Melvin Pervis was a back shooting, cowardly, nerd. Dillinger was running away, did not point a gun at anyone and he was shot multiple times in the back! Not to wound, not to apprehend but to kill! Anyway you cut it he was executed without due process, without even an offer to surrender. The FBI didn't even identify themselves! Once they were sure of their targets identification they just started blazing away! Let us not forget the completely INNOCENT man Pervis and his henchmen MURDERED IN COLDBLOOD at their botched, keystone cop, raid in little Bohemia. And no one was called to account for that!! That my friends is acting like one is above the law, and you never have to justify your actions!

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

?

[@tattooedfrea]

Loved the episode, hated the prosthetic chin. It was so bad. Lol

[@meghanmisaliar]

So It was a prosthetic? I was wondering lol. It's not horrible. But the cleft is a little too extreme.

[@NoiseOrdinance704]

The addition of actors is definitely a nice touch, im thoroughly entertained

[@asullivan4047]

1st series with actors reeinacting the criminal being portrayed in the presentation.

[@P.G.1966]

I love these Vids. I fancy myself a bit of an O.G. Gangster. My role models are Alphonso "ScarFace" Capone..Frank "The Enforcer" Nitti.

[@thomascarroll39]

If you're armed while conducting a crime, anything bad can occur.

[@jimthompson8947]

If you're unarmed during a crime, cops will surely murder you due to their safety not being compromised. Then there's "qualified immunity" on top of that.

[@murrayscott9546]

Yup, but sometimes they're necessary.

[@mikehunt368]

i worked in the prison system in indiana, and at the training center they had write ups of his from before all of his major crimes. the amount of shit they had of his was insane…. tens of millions of dollars if sold lol

[@meghanmisaliar]

What is a "write up"?

[@greasercody01]

Not only did John Dillinger write Henry Ford praising his new V8 but Clyde Barrow also wrote Henry Ford tellin him what a dandy car the Model-A V8 was and Henry Ford actually had it fixed in a picture frame and hung it up in his office.. 😅

[@Foul_Quince]

Really? Because Clyde Barrow was functionally illiterate.

[@greasercody01]

And they still ended up deporting Anna Sage smh

[@saiddhgan6057]

Good one

[@tommyandrews4992]

So did the woman get her reward money for setting him up? Deported?

[@fellspoint9364]

They sent her packing with no money. Serves her right for being a snitch.

[@idontgiveafaboutyou]

Deported

[@meghanmisaliar]

@@fellspoint9364 agree. She was a horrible person. I'm glad they sent her back to Romania!!

[@keithharrison9797]

Yeah , the 1930's were probably about the most memorable times in American history !!!!!!!!!!!!

[@meghanmisaliar]

No way. The 50s. The heyday of old Hollywood.

[@keithharrison9797]

I'm talking about the outlaws of the great depression , you talking about old Hollywood

[@mrsx7944]

@@keithharrison9797 they lived short fast lives. Memorable tiimes yes. But so dangerous.

[@keithharrison9797]

@@mrsx7944 OH , their lives was everything but pretty most assuredly.

[@murrayscott9546]

Guy had class. More than the Feds.

[@murph5290]

John Dillinger would have made an excellent special forces operator.

[@meghanmisaliar]

Agree. He was bold and crafty.

[@requiscatinpace7392]

8:56 several locked doors? In a prison, surely not!

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

I heard that the cop who died had shot him 4 times before he returned fire

[@plymouthduster225]

Several witnesses identified a man that matched the description of John "Red" Hamilton as the one who shot Officer O'Malley, though John Dillinger got the blame for it.

[@durwinpocha2488]

"Old Pal. Drive a Ford and watch the other cars fall behind you. I can make any other car take a Ford's dust, Bye - Bye". John Dillinger.

[@MrMrmusashi]

Public Enemies also has excellent cast and was directed by Michael Mann , the same director in the movie Heat (1995) Robert Deniro and Al Pacino, etc. I think Michael Mann like to use the real sound of the ammunition’s of course not real bullets😂 they used in these two film’s that’s why the sound of the gunshots was pure like you were part of the action.

[@chriswilgus165]

What did he do with that guard after getting the thompsons ?

[@meghanmisaliar]

What guard??

[@plymouthduster225]

I believe that it was him that he took with him along with the garage mechanic and another inmate Herman Youngblood.

[@joeyicepick858]

The man who was the first Rico act indictment...

[@asullivan4047]

Oh -!!! The Ex-Con ball team coach whom was involved with robbing the grocery store owner. Received 2 years in prison He had an attorney. Uncle Johnny didn't received 10 years.

[@warrenbates2949]

They shouldn't have thrown the book at him when he was young for the grocery store robbery.

[@meghanmisaliar]

They downplayed that part. It was more than a little robbery. There was an old man that was seriously hurt during that crime. It wasn't a grocery store robbery. It was a mugging. One man was mugged.

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

​@@meghanmisaliarit can't have been that bad as he signed a petition for his release.

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Classic mistake of someone with little knowledge of the law, until you have that experience and see how your words can be twisted, however innocent you are.I know that from personal experience

[@meghanmisaliar]

@@howwwwwyyyyy he felt bad after years.

[@plymouthduster225]

He couldn't afford a lawyer, and his father convinced him to it would be best to just guilty, he was supposedly to get a light sentence that way, he buddy in the robbery I believe only got 2 years but John ended up doing 9 years before paroling out.

[@MothaLuva]

27:35….and apparently, they all survived it.

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

No two way radio's, no pc's, the cop's can't cross the state lines. Dillinger, Bonnie and Clyde , etc. lived in an easy time for bank robbery.

[@jayfelsberg1931]

A pity that the FBI is at as low a point as Little Bohemia at the present

[@meghanmisaliar]

True. All because of politics. They should've stayed out of it.

[@iant340]

Heard he had a cracking chopper

[@janspung3346]

Diddy is public enemy number one now😠

[@jimthompson8947]

2:27 Title subject start

[@anthonysteele8673]

The FBI a joke...NOT TODAY!!

[@gracecatz3996]

Wonder what these guys would think about all these going ons today

[@meghanmisaliar]

They'd probably love it. They loved lawlessness. Except they didn't like getting civilians involved.

[@jackdorsey4734]

It is said the 👗 dress was orange 🍊 but looks red under the theater light

[@katherinecollins4685]

Interesting

[@chriswilgus165]

Hoover was a cross dresser...lol.. after his dillenger embarrassment he tried the la COSA nostra...that was no success...that's who found out about his croo dressing act 🤣

[@meghanmisaliar]

That is a silly, overblown OLD rumor.

[@kimberlyhintz5864]

I love Johnny!!!

[@murrayscott9546]

Forever, Amber ?

[@kimberlyhintz5864]

@@murrayscott9546 too funny 🤣 I needed that laugh thx!!

[@murrayscott9546]

@@kimberlyhintz5864 Back atcha !

[@kimberlyhintz5864]

@@murrayscott9546 Hey have a safe & happy 4th of ur from the States!!!

[@murrayscott9546]

@@kimberlyhintz5864 As Homer Simpson said, " Let us now celebrate the birth of our country by blowing up a small part of it ! "

[@smartbomb7202]

what's up with that fake chin...lol

[@meghanmisaliar]

The cleft is just a little too pronounced.

[@wandahall4435]

Wow

[@angeloreyes357]

Clyde barrow once stole a chicken...then john dillinger stole a chicken...

[@chriswilgus165]

The man they killed didn't look like him one bit . I think he never got caught.

[@meghanmisaliar]

Oh please. It looked exactly like him.

[@shayadayan3343]

​@@meghanmisaliartwo different eye colors, to start with

[@davec.3129]

Another cold hearted ambush similar to Bonnie and Clyde. It's unacceptable

[@Blueknight1960]

That's exactly what a liberal would say. It's not the fault of criminals they are criminals.

[@ukphone4183]

Bad man

[@kenhalperin3195]

Didn’t Purvis kill himself with the same 45 he shot (the so-called) John Dillinger with?

[@fellspoint9364]

He definitely offed himself. I think the gun was a retirement gift.

[@chriswilgus165]

Probably... because he knew he shot the wrong man.

[@meghanmisaliar]

@@chriswilgus165 ⬅️conspiracy theorist.

[@meghanmisaliar]

Agent Winstead was the one who shot him.

[@plymouthduster225]

Yes it was the same gun, that gun sold at an auction in 2008 for $25,000

[@k-1llmatic832]

Daz>John

[@blickyru]

Dillinger would have been a good mobster if he grew up on the east coast

[@meghanmisaliar]

He wasn't Italian.

[@blickyru]

@@meghanmisaliar I didn’t say he was. I said he woulda been a good mobster if he grew up on the east coast.

[@merkcityboy834]

Wish we still had these gangsters around not these skinny Jean wearing idiots we have today.

[@thanos7110]

You can be one

[@fellspoint9364]

I’m down for a caper. Got experience too.

[@tinatrice1434]

I thought y'all despised gangsters ? Oh wait only a certain kind huh?

[@pit7burg]

@@tinatrice1434 big difference in the gangs from that era and the gangs if this era I realize your trying too make this about race but it’s about class not color

[@williamhollis6578]

Ah, Dillinger wasn’t all that bad. He was only public enemy #1 because he had pictures of J. Edgar and Joe Kennedy wearing tutus and playing footsie with a goat. That’s why Melvin Purvis had to ambush him, they needed to take him out before he could go public and spill the beans. Those pix never have surfaced, but there was a rumor last summer they might have been somewhere around Mar-a-Lago FL; who knows?😅

[@matthewfergusons4318]

Bonnie and Clyde when they good special operators to specialty is if you send them behind Nazi or Japanese lines with a very fast car that they could move very quickly and use great now firepower they would be good in the SOS or soe Dynamite agents

[@KristinkaAranova]

Lmao the FBI were a bunch of homos just like they are today

[@mrsx7944]

Dumb rumor.

[@murrayscott9546]

What movie wpuld you be best like to be shot, waking out of ?

[@thedoctor6332]

Where is Clyde Barrow's letter to Henry Ford? the Henry Ford Museum Clyde Barrow and the Ford V-8 Over the years, many have questioned the authenticity of Clyde's letter to Henry Ford, based on a discrepancy over handwriting. The letter is currently on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

[@lenordbrazil9580]

J Edgar Hoover was a creep

[@Sam-bz4hf]

My name is sam oates bideford and demi the dog

[@thedoctor6332]

Did John Dillinger write to Henry Ford praising the industrialist's "wonderful car"? In 1934, Ford Motor Company received this letter apparently signed by Dillinger. Federal handwriting experts, however, concluded that the signature was not that of the fugitive gangster.

[@meghanmisaliar]

Maybe he had someone else write it for him.

[@Joeybagofdonuts76]

Of course they'd say that.

[@deanramirez6914]

Dudes fake chin distracted me. It’s not even the same color as him 😂

[@meghanmisaliar]

Lol I was looking at that too. I was windering if that was a real cleft chin. JD had a very prominent chin.

[@amyjojinkerson5668]

a lot of booze went down the city sewer

[@JayCity10]

I bet the rats danced those nights.

[@Canadian_Skeptical]

I'd liks to party with him!!

[@mollyhague6546]

Up da o.d.c

[@brianhale8537]

Could have done without the monologues

[@meghanmisaliar]

I like the monologues.

[@mickeymcafee7615]

Banksters still biggest criminals

[@matthewprice4430]

Government stole alot more money before “ banksters”! Like a mob they take out any competitor.

[@thedoctor6332]

“Dear Sir,” read the handwritten letter addressed to Henry Ford. “While I still have got breath in my lungs I will tell you what a dandy car you make. I have drove Fords exclusively when I could get away with one.” “Get away” being operative words - the letter was signed, “Yours truly Clyde Champion Barrow.”

[@Tater4200]

its almost ALWAYS a woman. that's the downfall of the gangsters of the 30's lol

[@meghanmisaliar]

Always.

[@stilltlrforlife]

That fake butt chin ruins the whole persona..should have left it out, we'd still know who it's supposed be

[@meghanmisaliar]

Dillinger's cleft chin waa a major distinguishing feature. I can see why they did that. They just made it a little too pronounced.

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Hero

[@deranged4255]

Not to Patrolman O'Malley's wife and three daughters after Dillinger put 8 bullets into him. .

[@deranged4255]

Since Dillinger was killed I assume the narrative used in the reenactment of him is fabricated, as well as the other characters in this video, since there were no credits in this video about it. I appreciate the other interviews (authors, etc...,) and other facts in the story but this technique injects bias into what should be a credible documentary. The reenactment portrays a attitude and a light-hearted personality of a criminal who murdered a cop. This is typical of videos from this producer.

[@fellspoint9364]

Dillinger wasn’t a psychopathic killer. Lester Gillis aka Baby Face Nelson definitely was.

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

God, you sound like a bundle of fun.yawn

[@waynebooker498]

Crime glorification. No thanks.

[@weirdkindofsexsymbol]

Clearly you missed the point.

[@alexcolucci4]

Warren Oates best Dillinger

[@Mineo644]

Hero of the public. We all now our gov. Is a sham always was and is more than ever

[@matthew-jy5jp]

I should have known that any channel related to Morgan would tell history in a glorified way like this

[@CutmeMick]

He could have been a peaky blinder with that haircut 🤣