Dillinger: Public Enemy No. 1

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  • Run time: 20 min
  • Premiere: 1934. November 1.

Propagandic newsreel commissioned by J. Edgar Hoover to make the FBI's killing of John Dillinger seem more heroic, after a public outcry complained that the government's shooting a man in the back while leaving a movie theatre was cowardly.

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