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A 1934 report informs the nation that its public enemy number one, John Dillinger, has been killed. Betrayed by his girlfriend, who tipped off police about his whereabouts, Dillinger was gunned down as he left Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22.

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    A 1934 report informs the nation that its public enemy number one, John Dillinger, has been killed. Betrayed by his girlfriend, who tipped off police about his whereabouts, Dillinger was gunned down as he left Chicago's Biograph Theater on July 22.

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(born June 28, 1902, or June 22, 1903, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.—died July 22, 1934, Chicago) most famous of all U.S. bank robbers, whose short career of robberies and escapes from June 1933 to July 1934 won media headlines.

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