22 July 1934: First US public enemy No 1 John Dillenger shot dead

It was the FBI that made him the first ‘Public Enemy No 1’. But the public had less of a problem with the robbing of banks that they felt had robbed them during the Great Depression. Betrayed by a brothel-owning former prostitute, he was ambushed as he came out from a movie and was shot six times in the back as he tried to escape... Read the full John Dillinger Crime File