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#222 | John Dillinger
Category: Education
Duration: 00:25:26
Publish Date: 2021-12-23 23:00:00
Description:

He was the most famous bank robber in American history and is still thought of as a Robin Hood-type figure in popular culture.

Learn about how John Dillinger went from a quiet life to becoming America's Public Enemy Number One, and how the law finally caught up with him.

  • The early life of John Dillinger: a naughty but not inherently bad boy
  • Moving out of the city to stay out of trouble
  • Being arrested for car theft and joining the navy
  • Briefly getting his life back on track
  • Meeting Ed Singleton and planning his first robbery
  • The robbery that went wrong and subsequent arrest
  • Being advised badly and going to prison for 9 years
  • "I will be the meanest bastard you ever saw when I get out of here"
  • Learning how to rob banks while in prison
  • Being released from prison and returning to a life of crime
  • Being arrested again and then rescued by friends from prison
  • Going on the run and starting the bank-robbing spree
  • Being arrested (again) and breaking out of prison by making a fake gun
  • Being chased by the FBI
  • Making front-page news
  • Growing a moustache, dyeing his hair, then having plastic surgery
  • Being betrayed by Anna Sage
  • The final cinema trip of John Dillinger
  • The legacy of John Dillinger

Full transcript, subtitles and key vocabulary available on the website: https://www.leonardoenglish.com/podcasts/john-dillinger


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