July 22, 1934

by LAH , Friday, July 22, 2016, 09:02 (3049 days ago)

CHICAGO, July 22 - John Dillinger, arch criminal of the age, was shot dead tonight by a group of Department of Justice operatives as he walked out of a Chicago movie theatre, where “Manhattan Melodrama,” a film that depicts gangster’s death in electric chair, was being shown. Dillinger, who was accompanied by two young women, arose when the execution scene reached, and walked from the theatre into the Federal agents’ ambush.

He whipped an automatic revolver out of his pocket and had it half raised, when the operatives loosed a withering blast of revolver fire that dropped him mortally wounded.