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Notorious gangster John Dillinger was killed outside a Chicago movie theatre on July 22, 1934. Labeled public enemy number one by the FBI, a Dillinger confidant cut a deal with the FBI leading them to him. Orders from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover were to take Dillinger either alive or dead. Agents shot and killed the gangster as he left the legendary Biograph Theater.
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