Public Enemies (93 page)

Read Public Enemies Online

Authors: Bryan Burrough

BOOK: Public Enemies
9.28Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub
3
Hoover to Tamm, Sept. 24, 1934, KCM #2585.
4
New Orleans report, Sept. 27, 1934, KCM #2574.
5
Galatas statement included in New Orleans report, KCM #2574.
6
Tamm to Hoover, Sept. 24, 1934, KCM, #2596.
7
Tamm to Hoover, Sept. 24, 1934, KCM #2659.
8
Tamm to Hoover, Sept. 25, 1934, KCM #2617.
9
Harvey to Hoover, Sept. 26, 1934, KCM #2568.
10
Chicago Tribune,
Oct. 16, 1935.
11
Chase statement, Jodil #5488, p. 9.
12
Negri statement, Jodil #5271. Quotes taken from Negri article,
True Detective
magazine, July 1941.
13
Tamm, memo to file, October 12, 1934, Jodil #4207.
14
Hoover to Purvis, Sept. 13, 1934. Purvis personnel file, #291.
15
Hoover to Tamm, 7:35 P.M., Oct. 21, 1934, KCM #2854.
16
Hoover to Tamm, 1:00 P.M., Oct. 22, 1934, KCM #2701.
17
Hoover to Tamm, 5:45 P.M., Oct. 22, 1934, KCM #2903.
18
Newby memo, Oct. 24, 1934, KCM #2946.
19
Negri article, July 1941.
20
Chase statement, Jodil #5488.
21
Doris Lockerman article,
Chicago Tribune,
Oct. 17, 1935.
22
Tamm to Hoover, Jodil #4601.
23
Chicago report, Jodil #5813.
24
Hoover memo to file, Nov. 27, 1934, Jodil #4610.
25
Hoover memo to file, Nov. 27, 1934, Jodil #4611.
26
Chicago American,
November 28, 1934.
27
Hoover memo to file, Nov. 28, 1934, Jodil #4665.
28
Chicago
American,
December 5, 1934.
18: THE LAST MAN STANDING
1
Tolson to Hoover, Dec. 4, 1934, BKF #3546.
2
Years later, Karpis clearly remembered this episode and the name “Kingman” (Karpis transcripts, tape 20, page 135). Both his instincts and his memory proved excellent. A confidential report on Kingman’s trip to Havana is included in FBI files, BKF #3621.
3
Karpis transcripts, tape 20, p. 149.
4
Statements from all agents involved at BKF #4198.
5
BKF #3807.
6
BKF #3743.
7
BKF #3771.
8
“Barker’s Cook Remembers Day,” The Belleview (Fla.)
Leader,
Jan. 16, 1980; Ocala
Evening Star,
Jan. 16, 17, 1935; Toronto
Star,
Oct. 11, 1986.
9
New York
Evening Journal
magazine, March 3, 1935.
19: PAS DE DEUX
1
Cleveland report, Sept. 5, 1936, BKF #12794.
2
Richard Gid Powers,
G-Men: Hoover’s FBI in American Popular Culture,
Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
3
Harper’s,
November 1934.
4
Tamm to Hoover, Aug. 1, 1935, BKF #6886.
5
Little Rock report, Oct. 17, 1935, BKF #7721.
6
Tamm to Hoover, Feb. 4, 1936, BKF #9460.
7
Connelley to Brantley, Feb. 17, 1936, BKF #9581.
8
Nathan to Hoover, March 28, 1936, BKF #10245.
9
P. E. Foxworth to Hoover, March 28, 1936, BKF #10244.
10
Connelley to Hoover, March 30, 1936, BKF #10255.
11
Gentry, p. 182.
12
Ibid., pp. 184-87.
13
Tamm to Hoover, April 26, 1936, BKF #11004.
14
Fletcher to Connelley, April 25, 1936, BKF #11011.
15
Tolson to Hoover, April 27, 1936, BKF #11006X.
16
Cincinnati report, May 18, 1936, BKF #1165.
17
Hoover gave his version of events in a phone call to headquarters the next morning. T. D. Quinn, memo to file, May 2, 1936, BKF #11099.
18
New York
Evening Journal,
May 2, 1936.
19
Chicago American,
May 2, 1936.
20
Karpis, p. 230.
21
Ibid., p. 236. This anecdote is confirmed by a contemporary news account.
EPILOGUE
1
Potter, p. 4.
2
Cited in Powers, p. 114.
3
Sandusky
Register,
December 11, 1993.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alix, Ernest Kahlar.
Ransom Kidnapping in America, 1874-1974: The Creation of a Capital Crime.
Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University, 1978.
Barnes, Bruce.
Machine Gun Kelly: To Right a Wrong.
Perris, Calif.: Tipper, 1991. (Biography by
Kelly’s son. Excellent material on Kelly’s early years. Less reliable on his crimes.)
Callahan, Clyde C., and Byron B. Jones.
Heritage of an Outlaw—the Story of Frank Nash.
Hobart,
Okla.: Schoonmaker, 1979.
Clayton, Merle.
Union Station Massacre.
New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1975. (Unreliable, but useful
for Agent Joe Lackey’s recitation of events leading to the massacre.)
Congdon, Don.
The ’30s: A Time to Remember.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1962.
Cook, Fred J.
The FBI Nobody Knows.
New York: Macmillan, 1964.
Cooper, Courtney Ryley.
Ten Thousand Public Enemies.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1935.
———.
Here’s to Crime.
Boston: Little Brown, 1937.
Corey, Herbert.
Farewell, Mr. Gangster!
New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1936.
Cromie, Robert, and Joseph Pinkston.
Dillinger: A Short and Violent Life.
New York: McGraw
Hill, 1962. (First detailed biography of Dillinger, overshadowed by Toland’s
Dillinger Days.
Largely derived from newspaper clippings.)
de Toledano, Ralph.
J. Edgar Hoover, the Man in His Time.
New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington
House, 1973.
Edge, L. L.
Run the Cat Roads.
New York: Dembner Books, 1981.
Ellis, George.
A Man Named Jones.
New York: Signet Books, 1963.
Fried, Albert.
The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America.
Revised ed. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1993.
Friedman, Lawrence M.
Crime and Punishment in American History.
New York: Basic Books,
1993.
Gardner, Ruth Dickerson.
Lunch at Boney’s Mound: A Portrait of Family and Friends.
Privately
published, 1997. (Lovingly produced family portrait of the LaPorte-Wanetka families.)
Gentry, Curt.
J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1991. (Superb
Hoover biography.)
Girardin, Russell G., with William Helmer.
Dillinger: The Untold Story.
Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University, 1994. (Girardin’s manuscript, augmented by Helmer’s excellent footnotes, sheds much new light on Dillinger’s final weeks.)
Haley, J. Evetts.
Robbing Banks Was My Business.
Canyon, Tex.: Palo Duro Press, 1973. (Harvey Bailey’s biography. Though Bailey’s memory is spotty in places, Haley’s book is one of only two in which Depression-era outlaws tell their side of the story.)
Hamilton, Floyd.
Public Enemy No. 1.
Dallas, Tex.: Acclaimed Books/International Prison Ministry, 1978.
Helmer, William, with Rick Mattix.
Public Enemies: America’s Criminal Past, 1919-1940.
(An invaluable almanac-style overview of the War on Crime and the 1920s by two leading amateur historians.)
Hinton, Ted, with Larry Grove.
Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Bryan, Tex.: Shoal Creek, 1979.
Hoover, J. Edgar.
Persons in Hiding.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1938.
Illman, Harry R.
Unholy Toledo: The True Story of Detroit’s Purple-Licavoli Gang’s Take-Over of an Ohio City.
San Francisco: Polemic Press, 1985.
Jenkins, John H., and H. Gordon Frost.
I’m Frank Hamer: The Life of a Texas Peace Officer.
Austin, Tex.: Pemberton Press, 1968.
Karpis, Alvin, with Bill Trent.
The Alvin Karpis Story.
New York: Coward-McCann & Geoghegan, 1971.
Karpis, Alvin, with Robert Livesey.
On the Rock.
Don Mills, Ontario: Musson/General, 1980.
King, Jeffrey S.
The Life and Death of Pretty Boy Floyd.
Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press,
1998.
Kirchner, L. R.
Triple Cross Fire!: J. Edgar Hoover & the Kansas City Union Station Massacre.
Kansas City, Mo.: Janlar Books, 1993. (Avoid.)
———.
Robbing Banks: An American History, 1831-1999.
Rockville Centre, N.Y.: Sarpedon, 2000.
Kirkpatrick, E. E.
Crimes’ Paradise: The Authentic Inside Story of the Urschel Kidnapping.
San
Antonio, Tex.: Naylor, 1934.
Kobler, John.
Capone: The Life and World of Al Capone.
New York: DaCapo Press, 1992.
Larsen, Lawrence H., and Nancy J. Hulston.
Pendergast!
Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri
Press, 2000.
Louderback, Lew.
The Bad Ones: Gangsters of the ’30s and Their Molls.
Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1968.
Maccabee, Paul.
John Dillinger Slept Here: A Crook’s Tour of Crime and Corruption in St. Paul, 1920-1936.
St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Press, 1995. (One of the very best books on St. Paul’s role in the War on Crime, and a personal favorite.)
Milner, E. R.
The Lives and Times of Bonnie and Clyde.
Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1996.
Newton, Willis, and Joe Newton, with Claude Stanush and David Middleton.
The Newton Boys: Portrait of an Outlaw Gang.
Austin, Tex.: State House, 1994.
Nickel, Steven, and William J. Helmer.
Baby Face Nelson: Portrait of a Public Enemy.
Nashville: Cumberland House, 2002.
Owens, Ron.
Oklahoma Justice: The Oklahoma City Police: A Century of Gunfighters, Gangsters
and Terrorists.
Paducah, Ky.: Turner Publishing, 1995.
Parker, Emma, and Nell Barrow Cowan, with Jan Fortune.
Fugitives: The Story of Clyde Barrow
and Bonnie Parker.
Dallas, Tex.: Ranger Press, 1934. Reprinted by Signet, 1968. (Still one of
the two best books on Bonnie and Clyde, told by Clyde’s sister and Bonnie’s mother.)
Peterson, Virgil W.
Barbarians in Our Midst.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1952.
Phillips, John Neal.
Running with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults.
Norman,
Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. (Excellent book, much of it told by Clyde’s
onetime partner Ralph Fults.)
Potter, Claire Bond.
War on Crime: Bandits, G-Men, and the Politics of Mass Culture.
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1998. (Outstanding academic analysis of the War on Crime period.)
Poulsen, Ellen.
Don’t Call Us Molls: Women of the John Dillinger Gang.
Little Neck, N.Y.: Clinton
Cook Publishing, 2002.
Powers, Richard Gid.
G-Men: Hoover’s FBI in American Popular Culture.
Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
———.
Secrecy and Power: The Life of J. Edgar Hoover.
New York: Free Press, 1987.
Purvis, Melvin.
American Agent.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran, 1936.
Quimby, Myron.
The Devil’s Emissaries.
New York: A. S. Barnes, 1969.
Reddig, William M.
Tom’s Town: Kansas City and the Pendergast Legend.
Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott,
1947.
Ruth, David E.
Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Sanborn, Debra.
The Barrow Gang’s Visit to Dexter.
Dexter, Iowa: Bob Weesner, 1976.
Simmons, Lee.
Assignment Huntsville: Memoirs of a Texas Prison Officer.
Austin, Tex.: University
of Texas, 1957.
Steele, Phillip W., with Marie Barrow Scoma.
The Family Story of Bonnie and Clyde.
Gretna, La.: Pelican, 2000.
Sullivan, William, with Bill Brown.
The Bureau: My Thirty Years in Hoover’s FBI.
New York: W. W. Norton, 1979.
Summers, Anthony.
Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover.
New York: G. P. Putnam’s Son, 1993.
Swierczynski, Duane.
This Here’s a Stick-Up: The Big Bad Book of American Bank Robbery.
Indianapolis,
Ind.: Alpha Books, 2002.
Toland, John.
Dillinger Days.
New York: Random House, 1963.
Touhy, Roger, with Ray Brennan.
The Stolen Years.
Cleveland, Ohio: Pennington, 1959.
Treherne, John.
The Strange History of Bonnie and Clyde.
New York: Stein & Day, 1984.
Unger, Robert.
The Union Station Massacre: The Original Sin of Hoover’s FBI.
Kansas City, Mo.:
Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1997. (Definitive.)
Wallis, Michael.
The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd.
New York: St. Martin’s, 1992. (Excellent
biography, with full cooperation of Floyd family.)
Watkins, T. H.
The Great Depression: America in the 1930s.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1993.
———.
The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America.
New York:
Henry Holt, 1999.
Webb, Walter Prescott.
The Texas Rangers: A Century of Frontier Defense.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935.
Whitehead, Don.
The FBI Story: A Report to the People.
New York: Random House, 1956.
Winter, Robert.
Mean Men: The Sons of Ma Barker.
Danbury, Conn.: Rutledge Books, 2000.
(Unusual if well-researched book on the Barker family in the pre-War on Crime period.)

Other books

Maddie's Tattoo by Katie Kacvinsky
Blood of a Red Rose by Tish Thawer
The Passover Murder by Lee Harris
The Thirteen Gun Salute by Patrick O'Brian
Out of the Ashes by Kelly Hashway
Mrs. Jeffries Wins the Prize by Emily Brightwell
The Humanity Project by Jean Thompson