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Subject: John Dillinger

  • Summer Movies

    June 4, 2009
  • Kansas City is responsible for new Johnny Depp gangster movie

    This weekend the highly anticipated film Public Enemies opens. It's the story of outlaw John Dillinger and stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, so you know it'll probably make a shit-ton of cash. Plus, it was directed by Michael Mann, and that guy knows his way around cops and robbers and bullets (ahem, Heat, everyone?).But without Kansas City, there'd be no badass shootouts to film. I don't think it's a spoiler to tell you that John Dillinger was shot to death by federal a

    June 30, 2009
  • Public Enemies

    July 2, 2009
  • Kansas City needs an Organized Crime Museum

    ​Right before the John Dillinger biopic Public Enemies opened, we noted that without Kansas City and the Union Station Massacre, things would've gone a lot differently for the charismatic bank robber. For all the poorly attended museums we have around here celebrating the city's history, we don't know why there isn't an organized crime museum. Seriously, that seems like it'd be an earner. Way cooler than the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Oooo, you just saw Slash's guitar? Well I got to

    August 6, 2009
  • Big Criminals

    December 24, 2009