{"id":318,"date":"2009-06-27T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T12:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=318"},"modified":"2009-06-27T08:38:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-27T12:38:35","slug":"dillinger-ditziness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/dillinger-ditziness\/","title":{"rendered":"DILLINGER DITZINESS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much ballyhooed movie \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicenemies.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Public Enemies\u201d<\/a> starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger is set to hit theaters July 1.\u00a0 Early reports say the director was scrupulously careful to get the details right to the early 1930s \u2013 the clothes, the cars, the locales, and yes, the guns.\u00a0 Backtracking to last year in this blog, you can see what some of the scenes look like today, including the Biograph Theater in Chicago, outside which Dillinger was killed by Federal agents in July of 1934.<br \/>\nDoubtless riding the coattails of an anticipated wave of renewed interest in all things Dillinger after the movie premiers, the high profile auction house of Leslie Hindman in Chicagoland will offer what they claim is \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lesliehindman.com\/around-the-block\/gun-that-killed-dillinger-can-be-yours\" target=\"_blank\">the gun that killed Dillinger.<\/a>\u201dIt is scheduled to go under the gavel in late July to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the legendary shooting.<br \/>\nThe revolver in question is a Colt Army Special, caliber .38 Special, which belonged to Captain Timothy O\u2019Neil of the East Chicago, Indiana Police Department.<br \/>\nOnly trouble is, no records indicate that Captain O\u2019Neil ever fired that revolver, or any gun, on the night in question.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/libref\/historic\/famcases\/dillinger\/dillinger.htm\" target=\"_blank\">FBI records<\/a> indicate that the only rounds discharged at the scene were fired by three agents of J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s Division of Investigation, which would soon after be re-named Federal Bureau of Investigation.\u00a0 Charles Winstead triggered three rounds; Clarence Hurt fired twice; and Herman Hollis got off a single shot before Dillinger collapsed with his Colt .380 auto pistol in his hand, drawn and fully loaded but unfired.<br \/>\nClarence Hurt was famous for his skill with a service revolver, but I don\u2019t recall what handgun he was using that night. Herman Hollis was known to carry a Colt Super .38 semiautomatic. Charles Winstead stated in his official FBI report that he shot Dillinger with a DOI-issue Government .45 automatic.\u00a0 It is generally believed \u2013 and was certainly believed by Hoover \u2013 that Winstead was the one who inflicted the gunshot wound that actually killed Public Enemy Number One.<br \/>\nLeslie Hindman has an excellent reputation as an auctioneer. I hope she and her staff do a little research before the auction.<br \/>\nI\u2019m looking forward to seeing \u201cPublic Enemies.\u201d Some of y\u2019all will doubtless get to see it before I do. You\u2019re welcome to post reviews and comments here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much ballyhooed movie \u201cPublic Enemies\u201d starring Johnny Depp as John Dillinger is set to hit theaters July 1.\u00a0 Early reports say the director was scrupulously careful to get the details right to the early 1930s \u2013 the clothes, the cars, the locales, and yes, the guns.\u00a0 Backtracking to last year in this blog, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}