English subtitles for clip: File:Depression era gangsters.ogv
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1 00:00:02,030 --> 00:00:05,388 Once again, the criminal is definitely a product of the times. 2 00:00:06,410 --> 00:00:10,020 The depression sent homeless men swarming to the country on freight trains. 3 00:00:10,020 --> 00:00:15,291 The panic was on—and the public enemy number one was born. 4 00:00:16,638 --> 00:00:20,191 He worked differently from the old mob, using weapons like these. 5 00:00:20,191 --> 00:00:23,395 And these were all taken from killed or captured desperadoes. 6 00:00:23,395 --> 00:00:27,908 He robbed and pillaged the countryside for a few hundred dollars loot. 7 00:00:27,908 --> 00:00:32,602 He thought nothing of killing some innocent bank tellers or other accidental bystanders. 8 00:00:33,885 --> 00:00:38,854 Local police couldn't cope with these boys, so J. Edgar Hoover and his G-Men moved into action. 9 00:00:40,154 --> 00:00:43,512 He faced a long list of desperate killers like Pretty Boy Floyd. 10 00:00:43,512 --> 00:00:47,561 The wrath was focused on this Oklahoma-bound after he had personally accounted for 11 00:00:47,561 --> 00:00:51,169 the deaths of four federal officers in a bloody Kansas City station massacre. 12 00:00:51,169 --> 00:00:54,606 When finally killed by the FBI in a little town in Ohio, 13 00:00:54,606 --> 00:00:59,133 there were ten notches in his pocket watch, one for each of his killings. 14 00:00:59,133 --> 00:01:05,008 His buddy, Adam Richetti, was later executed for his part in the murders. 15 00:01:05,008 --> 00:01:10,488 After Floyd, the FBI set full sail after a kill-crazy gunman named Baby Face Nelson. 16 00:01:10,488 --> 00:01:14,212 When cornered after a 70-mile-an-hour auto chase in Barrington, Illinois, 17 00:01:14,212 --> 00:01:18,856 he killed two G-Men before winding up dead himself in front of this lonely cemetery. 18 00:01:18,856 --> 00:01:22,202 His body was riddled with seventeen bullets in all. 19 00:01:22,202 --> 00:01:27,225 It was the courts who cut short the career of the notorious "Doc" Barker and his gang. 20 00:01:27,225 --> 00:01:31,041 He was a son of the infamous old lady of crime, Ma Barker. 21 00:01:31,041 --> 00:01:35,063 Doc is shown here at the time of his conviction for the Bremer kidnapping, 22 00:01:35,063 --> 00:01:37,920 later killed in an attempt to escape from Alcatraz. 23 00:01:39,638 --> 00:01:42,201 And a courtroom marked the end for Machine Gun Kelly too. 24 00:01:42,201 --> 00:01:46,961 He is shown being flown off to prison in chains and under heavily armed guard. 25 00:01:46,961 --> 00:01:50,873 These precautions were all too necessary. The police knew Kelly as a 26 00:01:50,873 --> 00:01:54,890 dangerous unpredictable killer who at the time of his sentencing was 27 00:01:54,890 --> 00:01:57,786 still yelling threats of death at the judge who pronounced the verdict.