Galvin, Jane,
Alvin Karpis: Public Enemy Number One. Jane Galvin. - American History, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 76, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Alvin Karpis: Public Enemy Number One, June 2004; pp. 60-67.
"No one was left to warn Alvin Karpis that it was time to leave town. On May 1, 1936, when he left his girlfriend's house in New Orleans to buy strawberries, federal agents surrounded him as soon as he sat down in his car. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover told the press that he ran to the car to handcuff Karpis, a claim that clinched Hoover's reputation as America's premiere crime fighter." (AMERICAN HISTORY) This article profiles the life of Alvin Karpis, "the last of the four original 'Public Enemies Number One' to be caught, and the only one taken alive."
1522-3256;
Karpis, Alvin 1908-1979
Bank robberies
Criminals
Kidnapping
Nineteen thirties
AC1.S5
050
Alvin Karpis: Public Enemy Number One. Jane Galvin. - American History, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 76, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Alvin Karpis: Public Enemy Number One, June 2004; pp. 60-67.
"No one was left to warn Alvin Karpis that it was time to leave town. On May 1, 1936, when he left his girlfriend's house in New Orleans to buy strawberries, federal agents surrounded him as soon as he sat down in his car. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover told the press that he ran to the car to handcuff Karpis, a claim that clinched Hoover's reputation as America's premiere crime fighter." (AMERICAN HISTORY) This article profiles the life of Alvin Karpis, "the last of the four original 'Public Enemies Number One' to be caught, and the only one taken alive."
1522-3256;
Karpis, Alvin 1908-1979
Bank robberies
Criminals
Kidnapping
Nineteen thirties
AC1.S5
050