On this day
26 September
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1901
Czolgosz is sentenced to death.
McKinley Assassination Executed
Buffalo, 1901: a young anarchist hides a revolver under a handkerchief in the president's receiving line. Eight days later McKinley is dead.
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1933
Pierpont, Makley, Clark and others break out of Indiana State Prison with guns Dillinger arranged; he is already in custody.
John Dillinger Killed before trial
Out of prison in May 1933, dead by July 1934: Midwest bank raids, a jailbreak with a gun that may have been wood, and a summer night at the Biograph.
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1933
George and Kathryn Kelly are arrested in Memphis, Tennessee.
Machine Gun Kelly and the Urschel kidnapping Convicted
Blindfolded for nine days, an Oklahoma oilman counted the planes overhead. His memory led the FBI to a Texas farm and put Machine Gun Kelly away for life.