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Portrait of Pretty Boy Floyd
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Suspect

Pretty Boy Floyd

Born
3 February 1904
Died
22 October 1934, aged about 30
Record
Wikidata Q934293 · Wikipedia

Suspect in The Kansas City Massacre

Oklahoma bank robber named by the FBI as a gunman; killed by agents and police in Ohio, denying involvement.

1933–1938 · Union Station, Kansas City, Missouri · Disputed verdict

Thirty seconds outside Union Station in June 1933 left four lawmen and their prisoner dead. The FBI blamed Pretty Boy Floyd. Historians are still arguing. Read the case.

Dated events

  1. Richetti is captured after a shootout with police near Wellsville, Ohio; Floyd escapes.

  2. Floyd is shot dead by federal agents and local officers on a farm near East Liverpool, Ohio.