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Title
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Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd
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Description
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Included in the file is a section from an unnamed magazine or book relating the story of Pretty Boy Floyd's supposed role in the Kansas City Massacre at the Union Station in 1933, also called the Union Station Massacre. Photos, illustrations, and description of his killing after suspected involvement and placing of his body in the Kansas City morgue.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Killing Pretty Boy
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Description
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Article about the possibly intentional framing of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, in 1934 as "the key trigger man" behind the 1933 Union Station Massacre in Kansas City, with premature reports at the Kansas City Journal-Post about his capture and death during a manhunt in Ohio. Illustrations and description of his times in Kansas City as a bootlegger possibly living at 32nd Terrace, being nicknamed by Annie Chambers, and compared to similar Great Depression outlaws such as Bonne and Clyde and John Dillinger.
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Date
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1990-05-20
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Banks May Relax Now: Deaths of Floyd and Dillinger Remove Major Threats
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Description
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Photos and descriptions of recently deceased Midwestern outlaws such as John Dillinger, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, and Bonnie and Clyde, with an overview of the diminishing danger to Midwestern banks and mention of the Kansas City Massacre.
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Date
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1934-10-23
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Major Criminals Passing Out
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Description
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Story about the general fading out of big name criminals after the deaths of "Dillinger, Floyd, Miller and others of major gangdom note already disposed."
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Date
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1935-04-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Floyd Grave Marker
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Description
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Full view of tombstone which reads: Floyd, son, Charley Arthur, Feb. 3, 1904 - Oct. 22, 1934. Believed to be Pretty Boy Floyd. Associated with the Union Station Massacre.
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Date
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1987
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Massacre Resonates 75 Years Later
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Description
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Brief article recounting the Union Station massacre on June 17, 2008, its 75th anniversary. Bureau of Investigation escorts of escaped murderer and bank robber Frank Nash were ambushed in front of Union Station in Kansas City on June 17, 1933. Images included.
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Date
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2008-06-16
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about the Bond Advisory Committee of the Ten-Year Plan, made up of prominent Kansas Citians including R. Crosby Kemper and J. E. Woodmansee, and chaired by Conrad H. Mann. Other featured articles include: “The Sport of Kings” (p. 2), about the Riverside horse racing track and the machine-controlled gambling that takes place there; “Will They Be Able to Silence Mr. Bash?” (p. 3), a photo and article about Thomas Bash, "shooting sheriff" of Jackson County testifying in trial about the shooting regarding Charles Gargotta, including speculations about his reasons for testifying against the Pendergast machine despite its offers made to him to keep quiet; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-06-28
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Future: The Newsweekly for Today
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Description
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Issue of the anti-corruption, Kansas City-based newspaper, Future: The Newsweekly for Today. The front page includes an article, continued on page 8, about J. C. Nichols and his city planning projects in Kansas City with the Country Club residential district and Country Club Plaza shopping center, etc., including a photo of Nichols. Other featured articles include: “To Better Serve His Clients” (p. 2), about Michael Konomos retiring as assistant county prosecutor after "'los[ing] the records' in one of the most infamous murder cases in court history here last March" involving a murder by John Mangiaricina, "alleged killer, ward politician in well with an organization power"; “Bye Bye Adam (p. 2), photo and article about Adam Richetti, "associate of Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, in the circuit court … being tried on a charge of murder in connection with the Union Station massacre"; and “May We Present Jimmy Maroon” (p. 5), profile of Jimmy Maroon, or James Maroon, "hoodlum, city employee, and man-about-Twelth-Street," starting out as a criminal in Kansas City in 1927 as a car thief and kidnapper and arrested as part of a criminal gang in Kansas City in 1935; also included in the newspaper are advertisements for local businesses and articles on fashion, finance, cooking, music, art, and national and international news.
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Date
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1935-06-21
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Object Type
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Newspaper
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Title
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Union Station Massacre Revisited
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Description
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Part one in a two-part series of articles about the Union Station Massacre in 1933, with photos and "Thumbnail Sketches of Union Station Massacre Cast," including Adam Richetti, Frank Nash, Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, or Pretty Boy Floyd, et al.
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Date
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1970-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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CSI Missouri
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Description
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Article spotlights infamous crimes and outlaws in Missouri in the 1930s, including the Young Brothers Massacre (Springfield, MO), the Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Darrow) crime spree, the Kansas City Massacre, and the criminal exploits of Charlie 'Pretty Boy" Floyd and Adam Richetti. Some existing landmarks and attractions related to the crimes are identified.
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Date
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2014
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Oklahoma Robin Hood
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Description
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Biographical article about Charles Arthur ("Pretty Boy") Floyd (1904-1934)," or Pretty Boy Floyd, "in many ways the most interesting of the Depression era outlaws in the Southwest. Photo and description of his life. He was born in Georgia, raised in Oklahoma, and became a criminal modeled after Jesse James and Robin Hood in the Midwest, earning his nickname in Kansas City in 1931 and accused by the FBI of being involved in the Union Station Massacre here in 1933, one year before his death.
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Date
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1970-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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70th Anniversary of the Union Station Massacre
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Description
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Brief article recounting the Union Station Massacre on its 70th anniversary. Bureau of Investigation escorts of escaped murderer and bank robber Frank Nash were ambushed in front of Union Station in Kansas City on June 17, 1933.
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Date
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2003-06
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
