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Title: For Sale: Crypts Next to a KC Legend
Description: Brief item reporting the 2006 public sale of crypts in the same mausoleum as that holding the remains of Frank Nash, killed in Kansas City's Union Station Massacre on June 17, 1933. The crypts, located at Linwood Cemetery in Paragould, Arkansas, will be auctioned off as a fundraiser to pay for improvements to the cemetery.
Date: 2006-07-09
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Union Station Massacre Scene
Description: View of the front of Union Station in Kansas City immediately following the Union Station Massacre. Identification on back reads: At right is the automobile of Raymond J. Caffrey, federal officer who conducted Frank Nash to Union Station, at Kansas City, Mo., where he and three other officers as well as Nash, the convict, were slain when gangsters attempted to wrest the prisoner from the officers. Between the cars may be seen two of the officers who were slain in the shooting and behind the wheel of Caffrey's car the head of the slain Nash. Sent bureaus, Hearst papers and fast mail. (Inter) Further identification reads 5-3-94, information from family of the Brocks (Mrs. Dorothy A. Chamblin) men between cars, West side - Ben Brock, east side - Tom Brock, man on ground Bill Grooms.
Date: 1933
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Massacre Resonates 75 Years Later
Description: 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.
Date: 2008-06-16
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Future: The Newsweekly for Today
Description: 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.
Date: 1935-06-28
Object Type: Newspaper

Title: Union Station Massacre
Description: A short, detailed account of the Union Station Massacre on June 17, 1933, with photos from the private library of Hugh Chase, police department historian.
Date: 2002
Object Type: Book Section

Title: Ten Thousand Public Enemies
Description: Photos and descriptions of crime in early 20th century Kansas City, highlighting some of its more sensational outlaws such as Frank Nash and Johnny Lazia, et al. Many details of infamous criminals operating in and around Kansas City and hunted by the early Federal Bureau of Investigations (especially at the time of the Kansas City Massacre), such as Pinky Blitz, Charles Clinton, Verne Miller, Pretty Boy Floyd, Adam Richetti, Juanita Baird, Rose Baird, Jimmy Keating, Thomas Holden, Herb Farmer, Fred Barker, Ma Barker, John Lazia, Earl Christman, Baby Face Nelson, Alvin Karpis, and Charles Gargotta, et al.
Date: 1935
Object Type: Book

Title: 70th Anniversary of the Union Station Massacre
Description: 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.
Date: 2003-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

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