Earlier today, we covered the North Hollywood Bank Robbery of February 28, 1997. Therefore, it only seemed right that we also count down the top ten famous shootouts in history!
Digging Deeper
10. John Dillinger gunned down outside a Chicago theater, 1934.
Set up by The Woman in Red, was given no chance to shoot back. Having committed 24 bank robberies, two jail breaks, and four police station robberies, J. Edgar Hoover declared him Public Enemy #1. Cracked fact: Ambushed by Agent Melvin Purvis, the same agent that was in on the Pretty Boy Floyd shootout!
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