It's been 75 years since federal agents gunned down John Dillinger outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, but the bank robber continues to be a provocative figure in American history.

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Also posted in the Vault are hundreds of files on some of the FBI's most storied criminal cases such as Al Capone and Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger.

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Morbid fascination is the only feeling dredged up by the naked, sewn-up body of Baby Face Nelson lying on a coroner's slab (the same slab, incidentally, on which the body of John Dillinger was photographed six months earlier).

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The scowling men in long dark coats and hats, led by the severely elegant John Dillinger (Johnny Depp), march into some grand Midwestern bank, take over the place, throw the cash in bags, and make their getaway, jumping onto the running boards of flat-topped black Fords.

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