CRIME WAVE

I'm reading about America's "great crime wave" during the earlier part of the 20th century. The years from around 1928-1935 when the FBI was born and saw its first real challenges. Men like John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Al and Dock Barker, Machine Gun Kelley, Baby Face Nelson, and Clyde Barrow made murder, bank robbery, auto-theft, kidnapping, etc. look like great romantic fun to a lot of people, and changed the way our nation's government dealt with criminals and crime itself. Kidnapping for instance, was not a federal crime before this period, and investigations were often hindered by a lack of organization and cooperation between sparse local law enforcement groups.

Anyway, here's some criminal music:

"Bandit Cole Younger"


"Prison Cell Blues"



"Pretty Boy Floyd" - Woodie Guthrie


"Police Story" - Black Flag