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Sandy,

Do you happen to have a good picture of Clarence Hurt and Charles Winstead??

Wondering how good of a likeness to the actors in "Public Enemies".

Jim C

 

Larry Wack does on his FBI site, one of the best sites out there on this stuff: http://historicalgmen.squarespace.com/ I probably do in a book, but would have to halfass scan it . I know he has Winstead for sure-

 

Winestead and the actor- day & night. Can't remember the other actor.

 

Sandy

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Stephen Lang played Winstead, and Don Frye portrayed Hurt.

 

Winstead in 1925 (from Larry's site) and Lang

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/ghostsoldier/PUBLIC%20ENEMIES/G-MEN/cw1925_zps14407a0a.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/ghostsoldier/PUBLIC%20ENEMIES/G-MEN/9848-28706_zps8f021d11.jpg

 

Hurt and Frye

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/ghostsoldier/PUBLIC%20ENEMIES/G-MEN/hurt33.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/ghostsoldier/PUBLIC%20ENEMIES/G-MEN/nm1675025.jpg

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v629/ghostsoldier/PUBLIC%20ENEMIES/G-MEN/009PCE_Stephen_Lang_001.jpg

 

Rob

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No problem, Jim. :)

 

I like to think those two guys were as bad-assed in real life, as they were portrayed on screen; I was much more convinced of their performances, than by Bale as Pervis, or Depp as J.D. (although in fairness to them, my opinion is clouded by too much Jack Sparrow and Batman exposure, lol).

 

Rob

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Rob, good job on the comparison thing.

 

Joe Pinkston used to have, what was believed to be, Winstead's gun that he used at the Biograph. I'm not sure it has ever been proved that he fired the fatal shot. A lady used to have a bullet that was pulled out of her hip, that was fired at Dillinger, went through his torso, out and hit her in the hip as I recall. She just happened to be standing at the entrance to the alley. There was a picture of her with the DR and bullet, that ran in the Chicago Times the next day, Monday.

I've got the article somewhere. Nothing spectactular, just wonder what happened to it-

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That definitely would be neat to find out....what happened to the bullet that went through JD and into a bystander! :)

 

If that were to happen in today's world, she would be suing the FBI for a million dollars, as well as Winstead's, Purvis' and JD's estates! :blink:

 

Rob

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Lot of stuff like that gets tossed in a drawer or dumped. Dillinger's clothes were burned in about 1968, the sister just got tired of haning on to the old stuff and burned- Same fate to Bonnie's dress. Clyde's pants were made into a pair of boy's pants, then cut up for souvenirs.

Little odd things like the shoe laced used to tie-up the hostages at the Racine robbery were saved and last I heard Ursula Patske gave them to the PD there.

 

I had the original V-8 emblem off the death car- It was given to an employee of Ted Toddy's that owned the car at the time. his grand kid found me on the computer- They attempted to give it back to Whiskey Pete's to put back on the car but the casino, being a public corporation, couldn't risk accepting what could be considered as stolen property. So I bought it from the sister who's brother is a lawyer in California and we had some " discussion " about ownership. One of those where the sun don't shine discussions.

 

I had a 45 cartridge that was dropped by Baby Face Nelson, at the Mason City robbery- Very proud of that artifact till Bill Helmer when visiting one time IDed the shell as WWII. Had a XX box magazine from the Dillinger gang's Thompson in Tucson, BAR magazine and stripper clip from the death car, stuff that's in a museum now, good place for it. Lots of other things, but a lot, as I said has been lost or dumped-

 

Ask a 30 year old if he or she ever heard of John Dillinger- That's another reason these things get lost. Lost history.

 

Stuff does pop up from time to time, these days.................. buyer beware.

 

OCM

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