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8 Hoover to Purvis, May 29, 1934, Jodil #1832.
9 Cowley to Hoover, May 29, 1934, Jodil #1707.
10 Purvis to Hoover, June 2, 1934, Jodil #1762.
11 Purvis to Hoover, June 1, 1934, Jodil #1810.
12 Hoover, memo to file, June 4, 1934, Jodil #1877.
13 Today Samuel Cowley, Jr., is a retiree living in Salt Lake City. Mr. Cowley was very helpful in sharing his mother’s memories of his father.
14 Hoover memo, Jodil #1877.
15 Hoover, memo to file, June 4, 1934, Jodil #1819.
16 Memo, Hoover to Tamm, June 8, 1934, Jodil #1875.
17 Hoover, memo to file, June 5, 1934, Jodil #1806.
18 Girardin, p. 176.
19 Ibid., p. 182.
20 New York Times, June 29, 1834.
21 Girardin, p. 183.
22 Tamm to Hoover, June 9, 1934, Jodil #1899.
23 Omaha report, June 15, 1934, Jodil #2043; “How Iowa Rubbed Out Dillinger’s Ace Gunman,” Startling Detective Adventures, undated.
24 Girardin, p. 184.
25 Girardin, p. 195.
26 Girardin, pp. 202-3.
27 Girardin, pp. 197-98.
28 Girardin, pp. 189-90.
29 Memo for Hoover, June 29, 1934, Jodil #2454.
30 Fatso Negri debriefing in Portland, Oregon, report, Dec. 31, 1934, Jodil #5067.
31 Michiana magazine, June 17, 1984; South Bend Tribune, June 30-July 1, 1934, January 18, 1970.
15: THE WOMAN IN ORANGE
1 Girardin, pp. 203-4.
2 Hammond Times, Jan. 22, 1995.
3 Chicago Tribune, July 16-17, 1934, Chicago Daily Times, July 16, 1934.
4 Chicago report, Aug. 4, 1934, Jodil #3218.
5 Chicago report, July 31, 1934, Jodil #3241.
6 Girardin, pp. 210-11.
7 Ibid., pp. 211-12.
8 Ana Sage statement, Aug. 1, 1934, Jodil #3233.
9 The Harris letter was discovered in Sage’s apartment during a search by Chicago police. It is described in detail in the Chicago Daily Times, July 25, 1934.
10 Negri debrief, Dec. 31, 1934.
11 Tamm to Cowley, July 23, 1934, Jodil #3182.
12 Every FBI agent involved that night subsequently filed memos detailing their activities. Most are brief, giving few details. Only a handful describe the scene on the nineteenth floor. The time of the assembly, 7:15, is given in Agent Bob Gillespie’s memo.
13 Purvis vividly describes his feelings that night in American Agent.
14 Unpublished manuscript, John E. Welles, 1959.
15 Chicago Tribune, July 23, 1934.
16 Ibid.
17 Chicago Tribune, July 26, 1934.
18 Chicago Daily Times, July 23, 1934.
19 Hoover to Purvis, July 23, 1934. Purvis personnel file, #270.
20 Chicago Tribune, July 25, 1934.
21 Sage gave a detailed version of her days after Dillinger’s death in a 1935 immigration hearing.
22 Hoover to Tamm, July 25, 1934, Jodil #1-17.
23 Hoover, memo to file, July 26, 1934, Jodil #3233.
24 Hoover to Tamm, July 27, 1934, Jodil #2966.
25 Agents Connor and Murphy to Cowley, Aug. 2, 1934, Jodil #3233.
26 Connelley to Cowley, Aug. 15, 1934.
27 Chicago Tribune, July 30, 1934.
16: THE SCRAMBLE
1 San Francisco report, Feb. 20, 1935, Jodil #5492.
2 Chicago report, Feb. 1, 1935, Jodil #5333.
3 Salt Lake City report, March 7, 1935, Jodil #5607.
4 San Francisco report, Aug. 18, 1934, Jodil #3596.
5 Benedict statement, San Francisco report, Jodil #4331, p. 45.
6 Negri statement, Chicago report, Jodil #5070, p. 32.
7 Negri article, July 1941. Negri used the pseudonym “Flo” for Backman.
8 Brantley to Floyd, May 18, 1934, KCM #1659.
9 Hoover to Cowley, May 18, 1934, KCM #1662.
10 Hoover to Cowley, May 31, 1934, KCM #1701.
11 Brantley to Hoover, June 15, 1934, KCM #1781.
12 Hoover to Tamm, June 23, 1934, KCM #1838.
13 Hoover to Nathan and Tamm, June 28, 1934, KCM #1868.
14 Kansas City report, Sept. 5, 1934.
15 Ibid.
16 Hoover to Cowley, Sept. 5, 1934, BKF #2791.
17 Cleveland report, August 25, 1936, BKF #12720.
18 Cleveland Press, Sept. 6, 1934.
19 BKF #2978.
20 BKF #2978, #2918.
17: A FIELD IN OHIO AND A HIGHWAY IN ILLINOIS
1 Newby to Tamm, Sept. 17, 1934, KCM #2517.
2 Hoover to Tamm, Sept. 23, 1934, KCM #2584.
3 Hoover to Tamm, Sept. 24, 1934, KCM #2585.
4 New Orleans report, Sept. 27, 1934, KCM #2574.
5 Galatas statement included in New Orleans