DILLINGER'S JOURNEY TO THE GRAVE: Restored 1934 Newsreel | 16mm Film Scan

Year Published: 1934

Description: With notorious gangster and bank robber John Dillinger finally dead after a shootout, every person in Indiana wanted to get their eyes on him before he was put 6 feet under. Melvin Purvis and J. Edgar Hoover can be seen at 0:36 Restored from a silent copy of Universal Newsreel Footage. Would have originally been narrated by Graham Mcnamee. Instead, you get my amateur old-timey radio voice! Script created from the listing in the National Archives, with a couple of lines added. The text didn't quite match the scenes; I put them where they fit well enough and could be spread out a bit. (i.e. footage of his sister's house is shown with the 'Cook County morgue visitors' line) https://catalog.archives.gov/id/234271942 *Please contact regarding usage* Background song is Funeral March by Chopin, performed by Richard Keys Biggs

Transcription

Thousands Turn Out to Watch Dillinger's Journey to the Grave Accompanied by his father, the body of John Dillinger, bad man extraordinaire, is removed from the county morgue to his home at Mooresville, IN, and then to his sister’s residence in Maywood. Morbid crowds throng the way as the body is Taken to the cemetery. His weapons of avarice, stripped from the hands of harm. Over 15,000 Persons are said to have viewed the body at the Cook County Morgue. Despite the weather, streets remain lined with spectators

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G9db8l_49M

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