27 minutes ago ‘Most of these guys had never fired a weapon’: inside the FBI’s early hunt for gangsters

The new book Gangster Hunters recalls J Edgar Hoover and his so-called ‘G-Men’ who took down some of the biggest criminals of the timeJohn Oller’s new book tells how the FBI took down John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, Bonnie and Clyde and other celebrity criminals of the 1930s, as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt waged his “war on crime”. In prose fast as an Essex-Terraplane getaway car, Oller recounts and deconstructs the myths that grew around such bank robbers, kidnappers and killers. He also spotlights the agents who chased and caught and sometimes killed the criminals or were killed themselves – names long eclipsed by that of J Edgar Hoover, who led the FBI for 48 years.“Hoover was such a larger-than-life figure and he wanted to keep it that way,” Oller says. “He wanted his agen...

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63 minutes ago Lorraine Bracco: ‘I got the Sopranos script... I was very, very upset’

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16 hours ago Bob Geldof says he will chat to Ed Sheeran after his criticism of charity single

The original Band Aid single saw artists join forces in 1984 led by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure.

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19 hours ago Mohamed Salah's lucrative Liverpool contract demands and predicament facing Arne Slot

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21 hours ago Lorraine Kelly gasps as unexpected family member appears live on her ITV show

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22 hours ago Lorraine Kelly floored as 'beautiful' relative unexpectedly joins her live in ITV studio

ITV legend Lorraine Kelly was left gobsmacked as a member of her family was included in the line-up for the fashion segment wearing an adorable Christmas Pudding jacket

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23 hours ago Lorraine Kelly gasps as family member unexpectedly appears live on ITV show

Lorraine was all smiles as she hosted her ITV show, later to find that a member of her family was included in the line-up for the fashion show - which was looking at festive season

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