Depression Desperadoes
December, 1973
The swaggering gangland fops of the Roaring Twenties lost much of their glamor after the crash of 1929; a man standing in a bread line found it easier to identify with a righteous Robin Hood or a vengeful Jesse James. Suddenly, the country was applauding the downfall of the Al Capones but finding certain redeeming qualities in John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Bonnie and Clyde and other rugged individualists who "only stole from the bankers what the bankers stole from the people."Unlik...
