television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. the c-span cities tour travels the country exploring the american story since 2011. we've been to more than 200 communities across the nation like many americans our staff is staying close to home due to the coronavirus. next a look at one of our city's tour visits. so we're just a few blocks west of the main downtown area of toledo on monroe street at relatively the corner of 21st and monroe another forgotten visitor to toledo was j edgar hoover hoover came here in 1936. he actually flew in from cleveland. four in the morning and arrived at this location at that time. there would have been a row of apartment buildings behind me. and hoover kicked the door down.

and arrested the america's most number one wanted criminal harry campbell. and threw him in the back of the car drove him back to the airport flew him back to cleveland where he held a press conference and announced that he had just captured america's most number one wanted criminal now campbell by the way was wanted he was part of the parker carpet gang and they had a kidnapped a brewer's son in saint paul, minnesota in 34 and ransomed them for 200. they got the money released the guy unharmed but hoover promised he was going to get every single person involved in that crime and here he campbell was the last person and here he was in toledo living here for a few months under the nosa everybody and in fact after the arrest it came out that the sheriff of lucas county had been seen drinking with campbell on the weekends at goulet's grill, which was located just down the street here on this corner. so toledo was known as a wide open town and i think hoover kind of pointed out that he

didn't trust everybody when it came time to make the biggest arrest hoover's response to the toledo police protest of not being part of the raid. he said quote my statement of the refusal of g-men to cooperate with corrupt police forces was broader than your chief stated in his protest unquote. so hoover he wanted nothing to do with it. so in in 36 when this happens toledo was kind of coming out of a period where they had just the lick of oligang come down. detroit and try to take over toledo in the early 30s and you had the kennedy killing jack kennedy was a bootlegger and club owner. he was murdered by the look of ollies that brought in the law the law shut everything down things quieted down 36 to you know, roughly the late 30s. plato was relatively quiet, but it's still a town where a lot of people were paid off and it was still a good place that you could come and kind of stand the radar if you were wanted somewhere else. so campbell was probably pretty

sharp coming here and was able to you know, stay out of everybody's way for quite a while. you can watch this and other programs on the history of communities across the country at c-span.org cities tour. this is american history tv only on c-span 3. weeknights this month. we're featuring american history tv programs as a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span 3 on monday night from thomas. jefferson's books to saturday night live's parody of joe biden tevi. troy talks about how popular culture influences presidents and how in turn presidents leave their imprint on the culture watch monday beginning at 8pm eastern and enjoy american history tv every weekend on c-span 3 next richard josey was an interpreter of african-american history at colonial williamsburg portraying several characters, including a runaway slave named peter up

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