did bonnie and clyde john dillinger did, they put the fbi into the minds of the american people in many ways, the early thirties. the fbi certainly came into the public's. culture basically because of the gangster era. bonnie and clyde wasn't our biggest case per se, but we certainly were involved. and our agents, especially down in louisiana, were helping to try and track them down. at the time, dillinger jr, though, was in some ways a national phenomenon. you know, when he broke out of jail in early 1934, his, his style, his escape catapult them into to newsworthiness and it was a time when because of the gangster crime going on the attorney general said there's this war and crime going on and we're losing and he put the bureau after them and in confronting dillinger jr finally in chicago he tried to escape and as he's turning and pulling his gun out he was shot by fbi agents of a sudden the fame dillinger had seemed to accrue in the transferred to the and it was light of that that we brought down number of other gangsters that hollywood started to take an interest in us the congress