"Baby Face" Nelson, a member of the Dillinger gang

"Hoover achieved fame as the nation's "top cop" -- although the FBI is not and never was a police organization -- in the 1920s and 1930s fighting the likes of John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and other vicious characters spawned by prohibition and the Depression …" Oklahoma Journal, May 7, 1972

J. Edgar Hoover Memorial Gallery