Machine Gun Kelly's Last Stand

by Stanley Hamilton and George Albert Brown

Book Overview

Orchestrated to the sounds of getaway cars and machine guns, the abduction of Oklahoma City businessman Charles Urschel in 1933 was a highly publicized crime in an era when gangsters were folk heroes and kidnapping had become a scourge. The criminals' interstate flight to a desolate hideout in Texas called for federal action, instigating the most intensive manhunt the country had yet seen. It also set in motion a chain of events that would have lasting...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700612475
• ISBN13: 9780700612475
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"