FBI agent Melvin Purvis was known as the Man Who Shot Dillinger.
Purvis never actually fired at John Dillinger in the 1934 shootout in Chicago that ended in the death of”public enemy number one.”
But Purvis directed the trap and pointed Dillinger out to other agents and police.
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