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Lot 1775: J. Edgar Hoover Sends Melvin Purvis to Pursue John Dillinger Telegram

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Reserve: $300.00
Winning Bid: $324.48
Price Realized: $387.75
Auction Date:12/15/2006 9:00 PM EST

Cryptic message for Purvis to leave Jacksonville, Florida and go to Chicago to get Dillinger. He would catch up with him two months later at the Biograph Theater in a stark and bloody July evening. Most interestingly, this would signal the end of super agent Purvis' career. He never recovered “politically” from his perceived one-upmanship of Hoover.

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