February 3, 1904 - Pretty Boy Floyd

Active during the height of the Depression-era outlaw wave, Floyd became one of the most publicized bank robbers of his time — a figure whose notoriety was shaped as much by media coverage as by the crimes themselves. His relatively brief career nonetheless placed him among the cohort of gangsters — alongside Dillinger and Barker — that the newly empowered FBI made its primary targets. The gap between his public image and the violence of his record illustrates how the press of the 1930s could turn wanted men into complicated folk symbols.

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Charles Arthur Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934), nicknamed Pretty Boy Floyd, was an American bank robber whose crimes across the Midwestern and South Central United States received widespread press coverage in the 1930s. Floyd developed a positive reputation among some members of the public, in part because he reportedly destroyed mortgage documents during robberies, allegedly relieving debtors of their obligations.

Floyd was ultimately tracked down and killed by officers from the Bureau of Investigation in a raid led by Melvin Purvis. Contemporary accounts also place local officers Robert "Pete" Pyle and George Curran at both the shooting and Floyd's subsequent embalming. Floyd has continued to be a familiar figure in American popular culture, sometimes seen as notorious criminal, a tragic product of the Great Depression, or an antiheroic outlaw figure.

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