Posted Monday morning, May 27, 2019
Don't call him Pretty Boy: Pop singer Fabian looking a little too pretty as the Depression-era bank robber Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd in the 1970 movie "A Bullet for Pretty Boy". Historical accuracies are purely coincidental.
The photo above from the egregiously fictionalized and sentimentalized movie "A Bullet for Pretty Boy" is for illustrative purposes only. The story below from Bryan Burrough's nonfiction and mostly unsentimental book "Public Enemies: America's Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34" is true:
On Thursday evening, June 8, 1933, an Oklahoma schoolteacher named Joe Hudiberg finished a poker game in the kitchen of his white frame house outside the town of Cromwell. Hudiberg walked into the warm evening air and stretched. As his friends stepped to their cars, he ambled down to his garage and padlocked the doors.
Locked inside the garage was Hudiberg’s prized black Pontiac---and Pretty Boy Floyd, who had come to steal it.
The story continues: Pretty Boy Floyd makes bank robbery look as easy as pie.
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