John Dillingers death mask Chicago Illinois 1934-2016
by David Lee Guss
Title
John Dillingers death mask Chicago Illinois 1934-2016
Artist
David Lee Guss
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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John Dillinger’s death mask, Chicago, Illinois, 1934-2016.
The infamous bank robber joins such immortals as Napoleon Bonaparte, Abraham Lincoln and poets Dante, William Blake and John Keats. whose faces were captured in death masks.
“Killed by the FBI John Dillinger was America's most notorious bank robber. But is the face you see Public Enemy #1 or a fall guy named Jimmy Lawrence? John Dillinger was shot and killed in a hail of gunfire by the FBI outside of Chicago's Biograph Theater. When his body was on display, thousands of Chicago residents came out to see the man who had terrorized their city streets. But many of those people felt the man they saw on the slab was not Dillinger. Even his own father wasn't convinced that it was his son. Many of Dillinger's signature scars were missing, his famous cleft chin was not visible, and even the body appeared fatter and shorter than what people had seen of him.
But after the FBI ran facial recognition scans on the mask against photos of Dillinger, they confirmed its accuracy. Jimmy Lawrence's fame may have only lasted for fifteen minutes, but John Dillinger's final fifteen will last forever.”
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June 4th, 2016
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