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Melvin Purvis

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Melvin Horace Purvis II. (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent. [1]

64 relations: Alan Vint, Alston Purvis, Alternate history, American Experience, American Heroes Channel, Anthony Summers, Baby Face Nelson, Back in the USSA, Ben Johnson (actor), Birmingham, Alabama, BoardGameGeek, Chicago, Christian Bale, Chuck Wagner, Cincinnati, Colonel (United States), Crime Library, Curt Gentry, Dale Robertson, Denis Johnson, Dillinger (1973 film), Dillinger (1991 film), East Liverpool, Ohio, Eliot Ness, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Florence, South Carolina, Herman Hollis, History (U.S. TV network), J. Edgar Hoover, John Dillinger, Kappa Alpha Order, Kim Newman, Los Angeles Times, Martin Sheen, Melvin Purvis: G-Man, Michael Sacks, Nuremberg trials, Oklahoma City, Parker Brothers, Pretty Boy Floyd, Public Enemies (2009 film), Richard Verrall, Roger Touhy, Rutgers University Press, Samuel P. Cowley, Simon & Schuster, South Carolina Educational Television, Suicide, The Grapes of Wrath, The Kansas City Massacre, ..., The Lady in Red (1979 film), The New York Times, The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover, The Washington Post, Time (magazine), Timmonsville, South Carolina, To Tell the Truth, Tracer ammunition, United States, United States Army, University of South Carolina School of Law, Will Patton, World War II, WorldCat. Expand index (14 more) »

Alan Vint

Alan Richard Vint (November 11, 1944 – August 16, 2006) was an American character actor.

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Alston Purvis

Philip Alston Willcox Purvis (born 1943), son of Melvin Purvis, is an American graphic designer, artist, professor and author.

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Alternate history

Alternate history or alternative history (Commonwealth English), sometimes abbreviated as AH, is a genre of fiction consisting of stories in which one or more historical events occur differently.

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American Experience

American Experience is a television program airing on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) television stations in the United States.

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American Heroes Channel

American Heroes Channel (AHC; formerly Military Channel and originally Discovery Wings Channel) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by Discovery Inc. The network carries programs related to the military, warfare, and military history and science.

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Anthony Summers

Anthony Bruce Summers (born 21 December 1942) is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of eight best-selling non-fiction books.

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Baby Face Nelson

Lester Joseph Gillis (December 6, 1908 – November 27, 1934), known by the alias George Nelson, better known as Baby Face Nelson, was an American bank robber in the 1930s.

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Back in the USSA

Back in the USSA is a collection of seven short stories by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman, which was published in 1997 by Mark V. Ziesing Books.

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Ben Johnson (actor)

Ben "Son" Johnson, Jr. (June 13, 1918 – April 8, 1996) was an American stuntman, world champion rodeo cowboy, and Academy Award-winning actor.

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Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.

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BoardGameGeek

BoardGameGeek is an online forum for board gaming hobbyists and a game database that holds reviews, images and videos for over 99,000 different tabletop games, including European-style board games, wargames, and card games.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Christian Bale

Christian Charles Philip Bale (born 30 January 1974) is an English actor and producer.

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Chuck Wagner

Chuck Wagner (born June 20, 1958) is an American actor, director, musical theater historian and teacher.

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Cincinnati

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Colonel (United States)

In the United States Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, colonel is the most senior field grade military officer rank, immediately above the rank of lieutenant colonel and immediately below the rank of brigadier general.

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Crime Library

Crime Library was a website documenting major crimes, criminals, trials, forensics, and criminal profiling from books.

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Curt Gentry

Curtis Marsena "Curt" Gentry (June 13, 1931 – July 10, 2014) was an American writer, born in Lamar, Colorado.

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Dale Robertson

Dayle Lymoine Robertson (July 14, 1923February 27, 2013) was an American actor best known for his starring roles on television.

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Denis Johnson

Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American writer best known for his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992) and his novel Tree of Smoke (2007), which won the National Book Award for Fiction.

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Dillinger (1973 film)

Dillinger is a 1973 American gangster film about the life and criminal exploits of notorious bank robber John Dillinger.

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Dillinger (1991 film)

Dillinger is a 1991 television film directed by Rupert Wainwright and starring Mark Harmon as John Dillinger.

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East Liverpool, Ohio

East Liverpool is a city in Columbiana County, Ohio, United States.

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Eliot Ness

Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, bringing down Al Capone, and the leader of a famous team of law enforcement agents from Chicago, nicknamed The Untouchables.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Florence, South Carolina

Florence is a city in Florence County, South Carolina, United States.

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Herman Hollis

Herman Edward "Ed" Hollis (January 1903 – November 27, 1934) was an American law enforcement official and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) special agent.

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History (U.S. TV network)

History (originally The History Channel from 1995 to 2008) is a history-based digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and the Disney–ABC Television Group division of the Walt Disney Company.

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J. Edgar Hoover

John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States.

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John Dillinger

John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster in the Depression-era United States.

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Kappa Alpha Order

Kappa Alpha Order (KA), commonly known as Kappa Alpha or simply KA, is a social fraternity and a fraternal order founded in 1865 at Washington College in Lexington, Virginia.

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Kim Newman

Kim James Newman (born 31 July 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Martin Sheen

Ramón Gerard Antonio Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an American actor of Spanish/Irish descent who first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in Apocalypse Now (1979) and as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999-2006).

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Melvin Purvis: G-Man

Melvin Purvis: G-Man is a 1974 American TV movie about Melvin Purvis.

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Michael Sacks

Michael Sacks (born September 11, 1948 in New York City) is an American actor and technology industry executive who played the role of Billy Pilgrim in George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five (1972), an adaptation from the novel by Kurt Vonnegut.

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Nuremberg trials

The Nuremberg trials (Die Nürnberger Prozesse) were a series of military tribunals held by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war after World War II.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Parker Brothers

Parker Brothers was an American toy and game manufacturer which later became a brand of Hasbro.

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Pretty Boy Floyd

Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934) was an American bank robber.

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Public Enemies (2009 film)

Public Enemies is a 2009 American biographical mob drama film directed by Michael Mann and written by Mann, Ronan Bennett and Ann Biderman.

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Richard Verrall

Richard Verrall (born 1948) is a former deputy chairman of the British National Front (NF) who edited the magazine Spearhead from 1976 to 1980.

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Roger Touhy

Roger Touhy (September 18, 1898 – December 16, 1959) was an Irish-American mob boss and prohibition-era bootlegger from Chicago, Illinois.

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Rutgers University Press

Rutgers University Press is a nonprofit academic publishing house, operating in New Brunswick, New Jersey under the auspices of Rutgers University.

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Samuel P. Cowley

Samuel Parkinson Cowley (July 23, 1899 – November 27, 1934) was an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) who was killed in the line of duty in a gunfight with Baby Face Nelson in 1934 on Route 14 in Barrington, Illinois.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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South Carolina Educational Television

South Carolina Educational Television is a public television network serving the U.S. state of South Carolina.

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Suicide

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.

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The Grapes of Wrath

The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

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The Kansas City Massacre

The Kansas City Massacre is a 1975 American television film about Melvin Purvis.

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The Lady in Red (1979 film)

The Lady in Red is a 1979 action-drama/romantic film directed by Lewis Teague and starring Pamela Sue Martin and Robert Conrad.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover

The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover is a 1977 film directed by Larry Cohen and starring Broderick Crawford and James Wainwright.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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Timmonsville, South Carolina

Timmonsville is a town in Florence County, South Carolina, United States.

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To Tell the Truth

To Tell the Truth is an American television panel game show in which four celebrity panelists are presented with three contestants (the "team of challengers", each an individual or pair) and must identify which is the "central character" whose unusual occupation or experience has been read out by the show's moderator/host.

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Tracer ammunition

Tracer ammunition (tracers) are bullets or cannon caliber projectiles that are built with a small pyrotechnic charge in their base.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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University of South Carolina School of Law

The University of South Carolina School of Law, also known as South Carolina Law or SC Law, is one of the professional schools of the University of South Carolina.

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Will Patton

William Rankin Patton (born June 14, 1954) is an American actor and audiobook narrator.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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WorldCat

WorldCat is a union catalog that itemizes the collections of 72,000 libraries in 170 countries and territories that participate in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) global cooperative.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Purvis

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