Kansas City massacre

OK. Yeah.

And that was just a few months after, well, maybe 18 months after the Union Station massacre, which, OK, now Kansas City's on the map.

Yeah.

We got to clean this place up.

Well, they – from the – Is

that like a mafia

thing? Well, the Union Station massacre.

Oh, when was that? That was in the 30s.

On June 17th of that year, a different gang trying to free Frank Nash from federal custody killed two Kansas City police officers, the Oklahoma police chief, an FBI agent, and Frank Nash, as well as wounding an additional FBI agent.

This all happened in a 30-second ambush now known as the Kansas City Massacre.

This was a violent and well-publicized event.

In fact, this ambush directly influenced FBI policy moving forward.

They weren't even able to take anyone into custody.

They had to call the United States Marshals or the local sheriff's office and let them arrest a suspect.

Soon after the Kansas City Massacre, they were allowed to carry firearms, a practice which obviously continues to this day.

Okay, tough time to be an FBI agent, right? Uh, you're trying to combat some of these very violent individuals, and you don't even have a gun.

These four would continue to pull off robberies together, but on this particular job, they were also joined by infamous Prohibition-era gunmen Vernon Miller and a few others.

Miller became well-known for his role in a shootout known as the Kansas City Massacre, but even on this occasion he had an itchy trigger finger, opening fire on bystanders and later killing one of the other robbers for double-crossing him.

After Keating and Holden were arrested in 1932, Kelly formed a partnership with fellow criminal Albert Bates, and the duo committed a string of robberies throughout the year.

Their biggest score was in Colfax, Washington.