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5 Forgotten Gangsters Who Terrorized 1920s America

The Red Door Club

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Before John Dillinger and the famous Depression-era gangsters, these five men were among America’s most feared criminals. Herman Lamm, Gerald Chapman, Frank Nash, Roy Gardner, and Jack Zuta once dominated headlines, robberies, prison escapes, and gangland wars, then faded into history.
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⏳ Timestamps:
00:00 Intro: The Forgotten Public Enemies of the 1920s
00:53 Herman Lamm
06:43 Jack Zuta
12:35 Gerald Chapman
18:42 Frank Nash
25:35 Roy Gardner
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8 Comments

@RedDoorClub Creator 3 months ago Pinned

Which of these five outlaws had the most surprising ending to you?

@abdulseaforth6930 4 months ago

That Lamm was some strategist!

@abdulseaforth6930 4 months ago

Gardner was a sad case, I believe

@christophergallagher531 3 months ago

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@asullivan4047 3 months ago

Excellent photography pictures enabling viewers 👀 to better understand what the orator is describing 🤗. Although not a surprise the assination of Frank Nash by criminal syndicate in Kansas City was expected 😉. He engaged with money 💰 laundering activities with the out fit therefore needed to be silenced not being able to cut a deal with thr ( G ) men in exchange for a reduced sentence 😉

@RandomFuryMusick 4 months ago

😎

@jamesrashbrook9485 3 months ago

In England bank robbers ain't gangster's,bank robbers earn there money gangster's take money off others

@1lthrnk 1 month ago

I wonder if Frank Nash was involved in getting U.S Marshal Bill Tilghman murdered in Cromwell, OK by Wiley Lynn, a drunk and corrupt federal prohibition agent who was causing a disturbance. Wiley was a corrupt Prohibition agent making sure a crew in Tulsa and Kansas City got their alcohol. My grandpa grew up with the Floyd family and besides Carlie the others turn to law enforcement or religion. Charlie was captured in custody on the ground when Melvin Purvis executed Charlie. At the time of my grandpa’s funeral the living siblings, cousins, and nephews were there.