Banking with Dillinger

By Carol Sissom

The only recent blood relative account of who John Dillinger really was! Get the story from the Family1 Know both sides! Who was John Dillinger really? Public Enemy number One's real personality... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1607026783
• ISBN13: 9781607026785
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: carol's adventures
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Carol Sissom teams up with Mike Thompson

The world would come to know him as Public Enemy Number One in 1934, but "Nobody," knew John Dillinger, the man, better than his family. Carol Sissom teams up with Mike Thompson (son of Frances Dillinger) to bring fourth the first story ever told by a direct descendant of the Dillinger family. Frances Dillinger is the only living relative alive today who was close to her big brother, Johnnie Dillinger. He was a kind, compassionate bank robber, who winked at the women, flipped a quarter to the children, and enjoy home cooked meals with family. Banking with Dillinger contains several rare unpublished photographs of John Dillinger and his family of the past and present, and some good old family recipes. This book is highly recommended! 7ony Stewart, author of Dillinger, The Hidden Truth, and Great nephew of Beryl Ethel Hovious (John Dillinger's ONLY wife)

Johnnie Dillinger "Crime Doesn't Pay."

Recently, I became fascinated with John Dillinger and his story. So when I heard that his immediate family had collaborated with Carol Sissom, I was more than intrigued and I bought the book. I was so fascinated and so touched by this book, that I read it in less than two hours. John Dillinger has always been potrayed as this hardcore criminal, a thug. "Public Enemy Number One." And at first, I must admit, I believed what was written in those books. As the release of the motion picture, PUBLIC ENEMIES, came out...I was suddenly convinced otherwise. I knew John wasn't the thug Hoover had made him out to be. (Don't even get me started on J. Edgar Hoover, whom I have little respect for.) Dillinger seemed human and I believed that PUBLIC ENEMIES humanized the John Dillinger I thought I knew. So what did I do? I started reading about him. I did my own research. And I came to the conclusion John was a victim, was sentenced to -20 years in prison for an attempted robbery in 1924, and he spend his life behind bars until 1933. Only to find out that his beloved step-mother, had died an hour before his arrival. He was, essentially, robbed of the best years of his life. In this book his immediate family: his baby sister, Frances Helen Dillinger and her son, Mike Thompson, speak out in an effort to set the record straight on John. And that's exactly what they did. John Dillinger can be whatever people want him to be, but to his family and to me, he was a kind, sensitive man. He never killed Sheriff O'Malley. He wasn't even there when he got killed! I would think the government would get that fact straighten out by now! Yes, he robbed banks...and he gave money back to the poor. He did help out people who were in need. To me, John Dillinger, is simply "Johnnie". The kind-hearted, soft-spoken man that no one really got the chance to know. He was gunned down without an ounce of mercy, without a chance for him to surrender. John Dillinger's nephew, Mike Thompson, ends this book with a very powerful quote...that had Johnnie not been so harshly sentenced, he would have probably worked as a local banker. I smile every time I read that quote...because now every time I go to the bank, I think of good ol' Johnnie! I hope one day, his true story will be told. So that he can have the peace he deserves and to enlighten all of the current "gangsters" out there, who are selfish enough to kill innocent people. Some of those gangsters claim they look up to John, but he would have never dreamed of killing...anyone. Let's end the violence.