Melvin Purvis (English Wikipedia)

Purvis, Melvin (1936). American Agent. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co. OCLC 612771326.
Purvis, Melvin (1936). American Agent (1st ed.). Garden City, New York: Doran, Doubleday & Co. Inc. pp. 74–87.

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"Purvis, Melvin Horace, Jr". South Carolina Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on December 21, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
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"John Dillinger Timeline | American Experience | PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
"Crime Spree | American Experience | PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
"Little Bohemia". Babyface nelson journal. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
Hoover, J. Edgar (September 6, 1934). "HOVCOWLEYINSTRUCT.pdf" (PDF). Faded Glory: The Dusty Roads of an FBI Era. https://historicalgmen.squarespace.com/the-credit-due-inspector-samue. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
"Dillinger's Betrayal | American Experience | PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
"FBI 100 -- Dillinger's Last Steps". Scroll down to see a diagram drawn by Purvis showing where agents were stationed that night. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
"Eyewitness tells how Charles 'Pretty Boy' Floyd came to his death - UPI Archives". UPI. Archived from the original on January 10, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
"Gangsters' Foe Resigns. Melvin Purvis Leaves His Department of Justice Post in Chicago". Los Angeles Times. July 13, 1935. Archived from the original on January 4, 2013. Retrieved 2008-04-20. Melvin Purvis, nemesis of some of the country's most notorious public enemies, including the late John Dillinger, has resigned his position as head of the Chicago office of the Department of Justice.
Magazine, Smithsonian; Trickey, Erick. "Inside the Intense Rivalry Between Eliot Ness and J. Edgar Hoover". Smithsonian Magazine. Archived from the original on December 20, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
"True Adventures of Junior G-Man". radiodaysmuseum.org. Archived from the original on December 20, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
"About The Florence evening star. [volume] (Florence, S.C.) 1939-1941". Library of Congress, Chronicling America. Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 20, 2023.

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"Little Bohemia". Babyface nelson journal. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-08.

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Melvin Purvis game at BoardGameGeek

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"The People v. Touhy, 361 Ill. 332 | Casetext Search + Citator". casetext.com. Archived from the original on December 28, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
"The People v. Touhy, 397 Ill. 19 | Casetext Search + Citator". casetext.com. Archived from the original on December 28, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
"Factor v. Pennington Press, Inc., 238 F. Supp. 630 | Casetext Search + Citator". casetext.com. Archived from the original on December 28, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-28.

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Lathan, M. D., Robert S. (July 2016). "Experience of my famous uncle, Melvin Purvis, with Hoover's jealousy and with Nazi Hermann Göring". Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center). 29 (3): 348–351. doi:10.1080/08998280.2016.11929465. PMC 4900794.
Lomax, W. Richard (1965). "The Federal Personnel System and the Challenge of the Space Age". The Western Political Quarterly. 18 (2): 269. doi:10.2307/444995. JSTOR 444995 – via JSTOR.

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"Melvin H. Purvis, FBI file #67-7489". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
Hoover, J. Edgar (April 25, 1934). "Melvin Purvis Part 01 of 03" (PDF). The FBI Vault (Memorandum to the Assistant Attorney General, Mr. William Stanley). p. 567. Retrieved January 4, 2024.
"Melvin Purvis 02 of 03" (PDF). April 25, 1934. Archived from the original on November 1, 2023. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
Hoover, J. Edgar (May 10, 1934). "John Dillinger gang, part 30 of 30, 'May 19, 1934 MEMORANDUM'". p. 196. Archived from the original on October 23, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
Hoover, J. Edgar (November 3, 1934). "Melvin Purvis 02 of 03, 'Memo- Mr. Tamm 11/3/34'". The FBI Vault. pp. 238–240. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
Hoover, J. Edgar (November 7, 1934). "PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL". The FBI Vault. p. 210. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
"AFFIDAVIT OF SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE M. H. PURVIS AND S. P. COWLEY". FBI Records: The Vault. July 28, 1934. pp. 11–14. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
"Memo from C. D. DeLoach to Mr. Mohr. Subject: Article in "The Chicago American," March 1 1960, entitled "Why Did Purvis Quit FBI and Fame?"". FBI Records: The Vault. March 7, 1960. p. 14.
"Memorandum from Mr. Mohr to C. D. DeLoach. Subject: Melvin Purvis Suicide". FBI Records: The Vault. February 29, 1960. Archived from the original on January 30, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2024.

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FBI Famous Cases, FBI.Gov Archived 2009-09-19 at the Wayback Machine

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"FBI 100 -- Dillinger's Last Steps". Scroll down to see a diagram drawn by Purvis showing where agents were stationed that night. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved January 8, 2024.

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"Melvin Purvis" (Collection). Encyclopedia of World Biography Online. 31. Gale. 2011. Retrieved 9 September 2021.

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"Timmonsville High School, 1920, Florence County, South Carolina". genealogytrails.com. Archived from the original on December 20, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-20.

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"Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse".

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"Melvin Purvis G-MAN". IMDb. April 4, 1974.
Colin Price (March 2, 2016). "Melvin Purvis: The Gang Buster". American Lawmen (2016– ). Season 1. American Heroes Channel.

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Lomax, W. Richard (1965). "The Federal Personnel System and the Challenge of the Space Age". The Western Political Quarterly. 18 (2): 269. doi:10.2307/444995. JSTOR 444995 – via JSTOR.

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"Rho Chapter". Kappa Alpha Order. Archived from the original on December 20, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-20.

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"About The Florence evening star. [volume] (Florence, S.C.) 1939-1941". Library of Congress, Chronicling America. Archived from the original on December 13, 2012. Retrieved December 20, 2023.

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Lathan, M. D., Robert S. (July 2016). "Experience of my famous uncle, Melvin Purvis, with Hoover's jealousy and with Nazi Hermann Göring". Proceedings (Baylor University. Medical Center). 29 (3): 348–351. doi:10.1080/08998280.2016.11929465. PMC 4900794.

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Sherman, Ted (2013-09-30). "United 23 took off from New Jersey 80 years ago; its midair explosion remains a mystery". NJ.com.

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"Purvis and Actress Part. Wedding to Miss Jarratt Is Off, Former G-Man Heads for Coast". New York Times. April 28, 1937. Retrieved 2008-04-20. Janice Jarratt and Melvin Purvis went their separate ways tonight, both noncommittal on the sudden postponement of their marriage only two days before their wedding date.

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"John Dillinger Timeline | American Experience | PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
"Crime Spree | American Experience | PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
"Dillinger's Betrayal | American Experience | PBS". www.pbs.org. Archived from the original on January 8, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-08.
"People & Events: Melvin Purvis, 1903-1960". American Experience. Retrieved 2008-04-20.

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Gangster Hunters: How Hoover's G-Men Vanquished America's Deadliest Public Enemies, by John Oller, Penguin Random House, 2024 ISBN 978-0-593-47136-4

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"Gangsters' Foe Resigns. Melvin Purvis Leaves His Department of Justice Post in Chicago". Los Angeles Times. July 13, 1935. Archived from the original on January 4, 2013. Retrieved 2008-04-20. Melvin Purvis, nemesis of some of the country's most notorious public enemies, including the late John Dillinger, has resigned his position as head of the Chicago office of the Department of Justice.
"Melvin Purvis to Wed Janice Jarratt, Actress". Washington Post. March 18, 1937. Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2008-04-20.

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"True Adventures of Junior G-Man". radiodaysmuseum.org. Archived from the original on December 20, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-20.

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"Purvis, Melvin Horace, Jr". South Carolina Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on December 21, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-21.

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G-MAN: The Rise and Fall of Melvin Purvis. SCETV. April 4, 1074. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010.

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Magazine, Smithsonian; Trickey, Erick. "Inside the Intense Rivalry Between Eliot Ness and J. Edgar Hoover". Smithsonian Magazine. Archived from the original on December 20, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-20.

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Newman, Jay C. (February 27, 2008). "Personal History Highlights -- Jay C. Newman and Geneve Jacobs Newman" (PDF). historicalgmen.squarespace.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 6, 2023. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
Hoover, J. Edgar (September 6, 1934). "HOVCOWLEYINSTRUCT.pdf" (PDF). Faded Glory: The Dusty Roads of an FBI Era. https://historicalgmen.squarespace.com/the-credit-due-inspector-samue. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.

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Hoover, J. Edgar (September 6, 1934). "HOVCOWLEYINSTRUCT.pdf" (PDF). Faded Glory: The Dusty Roads of an FBI Era. https://historicalgmen.squarespace.com/the-credit-due-inspector-samue. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 9, 2024. Retrieved January 9, 2024.

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"Milestones". Time. May 10, 1937. Archived from the original on December 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-21. Engagement Broken. Between Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 34, famed onetime G-Man who now practices law in San Francisco; and beauteous Janice ("Toots") Jarratt, cinemactress, onetime Lucky Strike model, "Sweetheart of the Texas Centennial"; in San Antonio, Tex., three days before the wedding date.

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Melvin Purvis acting as spokesman for Dodge automobiles Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Good Housekeeping magazine, April 1936.

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"Eyewitness tells how Charles 'Pretty Boy' Floyd came to his death - UPI Archives". UPI. Archived from the original on January 10, 2024. Retrieved 2024-01-10.

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"Melvin H. Purvis, FBI file #67-7489". Federal Bureau of Investigation. Archived from the original on September 3, 2011. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
Villahermosa, Gilberto (June–July 2016). "The FBI at War: Melvin Purvis in World War II" (PDF). World at War. 48: 54–59. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 21, 2020.
FBI Famous Cases, FBI.Gov Archived 2009-09-19 at the Wayback Machine
Newman, Jay C. (February 27, 2008). "Personal History Highlights -- Jay C. Newman and Geneve Jacobs Newman" (PDF). historicalgmen.squarespace.com. Archived (PDF) from the original on August 6, 2023. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
"Melvin Purvis 02 of 03" (PDF). April 25, 1934. Archived from the original on November 1, 2023. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
Hoover, J. Edgar (May 10, 1934). "John Dillinger gang, part 30 of 30, 'May 19, 1934 MEMORANDUM'". p. 196. Archived from the original on October 23, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
Hoover, J. Edgar (November 3, 1934). "Melvin Purvis 02 of 03, 'Memo- Mr. Tamm 11/3/34'". The FBI Vault. pp. 238–240. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 7, 2024.
Hoover, J. Edgar (November 7, 1934). "PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL". The FBI Vault. p. 210. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 8, 2024.
"AFFIDAVIT OF SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE M. H. PURVIS AND S. P. COWLEY". FBI Records: The Vault. July 28, 1934. pp. 11–14. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
Melvin Purvis acting as spokesman for Dodge automobiles Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Good Housekeeping magazine, April 1936.
"Melvin Purvis to Wed Janice Jarratt, Actress". Washington Post. March 18, 1937. Archived from the original on 2012-10-21. Retrieved 2008-04-20.
"Milestones". Time. May 10, 1937. Archived from the original on December 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-21. Engagement Broken. Between Melvin Horace Purvis Jr., 34, famed onetime G-Man who now practices law in San Francisco; and beauteous Janice ("Toots") Jarratt, cinemactress, onetime Lucky Strike model, "Sweetheart of the Texas Centennial"; in San Antonio, Tex., three days before the wedding date.
"Memorandum from Mr. Mohr to C. D. DeLoach. Subject: Melvin Purvis Suicide". FBI Records: The Vault. February 29, 1960. Archived from the original on January 30, 2024. Retrieved January 30, 2024.
G-MAN: The Rise and Fall of Melvin Purvis. SCETV. April 4, 1074. Archived from the original on November 28, 2010.

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"The History of the Law Offices of Willcox, Buyck & Williams, P.A." Willcox, Buyck & Williams, PA. Archived from the original on December 19, 2023. Retrieved 2023-12-20.

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Villahermosa, Gilberto (June–July 2016). "The FBI at War: Melvin Purvis in World War II" (PDF). World at War. 48: 54–59. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 21, 2020.

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"The vendetta : FBI hero Melvin Purvis's war against crime, and J. Edgar Hoover's war against him | WorldCat.org". search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-12-20.
Purvis, Melvin (1936). American Agent. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co. OCLC 612771326.
Touhy, Roger (1959). "The stolen years" (library listing). search.worldcat.org. Retrieved 2023-12-28.
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To Tell The Truth, Youtube, September 24, 1957.