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Unlike Mangione, John Dillinger was no scion of a wealthy family.

Just as Thompson’s shooter has called attention to the predations of insurance companies, Dillinger was a lightning rod for the public’s hatred of banks.

Dillinger had spent most of his adult life behind bars for a botched stickup, and by the time he got out of Indiana State Prison, just months after Franklin Roosevelt took office, he was 30 years old, with no job prospects.

The “Dillinger gang,” as the newspapers called the group, included a rotating band of half a dozen felons and their girlfriends.

In early 1934, the entire crew was arrested in Tucson, and Dillinger was extradited to Crown Point, Indiana, to stand trial for the murder of a police officer.