He robbed banks when the banks were robbing everyone else.
He burned mortgage records so families could keep their homes.
And when the FBI called him Public Enemy Number One, Oklahoma called him a hero.

In this episode of Deadly Truths, we uncover the rise and fall of Pretty Boy Floyd — from barefoot farm boy to Depression-era legend — and how the government’s war on crime turned a desperate man into an American myth.

Was he a cold-blooded killer… or the outlaw America needed most?

Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen.
— Woody Guthrie

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