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  • NAME: Machine Gun Kelly
  • OCCUPATION: Criminal
  • BIRTH DATE: c. 1897
  • DEATH DATE: 1954
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Tennessee
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Alcatraz, California
  • Originally: George R. Kelly

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Machine Gun Kelly was an American bootlegger, bank robber and kidnapper who made headlines in the 1930s.

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Machine Gun Kelly was a bootlegger, small-time bank robber and kidnapper who ranged through Tennessee, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico in the 1920s and 1930s. Abetted by his wife, Kathryn, whom he married in 1927, he joined gangs whose exploits won press headlines. Much of his life was spent in prison (1925, 1930–31, 1933 until death); he died at the federal penitentiary at Alcatraz

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