Byte Sized Biographies…

Philip D. Gibbons

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John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part One)
27/12/2025 | 56 mins.
In thirteen months, John Dillinger transformed himself from inconsequential ex-con to the most famous criminal celebrity in US history and the first Public Enemy Number One.

John Dillinger, at the height of his fame
Homer Van Meter
Tommy Carroll
Billy Frechette, wanted poster
Dillinger arrest location, Tucson, Arizona
Biograph Theater, early morning July 23, 1934
Chicago alley where Dillinger was shot
Dillinger family plot, Crown Hill Cemetery
One of several Dillinger death masks
John Dillinger, Public Enemy Number One (Part Two)
27/12/2025 | 52 mins.
In thirteen months, John Dillinger transformed himself from inconsequential ex-con to the most famous criminal celebrity in US history and the first Public Enemy Number One.

Lester Gillis aka Baby Face Nelson
Eddie Green, St. Paul criminal
Melvin Purvis
Front entrance, The Little Bohemia Lodge, Manitowish Falls, Wisconsin
Anna Sage
Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Bridge at Chappaquiddick (Part One)
30/11/2025 | 52 mins.
On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 1968
Edward Kennedy, campaigning in 1962
John Farrar examining the Kennedy automobile as it is being removed from the water near Dike Bridge
Ted Kennedy during nationwide speech following the Chappaquiddick accident
District Attorney Edmund Dinis
Edgartown Police Chief Dominick “Jim” Arena, later in life
Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the Bridge at Chappaquiddick. (Part Two)
30/11/2025 | 53 mins.
On July 19, 1969 an auto accident, involving Senator Edward M. Kennedy and the death of a young woman, changed the course of American political history forever.

Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife Joan in the mid-sixties
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Joe Gargan’s sister Ann, Joe Kennedy’s longtime caretaker.
Joe Gargan, late in life.
Kopechne family gravestone
Catherine The Great, One of a Kind (Part One)
09/10/2025 | 51 mins.
Brought to Russia as fourteen-year-old Princess Sophia from a tiny German principality, she became Catherine the Great, the most powerful woman in Europe.

Peter III, Catherine’s husband
Catherine’s mother, Princess Johanna
The Empress Elizabeth
Frederick the Great
Grigori Orlov
Poniatowski
Catherine on the the balcony of the Winter Palace after she seized the throne from Peter III
Catherine, in the uniform of the Imperial Guard

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About Byte Sized Biographies…

Some Very Famous People You’ve Never Really Heard Of, Byte Sized Biographies of the famous, the infamous and the quirky in less than hour. Think of that doorstop sized bio or history related book that you will never read made accessible in an hour. These are people that you may think you know a lot about but really don’t, remarkable human beings you have never heard of and incidents covered in new and different detail, all fascinating.

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