Forensics- FBI 100 Famous Faces Quiz

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Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd

another Depression-era gangster who took part in the infamous "Kansas City Massacre" before being tracked down and killed by Bureau agents in 1934.

Al Capone

the legendary gangster who ruled an empire of crime in the Windy City during the 1920's until law enforcement (with help from the FBI) sent him to Alcatraz in 1931.

Bonnie and Clyde

the love-struck crime couple who robbed and murdered their way across the Midwest before being gunned down by a band of lawman in 1934.

D.B. Cooper

the mysterious mid-air hijacker who jumped from a plane with $200,000 in stolen cash on a stormy November night in 1970 and has never been seen again.

John Dillinger

the notorious gangster whose death at the hands of FBI agents in the summer of 1934 helped make Hoover's "G-Men" a household name.

Velvalee Dickinson

the so-called "Doll Woman," who used her doll shop on Madison Avenue in New York City to send coded messages revealing U.S. military secrets to the Japanese during World War 2.

Patty Hearst

the young heiress whose dramatic kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 and subsequent involvement in bank robberies stunned the nation.

Lee Harvey Oswald

who assassinated John F. Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963 before being murdered by Jack Ruby. Despite many conspiracy theories to the contrary, the FBI's massive investigation found that Oswald acted alone.

Timothy McVeigh

who committed the worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history when he bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people and injuring several hundred more.

Clarence Kelley

who served as FBI Director following J. Edgar Hoover's death, guiding the Bureau through some difficult days of criticism and change.

Alaska Davidson

who served as a Bureau special agent from 1922 to 1924. Davidson and two contemporaries in the 1920's- Lenore Houston and Jessie Duckstein- are a few of the women known to have served as FBI agents before 1972.

Helen Gandy

who served as the personal secretary of Director Hoover during his nearly five decades at the helm, becoming almost as well known as the Director himself.

James Earl Ray

who was tracked down by the FBI and convicted of the 1968 murder of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Ethel and Julius Rosenberg

who were caught by the FBI during the Cold War passing American secrets on the atomic bomb to the Soviets.

Charles Appel

the FBI agent who helped give birth to the Bureau's first technical laboratory, forerunner of today's FBI Laboratory.

J. Edgar Hoover

the FBI director who served from 1924-1972 (nearly half a century) shaping the Bureau into a more professional and capable organization.

A KKK member

the FBI has battled this band of hate-mongers since the early 1920's, when they put away Imperial Kleagle Edward Clarke.

Charles "Lucky" Luciano

the Sicilian mobster who is credited with making the American Mafia what it is today before being deported to Italy in 1946.

Jimmy Stewart

the famous actor who played an amiable, hardworking agent named Chip Hardesty in the 1959 movie, The FBI Story.

Edwin Shanahan

the first Bureau special agent to die in the line of duty after being shot by a car thief named Martin Durkin in 1925.

George "Machine Gun" Kelly

the gangster who-according to legend- cried, "Don't shoot, G-Men, don't shoot," when surrounded by Bureau agents in 1933. Whether he actually said it or not, the "G-Men" nickname eventually became synonymous with special agents of the FBI.

Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

the iconic face of the FBI from 1965 to 1974, when he starred as Inspector Lewis Erskine in the prime-time TV show, The FBI.

Mark Felt

Deputy Director of the FBI during the Watergate years who later admitted that he was "Deep Throat," an infamous source of leaks to the press on the investigation.

Robert Hanssen

FBI agent turned Soviet mole who was arrested for espionage in February 2001 and later sent to prison for life.

John Glover

FBI agent, who became the first African-American to head an FBI field office when he was named Special Agent in Charge Milwaukee in 1979. He later became Executive Assistant Director at FBI Headquarters.

John Gotti

aka the "Teflon Don," the infamous Mafioso who eluded the law for years until the FBI and its partners put him away for good in 1992.

Ted Kaczynski

aka the Unabomber, who killed three people and terrorized the nation for 17 years before being arrested in 1996.

James Amos

Teddy Roosevelt's confidant and bodyguard, who later became a Bureau special agent, serving from 1921 to 1953.

Charles Bonaparte

Teddy Roosevelt's progressive Attorney General who launched a force of special agents on July 26, 1908, marking the beginning of the organization that would become the FBI.

Alvin Karpis

a cunning crook who teamed with the Barker brothers and became one of the FBI's most hunted gangsters during the 1930's.

Jack Graham

a disturbed delinquent who packed a dynamite bomb in his mother's suitcase, killing her and all on board a flight out of Denver in 1955.

Alger Hiss

a government official and Soviet spy who was convicted of perjury in 1950.

Lester Gillis

aka "Baby Face Nelson," a psychopathic killer and prolific bank robber who lost his life in a deadly gunfight with Bureau agents in 1934.

Ramzi Yousef

mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and wanted terrorist who was ultimately arrested in Pakistan in 1995 and brought to justice in the United States.

Kate "Ma" Barker

mother of the notorious outlaws Herman, Lloyd, Arthur, and Fred Barker, who lost her life in a fierce firefight with Bureau agents in Florida in 1935.

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully

played by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, a pair of FBI agents who investigated the supernatural in the 1990s TV series, The X-Files.

Usama bin Laden

terrorist leader of al Qaeda, wanted for his role in several major attacks on the United States, including the simultaneous strikes of 9/11.


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