Flashback: Bonnie Parker And J. Edgar Hoover Huddled in Chicago, 83 Years Before Bill And Loretta

In late June 1933. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s official chauffeured limousine was parked in a government-only lot at Chicago’s LaSalle Street Station. The crime-fighting legend and FBI Assistant Director Harold, “Pop” Nathan had just arrived on the famed Twentieth Century Limited from New York City’s Grand Central Station.

Hoover and Nathan watched a mud-caked, black Ford Model T pull up near the limousine. The driver, a woman in her twenties, was fairly well dressed. The short blonde wore a flared skirt, bolero jacket and cloche hat, all of which desperately needed dry cleaning.

Hoover’s FBI protective detail had been caught off-guard when the Model T pulled up but after carefully scoping out the Ford’s lone occupant and finding no contraband allowed it to remain near Hoover’s Pierce-Arrow.

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