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Title: Too much reliance on FBI files.
Review: This book was thoroughly researched, evidently in an attempt to confirm the FBI version of the hunt for Charles Arthur Floyd. While the author uses multiple sources, including many from Oklahoma lawmen, when the story reaches the critical time of the Kansas City massacre and afterward, he relies almost solely on information provided by the FBI, which is completely unreliable. Most eyewitnesses did not place Floyd or Richetti at Union Station at the time of the killings. The federal prosecutor refused to try Richetti in Federal Court because of lack of evidence. He was then tried in state court, found guilty, and executed. Pretty Boy Floyd died from two .45 caliber gunshot wounds to the chest. How does an individual fleeing law enforcement officers get shot in the chest? The more one thinks about this incident, the more questions arise. It is a shame that the truth will never really be known about what happened at Union Station or about how Charley Floyd actually died.
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