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Feb 03, 1904 Adairsville, Georgia, United States Died on 22 Oct 1934 (aged 30)
American bank robber
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About Pretty Boy Floyd
- Charley Arthur Floyd (February 3, 1904 – October 22, 1934), nicknamed Pretty Boy Floyd, was an American bank robber.
- He operated in the West and Central states, and his criminal exploits gained widespread press coverage in the 1930s.
- He was pursued and killed by a group of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents led by Melvin Purvis.
- Historians have speculated as to which officers were at the event, but accounts document that local officers Robert "Pete" Pyle and George Curran were present at his fatal shooting and also at his embalming.
- Floyd has continued to be a familiar figure in American popular culture, sometimes seen as notorious, other times portrayed as a tragic figure, even a victim of the hard times of the Great Depression in the United States.
