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The John Dillinger Museum’ s most valuable relic--the wooden gun Dillinger used to escape from the Lake County Jail in Crown Point--will be on display for one day only, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 22.Also on display will be two Thompson submachine guns stolen during the escape from the Lake County Sheriff’s house and the jail, loaned to the John Dillinger Museum by the Porter County and the Lake County sheriff’s departments. The wooden gun has never been on display since the collection was purchased by the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority in the late 1990s. The date of the display, July 22, marks the 75th anniversary of Dillinger’s death, when he was gunned down by law enforcement in front of the Biograph Theater in Chicago in 1934. The John Dillinger Museum is located inside the Indiana Welcome Center in Hammond at the intersections of I-80/94 and Kennedy Ave. South. The admission fee is $4. For more information visit www.dillingermuseum.com The John Dillinger Museum is owned and operated by the South Shore Convention and Visitors Authority and tells the story that crime doesn’t pay.
Posted 7/3/2009 |
