The bullet-riddled car of an FBI agent in Kansas City Until 1934, most FBI agents could not carry guns. They had no special arrest powers and had to rely upon Federal Marshals or local police officers for assistance. All that changed with the Kansas City Massacre. Just as their train arrived in the Kansas City, Mo., station, three men with Tommy guns and pistols opened fire, killing two police officers, an FBI agent and the gangster. When a passerby first found Elizabeth Short's body, she thought it was a mannequin whose legs had fallen off.
Police have yet to solve the killing.
Alger Hiss Diplomat Alger Hiss appeared to have impeccable credentials. He graduated from Harvard Law School, served as an aide to President Franklin Roosevelt, and helped create the United Nations. At first, the debonair Hiss brushed aside the accusations. But after Chambers pulled microfilm copies of the documents from a pumpkin in his backyard, a young California congressman named Richard M. Nixon eagerly pursued the charges. A court convicted Hiss of perjury in 1950.