The Answers
1. Ted
Kaczynski, aka the
Unabomber, who killed three
people and terrorized the nation
for 17 years before we arrested
him in 1996. Details
2. John
Dillinger, the notorious
gangster whose death at the hand
of FBI agents in the summer of
1934 helped make Hoover’s
“G-Men” a household
name. Details
3. John
Glover, FBI agent, who
became the first African-American
to head an FBI field office when
he was named Special Agent in
Charge in Milwaukee in 1979. He
later became Executive Assistant
Director at FBI Headquarters. Details
4. Clarence
Kelly, who served as FBI
Director following J. Edgar
Hoover’s death, guiding the
Bureau through some difficult
days of criticism and change. Details
5. Charles
Appel, the FBI agent who
helped give birth to the Bureau’s
first technical laboratory,
forerunner of today’s FBI
Laboratory. Details
6. & 7. Ethel
and Julius Rosenberg,
who were caught by the FBI during
the Cold War passing American
secrets on the atomic bomb to the
Soviets. Details
8. & 9. Fox
Mulder and Dana Scully,
played by David Duchovny and
Gillian Anderson, a pair of FBI
agents who investigated the
supernatural in the 1990s TV
series, The X-Files.
10. Jack
Graham, a disturbed
delinquent who packed a dynamite
bomb in his mother’s
suitcase, killing her and all on
board a flight out of Denver in
1955. Details
11. Patty
Hearst, the young
heiress whose dramatic kidnapping
by the Symbionese Liberation Army
in 1974 and subsequent
involvement in bank robberies
stunned the nation. Details
12. John
Gotti, aka the “Teflon
Don,” the infamous Mafioso
who eluded the law for years
until the FBI and its partners
put him away for good in 1992. Details
13. J.
Edgar Hoover, the FBI
Director who served from 1924 to
1972—nearly a half century—shaping
the Bureau into a more
professional and capable
organization. Details
14. & 16. Bonnie
and Clyde, the
love-struck crime couple who
robbed and murdered their way
across the Midwest before being
gunned down by a band of lawmen
in 1934. Details
15. Alger
Hiss, a government
official and Soviet spy who was
convicted of perjury in 1950. Details
17. Alaska
Davidson, who served as
a Bureau special agent from 1922
to 1924. Davidson and two
contemporaries in the 1920s—Lenore
Houston and Jessie Duckstein—are
a few of the women known to have
served as FBI agents before 1972.
18. Usama
bin Laden, terrorist
leader of al Qaeda, wanted for
his role in several major attacks
on the United States, including
the simultaneous strikes of 9/11.
Details
19. George
“Machine Gun” Kelly,
the gangster who—according
to legend—cried, “Don’t
shoot, G-Men, don’t shoot,”
when surrounded by Bureau agents
in 1933. Whether he actually said
it or not, the “G-Men”
nickname eventually became
synonymous with special agents of
the FBI. Details
20. James
Amos, Teddy Roosevelt’s
confidant and bodyguard, who
later became a Bureau special
agent, serving from 1921 to 1953.
Details
21. Efrem
Zimbalist, Jr., the
iconic face of the FBI from 1965
to 1974, when he starred as
Inspector Lewis Erskine in the
prime-time TV show, The FBI.
22. Mark
Felt, Deputy Director of
the FBI during the Watergate
years who later admitted that he
was “Deep Throat,” an
infamous source of leaks to the
press on the investigation.
23. Helen
Gandy, who served as the
personal secretary of Director
Hoover during his nearly five
decades at the helm, becoming
almost as well known as the
Director himself.
24. Lee
Harvey Oswald, who
assassinated President John F.
Kennedy in Dallas in November
1963 before being murdered by
Jack Ruby. Despite many
conspiracy theories to the
contrary, the FBI’s massive
investigation found that Oswald
acted alone.
25. Timothy
McVeigh, who committed
the worst act of domestic
terrorism in U.S. history when he
bombed a federal building in
Oklahoma City in 1995, killing
168 people and injuring several
hundred more. Details
26. Velvalee
Dickinson, the so-called
“Doll Woman,” who used
her doll shop on Madison Avenue
in New York City to send coded
messages revealing U.S. military
secrets to the Japanese during
World War II. Details
27. Al
Capone, the legendary
gangster who ruled an empire of
crime in the Windy City during
the 1920s until law enforcement
(with help from the FBI) sent him
to Alcatraz in 1931. Details
28. Charles
Bonaparte, Teddy
Roosevelt’s progressive
Attorney General who launched a
force of special agents on July
26, 1908, marking the beginning
of the organization that would
become the FBI. Details
29. Alvin
Karpis, a cunning crook
who teamed with the Barker
brothers and became one of the
FBI’s most hunted gangsters
during the 1930s. Details
30. Charles
Arthur “Pretty Boy”
Floyd, another
Depression-era gangster who took
part in the infamous “Kansas
City Massacre” before being
tracked down and killed by Bureau
agents in 1934. Details
31. Edwin
Shanahan, the first
Bureau special agent to die in
the line of duty after being shot
by a car thief named Martin
Durkin in 1925. Details
32. Jimmy
Stewart, the famous
actor who played an amiable,
hardworking agent named Chip
Hardesty in the 1959 movie, The
FBI Story.
33. Robert
Hanssen, FBI agent
turned Soviet mole who was
arrested for espionage in
February 2001 and later sent to
prison for life. Details
34. Lester
Gillis, aka “Baby
Face Nelson,” a psychopathic
killer and prolific bank robber
who lost his life in a deadly
gunfight with Bureau agents in
1934. Details
35. Charles
“Lucky” Luciano,
the Sicilian mobster who is
credited with making the American
Mafia what it is today before
being deported to Italy in 1946. Details
36. D.B.
Cooper, the mysterious
mid-air hijacker who jumped from
a plane with $200,000 in stolen
cash on a stormy November night
in 1970 and has never been seen
again. Details
37. Kate
“Ma” Barker,
mother of the notorious outlaws
Herman, Lloyd, Arthur, and Fred
Barker, who lost her life in a
fierce firefight with Bureau
agents in Florida in 1935.
38. James
Earl Ray, who was
tracked down by the FBI and
convicted of the 1968 murder of
civil rights leader Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
39. A KKK
member. The FBI has
battled this band of hate-mongers
since the early 1920s, when we
put away Imperial Kleagle Edward
Clarke. Details
40. Ramzi
Yousef, mastermind of
the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing and wanted terrorist who
was ultimately arrested in
Pakistan in 1995 and brought to
justice in the United States. Details
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