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Exchange Exemplar: Hard Times And Bad Guys

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Machine Gun Kelly's mug shot.

This seems like a good time in history to talk about the FBI. 

It has taken its share of dents and dings of late, but there's a compelling reason for a national police force.  Before 1933, police could  not easily chase bank robbers and other criminals across state lines. 

Journalist Joe Urschel writes of that year and the changes it produced in The Year of Fear: Machine Gun Kelly and the Manhunt That Changed the Nation.  We revisit Joe Urschel's visit from October 2015. 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.