F.B.I. fedora circa 1938

[Hatsquad]

This is F.B.I. Special Agent Jerry Campbell circa 1938 at Quantico. He was a colleague of Melvin Purvis and other gang-busters in the turbulent thirties.

Man, those guys knew how to dress!

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[jimmy the lid]

Great photo, Hatsquad!

Cheers,
JtL

 

[handlebar bart]

Yep, thanks for the great picture. He's sportin a great look and really not a hard one to copy minus the Tommie gun.[huh]

 

[carouselvic]

"Do you want me to play you a tune on my fiddle"

 

[univibe88]

Great picture! Thanks for posting.

 

[demian]

Great photo.

My father is a career FBI Agent...now retired.

They had strict rules under hoover.

They were not allowed to run when chasing a suspect.

They were not allowed to drink coffee.

They had strict weight and appearance guidelines.

Everyone always used to carry a handkerchief when standing in line after graduating to shake Hoover's hand as he hated wet/sweaty handshakes.

Sometimes dismissing them on appearance alone.
Nut.

Ciao

 

[PabloElFlamenco]

As an Scotsman would say...

...Great rules, no scotch...

Impeccable picture. With that kind of gun, I guess they didn't need to run!
Paul

 

[D.W. Suratt]

Yep, thanks for the great picture. He's sportin a great look and really not a hard one to copy minus the Tommie gun.[huh]

Really great photo! Auto-Ordnance still makes a semi auto version of the Tommy Gun. they are fun shoot.

 

[RBH]

Another FBI photo .


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[jimmy the lid]

Apparently, the official hat of the F.B.I. was the W.W.A. (Whippet With Attitude).

Cheers,
JtL

 

[Dixon Cannon]

This is F.B.I. Special Agent Jerry Campbell circa 1938 at Quantico. He was a colleague of Melvin Purvis and other gang-busters in the turbulent thirties.

Man, those guys knew how to dress!
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This one looks like my Dad's Marathon from the era!

-dixon cannon

 

[funneman]

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Hello, Domino's?

 

[PabloElFlamenco]

Another FBI photo .


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There guy on the left is FIRED! lol

 

[RondoHatton]

They had strict weight and appearance guidelines.

Dresses for Hoover?

 

[The Wolf]

The first photo reminds me of Robert Stack in "The Untouchables".

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[cookie]

Spade or Philly or Detroit Soled Shoes

This is F.B.I. Special Agent Jerry Campbell circa 1938 at Quantico. He was a colleague of Melvin Purvis and other gang-busters in the turbulent thirties.

Man, those guys knew how to dress!

<a href="http://s304.photobucket.com/albums/nn179/Maxadur/?action=view&current=Campbell.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn179/Maxadur/Campbell.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket"></a>

Check out the wonderful spade soled shoes!:eusa_clap

 

[bburtner@moran]

Side Arm

Ok, all of you gun nuts out there,what pistol is in that holster?

 

[Mr. Paladin]

Ok, all of you gun nuts out there,what pistol is in that holster?

The FBI began to use or allow use of the S & W Model 27 .357 magnum revolver shortly after its development in 1935 because of the lack of effectiveness of the .38 Special against automobiles. They had found themselves in several running gun battles with the new mobile multi-state bank robbers and quickly discovered the .38 was not effective against the solidly built vehicles. The Model 27 allowed had a 3 1/2 inch barrel and was often carried with the larger, Magna stocks shown on that model in the photo, and often with a grip adaptor to fill in the gap behind the trigger guard. I do not believe those stocks were developed for use on the smaller K frame M & P models at that time, so that is my best guess from the photo evidence.

Since it also had a high velocity and a solid jacketed projectile, they also allowed the use of the .38 Super Colt 1911 (semi-automatic pistol) for the same reason--increased penetration to get rounds into heavy cover. I believe Mr. Purvis carried one of these autos.

While very large and bulky by today's standards for a .357 revolver, it was the state of the art at that time. It is still an excellent revolver but no longer carried in that configuration by Smith and Wesson.

I typed this while wearing my new eBay find so as to maintain the hat connection in this thread!!!

 

[David Conwill]

Somebody needs to send this picture to the "Zootshooting" folks!

-Dave

 

[Hatsquad]

Paladin is mostly correct. The revolver at that time was just called "the .357 magnum" because Smith and Wesson hadn't adopted model numbers yet. Also, the guns were given a production number in addition to the serial number, and so were called "Registered Magnums". Also now called "pre-27's".
Hoover was presented with RM #1, and it's whereabouts is presently unknown (except to the owner). A very valuable collectable!

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This is S.A Jelly Bryce, F.B.I. gunfighter extraordinaire, showing off his Registered Magnum:


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Regards, Gerry