On the morning of June 17, 1933, 29-year-old Detective William J. 'Red' Grooms, a male officer with the Kansas City Police Department, was killed in a violent ambush that would become infamous in American history. Detective Grooms had been assigned to a detail at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, tasked with transporting a federal prisoner, Frank 'Jelly' Nash. Nash, a convicted bank robber, had been arrested the previous day in Hot Springs, Arkansas, and was being escorted back to the U.S.
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