Union Station Massacre was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Missouri, 1933.
Four lawmen and their prisoner, convicted bank robber Frank Nash, were shot dead in a burst of gunfire outside Union Station in Kansas City as officers prepared to transfer Nash by car. The attack, ostensibly an attempt to free Nash, killed an FBI agent, two local police and a police chief along with Nash himself, and was attributed to a group of outlaws including Charles 'Pretty Boy' Floyd, Adam Richetti and Vernon Miller, though Floyd's role remained disputed. The brazen slaughter of officers in a public plaza galvanized federal law-enforcement, providing the Bureau of Investigation with the political momentum to expand its powers and arm its agents. The Union Station Massacre became a rallying event in the federal 'war on crime' of the 1930s and a symbol of the outlaw violence that authorities vowed to crush.
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