Kansas City, Missouri: Pretty Boy Floyd Gun Battle Plaque
Plaque marks the spot of the "Kansas City Massacre," a 1933 parking lot shootout between the cops and Pretty Boy Floyd and his gang. Five dead.
Union Station
- Address:
- 30 W. Pershing Rd, Kansas City, MO
- Directions:
- The plaque is mounted on the outside wall of the railroad's Union Station, just to the left of its right front entrance.
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Memorial for the law enforcement officers lost during the 1933 shootout with Pretty Boy Floyd.
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According to the plaque, on June 17, 1933, Pretty Boy and two other gangsters ambushed policemen in the parking lot of the railroad's Union Station, trying to free another outlaw. Four cops, and the outlaw, were killed.