On a Monday morning, June 25, 1990, in Las Vegas, Nevada, 48-year-old Special Agent John Lawrence Bailey of the FBI walked into the Security Pacific Bank on East Desert Inn Road. He was there on official business, serving a subpoena for bank records. At approximately 11:53 a.m., a man approached a teller, brandished a firearm, and announced a robbery.
Hearing a teller's scream, Bailey, a 21-year veteran of the FBI, drew his weapon and identified himself, ordering the robber to stop. As th
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