In the late summer of 1935, the quiet town of College Corner, Indiana, became the backdrop for a violent encounter that would mark a solemn first in the history of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. On August 16th, Special Agent Nelson B. Klein, a 37-year-old male investigator for the FBI, was fatally wounded in a gunfight with a known criminal named George Barrett. This event distinguished Klein as the first FBI agent to be killed in the line of duty.
The day of the fatal shooting, Age
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