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> (Wdticate page. hana ef [he wapaper, hy and state ) TBE MIAMI HERALD (Mount Cipping n Space Betow: . Miami, Florida [ FBI | direc for = | . -€an’t recall hee ‘ By TOM BOWMAN States News Service WASHINGTON — The Kendall | gun battle that! claimed the lives of two FBI agents and seriously wounded three others left FBI Director Willlam, Pees Te Beg TP Se PSL Sle oe 5; Webster ald at a pews conference. Other | bloody ’ ghoot-outs, killing @ total of 27 agents, have marked the bureau's 78-year history, including a summer day six years seo w w mer the, FBI lost three agents In two On the morn morning ot ‘Aug. YO, 1979, agent Johnnie L. Oliver wes killed by guofire when he tried to catch a fugitive In Cleveland. About the same Hime that day, at the FBI office in El Centro, Calif. a man strolied In without warning and fatally shot agents J. Robert Porter and Charies Elmore. en ‘The first doubie saying of FB of FBI [agents took place on Nov. 27, 1934, at of a notorious - gangster, George “Baby Face” Nelson, Inspector Samuel Cowley and agent Herman’ E.: Holts caught up with Nelson and a cobort outside: « ! Barrington, Ml. In the ensuing gua bate, Hollis was Killed instantly and“Cowley Mogered for o day.- Nelson, whose real name was Lester Gills, also was fatally wounded In the exchange of fire. 5 ler those deaths, the FBI would not experience ‘another Souble killing until Jan. 8, 1968. When agents Anthony Palmisano and Edwin B. Woddriffe dntered © an ax aparines house In Washington In search of ap oer, they were meth ‘the hallway” y ugi ve ‘who blazed away with his te nather Gouble slaying took place on June 28, 1878, when two FBI men were ambushed and kiit Of ean ee mine cca yom 2 ithe sae ce aa eng , a a ee ee) so nelle ws on een os t - Gon the Ogiala Sioux Iodlan Reservation at Pine . er The 3 ents, Jack Coler and Ronald sear arrests for crimes comm é “. ge SNS ” Sn mrna ‘ 3 + hit at once * S.taiting Ottice MIAMI somany agents leatreston jute xing | . The J930s was the bloodiest decade for - : gency. Fight agents were slain during those year}, any y ot them by gangsters that terrorized owits & burat of machine-gun fire, Charles “Pre “Boy” Floyd murdered agent Raymond Caffre during | , the “Kansas City Massacre” on June 17, 1932, in an! wetlentead§ fecoe Bac "attempt to. free 2 fellow ShGUGS) STON MW enforcement officials. The first death of s “G-Man” octurred in 1825, one | ye after J. Edgar Hoover took over the bureau and | 7 years after St was founded as the, Bureau ot 17 ye ation. On the night of Oct. 24, 1925, a agent Edw & an drew his gun and approached 6 di * sere, ane ne ce Chicago garage to arrest a car thief. Before the « FRivs