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alter whose gang forced the baking industry alone to pay them an esti mated $1,000,000 for protection. As the FBI closed in on Buchalter, Walter Winchell broadcast a radio appeal for the gang leader to surrender, with the promise that his civil rights would be respected by the FBI. Negotiations began imme- diately between intermediaries of Buchalter and Winchell and finally an agreement was reached. On the night of August 24, 1939, Director Hoover walked alone through New York City’s streets to the corner of 28th Street and Fifth | One of these was the arrest of the notorious Louis (Lepke) Buch- { Avenue. And there the hunted man, Buchalter, surrendered to him. The FBI got Buchalter, and Winchell got an exclusive story. Buchalter was turned over to state authorities and later was executed for murder. Excerpt from pages 109, 110 of "The FBI Story, A Report to the People" by Don Whitehead