FBI Vault: Kansas City Massacre, file 62-28915, Part 01 (Section 1), June 1933
The first section of the FBI's Kansas City Massacre file (97 viewer pages): telegrams, letters and memoranda of 17-19 June 1933, including a memorandum of Agent in Charge Vetterli's telephone report of the Union Station shooting.
- Date
- 1933
- Kind
- case-file
- Source
- FBI Records: The Vault
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-12
- Rights
- A record of the Federal Bureau of Investigation released under FOIA. A work of the United States government, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.
The cover reads “Subject: Charles ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd / Kansas City Massacre / File: 62-28915 / Section 1.” The part has 97 viewer pages; the text layer is poor, and many pages are scrambled newspaper clippings or photographs, so this page is summarized from the scans read, not from the OCR alone.
Viewer page 22, stored here, is a memorandum of 17 June 1933 headed “re Telephone Calls regarding FRANK NASH.” It records that Special Agent in Charge Vetterli advised that the two police officers killed were Frank Hermison and Grooms, that “there were seven men in all guarding Frank Nash,” that men with machine guns were hidden behind automobiles in front of Union Station, that the gangsters opened fire from behind another car as Agent Caffrey was getting into his car, that Nash was killed first, that a woman in a nearby car took down license numbers, that Agent Caffrey had died and that Agent Lackey had been shot three times in the back. The writer says he instructed Vetterli to alert adjoining offices. The stamp reads 62-28915-15 and June 20, 1933.
The memorandum is a telephone report relayed in the first hours, not a finding. Viewer page 31 is a witness statement of 19 June 1933 placing an encounter at Plaza Drive in front of Union Station; it is the statement of a private witness and is not reproduced.
