History has sometimes glorified gangsters; that is not our goal. This is a story where the good guys won. This was one of the FBI’s greatest success stories in their long and proud existence.

“All gangsters went through Florida on their way to launder money in Miami to Cuba,” stated George Albright, III. George is a passionate history buff whose Great Grandfather witnessed the shootout back on that January day.

The Barker gang was one of the last remaining active gangs in the United States. J. Edgar Hoover had set his sights on destroying all organized crime in the country.