The source I am planning on using is www.littlebohemialodge.com/HISTORY. It is a secondary source. This website is owned and operated by the owners of Little Bohemia. I believe it is a trustworthy site. It might be slightly bias because it is from the owners perspective. The authors have ethos because the stories have been passed down from the owners. It also has kairos. As being a part of Wisconsin’s history, these stories are timelessness.
The source narrates what happens during the shoot out and the time leading up to it from owners perspective. It begins with learning about how John Dillinger’s gang had the right to stay at the lodge. Emil Wanatka was the owner of the lodge, he turned to John Dillinger’s attorney from legal advice. It was noted that everyone knew who was Dillinger’s attorney. Emil Wanatka needed money. The attorney promised Wanatka $500 each night they stayed.
When the gang showed up, they were very polite and seemed like nice people. The gang would watch the owners to make sure they were not contacting the police. However, the owners wife managed to get away to mail a letter to the District Attorney of Chicago. The police came up disorganized but ready to capture the gang.
When the police showed up Emil Wanatka’s dogs started barking and three citizens walked out of the lodge and ended up getting shot. It alerted the gang and allowed them time to run. They ran away and all of them escaped.
I believe this source is very accurate. It goes into more details then what I did. However, I think I need a source that is from Deilinger’s point of view. Then I can compare the two and get a better understanding of what truly happened. This source is valuable to my research question. It explains what happened to them from getting off the plane to the end of the shoot out. I think the only thing that it is missing is the aftermaths of this event. I need to know generally what happened to the FBI after the event. I want to continue to research the FBI.
My cumulative reading is shaping my question a bit. I find it hard to discover sources with the FBI changing. I am getting more interested in the life of John Dillinger. However at this point, I do not think I will be changing my question.
Works Cited:
“Little Bohemia Lodge.” Little Bohemia Lodge. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Nov. 2013.
Wow I think this is very interesting and it makes me want to know more about the whole incident. I agree that the of John Dillinger would be something interesting to research, I think finding out more about him might help you figure out why all of this happened.
This source sounds incredibly valuable towards your entire research question. Like you said in your post, it sounds like it goes ver in-deph as to what the timeline of events were while Dillinger and his crew were staying at the lodge. It also sounds like you have a good grasp on the entire topic. I look forward to reading more on this and the new sources you encouner. Good job.
I went to the website that you wrote in your blog, but it didn’t seem to be an accurate website. It just seemed that it was some sort of advertisement. Also if your source is a story passed down throughout the years it has a high probability of changing, for example look at the game “telephone”, when you pass one word to another person throughout the chain it changes into another word. I would use this source to give yourself knowledge on the subject, but I wouldn’t recommend using this as an actual source on your research paper.
I forgot to put lodge in the website! This is the actual website : http://littlebohemialodge.com/HISTORY.html It incorporates the restaurant that is there today and the history of the website.