前几天又看了这部电影 public enemies。现在凡是对以真实事件改编的电影，我都会去查一下里面涉及到角色的真实背景。这次查了里面的FBI agent 的身世。一看很impressive。很感叹一个人的一生居然能有这么多的成就，很多的角色转换。
第二段写到他高中里做的事。这一看好熟悉呀，原来现在我们孩子在做的真的是美国文化的传承，参加运动不说，那时的学校就有debate team。
Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent who was instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.
He attended Timmonsville High School where in 1920 he was the yearbook's business manager, historian for his graduating class, on the football team, on the baseball team, was a president of the literary society, on the debate team, and played drums in the school orchestra.[3] He then enrolled in the University of South Carolina and joined the Rho chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order there in 1921.[4] He received his law degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1922.
