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Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909) were well known outlaws, robbers, and criminals who, with their gang, traveled the Central United States during the Great Depression. They captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the “public enemy era” between 1931 and 1934. Though their gang was notorious for the bank robberies, Barrow preferred to rob small stores or gas stations. The gang was believed to have killed at least nine police officers among several other murders.
Though the public at the time believed Parker to be a full partner in the gang, and thus its crimes, her role in the Barrow Gang crimes has long been a source of controversy. Gang members W.D. Jones and Ralph Fults testified that they never saw Bonnie fire a gun. Marie Barrow, Clyde's youngest made the same claim: “Bonnie never fired a shot. She just followed my brother no matter where he went. In his interview with Playboy magazine, W.D. Jones said of Bonnie: “As far as I know, Bonnie never packed a gun. During the five big gun battles I was with them, she never fired a gun. But I'll say she was a hell of a loader.”
One week before her 16th birthday, Bonnie married Roy Thornton. The marriage was short-lived, the couple separated but never divorced. It is interesting to note that she was wearing Roy Parker's wedding ring when she died. (On March 5, 1933 Thornton was sentenced to five years in prison for burglary. He was gunned down by guards on October 3, 1937 during an escape attempt from Eastham Farm Prison.)
Clyde had never been married, but he did have a tattoo with a girlfriend's name tattooed on one arm. When they went separate ways, Clyde found companionship with another woman, and to soothe her jealousy, he had her named tattooed on his other arm. Bonnie had intertwined hearts tattooed on her inner thigh with the names “Bonnie” and “Roy”.
When Bonnie and Clyde met both were smitten immediately and most historians believe Bonnie joined Clyde because she was in love. She remained a loyal companion to him as they carried out their crime spree and awaited the violent deaths they viewed as inevitable. Her fondness for creative writing found expression in poems such as “The Trail's End” – also knows as “The Story of Bonnie and Clyde. (The lines on the opposite page are the last lines of Bonnie's famous poem.)
Bonnie and Clyde were killed on May 23, 1934, on a desolate road near the Bienville Parish, Louisiana hideout. They were shot be a posse of four Texas offices and two Louisiana offices.
The bullet-riddled Ford in which the pair was killed and the shirt Barrow wore the last day of life are on permanent display in Primm, Nevada, 40 miles from Las Vegas along with photos and items that were personal possessions of Bonnie and Clyde.
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