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\"The<\/a>

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were just two young people madly in love\u2026who rode around the country stealing things and killing people.<\/p><\/div>\n

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born in 1910 and stood all of 4\u201911\u201d tall. The second of three children, Bonnie was nobody from nowhere. Her father was a bricklayer who died when she was four. This unfortunate young lady came of age in a single parent home at the height of the Great Depression. Such sordid circumstances made a person desperate for something, anything, better.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

A young Bonnie Parker is shown here on the left alongside her mother.<\/p><\/div>\n

Parker dropped out of high school and married Roy Thornton in 1926, six days shy of her 16th<\/sup> birthday. Thornton was a ne\u2019er-do-well whose comportment kept him intermittently incarcerated. In 1929 they parted never to meet again but didn\u2019t bother divorcing. Bonnie was still wearing Thornton\u2019s wedding ring the day she died.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Bonnie Parker was both cute and flirtatious. Here she is shown at work in the Dallas diner where she served Ted Hinton, the man who ultimately killed her.<\/p><\/div>\n

Parker worked in a Dallas diner. One of her regular customers was a postal worker named Ted Hinton who developed a bit of a crush on the comely young waitress. In 1932 Hinton joined the Dallas Sheriff\u2019s Department. In an odd turn of fate, Hinton was one of six lawmen who shot the slight woman to death two years later.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Clyde Chestnut Barrow was a born criminal. His first arrest occurred at age 17.<\/p><\/div>\n

Clyde Chestnut Barrow was himself 5\u20197\u201d and came up in the same soul-sucking poverty as Bonnie Parker. The fifth of seven children, Barrow\u2019s family immigrated to West Dallas in search of work in the early 1920s. For the first several months they were in Dallas the Barrow family lived underneath their wagon. When Clyde\u2019s father Henry scraped up enough money to buy a tent it was a significant improvement.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Clyde Barrow was a small man with little concern for the plight of others.<\/p><\/div>\n

Clyde Barrow was a sociopath who was first arrested in 1926 at age 17 for stealing a rental car. His second arrest came soon after when he and his older brother Buck were caught stealing turkeys. He held legitimate jobs between 1927 and 1929 but kept in practice cracking safes, robbing stores, and stealing cars. In early 1930 Clyde met Bonnie through a mutual friend. They hit it off immediately, but their romance was cut short when Clyde went to prison.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Barrow\u2019s sundry stints in violent overcrowded Texas prisons shaped him into a hardened criminal.<\/p><\/div>\n

Prison changed Clyde Barrow irrevocably. He was sexually assaulted while in jail and subsequently killed his tormentor by bashing his head in with a lead pipe. Another inmate already serving a life sentence took the blame.<\/p>\n

To get out of working in the fields Barrow had a fellow convict chop off two of his toes with an axe. He walked with a distinctive limp ever after. Unbeknownst to him, Clyde\u2019s mother had secured his parole six days after his self-inflicted injury. After various stints in prison, his sister Marie said of him, \u201cSomething awful must have happened to him in prison because he sure wasn\u2019t the same person when he got out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bonnie and Clyde Find Their True Calling<\/h2>\n
\"The<\/a>

By 1932 Bonnie and Clyde were proper villains, traveling the country on a spree of robbery, mayhem, and murder.<\/p><\/div>\n

Bonnie and Clyde kept themselves supported via a string of robberies of small stores and gas stations. In April of 1932 Barrow\u2019s gang shot and killed a shopkeeper during a robbery attempt. Though Clyde was purportedly manning the getaway car, this was the first time he was accused of murder. Four months later Barrow ran afoul of a pair of lawmen at a country dance and killed one of them while gravely wounding the other. This was the first of nine police officers who would fall to Clyde\u2019s guns.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Barrow\u2019s older brother Buck actually introduced the young Clyde to his life of crime. He was mortally wounded during a shootout with police in Joplin, Missouri.<\/p><\/div>\n

By 1933 the Barrow gang had grown to five. W.D. Jones along with Clyde\u2019s brother Buck and his wife Blanche stole cars and traveled from place to place, robbing stores and banks and killing as they felt the need. The stress of their profession along with the confined nature of their automobiles purportedly generated some vigorous personal friction.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Much of the public\u2019s impressions of Bonnie and Clyde stemmed from undeveloped snapshots captured by police after a Joplin, Missouri, shootout. Bonnie smoked Camels, but the cigar shown here belonged to Clyde. Regardless, the image of the mysterious cigar-smacking femme fatale was cemented in the mind of the American people.<\/p><\/div>\n

Much of Bonnie\u2019s legendary persona was a press-fueled falsehood. After a shootout in Joplin, Missouri, police recovered an arsenal of weapons along with the gang\u2019s personal effects. Among them was some undeveloped film showing the legendary pair clowning around with their impressive collection of firepower. Bonnie chain-smoked Camel cigarettes but was never known to favor cigars. However, a grainy black and white image of her chomping on one of Clyde\u2019s cigars and wielding a revolver defined her in the mind of the American public.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Bonnie Parker\u2019s cut-down 20-gauge Whippet shotgun became part of her petite but dangerous persona.<\/p><\/div>\n

The one weapon Bonnie was known to run was a cut-down 20-gauge Remington Model 11 shotgun. This weapon was known as a Whippet for its capacity to be concealed and then whipped out on a moment\u2019s notice. She sewed a breakaway zippered pocket into some of Clyde\u2019s trousers to accommodate such a weapon.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Bonnie and Clyde were considered heroes until their body count became staggering.<\/p><\/div>\n

The American people initially viewed Bonnie and Clyde as folk heroes. Everybody was suffering, and someone who stole from the hated banks found admirers among the poor and downtrodden. However, as the body count rose public opinion turned against the band. Law Enforcement was mobilized, and the fuse was lit.<\/p>\n

The Executioners<\/h2>\n
\"The<\/a>

Retired Texas Ranger Frank Hamer was a throwback to the rough and tumble days of the untamed American West.<\/p><\/div>\n

Retired Texas Ranger Frank Hamer was a relic of a previous era. Hamer was officially credited with 53 kills in the line of duty and suffered 17 wounds along the way. After the execution-style killing of a pair of Texas highway patrolmen a reward of $2,000 was offered for the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde.<\/p>\n

What soured the public on Bonnie, in particular, was a widely circulated tale that she had wielded her 20-gauge Whippet to administer the coup de grace to the two wounded patrolmen. This story was later reliably discredited. She was likely asleep on the backseat of the car when the encounter occurred. Though she was present for more than 100 felony robberies, there is no compelling evidence that she actually killed anybody.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Hamer\u2019s posse was an eclectic combination of local Law Enforcement and Texas veterans, many of whom did not get along terribly well.<\/p><\/div>\n

Using methodical police work Hamer tracked the pair to a rural stretch of road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Hamer and his five associates established an ambush and remained in position for a day and a half. They were considering giving up when the fugitive couple finally drove by.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Bonnie and Clyde\u2019s bullet-riddled V8 Ford became a popular tourist attraction.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lawman Prentiss Oakley fired early and shot Barrow through the head, killing him instantly. The rest of the posse then opened up, riddling the car with bullets. In all they fired about 130 rounds. Between them, Bonnie and Clyde had nearly fifty bullet wounds. They were both dead by the time the car rolled to a stop.<\/p>\n

The Barrow Gang\u2019s Hardware<\/h2>\n
\"The<\/a>

Clyde was partial to the Browning Automatic Rifle for its prodigious firepower and maneuverable chassis. He called it his Scattergun for the way it scattered a crowd.<\/p><\/div>\n

Clyde was known for remaining cool under fire, and his weapon of choice was a Browning Automatic Rifle. Though a Thompson submachine gun and Winchester 12-gauge shotgun were recovered after the shootout with police in Joplin, Missouri, the couple seemed to be between Thompsons when they met their end.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The Barrow gang burned through several BARs from a variety of sources. John Browning\u2019s mule of a squad automatic weapon provided plenty of firepower.<\/p><\/div>\n

Clyde\u2019s first two BARs were gifts from a fellow criminal named Herbert Farmer in 1932. Farmer had stolen the weapons from a Missouri National Guard Armory. In 1933 Clyde and W.D. Jones robbed Guard armories in Enid, Oklahoma, and Plattville, Illinois, securing enough firepower to keep them equipped for the rest of their brief days.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The day Bonnie and Clyde were killed they were armed to the teeth.<\/p><\/div>\n

The inventory of weapons found in the car after the killing included three BARs, Bonnie\u2019s 20-gauge Remington Model 11 Whippet, a 10-gauge lever-action Winchester Model 1901 shotgun, seven M1911 pistols, a .32-caliber M1903 Colt automatic pistol, an M1909 Colt .45 revolver, Bonnie\u2019s .38-caliber Colt Detective Special, and a small .25-caliber Colt automatic. Additionally, they had 100 loaded BAR magazines and 3,000 rounds of assorted ammunition.<\/p>\n

Cop Guns<\/h2>\n
\"The<\/a>

Most of the members of Hamer\u2019s posse carried Remington Model 8 semi-automatic rifles in a variety of calibers.<\/p><\/div>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Hamer wielded a Remington .30-caliber Model 8 semiautomatic rifle, while Prentiss Oakley packed the same gun in .35-caliber. This was the weapon that killed Barrow in the opening moments of the ambush. One of the other posse members fired yet another Model 8 in .25 caliber, and there were several Remington Model 11 shotguns on hand.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Bonnie Parker\u2019s former crush Ted Hinton wielded a fearsome Colt Monitor BAR purportedly borrowed from the Texas National Guard.<\/p><\/div>\n

Ted Hinton, Bonnie\u2019s former customer at the diner, sprayed the car liberally with a Colt Monitor BAR on loan from the Texas National Guard. I have not found any reliable justification for how the Texas National Guard came to possess a Colt Monitor. The Monitor was a civilian\/Law Enforcement weapon that was, to my knowledge, never adopted by the military.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

Clyde Barrow\u2019s bullet-torn jacket attests to the gory nature of his demise.<\/p><\/div>\n

All of the lawmen carried handguns. Hamer\u2019s sidearm was a Colt 1911A1 in .38 Super. One of the posse members, the local Louisiana sheriff, used a lever action Winchester Model 94. According to Hinton\u2019s testimony, each officer had a rifle, a shotgun, and a sidearm. They each emptied their rifles into the car and then transitioned to the scatterguns for the approach, running them dry as well. By the time they reached the vehicle, they had also each expended the rounds in their pistols. Hamer took the gang\u2019s weapons as part of his payment. Some sources said the three BAR\u2019s were never seen again. Others claimed they were in museums. Any reader insights would be welcome.<\/p>\n

Denouement<\/h2>\n
\"The<\/a>

This otherwise unremarkable stretch of rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, ended up a killing field.<\/p><\/div>\n

Bonnie and Clyde were simply executed on that lonely Louisiana road. However, these two were known to employ overwhelming firepower without hesitation when confronted by Law Enforcement. Bonnie was a fairly competent poet and wrote of her ultimate demise well in advance. They never expected to survive to retirement.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The 1967 film on the subject broke new ground in Hollywood but was not terribly true to the original narrative.<\/p><\/div>\n

The 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde<\/em> starred Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and met with widespread acclaim. As a Southerner, however, the forced Texas accents made me itch. The original story is exceptionally compelling. However, the movie\u2019s script took any number of unnecessary liberties, not the least of which involved depicting Frank Hamer as fairly inept. Hamer\u2019s widow and son later sued the studio for defamation of character and won an out-of-court settlement. The 1967 film was the first major film to use squibs and blood packs to simulate bullet strikes and is generally accepted as having pioneered our current state of graphic violence in movies.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The new Netflix release The Highwaymen is a superb rendition of the classic tale told from the Law Enforcement perspective. It is worth an evening just to see the Colt Monitor in action.<\/p><\/div>\n

By contrast, the 2019 Netflix production The Highwaymen<\/em> relates the story from Hamer\u2019s point of view and is absolutely fantastic. The final shootout was filmed on the site of the actual event. While the story and guns are not perfect, it is worth the watch just to see that Colt Monitor BAR in action.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The bloodthirsty exploits of Bonnie and Clyde mesmerized the country at a time when average people were thirsting for escape. The lawless couple ultimately died as they lived, violently and brutally.<\/p><\/div>\n\"The<\/a>\n

Though never verified it was rumored that Bonnie was roughly two months pregnant when she was killed. Their story became an indelible part of American Gangster lore. The pitiless killing was a fitting end to a pair of legendary villains.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>

The story of Bonnie and Clyde is a classic tale of love, greed, and violence.<\/p><\/div>\n

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