American robbers Bonnie and Clyde were atrocious during the economic crisis in the United States - the Great Depression. These names are often now called every lovers involved in criminal activities, although in fact there was little tenderness in the relationship between Bonnie and Clyde.
Broken Gun Raider
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. When Bonnie was four years old, her father, a bricklayer by profession, died, and her mother and three children moved to a suburb of Dallas. The family lived in poverty. And on September 25, 1926, 15-year-old Bonnie, an attractive petite girl (with a height of 150 cm, she weighed only 41 kg), married a certain Roy Thornton.
In 1927, Bonnie began working as a waitress in a cafe in East Dallas. The relationship between the spouses did not work out. A year after his marriage, he began to disappear regularly for many weeks, and in January 1929 they parted. Soon after the breakup (there was no official divorce, and Bonnie wore a wedding ring to death) Thornton went to prison for five years.
Clyde Chestnut Barrow was born on March 24, 1909, near Teliko, Texas. He was the fifth child in a family of seven or eight and his parents were poor farmers. At 16, Clyde drops out of school. He begins to work, but does not stay long in any place. He is more and more interested in cars. Plays the saxophone. The police first arrested Clyde for stealing a car in 1926. A second arrest soon followed - after Clyde, along with his brother Buck, committed theft of turkeys.
In 1928, he left home and moved in with a friend. A few months later, Clyde decides to start organizing thefts on his own. His first raid was on a game room in Fort Bend County, where, threatening with a broken pistol, he disarms two guards. This is followed by a failed night burglary attempt. In late 1929 - early 1930, Clyde and Buck are wanted by the police in many cities, that's when he meets Bonnie Parker.
Tired of vegetating in a lousy cafe
January 13, 1930 Clyde Barrow, shortly after his release from the colony, walks into a Dallas eatery. He is served by a cute blonde waitress, as yet unknown to anyone Bonnie Parker. What happened between them? What kind of unknown force pulled them to each other? Love at first sight or a sudden outbreak of passion? Hardly. Or did Clyde seduce Bonnie with stories about the romance of a life of robbery, about the boundless freedom and power that can be achieved with weapons in hand? This is closer to the truth.
Bonnie is sick and tired of vegetating in a lousy cafe, she has long hated boorish customers and trays with dirty dishes. Bonnie didn’t want to work hard for a penny in a cheap eatery, to be married to a poor worker, to give birth to children who would then have nothing to feed. I wanted to add other colors to the dull everyday life. There was no variety: Bonnie's life still remained the same color, however, the gray color changed to scarlet - the color of human blood ...
"The little blonde lump," as Bonnie wrote about herself in her diary, was aroused by the exciting stories of the life of a reckless vagabond that Clyde told her. As a woman, she was of little interest to the leader of the gang. He changed his sexual orientation while still in prison. Bonnie was content with love affairs with other gang members. They fueled their friendship with stories of robberies and violent fights.
But we will sin against the truth if we say that Clyde and Bonnie were cold and dispassionate. They were passionate about weapons. Together they often went out of town and arranged a shooting range. Perhaps, accurate shooting from all types of weapons became the only science (Bonnie and Clyde were illiterate and did not even complete their primary education) in which they achieved excellence.
The sweet couple loved to be photographed with weapons: Bonnie with a pistol in her hands and a cigarette in her mouth posed in front of the lenses. Clyde with a rifle in the photographs looked simpler - he lacked the artistry of his girlfriend. Bonnie admired the pistols her admirer carried in a holster under his coat and the power that came from the death-bearing barrels.
Witnesses were ruthlessly removed
They soon began to work together. Their deadly wanderings began with the robbery of an arms depot in Texas in the spring of 1930. There they armed themselves to the teeth. The legend of the noble robbers who facilitate the wallets of the moneybags is untenable: the couple mostly robbed eateries, shops, petrol stations. By the way, it was impossible to make big money on robbing banks in those days - the Great Depression raked out all the big money from the banks, and Clyde's gang sometimes got more by robbing a roadside shop. But sometimes even 10 dollars was not collected at the box office.
The robbery scenario was usually as follows: Bonnie was driving a car, Clyde rushed in and took the proceeds, then on the move, firing back, jumped into the car. If someone tried to resist, he immediately received a bullet. However, they ruthlessly removed innocent bystanders as well. Bonnie and Clyde were not just robbers, they were murderers, and on their account were both ordinary people like the owners of small shops and gas stations, and the police, whom Clyde preferred to kill to avoid jail. Once the criminals kidnapped the sheriff, stripped them and, having tied them up, threw them on the sidelines with the words: “Tell your people that we are not a gang of murderers. Get in the position of people trying to survive this damn depression. "
After the murder of the very first police officer who decided to check the documents of the suspicious couple, there was nothing to lose: now they were probably facing a death sentence. Therefore, Bonnie and Clyde went all out and, without hesitation, fired at people in any situation, even when they were practically not threatened.
On August 5, 1932, two police officers spotted Clyde at a village party. When they asked him to come, the bandit put both of them on the spot. A month later, while breaking through police posts on the road, the gang shot 12 law enforcers.
Devotion without love
Pretty soon, more people joined their gang: Clyde's older brother Buck with his wife Blanche and a young boy S.W. Moss, whom they picked up at a gas station, seducing the "free life" romantics from the high road. And also Bonnie's lover Raymond Hamilton, to whom Clyde also showed special feelings ...
Therefore, there was no unearthly love between Bonnie and Clyde, but that they were really very devoted to each other, there was no doubt: Bonnie at one time pulled Clyde out of prison, passing him a weapon on a date, and Clyde later, when the police detained Bonnie, fought off her friend, impudently attacking the police station. The murders aroused the bloody couple more than sex or alcohol.
At night they drank whiskey, and Bonnie wrote pompous romantic poems in which she mourned her fate, and amused herself with accomplices. They were united by the desire to live life cheerfully and brightly, and also brought together a pathological passion for murder: that Bonnie, that Clyde killed people because they liked to do it. One of the gang members, a certain Jones, said during interrogation: “These two are monsters. I've never seen anyone enjoy killing so much. "
Once in Kansas, Bonnie first saw a poster "Wanted by the Police" with her picture. The fact that she and Clyde became "celebrities" shocked Bonnie so much that she immediately sent a dozen letters to major newspapers with pictures that she and Clyde took on their criminal path. Bonnie, by all means available to her, supported the version that she and Clyde were fighters for justice. After all, the banks they rob are owned by those in power, not poor farmers and small businessmen.
The savage morals of the raiders, their unbridled passions and base desires terrified people. Of course, the police were constantly on the hunt for the gang. However, for the time being, Barrow's gang was incredibly lucky, and they managed to slip out of the most cunning police traps. However, it was not only a matter of luck. Bonnie and Clyde had absolutely nothing to lose, so any attempts by the police to get this gang ran into a terrible leaden shower of pistols.
500 bullets in the bodies of gangsters
In 1933, when photographs of Bonnie and Clyde graced the streets of cities in Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, the bandits were identified by the owner of the house they had filmed. All the police forces of the city of Lawton were sent to capture the gang, but after a fierce shootout in which Clyde's brother Bob was killed, the criminals managed to escape into the nearby forest. The bloody couple miraculously escaped the encirclement and moved to Texas to meet with Clyde's mother. Then they were ambushed: the sheriff's men had been following Cammy Barrow for a long time. Bonnie and Clyde received only scratches, but the car in which they escaped from the cops looked like a sieve from the bullets.
Having licked their wounds, the Barrow gang again took up black deeds. And the criminal terror began again: murders, car thefts, robberies. The FBI took over the raiders. The head of department, Edward Hoover, called Clyde an enraged animal, all forces were ordered to fire to kill. The hunt has begun ...
Texas Sheriff Frank Hamer analyzed each of their attacks, created maps and diagrams of their movements over the years, studied all the raid sites and paths that the bandits chose. "I wanted to penetrate their devilish designs," he said, "and I did it." For several months he and his assistants tracked down Bonnie and Clyde. But the criminals left right under the nose.
Finally, the father of one of the gang members, Henry Methvin, in exchange for pardoning his son, offered his help in the capture. Henry Methvin gave the police the key to the house where the criminals were hiding. The house was surrounded by two tight rings of policemen, all entrances to it were blocked.
On the morning of May 23, 1934, a stolen Ford appeared on the road. The driver was wearing dark glasses, and a woman in a new red dress was sitting next to him. In the car were hidden two thousand cartridges, three rifles, 12 pistols, two pump-action shotguns and ... a saxophone. And yet they had nothing to hope for.
The sheriff's car moved towards them. Hamer got out of the car and ordered the bandits to surrender. Clyde immediately grabbed the rifle, Bonnie - the revolver. But they hardly managed to make at least one shot. Lead hail fell on the car. 500 bullets drove into the bodies of the gangsters, and they were literally torn to pieces, while the police continued to pour deadly fire on the riddled car ...
The front pages of American newspapers were full of reports of the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde. The mutilated bodies of the criminals were put on public display in the morgue, and those who wished for one dollar could look at them. There were quite a lot of curious people ... Photos of the killed bandits were published by all newspapers. America breathed a sigh of relief.
However, the inscription on Bonnie's gravestone, left by her mother, does not at all reproach: "As flowers bloom under the rays of the sun and the freshness of dew, so the world becomes brighter thanks to people like you."
The most famous and romanticized criminals in American history were perhaps Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, a young couple from Texas. They became famous in the early 1930s, and their names during the Great Depression were synonymous with chic and mayhem. Their life was like a fascinating Western, where women smoke cigars and brandish rifles, and men rob banks and steal luxury cars. True, for Bonnie and Clyde, the film called life turned out to be very short-lived. In our review, 13 little-known facts about this bloodthirsty couple.
1. Bonnie wore a wedding ring until her death
Six days before she turned 16, Bonnie married a classmate of Roy Thornton. The marriage fell apart a few months later, and Bonnie never saw her husband again after he was imprisoned for a robbery in 1929.Soon after, Bonnie met Clyde, and although they fell in love, Bonnie never really did not divorce Thornton. On the day Bonnie and Clyde were killed in 1934, she still wore Thornton's wedding ring and had a tattoo on the inside of her right thigh - two interconnected hearts with the words "Bonnie" and "Roy."
2. Bonnie and Clyde were short
Bonnie's height was only 150 cm, and Clyde was 162 cm, while the average height for women and men was considered to be 160 cm and 172 cm, respectively.
3. Bonnie was an exemplary student and wrote poetry
During her school years, Bonnie was distinguished by her imagination and creativity. During her imprisonment in 1932, after a failed burglary attempt at a home appliance store, she wrote a collection of 10 odes, which she called Poetry from the Other Side of Life.
4. Bonnie never smoked cigars
In her most famous photograph, Bonnie Parker holds a revolver with one foot on the bumper of a car, a cigar clutched in her teeth. In fact, it's part of a collection of comic photos that Bonnie and Clyde took for their own entertainment. They were found in the gang's secret apartment during a police raid. In one photo, Bonnie is aiming a rifle at the chest of a smiling Clyde, and in another, Clyde kisses Bonnie in an exaggerated manner typical of movie stars. These photographs, as well as Bonnie's poems found in the apartment, greatly influenced Bonnie and Clyde's fame. Newspapers across the country reprinted the photograph with the cigar. In fact, Bonnie smoked cigarettes, as did Clyde (their favorite brand was Camel). Bonnie also loved whiskey, and Clyde hardly drank alcohol.
5. Clyde was not taken to the Navy
As a young man, Clyde tried to enlist in the US Navy, but he was turned down because he suffered a serious illness as a child (possibly malaria or yellow fever). It was a hard blow for Clyde, who had already tattooed "USN" (US Navy) on his left arm.
6. First arrest for non-return of the rented car
The notorious criminal was first arrested in 1926 for stealing a car after failing to return a car he rented in Dallas to visit his girlfriend. The car rental agency dropped the charges, but the incident remained in the Clyde case. Just three weeks later, he was again arrested along with his older brother, Marvin "Buck" Barrow, for having stolen turkeys in the back of their truck.
7. Banks are not their specialty
Although they are often depicted as the Depression-era Robin Hoods who stole from wealthy and powerful financial institutions, Bonnie and Clyde were far more likely to rob gas stations and grocery stores. Many times their production was only $ 5 or $ 10.
8. Clyde chopped off two of his fingers
While serving a 14-year sentence in Texas for robbery and carjacking in January 1932, Clyde decided he had enough hard labor on a prison farm. To be transferred to a less harsh facility, Clyde chopped off his left thumb and part of his second toe with an ax. The self-mutilation, which always left him with a limp afterwards, was ultimately unnecessary as Clyde was released early six days later.
9. Bonnie and Clyde are caring children
Whatever happened, Bonnie and Clyde stayed in touch with their families and regularly visited their loved ones. This is what helped law enforcement officers to ambush and kill criminals.
In fact, it was precisely because they were predictable (and constantly visited their families) that Bonnie and Clyde were managed to set up an ambush and kill them.
10. Bonnie was lame
On the night of June 10, 1933, Clyde, with Bonnie in the passenger seat, was driving fast along a country road in North Texas. He did not notice the warning about the bypass of the bridge under repair. Ford V-8 broke through the barrier at a speed of 112 km / h and fell into a dry river bed. Acid spilled from a broken car battery and severely burned Bonnie's right leg, gnawing flesh to bone in some places. As a result, Bonnie suffered third degree burns and (like Clyde) limped for the rest of her life. It was so difficult for her to walk that she sometimes jumped on one leg or leaned on Clyde.
11. Souvenir hunters
On May 23, 1934, a six-man ambush led by former Texas Ranger captain Frank Hamer shot Bonnie and Clyde in their car, firing a total of over 130 bullets (110 hitting the bandits). The acrid smell of gunpowder still hung in the air, as onlookers rushed to the perforated car, trying to grab something for themselves. One person tried to cut off Clyde's ear with a pocket knife and another tried to rip off his finger. Before the police intervened, one of the onlookers managed to cut off strands of Bonnie's hair and wrap them in her blood-soaked dress.
12. An auto mile riddled with bullets can be seen in the casino
After an ambush on Bonnie and Clyde, the riddled Ford V-8 sedan (which had been stolen) was returned to its former owner, Ruth Warren of Topeka, Kansas. Warren sold the car to Charles Stanley, who put the death car in tow and drove with it across the country, showing it as a landmark. Today, the car can be found in the lobby of Whiskey Pete`s Casino in Primma, Nevada.
13. Bonnie and Clyde are buried separately
Despite the fact that they were always close during their lives, after death the couple were separated. Although they once stated that they wanted to be buried nearby, Bonnie's mother, who did not approve of her relationship with Clyde, insisted that her daughter be buried in another Dallas cemetery. Clyde was buried next to his brother Marvin. On his gravestone is written: "Gone, but not forgotten."
Bonnie Parker's grave, which reads: "As all flowers become more fragrant from sunlight and dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of people like you."
There were also criminals in such a famous port city as Odessa. became not only a proverb, but also a movie hero.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are the most famous gangster couple in history. Between 1932 and 1934, at the height of the Great Depression, they went from petty thieves to world famous bank robbers and assassins. Despite romanticizing their image, the couple have committed at least 13 murders, including two police officers, as well as a series of robberies and kidnappings. How did it happen that they embarked on such a dangerous path?
Bonnie or Bonnie Elizabeth Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. She had an older brother and a younger sister. When Bonnie was only four years old, her father passed away, and her mother moved with her children to her parents in a suburb of Dallas. The girl went to a local school and did well in her studies, especially with an interest in poetry and literature. Petite, graceful and attractive Bonnie dreamed of becoming an actress. In her youth, nothing foreshadowed her criminal future.
While in high school, she began dating a classmate named Roy Thornton. In September 1926, shortly before her sixteenth birthday, they got married. As a sign of their love, the girl got a tattoo with their names on her right thigh. However, this marriage could not be called happy: Thornton did not hesitate to use physical violence against his young wife. Their union fell apart, although they never officially divorced. In 1929, Roy was sentenced to five years in prison for robbery, and Bonnie moved in with her grandmother. They never saw each other again.
Who is Clyde Barrow
Clyde was born on March 24, 1909 in Teliko, Texas. He was the fifth of seven children in a low-income, but very friendly family. The family farm was devastated by a drought and they had to move to Dallas. Clyde was a shy and unassuming boy. He attended school until the age of 16 and cherished the dream of becoming a musician, so he learned to play the guitar and saxophone.
However, under the influence of his older brother Buck, Clyde soon embarked on a criminal path. It all started with petty theft, then he began to steal cars and finally came to armed robberies. In 1929, when he was 20 years old, Clyde was already hiding from the law and was wanted for several robberies.
Acquaintance
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met for the first time in January 1930. She was 19 years old, and he was 20. The girl worked as a waitress, and they met through a mutual friend. Clyde, who at that time was wanted by the authorities, made an oath to himself that he would never return to prison. The young people quickly became friends. They spent a lot of time together, and a mutual affection began to grow between them, which soon developed into a romantic relationship. The idyll was broken just weeks later when Clyde was arrested and charged with several car theft charges.
As soon as the young man found himself in prison, his thoughts immediately turned to escape. By this time, she and Bonnie were already in love with each other. The girl shared her feelings with her mother, but faced horror and disgust on her part. However, Bonnie was determined to help the man she called her soul mate. Soon after his arrest, the girl managed to transfer a loaded pistol to the prison for him.
The hardships of imprisonment
On March 11, 1930, Clyde used a weapon given by his girlfriend to escape from prison with his cellmates. However, just a week later, they were caught again. The young man was sentenced to 14 years of hard labor and transferred to Eastham prison, where he was repeatedly sexually abused by another inmate. During Clyde's time behind bars, he and Bonnie maintained a stormy and passionate correspondence, discussing plans for his escape. It was in Eastham prison that he committed his first murder.
In February 1932, Clyde was released from prison when his mother was able to persuade the judges in his pardon case. However, the young man, not knowing about the imminent release, made a desperate attempt to soften the harsh prison regime for himself and allegedly cut off his big toe as a result of an accident. This led to his subsequent limp.
Reunion
Despite the fact that two years had passed since Clyde's imprisonment, he and Bonnie remained true to their feelings. The couple reunited and Clyde began committing crimes again with a group of accomplices. They robbed banks and small private businesses.
Bonnie joined the gang in April but was caught in a failed robbery attempt and spent two months in jail. While awaiting trial, she whiled away the time, writing poetry, most of which were about her relationship with Clyde. Among her poems there is one that seems to have anticipated her future fate. There are lines: “One day they will fall together and be buried side by side. Few will grieve for them, least of all - the law. "
Bonnie knew that the path she had chosen would lead to death. But the romantic halo of the criminal apparently liked her more than the boring life and work of a waitress.
Life of crime
Bonnie was released after trial in June. There was not enough evidence against her, and after her statement that the Clyde Barrow gang had abducted her forcibly, the girl was released. She immediately reunited with Clyde, and the couple continued their crimes, but with another group. Their activities spanned several states. By 1933, members of the gang were wanted for several murders, including government officials. The couple collaborated with Clyde's brother Buck and his wife Blanche.
In April of this year, when the gang fled their apartment in Missouri, a film of photographs was found there, which instantly went to print.
In June, Bonnie was seriously injured in a road accident when the girl's leg was severely burned by battery acid. Because of this, she was later practically unable to walk.
Despite the government's best efforts to grab the criminals, the couple successfully escaped the hands of the police for two years. This elusiveness made them the most famous gangsters in America.
Death of criminals
After a gang member named Henry Methvin killed a police officer in Oklahoma, the hunt reignited. On the morning of May 23, 1934, Bonnie and Clyde were finally caught. They were ambushed by the police on a highway in Louisiana. By the way, the ambush was initiated by the father of Henry Methvin, who hoped by this to earn leniency for his son. In the shootout, Clyde and Bonnie were killed by a hail of bullets, each of them hit by fifty rounds.
By the time of their death, the criminal couple was so famous that souvenir lovers who visited the place of death left there with scraps of their hair, pieces of clothing and even ... Clyde's ear. The bodies of the perpetrators were transported to Dallas. Despite their desire to be buried side by side, they were buried in different cemeteries. Thousands of people attended their funeral.
Heritage
Despite their violent crimes and the unsightly details of their lives, Bonnie and Clyde are consistently romanticized in the entertainment media. Their story has formed the basis of films and musicals. Their vehicle, riddled with bullets, is on public display in Las Vegas, Nevada.
In early 2018, Netflix began filming a new work about the life of the famous criminal couple. Their story is told on behalf of one of the representatives of the law and order, called upon to end their illegal activities. Actors to be cast include Kevin Costner, Woody Harrelson and Katie Bates. How do you feel about the history of this famous couple?
Who are Boney and Clyde, and why are they so famous nowadays?
Bonnie Parker and Klide Barrow are famous American robbers during the Great Depression. The expression "Bonnie and Clyde" has become a household name for lovers involved in criminal activities. Killed by FBI agents.Bonnie Elizabeth Parker Born October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. When Bonnie was four years old, her father, a bricklayer by profession, died, and her mother and three children moved to a suburb of Dallas. Despite the fact that her family lived in poverty, Bonnie did well in school, especially in literature.
On September 25, 1926, fifteen-year-old Bonnie, an attractive petite girl (with a height of 150 cm, she weighed only 41 kg), married a certain Roy Thornton.
In 1927, Bonnie began working as a waitress at Marco's Cafe in East Dallas.
The relationship between the spouses did not work out. A year after his marriage, he began to disappear regularly for many weeks, and in January 1929 they parted. Soon after the breakup (there was no official divorce, and Bonnie wore a wedding ring to death) Thornton went to prison for five years.
Clyde Chestnut Barrowwas born on March 24, 1909 near Teliko, Texas.
At 16, Clyde drops out of school. He begins to work, but does not stay long in any place. He is more and more interested in cars. Plays the saxophone. The police first arrested Clyde for stealing a car in 1926. A second arrest soon followed - after Clyde, along with his brother Buck, committed theft of turkeys.
In 1928, he left home and moved in with a friend. A few months later, Clyde decides to independently organize thefts. His first raid is on a game room in Fort Bend County, where he threatens with a broken pistol and disarms two guards. This is followed by a failed night burglary attempt.
Joint crimes
February 2, 1932 Clyde Barrow is free again. After his release, Clyde was mainly involved in robbing gas stations as part of street gangs.
Soon Bonnie introduces him to her former lover, Raymond Hamilton. On April 27, 1932, Clyde and Raymond entered John Baker's music store in Hillsboro and demanded that a cashier be opened. But the seller resisted, he was killed.
Five months later in Atok, in the ballroom, Sheriff C.J. Maxwell and his assistant, Eugene Moore, noticed two guys drinking alcohol. Since then dry law was in force, the sheriff demanded to remove the bottle. Maxwell was seriously wounded, Moore was killed. Clyde and Hamilton hide in a stolen car. All Oklahoma police are looking for them. Raymond Hamilton was arrested by police in Michigan during a trip to his father and transferred to Texas, where he committed most of the crimes. The court sentenced him to 264 years in prison. He was serving his sentence in Huntsville, where he worked on a prison farm.
In December 1932, a resident of Temple D. Honson, looking out the window, saw a young woman and a man getting into his car. The moment he ran out of the house, the car started moving. He jumped on the bandwagon and was immediately knocked down by a shot almost point-blank: the bullet hit in the neck.
On May 22, 1934, Clyde and Bonnie's Ford was ambushed by six police officers. 167 bullets hit the car, 50 of them hit the bandits.
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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (eng. Bonnie parker and clyde barrow ) - famous American robbers operating during the Great Depression. The expression "Bonnie and Clyde" has become a household name for lovers involved in criminal activities. Killed by Texas Rangers and Louisiana Police.
Bonnie Parker
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (Bonnie elizabeth parker) was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. When Bonnie was four years old, her father, a bricklayer by profession, died, and her mother and three children moved to a suburb of Dallas. Despite the fact that her family lived in poverty, Bonnie did well in school - she was an excellent student with a rich imagination, with a penchant for acting and improvisation. She loved to dress fashionably. At the age of 15, she dropped out of school, falling in love with a certain Roy Thornton, and on September 25, 1926, an attractive petite girl (with a height of 150 cm she weighed 36 kg) married him.
In 1927, Bonnie began working as a waitress at Cafe Marco in East Dallas, but two years later, the Great Depression began and the cafe closed.
The relationship between the spouses did not work out. A year after their marriage, the husband began to disappear regularly for long weeks, and in January 1929 they parted. Soon after the breakup (there was no official divorce, and Bonnie wore a wedding ring to death) Thornton went to prison for five years.
Clyde Barrow
Clyde "Champion" Chestnut Barrow (Clyde "Champion" Chestnut Barrow) was born on March 24, 1909 near Teliko, Texas. He was the fifth child in a family of seven or eight children, his parents were poor farmers. The police first arrested Clyde for stealing a car in 1926. A second arrest soon followed - after Clyde, along with his brother Marvin, nicknamed Buck, committed theft of turkeys. He was subsequently arrested several times in 1928 and 1929 and imprisoned in Eastham Prison in Texas in 1930. In 1932 he was released early. It is believed that Bonnie and Clyde met back in 1930 and began dating again after Clyde was released from prison.
Joint crimes
After being released from prison, Clyde, not thinking about the consequences, continues to commit petty thefts, but Bonnie, who "generated" most of the criminal ideas, develops a plan to rob a record store. Bonnie's friend Raymond Hamilton also joins the case. On April 27, 1932, during a store robbery, the owner tries to resist the criminals, for which he receives a bullet in the heart. After this incident, the gang becomes more and more aggressive. Five months later, Hamilton and Clyde, being in a drunken stupor, shot the sheriff and his deputies in a bar in Oklahoma. Bonnie later announced that it was time to stop playing with toys and start doing serious business. And robberies, murders, car thefts began. As a result of all this, Hamilton was caught and sentenced to 264 years. “After Hamilton was arrested, Bonnie learned to shoot,” writes crime couple biographer John Chevy, “showing a real passion for firearms. Their car turned into an excellent arsenal: several machine guns, rifles and hunting rifles, a dozen revolvers and pistols, thousands of cartridges. With the help of Bonnie, Clyde masters the art of snatching a rifle out of a pocket sewn along the leg in seconds. This kind of virtuosity is very entertaining for both. They develop their own elegant killing style. In all this, Bonnie is attracted primarily by the romantic-heroic side of the matter. She realizes that she has chosen death. But this is more pleasant for her than the previously experienced boredom. The monotony of the measured life of those around her is over forever. She will be famous in her own way. At least they will talk about her. "
From now on, Bonnie and Clyde commit murders with amazing ease. The next victim of Clyde was the sheriff, who asked him for documents. Clyde simply "cut" him in half with an automatic burst.
The “methodology” of robbery was always the same: Bonnie sat in the car, and the guys flew into the building shouting “Robbery!”, After which they robbed and disappeared.
But sooner or later, all luck comes to an end. The flexible structure of the newly created FBI allows federal agents to track criminals, as before, regardless of interstate borders. The ring around Bonnie, Clyde and Jones (William Daniel ("W.D.", "Dub", "Deacon") Jones, another member of the gang) is shrinking - this is an FBI effort. They are forced to hide. It was then that Clyde's brother, Ivan Buck, and his wife Blanche, join the gang.
As a temporary shelter, the Barrow brothers choose the town of Japlin in Missouri, where gangsters traditionally hid in the late 1920s. The place is very convenient, it is easy to hide from here: there are mountains nearby, not a single good road. They live in a three-room apartment above the garage. We got up late and took a lot of pictures. In many photographs, Bonnie is captured in theatrical poses. The photographs show Bonnie and Clyde's desire to look elegant, copying advertising images.
Bonnie and Clyde
The attention of neighbors is attracted not only by the strange behavior of the tenants of the apartment, but also by the fact that their cars are registered in another state - Texas. Suspecting something was wrong, Barrow's neighbor goes to the Missouri Road Police Station. Brigadier JB Koehler assumes the suspicious company is bootleggers and decides to organize a raid. On April 13, 1933, at 4 pm, two police cars approach Barrow's apartment. Clyde and Jones are on the porch when the first car pulls up. Instantly they hide in the garage, slamming the door behind them. The second police car blocks the road, blocking the exit from the garage. Clyde and Jones shoot from the garage. This is a signal for those who are in the apartment. After the first shots, the police suffered losses: one was mortally wounded, the other was killed. Kohler sends for reinforcements. Covered by Clyde and Buck's gunfire, Jones rushes to the police car, which is still blocking the road. He is trying to release the handbrake when a bullet hits him in the head. He staggers back into the house. Buck also tries to free the passage and succeeds. He releases the police car from the brake and, using it as a shield, pushes it towards the highway and returns to the house again. The car drives out of the garage and disappears.
When inspecting the apartment in which the Barrow gang lived, a large number of photographs of Bonnie and Clyde were found. These photographs became the first reliable images of criminals. Photos of criminals are being sent to neighboring states. After this "feat", Barrow is included in the FBI's lists, where the most dangerous criminals are listed, who must be caught or destroyed on the spot.
Death
After many setbacks, Sheriff Frank Hamer managed to set up an ambush on one of the Louisiana country roads, along which Bonnie and Clyde drove for groceries. On May 23, 1934, their Ford V8 was ambushed by six police officers, four of whom were Texas Rangers and two were Louisiana. 167 bullets pierced the car, of which more than 50 hit the bandits.
Later, Frank Heimer will tell reporters: “It's a pity that I killed the girl. But it was like this: either we are theirs, or they are us. "
Despite Bonnie's prediction, expressed in her poems, they were buried in different cemeteries, and an obelisk was erected on the site of the ambush, pretty crumpled by lovers of souvenirs.
Bonnie's grave has an inscription left by her mother: "As the flowers are all made sweeter by the sunshine and the dew, so this old world is made brighter by the lives of folks like you" (How all flowers become more fragrant from sunlight and dew, so this old world becomes brighter from lives like yours).
Bonnie Parker is left with her only work, the poem "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde", which ends like this:
And if someday you have to die,
We lie, of course, in the grave alone.
And the mother will cry, and the bastards will laugh.
Peace will come for Bonnie and Clyde.
Filmography
- Bonnie & Clyde: The True Story, Film, US (1992)
- The Bonnie Parker Story (1958)
- Shelter / Hide, US (2008)
Bonnie and Clyde in creativity
- Lana Del Rey - song "Live or Die".
- group Theory of a Deadman - song "Me & my girl" (album "Gasoline").
- group Reflex - song "Like Bonnie and Clyde" (album "Blondes 126").
- group Splin - album 1997 "Lantern under the eye" song Bonnie and Clyde.
- group Night Snipers - album "Bonnie & Clyde", song "Bonnie & Clyde".
- group Bad Balance - the song "Bonnie and Clyde".
- group Scapegoat - song "Bonnie and Clyde".
- group Korsika - the song "On the front page" from the single of the same name.
- the King and the Jester group - the song "Two against all" from the album Shadow of the Clown.
- performer MC Solaar - the song "la Nouvelle Genèse".
- Tupac Shakur - song "Me and My Girlfriend".
- Eminem - song "97" Bonnie & Clyde ".
- Marilyn Manson - song "Putting holes in happiness".
- Beyoncé & Jay-Z - Bonnie and Clyde (song and video).
- Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot - Bonnie and Clyde; album "Bonnie and Clyde" (1968).
- Martina Sorbar - song "Bonnie & Clyde".
- Frank Wildhorn - Musical Bonnie & Clyde (Demo 2009).
- Performer Carter - "Bonnie and Clyde" song.
- Performed by Al K-Pote and Amel - the song "Bonnie and Clyde" (French-German).
- Scarlett Johansson and Lulu Gainsbourg - Bonnie and Clyde.
- Andrey Kovalev - Clyde and Bonnie.
- Kaponz et Spinoza - Bonnie aime Clyde.
- group Roman_Rain song "Boni and Clyde"
- Claudia Brucken feat. The Real Tuesday Weld - Guilty (L.A. Noire Original Soundtrack)
- Dmitry Chernus - Boni and Clyde
- Rihanna and Lonely Island recorded a parody song called "Shy Ronnie"
- Jane Air - Bonnie & Clyde (2007)
- Mentioned in Desmond Dekker's song "a Israelites
see also
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