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Jun 12, 2020 · Some day they’ll go down together; And they’ll bury them side by side, To a few it’ll be grief— To the law a relief— But it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.
May 23, 2009 · Three quarters of a century ago Saturday, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow took their final bullets. But their fame was just beginning. They'd be immortalized in books and movies, most notably in...
Bonnie and Clyde went on together. On November 22, 1933, the Dallas, Texas sheriff and his deputies set a trap to capture Bonnie and Clyde near Grand Prairie, Texas, but the couple escaped the...
- Bonnie died wearing a wedding ring—but it wasn’t Clyde’s. Six days before turning 16, Bonnie married high school classmate Roy Thornton. The marriage disintegrated within months, and Bonnie never again saw her husband after he was imprisoned for robbery in 1929.
- Bonnie wrote poetry. During her school days, Bonnie excelled at creative writing and penning verses. While she was imprisoned in 1932 after a failed hardware store burglary, she penned a collection of 10 odes that she entitled “Poetry from Life’s Other Side,” which included “The Story of Suicide Sal,” a poem about an innocent country girl lured by her boyfriend into a life a crime.
- The Navy rejected Clyde. As a teenager, Clyde attempted to enlist in the U.S. Navy, but lingering effects from a serious boyhood illness, possibly malaria or yellow fever, resulted in his medical rejection.
- Clyde’s first arrest came from failing to return a rental car. The notorious criminal was first arrested in 1926 for automobile theft after failing to return a car he had rented in Dallas to visit an estranged high school girlfriend.
Jeff Guinn, in his book, Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, noted: John Dillinger had matinee-idol good looks and Pretty Boy Floyd had the best possible nickname, but the Joplin photos introduced new criminal superstars with the most titillating trademark of all—illicit sex.
Jeff Guinn ’s Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde is an entertaining, meticulously researched biography that gleans fact from the fables that grew up around this...
Mar 5, 2009 · Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were killed instantly by automatic-rifle fire — 150 rounds in 16 seconds — and given no chance to surrender. Their own guns were in the back seat.
