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Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut " Champion " Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American bandits and serial murderers who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression.
Bonnie and Clyde, in full Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, were an infamous American robbery team responsible for a 21-month crime spree from 1932 to 1934. They robbed gas stations, restaurants, and small-town banks, chiefly operating in Texas , Oklahoma , New Mexico , and Missouri .
- John Philip Jenkins
Americans were transfixed by Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's illicit romance and criminal exploits. Browse a gallery of the infamous duo's life and death.
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- Bonnie and Clyde became famous, but not for what they had hoped. As a boy born into the family of a poor farmer, Clyde “Bud” Barrow’s great love was music.
- Bonnie and Clyde didn’t spend much time robbing banks. Movies and TV have tended to portray Bonnie and Clyde as habitual bank robbers who terrorized financial institutions throughout the Midwest and south.
- Bonnie didn’t smoke cigars. The most famous picture of Bonnie shows her holding a pistol, her foot up on the bumper of a Ford, a cigar clamped in her mouth like Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar.
- Bonnie died a married woman – but not to Clyde. Not generally known is the fact that Bonnie got married when she was 16. Her husband's name was Roy Thornton, and he was a handsome classmate at her school in Dallas.
Clyde Champion Barrow and Bonnie Parker were shot to death by officers in an ambush near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana on May 23, 1934, after one of the most extensive manhunts the nation...
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Mar 11, 2023 · AllThatsInteresting.com, March 11, 2023, https://allthatsinteresting.com/bonnie-clyde-death. Accessed May 21, 2024. On May 23, 1934, outlaws Bonnie and Clyde died as violently as they lived when lawmen in Louisiana ambushed them and riddled them with dozens of bullets each.
May 23, 2012 · On May 23, 1934, the bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, La.
