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James Forrest Bondurant (21 November 1901-4 December 1965) was an American Prohibition-era gangster and one of the three Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, Virginia. He was the gang's de facto leader during the 1930s, despite being the middle brother.
Aug 27, 2012 · We know that the Bondurant Boys arrived at the Maggodee Creek Bridge on a snowy winter day and found a roadblock waiting for them.
The Wettest County in the World is a 2008 historical novel by Matt Bondurant, an American writer who features his grandfather Jack and grand-uncles Forrest and Howard as the main characters in the novel.
Apr 2, 2021 · The characters of Jack, Forrest, and Howard Bondurant are based on the real relatives of the author of the novel, Matt Bondurant. The former is based on his paternal grandfather, while the latter two characters are modeled after his grand-uncles.
Aug 23, 2012 · Bondurant admits to being thrilled when he discovered that the latent violence he’d sensed as a child could be fleshed out with a dramatic, bloody, real-life history.
Aug 23, 2012 · Later this month, Hollywood releases the movie “Lawless,” based on the real-life story of a notorious Virginia bootlegging family. We get the story behind the story from the family’s grandson who wrote the book upon which the movie is based while working as a professor at a local university.
Aug 29, 2012 · Forrest Bondurant ( Tom Hardy) is strong and implacable. The youngest brother, Jack ( Shia LaBeouf) is engaging and enterprising, someone who would be at home in the city. And middle brother...
Aug 20, 2012 · As a boy, during summer visits to his grandfather’s house in southwest Virginia, Matt Bondurant was drawn to the rusty object that hung beneath the gun rack: a set of brass knuckles.
Sep 1, 2012 · Reminiscent of just about every Depression-era gangster film, “Lawless” shares the story of the “Bondurant Boys,” a real trio of brothers known as the most prolific moonshine peddlers in the...
Aug 30, 2012 · Forrest Bondurant (Tom Hardy), leader of the most powerful moonshining family in Franklin County, Virginia, wears the indestructible armor of legend. His parents died in the 1919 flu epidemic;...
