![]() ![]() For folks living hardscrabble lives, the fact that the gang robbed the same bankers who were foreclosing on their farms made the exploits of Bonnie and Clyde even sweeter. The gang fed the newspapers terrific stuff, including the staged photo of Bonnie holding a gun and smoking a cigar. Their crime spree only lasted from spring 1932 to May 1934.īut in the worst of the Depression, Americans ate up accounts of the Barrow exploits as a form of entertainment. ![]() At one point, police tracked the Barrow Gang's car by the trail of bloody bandages left on the highway.Īnd, as Guinn relates, Bonnie and Clyde didn't commit many of the acts - particularly the murders - they were accused of. ![]() Clyde was short and skinny, Bonnie tiny and worn, and in the last months of their lives both were horribly crippled. But these two weren't Robin and Marian, and they certainly weren't Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway from the 1967 movie. ![]()
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