Clyde Champion Barrow (actually his middle name was "Chestnut") was born in Ellis County Texas on March 24, 1909. He had six siblings and was a very poor family. This is him at 16. His father actually gave up the farming and moved to West Dallas and he opened up a auto shop
His first arrest came in 1926 when he didn’t return a rental car on time. And his second arrest wasn’t far behind when him and his brother “Buck” were arrested for possession of stolen goods (turkeys).
He's arrested three more times for investigation of auto theft and safecracking but let go.
This is Buck
Bonnie Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas, she was the second of three children. Her father Henry who was a bricklayer by trade dies in 1914 and the …show more content…
In 1924 she enters Cement City High School and even wins the Cement City spelling championship. At 4 foot, 10 inches and 85 pounds, Bonnie is no dumb blonde. In 1925 She meets Roy Thornton and the following year they are married, she loved him so much that she got a tattoo on her inner thigh of two intertwined hearts with their names in the middle. She probably should have waited a little bit because it wasn't long before Roy started wandering so to speak. He left her in Dallas to ponder. She has a job as a waitress in Marco's Cafe which is located in East Dallas.
Bonnie was, as you can see, very depressed and lonely at only 18 years old. She muddled through this existence until the beginning of 1930 when she visited a friend in West Dallas. Here she met a pixie eared gentleman by the name of Clyde. And their whirlwind romance began.
Bonnie became aware of Clyde's past when the "laws" came looking for him and took him back to Denton, Texas about some stolen merchandise. When they could not make it stick, they transferred him to Waco where he confessed to a couple of burglaries and several car thefts. He couldn't cry his way out of this one. He was sentenced to two years on each count but the courts allowed the sentences to run concurrently. As it turned out, his cell mate turned out to be William Turner. Bonnie, who visited Clyde every day, smuggled a Colt to Clyde and that night Clyde, Turner and another …show more content…
Now Clyde did stay busy though, but on April 13 during a robbery of a jewelry store is where Clyde's reputation really started. Him and a friend named Raymond Hamilton were the only suspects for killing the stores owner. Bonnie was released from jail in June and caught up with Clyde. On August 5, while he was in Atoka, Oklahoma with Hamilton (it is unclear why Bonnie was not with them), they killed two policemen, C.G. Maxwell and Eugene Moore, who went to investigate them while they were drinking inside the car. Several other thefts took place after this and also a couple of robberies which culminated in murder. Hamilton was apprehended during this time in Michigan, sent back to Dallas and given a mere 263 years.
Bonnie and Clyde used the attitude that the general public had against the government to their advantage, they tried using the image of a modern day Robin Hood than that of murderers. With that they took the imagination of the nation captive.(2) It was easy for the world to glamorize the relationship between these two, they were young, in love and out in the world making their names(just not in the good way). Running from the law that was out to get
His first arrest came in 1926 when he didn’t return a rental car on time. And his second arrest wasn’t far behind when him and his brother “Buck” were arrested for possession of stolen goods (turkeys).
He's arrested three more times for investigation of auto theft and safecracking but let go.
This is Buck
Bonnie Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas, she was the second of three children. Her father Henry who was a bricklayer by trade dies in 1914 and the …show more content…
In 1924 she enters Cement City High School and even wins the Cement City spelling championship. At 4 foot, 10 inches and 85 pounds, Bonnie is no dumb blonde. In 1925 She meets Roy Thornton and the following year they are married, she loved him so much that she got a tattoo on her inner thigh of two intertwined hearts with their names in the middle. She probably should have waited a little bit because it wasn't long before Roy started wandering so to speak. He left her in Dallas to ponder. She has a job as a waitress in Marco's Cafe which is located in East Dallas.
Bonnie was, as you can see, very depressed and lonely at only 18 years old. She muddled through this existence until the beginning of 1930 when she visited a friend in West Dallas. Here she met a pixie eared gentleman by the name of Clyde. And their whirlwind romance began.
Bonnie became aware of Clyde's past when the "laws" came looking for him and took him back to Denton, Texas about some stolen merchandise. When they could not make it stick, they transferred him to Waco where he confessed to a couple of burglaries and several car thefts. He couldn't cry his way out of this one. He was sentenced to two years on each count but the courts allowed the sentences to run concurrently. As it turned out, his cell mate turned out to be William Turner. Bonnie, who visited Clyde every day, smuggled a Colt to Clyde and that night Clyde, Turner and another …show more content…
Now Clyde did stay busy though, but on April 13 during a robbery of a jewelry store is where Clyde's reputation really started. Him and a friend named Raymond Hamilton were the only suspects for killing the stores owner. Bonnie was released from jail in June and caught up with Clyde. On August 5, while he was in Atoka, Oklahoma with Hamilton (it is unclear why Bonnie was not with them), they killed two policemen, C.G. Maxwell and Eugene Moore, who went to investigate them while they were drinking inside the car. Several other thefts took place after this and also a couple of robberies which culminated in murder. Hamilton was apprehended during this time in Michigan, sent back to Dallas and given a mere 263 years.
Bonnie and Clyde used the attitude that the general public had against the government to their advantage, they tried using the image of a modern day Robin Hood than that of murderers. With that they took the imagination of the nation captive.(2) It was easy for the world to glamorize the relationship between these two, they were young, in love and out in the world making their names(just not in the good way). Running from the law that was out to get