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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 killers 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.
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- Bonnie and Clyde met in Texas in 1930, when she was 19 and he was 21. Soon after their meeting, Clyde was arrested for robbery. Though he initially...
- Bonnie and Clyde were killed on May 23, 1934, when police opened fire on the pair as they attempted to escape an ambush along a highway in Bienvill...
- Several criminals operating during the Great Depression, including Bonnie and Clyde, became famous as “Robin Hood” figures who struck back against...
- Bonnie and Clyde as Social Bandits
- 12 Characteristics of The Social Outlaw
- Bonnie Parker's Social Outlaw
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Parker's poem is part of a long-established outlaw-folk hero tradition, what British historian Eric Hobsbawm called "social bandits." The social bandit/outlaw-hero is a people's champion who adheres to a higher law and defies the established authority of his time. The idea of a social bandit is a nearly universal social phenomenon found throughout ...
American historian Richard Meyer identified 12 characteristics that are common to social outlaw stories. Not all of them appear in every story, but many of them come from older ancient legends—tricksters, champions of the oppressed, and ancient betrayals. 1. The social bandit hero is a "man of the people" who stands in opposition to certain establi...
True to the form, in "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde," Parker cements their image as social bandits. Clyde used to be "honest and upright and clean," and she reports that he was locked up unjustly. The couple has supporters in the "regular people" like newsboys, and she foretells that "the law" will beat them in the end. Like most of us, Parker had ...
Hobsbawm, Eric. "Bandits." Orion, 2010.Lundblad, Bonnie Jo. "The Rebel-Victim: Past and Present." The English Journal60.6 (1971): 763–66.Meyer, Richard E. "The Outlaw: A Distinctive American Folktype." Journal of the Folklore Institute17.2/3 (1980): 94–124.Muecke, Stephen, Alan Rumsey, and Banjo Wirrunmarra. "Pigeon the Outlaw: History as Texts." Aboriginal History9.1/2 (1985): 81–100.- Jennifer Rosenberg
Francis Augustus Hamer (March 17, 1884 – July 10, 1955) was an American lawman and Texas Ranger who led the 1934 posse that tracked down and killed criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. Renowned for his toughness, marksmanship, and investigative skill, he acquired status in the Southwest as the archetypal Texas Ranger.
- 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.
Jan 30, 2020 · Bonnie Parker (October 1, 1910–May 23, 1934) and Clyde Barrow (March 24, 1909–May 23, 1934) went on a notorious two-year crime spree during the Great Depression, a time when the American public was hostile toward government.
Aug 10, 2017 · With “Bonnie and Clyde,” Penn took hardened criminals from the 1930s and refashioned them into rebel icons for the youth movements springing up in Berkeley, the Haight-Ashbury, and the Sunset Strip.
