Bonnie and clyde

It was during the Great Depression that Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow went on their two-year crime spree. The general attitude in the country was against government and Bonnie and Clyde used that to their advantage.
Bonnie Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas as the second of three children to Henry and Emma Parker. The family lived somewhat comfortably off Henry Parker's job asa bricklayer, but when he died unexpectedly in 1914, Emma Parker moved the family in with her mother in the small town of Cement City, Texas (now part of Dallas). She did well in school and loved to write poetry. Bonnie dropped out of school at age 16 and married Roy Thornton. The marriage wasn't a happy one and Roy began to spend a lot of time away from home by 1927. Two years later, Roy wascaught for robbery and sentenced to five years in prison. They never divorced. While Roy was away, Bonnie worked as a waitress; however, she was out of a job just as the Great Depression was really getting started at the end of 1929.
Clyde Barrow was born on March 24, 1909 in Telico, Texas as the sixth of eight children to Henry and Cummie Barrow. Clyde's parents were tenant farmers, often notmaking enough money to feed their children. During the rough times, Clyde was frequently sent to live with other relatives. When Clyde was 12-years old, his parents gave up tenant farming and moved to West Dallas where Henry opened up a gas station. Clyde and his older brother, Marvin Ivan "Buck" Barrow, were often in trouble with the law for they were frequently stealing things like turkeys and cars.In January 1930, Bonnie and Clyde met at a mutual friend's house. A few weeks after they met, Clyde was sentenced to two years in prison for past crimes. On March 11, 1930, Clyde escaped from jail. A week later he was recaptured and was then to serve a 14-year sentence in the notoriously brutal Eastham Prison Farm near Weldon, Texas. On April 21, 1930, Clyde arrived at Eastham and he wasreleased on February 2, 1932.
The easiest way to stay out of Eastham would have been to live a life on the "straight and narrow". However, Clyde was released from prison during the Great Depression, when jobs were not easy to come by. Plus, Clyde had little experience holding down a real job. Not surprisingly, he was once again robbing and stealing. On one of Clyde's first robberies after he wasreleased, Bonnie went with him. Although she stayed in the car during the robbery, Bonnie was captured and put in the Kaufman, Texas jail. She was later released for lack of evidence. While Bonnie was in jail, Clyde and Raymond Hamilton staged another robbery at the end of April 1932. It was supposed to be an easy and quick robbery, but something went wrong and the store's owner, John Bucher, was shotand killed.
For the next two years, Bonnie and Clyde drove and robbed across five states: Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana, and New Mexico. They usually stayed close to the border to aid their getaway, using the fact that police at that time could not cross state borders to follow a criminal. To help them avoid capture. Clyde also studied maps and had an uncanny knowledge of every back road.What the law did not realize was that Bonnie and Clyde made frequent trips back to Dallas, to see their families.
Bonnie and Clyde had almost been on the run for a year when Clyde's brother Buck was released from Huntsville prison in March 1933. Although Bonnie and Clyde were being hunted by numerous law enforcement agencies, they decided to rent an apartment in Joplin, Missouri to have areunion with Buck and his wife, Blanche. After two weeks, Clyde noticed two police cars pull up on April 13, 1933 and a shootout broke out. Although the police did not capture Bonnie and Clyde that day, they found a treasure trove of information left in the apartment. Most notably, they found rolls of undeveloped film, which, once developed, revealed the now-famous images of Bonnie and Clyde. Also in...