![]() The few bank jobs they pulled were usually arranged by better-organized confederates, who seldom lasted long in the Barrow gang under Clyde’s reckless, trigger-happy leadership. Ironically, the crime spree that made Bonnie and Clyde notorious across America consisted mostly of stealing cars, sticking up gas stations and mom-and-pop stores and shooting it out with the law when their careless behavior got them noticed in the small Texas towns they favored as hide-outs. The first of many books purporting to tell their “real story” was published just months after their deaths the 1967 movie “Bonnie and Clyde,” starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, prompted a revival that continues to this day. ![]() ![]() For two short years they had been icons of outlaw glamour their legend would outlive them by decades. ![]() Thousands overran the Dallas funeral homes where their bodies were displayed. Someone snipped a lock of Bonnie’s hair and a piece of her bloodstained dress a man tried to cut off Clyde’s ear. Within minutes of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s deaths from police gunfire in 1934, gawkers drawn by the sound of shots surrounded their bullet-riddled Ford and snatched gory souvenirs. ![]()
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