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The Disturbing Romanticism of Bonnie and Clyde this paper will compare and contrast the romanticism of Bonnie and Clyde with the reality of Bonnie and Clyde with some insight about prohibition and great depression The birth and relevant info about their life prior to criminal activities. Bonnie Parker was born on October 1st, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. (McGasko, 2013) She was the middle child of Henry and Emma Parker. (McGasko, 2013) In school, she enjoyed music and performed in school pageants, talent shows, singing Broadway hits or country favorites. (McGasko, 2013) Clyde Barrow also loved singing and playing on his guitar. He was born on March 24, 1909, into a family of poor farmers in Telico, Texas. His parents; Henry Basil Barrow, Cumie T. Walker and his siblings; Elvin Wilson “Jack” Barrow, Artie Adelle Barrow Keys, Marvin Ivan “Buck” Barrow, Nell May “Nellie” Barrow Francis, Leon C “L.C.” Barrow, and Lillian Marie Barrow Scoma. (Find A Grave) Barrow taught himself how to play the saxophone & thought of pursuing a music career. Bonnie had also planned to become a famous actress. In 1914, Bonnie’s father died and her family moved to Cement City in western Dallas where poverty levels was really high. (ABC-CLIO) Due to her situation, she married at 16 to Roy Thornton. Roy was an abusive criminal who got caught and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. (ABC-CLIO) Bonnie worked at a cafe until the Great Depression bankrupted the business in November 1929. (ABC-CLIO) Bonnie and Clyde met in January of 1930. They were head over heels for each other. Parker was 19 and married to an imprisoned man, while Barrow was twenty-one and unmarried. (McGasko, 2013) The start of Bonnie and Clyde After they had met, Clyde was sentenced to 14 years at Eastham Prison Farm in the same year. (McGasko, 2013) The two lovebirds exchanged letters and later, with Bonnie’s help, he escaped using a gun that she had smuggled. Subsequently, he was recaptured and was arrested once more. While serving his time, one of the inmates had been repeatedly sexually assaulted Barrow until he snapped and stabbed the inmate to death. Clyde had one of his close inmate friend take the blame for the killing. Barrow had his own toes chopped off, and was paroled in February 1932. (McGasko, 2013) He only served a year and a half of his sentence, because his mother pleaded to the governor of Texas. Soon, Clyde had rejoined with Bonnie. This was the start of the notorious adventure of Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie and Clyde teams up with the barrow gang Clyde, joined by Bonnie, was always looking out for thrill-seeking adventures. Bonnie and Clyde began to loot grocery stores, gasoline stations, banks. In 1932, Parker was taken into custody for robbery, but the jury could not convict Bonnie because of her beauty and youthfulness. (McGasko, 2013) They killed two policemen in Atoka, Oklahoma, a grocer in

Sherman, Texas, and a third policeman in Dallas, Texas. ( ABC-CLIO) They were on the run. They drove through Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico & Missouri. During this time period, bank robbing was not considered a federal crime. They were acknowledged about the state law enforcement’s jurisdiction ended at the state lines, so they were able to avoid capture by crossing state to state. Clyde was known as a talented getaway driver. He stole many cars, specifically eight-cylinder Fords, and with this automobile he could outrun police. (ABC-CLIO) Bonnie and Clyde teamed up with Clyde’s older brother, Buck, his wife, Blanche, and other friends. They were called the Barrow gang. In the four active years of the Barrow gang, they have robbed more than 15 banks, and in some cases, robbed the same bank more than once. With all of the effort they put into planning and carrying out the robbery, they usually got away with very little money. All of the bank robberies associated with Bonnie and Clyde, were mostly committed by Clyde and his associate, Raymond Hamilton. Bonnie, occasionally, would drive the getaway car, but often avoided the robberies. Instead, she hid away at a hideout while the Barrow gang robbed. Without the Barrow gang, Bonnie and Clyde would avoid and rarely attempt to rob banks. They resided in small grocery stores and gas stations, because of lower risks and easier getaways. The frequency and patterns of Bonnie and Clyde’s robberies made it easier for the law enforcement to track them down, so it was difficult for them to settle down anywhere for too long. The separation of the Barrow gang During the spring of 1933, the whole gang was almost caught twice by the police. They had a hideout in Joplin and Platte City in Missouri. Buck and Blanche had a home in Joplin, Missouri, where Bonnie, Clyde, and W.D. Jones stayed for a while. In Joplin, Missouri, Buck and Blanche failed to keep a low profile which made their neighbors become suspicious and call the police on them. The police officers were sure that they had cornered the fugitives, they stormed the house, but it was an ambush. Bonnie and Clyde, along with W.D. Jones, Buck, and Blanche, managed to escape and killed two more law enforcement officers. The gang with minor wounds, then migrated to Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Iowa, Illinois, and Arkansas when they robbed and murdered more people. The police raided their second hideout, in Platte City, Missouri, where Buck Barrow was killed, and Blanche surrendered and was arrested. Blanche’s sentence lasted 10 years. Soon, W.D. Jones was seized after he had separate from Bonnie and Clyde. In June, while Clyde was driving the getaway car, he missed a turn and overturned the car. This caused a huge fire. Bonnie’s right leg was injured either by the gasoline fire or battery acid. Her leg was so injured that her flesh bone was exposed, and Clyde had to carried her. The gang was still on the run, so Bonnie couldn't go to a hospital, and her wound was untreated. Bonnie and Clyde made frequent trips back to West Dallas area, their families lived, throughout criminal career. Clyde’s plan, to avoid suspicion, was to drive quickly past his parents' house & throw a Coke bottle, with a note inside, out of his car window. Then his mother or father would

recover bottle, that contained directions on where to meet outside of town. Although Bonnie’s and Clyde’s parents initially didn’t like each other, Bonnie’s mother blamed Clyde for ruining her daughter’s life, they learned to cooperate by speaking in code on telephone and arranging rendezvous. When the two outlaws stole enough money, their families would benefit from their raids. Whenever they were struggling or wounded, their families would aid them with clean clothes and small amounts of money. Public opinion turned against them after news of two more cops were murdered on Easter Sunday in 1934. They were sitting in a car waiting to rendezvous with Bonnie’s beloved mother, for whom she had bought a white rabbit. As she fed it lettuce, two highway patrolmen pulled up; she and Clyde immediately shot them dead. (Dingus, 1997). One night near Grapevine, Texas, Bonnie, Clyde, & one member, Henry Methvin, were taken by surprise by the policemen, who suspected a car of drunks. Clyde’s injunction to Henry to kidnap cops, “Let’s take them,” was misinterpreted as encouragement to fire at the policemen. (McGasko, 2013) Henry Methvin blew away patrolman E.B. Wheeler. Clyde fired the other cop, a rookie named H.D. Murphy, whose first day on the job. Murphy was about to get married, and his fiancée wore her wedding gown to funeral. (McGasko, 2013) The public, who had cheered on the outlaws, now wanted to see them caught alive or dead. The end of bonnie and clyde Bonnie and Clyde famously died in hailstorm of bullets shot at their car by an assembled posse of Texas & Louisiana lawmen. Retired, Texas police officer, Captain Frank Hamer was hired as a special investigator to hunt down Bonnie and Clyde. Three months later, former Captain Frank Hamer was able to track them down to Louisiana, where Henry Methvin’s family lived. They stopped to help Henry Methvin’s father fix his apparently broken-down truck. On May 23, 1934, near Gibsland, Louisiana, Hamer and other law enforcement officers ambushed their car. 16-seconds later, approximately 150 rounds later, Bonnie and Clyde were pronounced dead in their Ford V8 sedan. (Dingus, 1997) (Wansell, 2009) Not taking any chances, leader of the posse, Frank Hamer, approached the car and fired more additional shots into the already dead Bonnie’s body. The coroner’s report detailed 17 holes in Clyde’s body and 26 holes in Bonnie’s body. C.B. Bailey, the undertaker assigned to preserving the bodies for the funerals, found that the bodies had so many holes in them that it was difficult to keep embalming fluid. This was the end of Bonnie and Clyde. Brief preview of the prohibition In the United States, from 1920 to 1933, “Prohibition, legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages (. . .) [were] under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment.” ( Britannica) The Temperance Movement was a social movement a fighting to limit or outlaw production and consumption of alcoholic beverages. (Ohio History Central) However, millions of Americans were still inclined to drink illegally. Then it rise to

organized crimes capitalizing the act of bootlegging and speakeasies. The Prohibition era is known as a period of gangsterism. Afterwards, the Great Depression occurred. Brief preview of the great depression Great Depression began when the stock market crashed. October 29, 1929 is known as Black Tuesday, which triggered the Great Depression that was “the worst economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world.” (PBS) Millions of people worldwide were unemployed. The current president at that time was Herbert Hoover, and he focused on a trickle-down economic program to help finance businesses and banks. He was blamed by many people for the occurrence of the Great Depression. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, rich governor from New York, offered Americans a New Deal, and was elected in 1932. (PBS) He declared a four-day bank holiday, during which Congress passed the Emergency Banking Relief Act to stabilize the banking system. “The New Deal programs created a liberal political alliance of labor unions, blacks and other minorities, some farmers and others receiving government relief, and intellectuals.” Men were harder hit psychologically than women were. Because men were expected to be in charge and provide for their families, so it was humiliating to ask for assistance. “The percentage of women working increased slightly during the Depression. Children took on more responsibilities, sometimes finding work when their parents could not. As a result of living through the Depression, some people developed habits of careful saving and frugality, others determined to create a comfortable life for themselves.” (PBS) How does the prohibition relate or affect bonnie and clyde? How does the Great Depression relate or affect Bonnie and Clyde? Bonnie and Clyde, joined with the Barrow gang, was part of a well known organized crime organizations throughout the Prohibition era and into the Great Depression. With the Great Depression, many people lost their jobs, including Bonnie. She worked at a cafe until the Great Depression bankrupted the business in November 1929. (ABC-CLIO) When she had met Clyde, they went off and robbed many stores, in order, to survive. Bonnie and Clyde’s romanticism in the media Arthur Penn directed the 1967 movie, Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, and shines a light on the aesthetic of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. The actress and actor who imitated Bonnie and Clyde were sexualized in the film. In the 1930s, the Hays Code was established to censor taboos while creating movies. Its goal was “to improve the image of Hollywood thus avoiding the creation of a national censorship board by the Federal Government.” (Encyclopedia) Bonnie and Clyde demolished the Hays Code, after including scenes of violence and sex which were the “ultimate taboo”. In the film, Dunaway, who portrayed Bonnie, was depicted as the “good” and “innocent” girl who falls in love with the cliche “bad boy” Clyde. The violence was more momentous than the sexualization. At the end of

the screenplay, it showed the downfall of Bonnie and Clyde. The episode was graphic and very dramatic. They showcased bullets and blood. Still, Bonnie and Clyde were glorified as America’s Sweethearts. In 2017, G-Easy and Halsey released a song called Him and I. They sang lyrics about refering themselves to Bonnie and Clyde. (Genius) “They don't wanna see us make it, they just wanna divide 2017 Bonnie and Clyde Wouldn't see the point of living on if one of us died, yeah Got that kind of style everybody try to rip off YSL dress under when she takes the mink off Silk on her body, pull it down and watch it slip off Ever catch me cheating, she would try to cut my (ha-ha-ha) Crazy, but I love her, I could never run from her Hit it, no rubber never would let no one touch her Swear we drive each other, man, she be so stubborn” Back in 2010, Justin Bieber had also relaeased a song regarding Bonnie and Clyde, in his song, Stuck in the Moment. (Genius) “With you, with you I wish we had another time, I wish we had another place Now, Romeo and Juliet Bet they never felt the way we felt Bonnie and Clyde never had to hide like we do, we do You and I both know it can't work It's all fun and games 'til someone gets hurt And I don't, I won't let that be you” Even today, they are still romantanized in songs, moivess, and in society itself. What is Bonnie and Clyde’s impact on (modern) society? What are some Examples of modern day bonnie and clyde? ● Dalton Hayes & Cheyenne Phillips ● John McCluskey Casslyn Welch Dalton Hayes, 18-year old male, and his underage girlfriend, Cheyenne Phillips, 13, are returning back to Kenntucky to be charged with burglary, criminal trespassing and custodial interference.

(NBC News) “The couple is suspected of stealing three cars during a two-week crime spree that covered multiple states and drew media comparisons to the infamous 1930s criminal couple Bonnie and Clyde.” (McSpadden, 2015) John McCluskey and Casslyn Welch, the Arizona prison escapee and his alleged accomplice, were arrested at a campground last night just some 280 miles east of the prison where McClusky escaped last month. Last night a forest ranger spotted what he thought was an unattended fire at a campsite on the edge of the Apache and Sitgreaves National Forests in Springerville, Arizona. When he went to investigate he spotted a car backed into some trees and copied the plate number. The license plate matched the description of a car that was stolen in New Mexico near where a couple was recently murdered. McCluskey and Welch are suspected of the killing the couple. Their bodies were found in a burned out camper earlier this month. A SWAT team was called to the campsite where they arrested McClusky and Welch. Welch, who is McCluskey’s cousin and lover, allegedly helped he and two other inmates escape from an Arizona state prison in northwest Arizona by throwing wire cutters over the fence. The couple had evaded capture in at least six states. The other two escapees were captured earlier this month. The prison was found to have a badly defective alarm system that went off so often it is often ignored. The perimeter post was unstaffed and an outside dormitory door had been propped open with a rock at the time of the escape. A warden and a security official resigned their posts at the prison last week.

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The infamous story of Bonnie and Clyde begins when they were born. Bonnie Parker was born on October 1st, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. She was the middle child of Henry and Emma Parker. In school, she enjoyed music and performed in school pageants, talent shows, singing Broadway hits or country favorites. Clyde Barrow also loved singing and playing on his guitar. He was born on March 24, 1909, into a family of poor farmers in Telico, Texas. His parents; Henry Basil Barrow, Cumie T. Walker and his siblings; Elvin Wilson “Jack” Barrow, Artie Adelle Barrow Keys, Marvin Ivan “Buck” Barrow, Nell May “Nellie” Barrow Francis, Leon C “L.C.” Barrow, and Lillian Marie Barrow Scoma. Barrow taught himself how to play the saxophone & thought of pursuing a music career. Bonnie had also planned to become a famous actress. In 1914, Bonnie’s father died and her family moved to Cement City in western Dallas where poverty levels was really high. Due to her situation, she married at 16 to Roy Thornton. Roy was an abusive criminal who got caught and was sentenced to 5 years in prison. Bonnie worked at a cafe until the Great Depression bankrupted the business in November 1929. Bonnie and Clyde met in January of 1930. They were head over heels for each other. Parker was 19 and married to an imprisoned man, while Barrow was twenty-one and unmarried. After they had met, Clyde was sentenced to 14 years at Eastham Prison Farm in the same year. The two lovebirds exchanged letters and later, with Bonnie’s help, he escaped using a gun that she had smuggled. Subsequently, he was recaptured and was arrested once more. While serving his time, one of the inmates had been repeatedly sexually assaulted Barrow until he snapped and stabbed the inmate to death. Clyde had one of his close inmate friend take the blame for the killing. Barrow had his own toes chopped off, and was paroled in February 1932. He only served a year and a half of his sentence, because his mother pleaded to the governor of Texas. Soon, Clyde had rejoined with Bonnie. This was the start of the notorious adventure of Bonnie and Clyde. Clyde, joined by Bonnie, was always looking out for thrill-seeking adventures. Bonnie and Clyde began to loot grocery stores, gasoline stations, banks. In 1932, Parker was taken into custody for robbery, but the jury could not convict Bonnie because of her beauty and youthfulness. They killed two policemen in Atoka, Oklahoma, a grocer in Sherman, Texas, and a third policeman in Dallas, Texas. They were on the run. They drove through Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico & Missouri. During this time period, bank robbing was not considered a federal crime. They were acknowledged about the state law enforcement’s jurisdiction ended at the state lines, so they were able to avoid capture by crossing state to state. Clyde was known as a talented getaway driver. He stole many cars, specifically eight-cylinder Fords, and with this automobile he could outrun police. Bonnie and Clyde teamed up with Clyde’s older brother, Buck, his wife, Blanche, and other friends. They were called the Barrow gang. In the four active years of the Barrow gang, they have robbed more than 15 banks, and in some cases, robbed the same bank more than once. With all of the effort they put into planning and carrying out the robbery, they usually got away with very little money. All of the bank robberies associated with Bonnie and Clyde, were mostly committed by Clyde and his associate, Raymond Hamilton. Bonnie,

occasionally, would drive the getaway car, but often avoided the robberies. Instead, she hid away at a hideout while the Barrow gang robbed. Without the Barrow gang, Bonnie and Clyde would avoid and rarely attempt to rob banks. They resided in small grocery stores and gas stations, because of lower risks and easier getaways. The frequency and patterns of Bonnie and Clyde’s robberies made it easier for the law enforcement to track them down, so it was difficult for them to settle down anywhere for too long. During the spring of 1933, the whole gang was almost caught twice by the police. They had a hideout in Joplin and Platte City in Missouri. Buck and Blanche had a home in Joplin, Missouri, where Bonnie, Clyde, and W.D. Jones stayed for a while. In Joplin, Missouri, Buck and Blanche failed to keep a low profile which made their neighbors become suspicious and call the police on them. The police officers were sure that they had cornered the fugitives, they stormed the house, but it was an ambush.Bonnie and Clyde, along with W.D. Jones, Buck, and Blanche, managed to escape and killed two more law enfo...