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The prototype of the movie "Bonnie and Clyde" (Bonnie and Clyde, 1967) is a pair of mandarin duck thieves that actually existed in history. In addition to "The Male and Female Thief", which opened the "New Hollywood", their stories have been adapted several times, and there are many crime films and noir films that have their shadows. As the most famous mandarin duck thieves in history, their stories are far more exciting than the movies.
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The United States of the 1930s was in the midst of the Great Depression, once thriving business stalled and unemployment skyrocketed. Some banks exploit people with loan sharks, and people living on the streets because they can't pay their rent can be seen everywhere. The real Bonnie and Clyde grew up in such an environment.
They grew up in poverty, Bonnie Parker came from a bricklayer family and married at the age of sixteen. Clyde Barlow, the son of an oil worker, grew up doing some sneaky business in order to survive.
Clyde and several partners formed the "Barlow Gang", specializing in robbery and theft. One day, he met Bonnie at a friend's house, while Bonnie was making hot chocolate in the kitchen.
Bonnie is petite, fair-skinned and blond-haired, and even the police officer who ambushed them has praised her beauty in books. And she has good grades, loves literature, and likes to write poetry.
In this way, 19-year-old Bonnie and 21-year-old Clyde met.
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In the summer of 1930, Clyde was arrested for larceny and sentenced to two years in prison, followed by twelve years for escape. But after two years of petitions from Clyde's family, Clyde was released on parole. In the past two years, Bonnie came to the city where Clyde served as a waitress for the convenience of visiting the prison.
After being released from prison, Clyde quickly reunites with his old accomplices. Every time they act, Bonnie sits between them. For her, it's not just an adventure, it's love.
Clyde's first murder occurred at a grocery store, where the owner of the store was killed by a misfired pistol during the robbery. Soon after, Clyde and accomplice Raymond exchanged fire with police in Oklahoma, killing an officer. Raymond is caught and taken to the prison farm. Since then, only Bonnie and Clyde have been left to travel the world together.
There was too little money to rob the shop, so they turned their attention to the bank. On November 29, 1932, Bonnie walked into a bank in Carthage, Missouri, and said calmly to the bank clerk that she wanted to open an account. When the clerk introduced her, she carefully planned the layout of the bank. read it again. The next day, Clyde walked into the bank, quietly took out a pistol, pointed it at the teller, and asked him to take out all the money in the drawer. A guard saw Clyde's actions and shot him immediately, but missed. Clyde realized that the situation was bad, grabbed the money on the counter and escaped. The first time I robbed a bank, I didn't get much, and only a total of more than 80 US dollars.
The second time was even more ridiculous. Clyde, with a gun in his hand, yelled and stormed into a bank, trying to scare off any guard who dared to step forward. However, he was greeted by an empty counter covered with a thick layer of ash. Exactly as depicted in the movie. In fact, more than 8,000 banks failed during the Great Recession.
In 1933, a young man named William Daniel joined the Barlow Gang, they robbed shops, robbed banks, and robbed an arsenal, and got a batch of pistols, semi-automatic machine guns, petrol bombs and a Browning automatic rifle. .
At this time, the Barlow Gang had already carried several lives. A big reason they have been able to get away with impunity for so long is that so many people voluntarily shelter them. Some of these people were bankrupt because of the economic depression, and some were dissatisfied with seeing others suffer from poverty.
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This year, Clyde's brother, Buck, was paroled and returned home. Buck was incarcerated and had escaped from prison and met Blanche during that time. It was only after Blanche and Buck got married that he learned that he was a fugitive. Under her persuasion, Buck agreed to return to prison to continue serving his sentence. The two brothers hadn't seen each other for several years and were extremely excited. They found a home in Joplin, Missouri, for a peaceful vacation. The place was far from their home in Dallas, and they believed the police wouldn't come.
But they were so presumptuous, drinking for fun and making noise all night, the neighbors called the police. At first the police thought they were just bootleggers, but after surveillance they found that they fit the description of the Barlow gang.
On April 13, the police raided the Barlow gang, but they were too optimistic and only sent five men. As a result, the two were killed, and the Barlow Gang successfully escaped.
The police found some new films of Bonnie in the house. It turned out that the Barlow Gang was very fashionable and loved to shoot and love shows. It was these photos that made the Barlow Gang famous. A photo of Bonnie holding a gun in her right hand with a cigarette in her mouth was widely exaggerated by major newspapers, and Bonnie was described as a cigar-smoking female bandit. However, Bonnie is quite dissatisfied with this position, this cigar is just a pose she borrowed. Later, they kidnapped a police officer on the way to escape, and Bonnie also specifically told him that he did not smoke cigars, and asked him to clarify with reporters.
Bonnie still retains the habit of writing poetry, and perhaps love and poetry are her only pastimes on the way to escape. Her poem "Story of Suicide Sal" was also in the newspapers. Police also found Barker's parole certificate and the Barkers' marriage certificate, who were also blacklisted.
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For the next three months, the Barlows roamed between Texas and Minnesota, hijacking cars, robbing banks, and kidnapping. Sometimes they even kidnap police officers or robbery victims, take them for a drive and chat, then drop them far away, often giving them money to return. However, what the media renders the most is their ruthlessness and bloodthirsty murder. Since the photos went viral and became famous, it has become increasingly difficult for them to find a safe place to stay. Many times they have to camp in the wild, bathing in streams and sleeping in cramped cars. Their turbulent life made them grumpy and quarrelsome.
Once, when they fell into a deep pit while driving, Bonnie's right leg was badly burned by the burning gasoline, and her leg injury did not heal until she died.
The Barlow Gang is stalked by police and bounty hunters, and soon falls apart. Buck is arrested and killed, as are Blanche and William. Bonnie and Clyde start a constant escape. On the way, they returned to Dallas to visit family for the last time. Bonnie told her mother that "if there ever comes a day... bury me and Clyde together". They had anticipated their end.
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They took refuge in a friend who had helped, but the friend's father tipped off the police. So just like at the end of the movie "The Male and Female Thieves", the police ambushed them.
On May 23, 1934, police used a friend's father as bait to lure Clyde into stopping the car and talking to him. Just then, the gunshots blared, and Bonnie and Clyde were beaten into a sieve without realizing what was going on. The gunfire was so intense that the police officers involved in the ambush were inaudible for hours after the incident.
Inside their Ford, police found a saxophone, three Browning automatic rifles, sawn-off long guns, a .32 automatic, a .45 revolver and approximately 3,000 rounds of ammunition. In addition, there are a lot of license plates from Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Texas, and states like Indiana and Ohio. The car was later used for an exhibit, 25 cents per visit.
Their Ford was hit with more than a hundred bullets, about 50 of them hitting both of them. Clyde also wrote to Henry Ford before, praising Ford's 8-cylinder car as the best escape tool, but Ford didn't advertise it.
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The death of the legendary bandits sent shockwaves across the country. Within a few hours, tens of thousands of people poured into this small town with a population of only 2,000, and some people flew to join in the fun. Usually 15 cents a bottle of beer sold for 25 cents at this time.
According to the coroner, the scene was a mess when he arrived, with enthusiastic onlookers trying to take everything they could from Bonnie and Clyde as a souvenir, and someone even planned to cut off Clyde's ear.
Just like their splendid deaths, their funerals were as lively as ever. It's just that Bonnie's mother didn't follow their wishes to bury them together. More than 20,000 people watched Bonnie's funeral, so crowded that even her family couldn't get close to the cemetery. Many sent flowers, the largest of which were from Dallas newsboys, whose deaths sent newspaper sales soaring. At Clyde's funeral, thousands of people also came to pay their respects to the remains of a generation of thieves.
At that time, the American society was extremely conflicted, and Bonnie and Clyde were entrusted with considerable emotions by the people at the bottom. They didn't call themselves heroes, but the public thought they were because they fulfilled the Depression's fantasy of rebelling against the powerful and the rich.
But no matter how they are commemorated and worshipped by the people, it is undeniable that they all bear many innocent lives. After the release of "The Male and Female Thief", some family members of the victims accused the film of beautifying the image of the criminal. However, the personal heroism of Bonnie and Clyde has never faded in history, and even today, people still come to Bonnie and Clyde's grave to lay flowers for them.
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