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May 23rd 2009
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Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow Exactly 75 years ago today, at 9.15am on May 23, 1934, Clyde Barrow was driving along in his socks, while Bonnie was eating a sandwich in the passenger seat. Near Gibsland, they stopped to greet the father of one of their gang members — but it was a trap. A six-man posse of Texas and Louisiana troopers was waiting in ambush and opened fire. Clyde died instantly — the first shot took off the top of his head. But Bonnie was only wounded and began screaming — a scream so terrible that their principal pursuer, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, fired two more shots into the 23-year old at close range: “I hate to bust the cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down. But if it wouldn’t have been her, it would have been us.”One man tried to cut off Clyde’s finger with a pocket knife; another attempted to cut off his left ear. Blood-stained pieces of Bonnie’s dress were removed, as were locks of her hair. But the freak show didn’t end there.

Bonnie Parker & Clyde Barrow

Exactly 75 years ago today, at 9.15am on May 23, 1934, Clyde Barrow was driving along in his socks, while Bonnie was eating a sandwich in the passenger seat. Near Gibsland, they stopped to greet the father of one of their gang members — but it was a trap. A six-man posse of Texas and Louisiana troopers was waiting in ambush and opened fire.

Clyde died instantly — the first shot took off the top of his head. But Bonnie was only wounded and began screaming — a scream so terrible that their principal pursuer, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, fired two more shots into the 23-year old at close range: “I hate to bust the cap on a woman, especially when she was sitting down. But if it wouldn’t have been her, it would have been us.”

One man tried to cut off Clyde’s finger with a pocket knife; another attempted to cut off his left ear. Blood-stained pieces of Bonnie’s dress were removed, as were locks of her hair.

But the freak show didn’t end there.

May 23rd 2009
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Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker Faye trumps all. (Exception: women who dated Serge Gainsbourg.)

Faye Dunaway as Bonnie Parker

Faye trumps all. (Exception: women who dated Serge Gainsbourg.)

May 23rd 2009
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Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot, Bonnie and Clyde

Based on Bonnie Parker’s The Trail’s End:

“They don’t think they’re too smart or desperate, they know that the law always wins. Some day they’ll go down together, they’ll bury them side by side — to few it’ll be grief, to the law a relief, but it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde.”