Bonnie_and_Clyde

Bonnie and Clyde Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker burst upon the American Southwest in the Great Depression year of 1932. At the time of Clyde’s first involvement with a murder, people paid little attention to the event. He was just another violent hoodlum in a nation with a growing list of brutal criminals, which included Al Capone, John Dillenger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barker Gang. Not until Bonnie and Clyde joined forces did the public become intrigued. The phrase "Bonnie and Clyde" took on an electrifying and exotic meaning that has abated little in the past sixty years. Clyde Chestnut Barrow was born on March 24, 1909, into a family of four children. Ironically when the midwife told a local physician of his birth, the physician incorrectly recorded it as "baby girl Barrow" in the Vital Statistics volume of the Ellis County Courthouse at Waxahachie. Three additional children followed Clyde’s birth, and the families financial difficulties worsened as the price for cotton bounced up and down. After some years the Barrow’s found it impossible to provide for their children and sent them to live with relatives in east Texas. At one relatives home Clyde developed two interests that remained with him to clyde, bonnie, one, clyde’s, after, texas, man, home, car, another, while, started, soon, small, off, night, named, live, dallas, crime, being, barrow, years, two, returned, police, out, lawman, killing, killed, jail, injured, hill, gun, gang, died, children, brother, began, became, age, again, yet, year, until, trying, town, took, time, stealing, steal