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To: Responsibility2nd

It is a good movie. I am not going to say that every last detail was accurate. But from what I have read the details are far more accurate than most movies on these kinds of subjects.


6 posted on 04/03/2019 2:45:47 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel

My grandfather worked with Clyde Barrow in the oilfields in Oklahoma. Obviously, pre-bank robbing spree. Said he never would have suspected it was the same guy—just another roughneck trying to make a living in desperate times.

Probably the most relevant part to their story is how the press callously marketed their exploits against the public interest. Some things never change.


73 posted on 04/03/2019 5:37:47 PM PDT by antidisestablishment (The blood of children is Folly's currency.)
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