Great post thanks.
>>>The myth of Bonnie and Clyde gets some of the whipping it deserves..
Well I wish that was so but John Ford said it best in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. “When the legend becomes the truth, print the legend”.
Not one in a hundred will ever bother to see the reality of Bonnie and Clyde. Clyde’s homosexuality for instance. All they’ll ever know is what Faye Dunnaway and Warren Beatty played. Impossibly pretty kids having fun. Misunderstood, but really nice people.
“gulling her into giving up a vital clue that leads to his ambush murder by Thompson submachine gun.”
I don’t think the ambush used Thompsons. I believe they had one or two BARs along with shotguns and rifles though.
Excellent. Thanks for the post.
Hamer’s words about bringing down Bonnie, “I hate to bust a cap on a woman especially when she was sitting down but if it hadn’t been them it would have been us”.
Bonnie and Clyde- one of my favorite flicks from childhood. I liked Natural Born Killers too but it was B & C on steroids/LSD. Bonnie and Clyde was a great flick because it was based on real people.
The author needs to lighten up. It isn't the first time in American (or world) history that people have idolized outlaws. Jesse James? People idolized him decades before Hollywood even existed. Willam Bonney. Robin Hood. Various pirates. List goes on.
My dogs, who we found while they were on the lam in the swamp next door, back in Georgia, are not dead.
Bonnie and Clyde LIVE!!! ;-P