May 23, 2012

Bonnie and Clyde come to a full stop in 1934 ambush today


It was 78 years ago today, in 1934, that notorious Texas gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow drove this stolen Ford Deluxe into a police ambush along a Louisiana country road, killing them both. The ambush ended a crime spree by their gang that killed nine police officers and numerous civilians in robberies of more than a dozen banks and countless small stores and shops.

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