The Real Bonnie & Clyde

[V.C. Brunswick]

From the BBC documentary series Timewatch

[video=youtube;cRYp6Xos79k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRYp6Xos79k[/video]

 

[J.W.]

Very interesting and informative show. Thanks for sharing it!

 

[TomS]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Story]

A pistol retrieved from the skirt of Bonnie Parker of the infamous Depression-era outlaw duo of Bonnie and Clyde as her bullet-riddled body was stripped for embalming in 1934 will go up for auction on January 25 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The semi-automatic .38 caliber Colt, complete with the clip and six bullets, has a pre-auction estimate of between $125,000 and $175,000, Case said.

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/pistol-pulled-from-bonnie-parkers-bloody-skirt-set-for-auction

 

[Renault]

80 years ago today the couple met their end in Louisiana.

Here is a good website if you are interested in a looksee.

http://texashideout.tripod.com/posse.html

 

[Horace Debussy Jones]

http://news.msn.com/pop-culture/pistol-pulled-from-bonnie-parkers-bloody-skirt-set-for-auction

Geeze, the funeral director just gave it to his partner's 12 year old son! And no one protested or thought anything of it I bet. Try something like that nowadays and you'd never hear the end of it.

 

[Stearmen]

3,000 rounds of ammunition! The two mothers sure had Chutzpah, asking for the weapons. Reminds me of Jesse James mother, she would go to the hardware store and buy rusty old guns for a few cents, then sell them as the gun her sun used in all his holdups!

 

[Feraud]

Geeze, the funeral director just gave it to his partner's 12 year old son! And no one protested or thought anything of it I bet. Try something like that nowadays and you'd never hear the end of it.

Gives new meaning to the term, "times were different"..