This is a 1940’s era, black and white film purports to show the final moments of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, known to the world as “Bonnie and Clyde”. It is in fact a portion of a documentary film that features some of the lawmen involved in the killing of the pair, and reenactments performed with actors. The movie opens with a re-enactment showing Bonnie and Clyde sitting on the running board of their car and sipping from a whiskey bottle. Two patrol officers on motorbikes pull over on the side of the road and approach Bonnie and Clyde, unaware of their identity 1:15. The gangsters / lovers immediately open fire and kill the officers. They drive away in the car 1:40. According to the narrator, this murder enrages police officers across the nation. Officers hold shotguns and stand in the road in rural Louisiana searching for Bonnie and Clyde 2:05. The men hide in the brush on the side of the road as Bonnie and Clyde approach in a car 2:38. The men fire from the brush. As a result of the ambush Bonnie and Clyde are killed. Title card: the following scene was made on the spot by an amateur photographer five minutes after the shooting 3:10. The Ford V-8 is riddled with bullets 3:30. Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker lie dead in the front seat 3:45. The car is in tatters 4:10. Guns lie across the back trunk of the car 4:19. The Barrow and Parker “death car” 4:35. Four of the six officers who brought down Bonnie and Clyde stand before the camera: Deputy Sheriff Oakley. Sheriff Jordan from Louisiana. Deputy Sheriff Bob Alcorn from Texas. Deputy Sheriff Ted Hinton, Alcorn’s partner, who, with Alcorn, trailed Bonnie and Clyde for many months. The funeral of Bonnie and Clyde 6:10. The coffin goes into the ground 6:20. Flowers are put on the grave 6:35. “Someday they’ll go down together, they’ll bury them side by side. To few it’ll be grief, to the law a relief, but it’s death for Bonnie and Clyde”. From a poem, written by Bonnie Parker. Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, known for their bank robberies, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the “public enemy era” between 1931 and 1934. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians. They were killed in May 1934 during an ambush by police near Gibsland, Louisiana.

Bonnie Elizabeth Parker and Clyde Chestnut Barrow were an American criminal couple who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, known for their bank robberies, although they preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. Their exploits captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is occasionally referred to as the “public enemy era” between 1931 and 1934. They are believed to have murdered at least nine police officers and four civilians. They were killed on May 23, 1934 during an ambush by police near Gibsland, Louisiana.

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