W.D. "Deacon" Jones Posing with Barrow Gang Stolen Weapons and 1932 Ford V-8

Summary

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker captured headlines with a string of robberies and murders from 1932 to 1934. W.D. Jones -- misidentified in this photo -- joined the gang when he was only sixteen. He left in September 1933 and was arrested two months later. Jones served six years in prison. He died in 1974, shot in an altercation with an acquaintance.

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker captured headlines with a string of robberies and murders from 1932 to 1934. W.D. Jones -- misidentified in this photo -- joined the gang when he was only sixteen. He left in September 1933 and was arrested two months later. Jones served six years in prison. He died in 1974, shot in an altercation with an acquaintance.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

13 April 1933

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

92.1.1774.P.CO.320

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Family of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 5 in

Width: 4 in

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