Clyde Barrow with 1932 Ford V-8, circa 1933
THF130900 / Clyde Barrow with 1932 Ford V-8, circa 1933
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Artifact Overview
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow captured headlines -- and attention from the FBI -- with a string of robberies and murders throughout the central United States in the early 1930s. Police officers ambushed and killed the couple in May 1934. Their exploits were romanticized in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
13 April 1933
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
92.1.1774.P.CO.321
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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ArtifactLetter from Clyde Barrow to Henry Ford Praising the Ford V-8 Car, 1934
On April 13, 1934, Ford Motor Company received this unusual product testimonial. In it notorious bank robber Clyde Barrow extolled the virtues of Ford V-8s as getaway cars. Handwriting analysts have questioned the letter's authenticity, but it is the sort of thing the publicity-seeking Barrow might have written.