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- Clyde Barrow with 1932 Ford V-8, circa 1933 - 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 <em>Bonnie and Clyde</em> starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
- April 13, 1933
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Clyde Barrow with 1932 Ford V-8, circa 1933
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.
- Letter 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.
- April 10, 1934
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Letter 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.
- Movie Poster, "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967 - <em>Bonnie and Clyde</em>, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, romanticized the exploits of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. In the early 1930s, the couple committed a string of crimes across the central United States before they were ambushed and killed by police. The film, directed by Arthur Penn and released in 1967, stunned audiences with its graphic violence.
- 1932-1934
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Movie Poster, "Bonnie and Clyde," 1967
Bonnie and Clyde, starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, romanticized the exploits of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. In the early 1930s, the couple committed a string of crimes across the central United States before they were ambushed and killed by police. The film, directed by Arthur Penn and released in 1967, stunned audiences with its graphic violence.