rromeo
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Well that's the problem. San Francisco's liberal regression took off in the 1930s. Cheney stopped the conservatives from being born.
Historic Firearms Revelation On History Channel About Bonnie and Clyde
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cowart
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You can see film of the actual death car in Ted Hinton's 8mm movie, which he started filming 5 minutes after the shooting, while the bodies were still in the car. Clyde's firearms are seen briefly. It was made into a newsreel at the time.
YouTube - Bonnie and Clyde Death Scene
One fairly creatable story I've heard is that the main reason B&C were not given a chance to surrender was that one of the BAR men did not follow The Plan. His instruction were to open fire first and empty his magazine into the engine, disabling the car. Instead he fired directly into the drivers door.
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semperfi71
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If it were 1934, and I was in charge of "getting" Bonnie and Clyde, and knowing about the "arsenal" they had, and knowing that they would always fight it out, and knowing that they had already killed a number of folks...................
I'd a done exactly as was done.
I'm glad I live now and don't have to make those decisions.
BUT, I'd a kept the nickeled Python as a souvenir!!
I'd a done exactly as was done.
I'm glad I live now and don't have to make those decisions.
BUT, I'd a kept the nickeled Python as a souvenir!!
cowboy117
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"The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde"was an album and a song by Merle Haggard.Also,"The Story of Bonnie & Clyde" was done by Flatt & Scruggs.
Wyatt Burp
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in "Going Down Together", a recent book on B&C, and a good one, one of the local LEO's there admitted that he got a little excited and shot too soon. The car came to a stop, he was looking at the side of Clydes head just yards away and started firing with a Rem. Model 8. He hit the door frame and shot Clyde in the temple. The others started firing at the sound of that shot. Too lazy to check the book, but believe that Hamer's pal Manny Gault carried Hamer's Rem. Model 8, One guy had a BAR, one a Winchester 30-30, the afore mentioned Model 8, and Hamer a Colt Monitor (BAR). He also carried a Colt 1911 .38 Super for penetration in this one situation only and a Colt SAA.
As much as they had no choice but to shoot Bonnie, there is no evidence of her ever using a gun, let alone shoot anyone, except those photos of her holding pistols. This book cuts her no slack but points out Clyde crashing a car and Bonnie getting her leg soaked in battery acid. So for a very long time till they got turned into swiss cheese, Clyde had to carry her around everywhere. He was a punk killer who was really good with guns but gave his victims no chance, she was an accomplice who fatalistically tagged along knowing how it would all end.
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semperfi71
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Wyatt Burp,
I had read years ago ( and maybe now corrected info ) that when Bonnie and Clyde killed the Grapevine motorcycle cops that after they fell Bonnie walked out to one of them and shot him in the head with a shotgun (possibly her cutdown 20 gauge) and laughed out loud to Clyde as to how funny he looked when his head bounced.
This was reportedly told by the farmer who sat on his front proch and watched and heard it.
Do you have info to the contrary?
I had read years ago ( and maybe now corrected info ) that when Bonnie and Clyde killed the Grapevine motorcycle cops that after they fell Bonnie walked out to one of them and shot him in the head with a shotgun (possibly her cutdown 20 gauge) and laughed out loud to Clyde as to how funny he looked when his head bounced.
This was reportedly told by the farmer who sat on his front proch and watched and heard it.
Do you have info to the contrary?
B&C proved several times that they would not submit to arrest without a fight. Knowing this and the weapons they would have been expected to be armed with I don’t blame Hamer and the others for not allowing B&C to fight it out.
Wyatt Burp
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A farmer said he witnessed the shooting, but his visability from his porch several hundred yards from the shooting of the two motorcycle cops was debatable.. According to this book, when the cops rode up Clyde said to Methvin, "Let's take them!" Meaning capture and kidnap them like he did before with other cops. Methvin misinterpreted this and got out and "took one" with his BAR then Clyde shot the other guy. This book never hesitates to honestly show the coldbloodedness of Clyde so the author wasn't cutting Clyde some slack in this instance. But it's just one book and even though I read this angle before which kept bonnie out of it, there's other views out there. Regardless, they were all worthless ***'s who killed a lot of LEO's, leaving their families sad and destitute in already tough times.
I think it was probably as described in this book but don't know where this interpretation came from unless Methvin told it later because he was granted immunity. His immunity was from Texas but another state nailed him for a different murder. Oklahoma, maybe. I can't remember.
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HOUSTON RICK
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Gee, if that is true then maybe that guy really did have Napolean Bonaparte's 1911 at that gunshow. Not.
