Bonnie And Clyde Research Paper

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Bonnie and Clyde Bonnie and Clyde were a gangster couple during the Great Depression who had an eventful story. “Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met in January 1930 by a mutual friend” (Blatty). The story is that Bonnie and Clyde were a couple that first met in the thirties and were thieves, robbers, and murderers, they had crime sprees, which ended after their deaths. The first meeting of Bonnie and Clyde, their sprees, and their deaths are the most eventful parts of their life. Bonnie and Clyde first met each other in nineteen-thirty. They met in January when Bonnie was nineteen and Clyde was twenty-three. When the couple met, Bonnie was a waitress and Clyde was running from the law as a wanted man. Bonnie and Clyde met through a friend …show more content…

The crime sprees lasted for almost three years before they were stopped. After Clyde got out of prison, his first crime was robbing a store. Clyde went with a gang and Bonnie had tagged along. While they robbed, Bonnie stayed in the car the entire time. The police ended up arresting Bonnie when they found her, but ended up releasing her due to no evidence that she was apart of the crime. Soon after the robbery, they started going on crime sprees. When their sprees first started, a gunman had joined them but he left a little while after joining them. Bonnie and Clyde usually had someone or a gang with them, except on their final days. Clyde’s brother and his wife was two of people that joined them for a while on their sprees. While they were going on the sprees they robbed, stole, and murdered. Clyde did most of the dirty work and Bonnie just went along with it because she loved him. Clyde mostly shot policemen more than anything else, but they ended up releasing more people then they killed. When they released the policemen they had kidnapped, it was always over another state border close to the state they were in. As one can see, they committed a lot of crimes but some weren’t as bad as …show more content…

In the morning of May twenty-third Bonnie and Clyde were shot to death by policemen in Louisiana. The couple were driving down an empty highway in a car they had stolen when they were ambushed by a group of cops. When the cops saw them, they immediately started firing their guns at the stolen car. When examined, people noticed Bonnie and Clyde’s bodies had twenty-five bullet holes each. Which everyone knew has to have come from the police ambush. Clyde died instantly from the wounds but Bonnie held on for a few seconds. When Bonnie and Clyde were alive, they had wished to be buried side by side if anything happened to them. That was their wish before their deaths. That didn’t happen however, because Bonnie’s mom had disapproved of their relationship. Bonnie ended up buried in a different place away from Clyde. Bonnie’s mom had blamed Clyde for her daughters death. When Bonnie was buried, she was wearing a wedding band but it wasn’t from Clyde, it was actually the one from her ex-husband. Therefore, people can see that their deaths may have been a little