Bonnie Parker Research Paper

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Bonnie and Clyde’s Mark on The 1930’s
It was a time of little hope and poverty in the 1930’s when Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow first took their opinionated stand against the Federal Bureau of Investigation along with local police enforcement. During their four years of criminal activity, they scared many american citizens in the midwest and south. Their crimes left many crying due to their loved ones dying, registers were emptied, and officers lay dead on asphalt to meadow. In 1934, Police officers were enraged with the outlaws and found a way to force the killers to stop. A wall of bullets were fired at their car and they soon lay dead together with bullets engulfing them. Soon after their death, The legacy of Bonnie and Clyde caught up …show more content…

Bonnie Parker was born on October 1, 1910 in Rowena, Texas. She stood 4’11, but fiesty, and weighed only ninety pounds. Her bobbed, auburn hair stood out in the daylight of Texas. She had blue eyes with a fair complexion. A heart throb among young men. Her parents were Henry and Emma Parker. She was the second of the three children her parents had. Bonnie’s father died in 1914, which could have contributed to her crime sprees and behavioral problems according to the F.B.I. Before her father's death, he was a bricklayer in local Rowena. The money he earned from his job was enough to support his family, so they lived comfortably. At the age of sixteen, Bonnie dropped out of school and soon after married a young man named Roy Thornton. Although they were married, their relationship wasn't always romantic and sweet. They both were unhappy and by 1927, Thornton was rarely ever home. Thornton was soon caught with counts of burglary and sent to prison for a sentence of five years, which helped Bonnie find her soulmate, Clyde Barrow. After Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow soon met they went on a murderous crime spree. Although they thought they were “standing up to the cops”, they were ruining the lives of those they took, and making a bad influence for the young generation of kids in the 1930’s. Barrow and his brother Buck formed a gang known as the “Barrow Gang.” Parker and Barrow commited murders, robbed …show more content…

An officer of the law or a shopkeeper stumbles to die in a pool of his own blood. An automobile roars away with the occupants cursing or laughing. " Parker and her affiliated gang was on the run when a police officer stopped them. The officer was aware of who they were and what they have done and will continue to do. The officer shot at the gang, but the gangs swiftness allowed them to escape leaving a corpse of bullets. While Parker and Clyde were on a rampage they also were very romantic. Photos were leaked towards the star crossed lovers last days. Some leaked pictures included Parker holding a rifle towards Barrow’s chest as he was laughing. "The most famous picture of Bonnie Parker shows her holding a pistol, her foot up on the bumper of a Ford, a cigar clamped in her mouth like Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar" (Mcgasko).Soon after the picture of her cigar, officers described her as a woman, young of age, smoking a cigar with her partner when they drove off of a crime scene. Parker was offended when that word got out. She was not one to smoke cigars and she never did. She only held them in her