BONNIE AND CLYDE PIECE OF CLYDE BARROW\'S PANTS WORN AT TIME OF AMBUSH
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BONNIE AND CLYDE PIECE OF CLYDE BARROW\'S PANTS WORN AT TIME OF AMBUSH :
$950.00
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow a/k/a Clyde Champion Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934) were American outlaws and robbers from the Dallas area who traveled the central United States with their gang during the Great Depression. At times, the gang included Buck Barrow, Blanche Barrow, Raymond Hamilton, W. D. Jones, Joe Palmer, Ralph Fults, and Henry Methvin. Their exploits captured the attention of the American public during the \"public enemy era\" between 1931 and 1935. Though known today for his dozen-or-so bank robberies, Barrow preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is believed to have killed at least nine police officers and several civilians. The couple were eventually ambushed and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana, by law officers. Their reputation was revived and cemented in American pop folklore by Arthur Penn\'s 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde which starred Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty as the pair.
Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him over a rental car he had failed to return on time. His second arrest, with brother Marvin \"Buck\" Barrow, came soon after, this time for possession of stolen goods (turkeys). Despite having legitimate jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, robbed stores, and stole cars. After sequential arrests in 1928 and 1929, he was sent to Eastham Prison Farm in April 1930. While in prison, Barrow beat to death another inmate who had repeatedly assaulted him. This was Clyde Barrow\'s first killing.
Paroled in February 1932, Barrow emerged from Eastham a hardened and bitter criminal. His sister Marie said, \"Something awful sure must have happened to him in prison, because he wasn\'t the same person when he got out.A fellow inmate, Ralph Fults, said he watched him \"change from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake
Even during their lifetimes, the couple\'s depiction in the press was at considerable odds with the hardscrabble reality of their life on the road—particularly in the case of Parker. Though she was present at a hundred or more felonies during her two years as Barrow\'s companion, she was not the machine gun-wielding killer portrayed in the newspapers, newsreels, and pulp detective magazines of the day. Gang member W.D. Jones later testified that he was unsure whether he had ever seen her fire at officers. Parker\'s reputation as a cigar-smoking gun moll grew out of a playful snapshot found by police at an abandoned hideout, released to the press, and published nationwide.
Barrow and Parker were ambushed and killed on May 23, 1934, on a rural road in Bienville Parish, Louisiana The couple appeared in daylight in an automobile and were shot by a posse of four Texas officers (Frank Hamer, B.M. \"Manny\" Gault, Bob Alcorn and Ted Hinton) and two Louisiana officers (Henderson Jordan and Prentiss Morel Oakley.Researchers have said Bonnie and Clyde were shot more than fifty times others claim closer to twenty-five wounds per corpse, or fifty total. Officially, parish coroner Dr. J. L. Wade\'s 1934 report listed 17 separate entrance wounds on Barrow\'s body and 26 on Parker\'s, including several headshots on each, and one that had snapped Barrow\'s spinal column. Undertaker C. F. \"Boots\" Bailey had difficulty embalming the bodies because of all the bullet holes.
Years ago Clyde Barrow\'s Sister Marie who had Clyde\'s pants that he wore at the time he and Bonnie was shot cut the pants in squares and sold a limited number of them.
I am offering for sale one of them. Marie Barrow alsoSIGNEDthe document that thepiece of clothingis attached to. She has numbered this one #235 of 870She is now deceased so her autograph is very collectable. In the frame is also a pic ofMarie Barrow signing one and of a young Marie Barrow with Clyde.
Nicely displayed in a large 17 + 14 frame. Frame hassomesome nicks along the edges and on the back that could be touched up but its a very attractive frame.Comes witha copy of a affidavid that she gave out with each purchase which is attached to the back of the frame.
Mayis the 84th anniversary of the ambush of Bonnie And Clyde and there was also a made for TV 2 part movie made about them.
Very rare to find an actual personal artifact of Bonnie & Clyde from that infamous day in 1934 when their killing spree ended so dramatically in a hail of gunfire that suddenly ended Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parkers\' s life.A great collectors item !!!
Innice frame , great conversation piece for yourhome or office wall.
PS : I recently heard from a person who lived in the same town as Clyde\'s sister. He said that even though there were over 800of them,half of them were in the possession of another of Clyde\'s relitives and they were destroyed ina fire. So there are much less available than originally thought.***
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BONNIE AND CLYDE PIECE OF CLYDE BARROW\'S PANTS WORN AT TIME OF AMBUSH :
$950.00