Clyde Barrow with 1932 Ford V-8, circa 1933

Summary

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.

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.

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

13 April 1933

Creators

Unknown

 On Exhibit

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

92.1.1774.P.CO.321

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of the Family of Henry Austin Clark, Jr.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 5 in

Width: 4 in

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