Bonnie Parker: 1911–1934
Clyde Barrow: 1909–1934
Romanticized for their devotion to each other and their devil-may-care lives on the run, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were headline-makers. They robbed banks and stores—but not very successfully. They killed—with no sign of remorse. And they captured the public’s imagination—both then and now.
Clyde Barrow was born in Telice, Texas, on March 24, 1909. His parents, Henry and Cumie Barrow, had seven other children. The Barrow family was extremely poor. As a youth, Barrow was sent to the Harris County School for Boys, a reformatory, where he was deemed to be “an incorrigible truant [absent from school without permission], thief, and runaway.” After he was released, Barrow joined a gang of petty thieves in Houston, Texas, known as the Square Root Gang. While still in his teens, he joined his older brother Ivan Marvin “Buck” Barrow in stealing cars and robbing grocery stores and gas stations.
In 1928, after the pair robbed a gas station in Denton, Texas, police pursued the Barrow brothers in a high-speed chase. Buck Barrow was shot and severely wounded during the chase.
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