Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were barely in their 20s when they started robbing and killing. They were on the run for three years before the law inevitably caught up with them. In 1934 they died dramatically in an ambush in Louisiana, fired on by a posse of police. Bonnie and Clyde’s car was riddled with bullets – more than 100 of them.
Teagan Wouters and Blake Appelqvist will play Bonnie & Clyde in Frank Wildhorn’s musical, produced by Joshua Robson Productions at the Hayes Theatre Co. Photo © Alex Wales
They died famous, their exploits widely publicised in newspapers eager for sensation. Jeff Guinn, author of Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde, says they became “the first two modern icons created by the media in America”. Their fame was such that on hearing about the ambush, people rushed to the scene to get souvenirs. The car was towed into a small town with the bodies still inside and later the vehicle was put on display. It’s a tourist attraction to this day at a casino in Nevada.
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