Modern Era · North America · Politics
1934
Bonnie and Clyde killed
May 23, 1934
After a two-year crime spree across the American Southwest, a Texas posse ambushed Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow in a stolen Ford on a Louisiana back road. They fired a hundred and thirty bullets in thirty seconds. The young outlaws became instant folklore, and stayed there, becoming the subject of a million movies and ballads.
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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