You've read the story of Jesse James While watching some of the two-part Bonnie and Clyde miniseries on the History Channel, I was reminded that I have seen their actual "death car", in which police fired 187 shots in just 16 seconds. I have also seen the car that was used in the 1967 Bonnie and Clyde movie. I was young and didn't know what I was seeing at the time, but the image of the bullet-riddled cars has stuck in my brain for many, many years. Some day they'll go down together they'll bury them side by side. The apartment still stands, narrowly surviving the May 22, 2011, EF5 tornado that swept through Joplin. Due to the housing shortage following the tornado, the place was leased as a private residence. | If they try to act like citizens The story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow is an intriguing one that is a part of Joplin's history. On April 13, 1933, after hiding out in a garage apartment at 3347½ Oak Ridge Drive in Joplin, the gang shot and killed Joplin Police Detective Harry McGinnis and Newton County Sheriff's Department Constable J. W. Harryman. As a side note, one of the side characters in my newest book, Out of the Wind, is (ironically) a Joplin police officer named Sergeant Lloyd Barrow. Block quotes taken from Bonnie Parker's original poem, The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde. |
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