Have things changed that much now? In the 21st century? 90 yrs later? Pittsburgh is rife w/ nepotism & croneyism. The spouse of a well-placed administrator will advance in record-time while someone much more qualified will go nowhere slow. Bonnie’s leg would never be the same after the accident. Because the couple had a lot of experience with nursing gunshot wounds, the leg eventually healed, but not properly, since Clyde could not take her to a real doctor. Witnesses described Bonnie as hopping more than walking for the last year of her life, and often Clyde would simply carry her when she had to get somewhere. Bonnie and Clyde were devoted to their families While Clyde hurts people, he was also hurt himself. In prison, he was repeatedly raped by a psychopathic man; he eventually kills the man, his only premediated murder. The terrible prison experience also confirms for Clyde that he would rather die than return to jail. Weirdly enough I have never been much interested in the story of Bonnie and Clyde. I think many decades ago I did watch the movie but it did not make me want to know more apparently. What an eye opener! Forget everything you may have heard or seen particularly if you have seen the movie starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. Jeff Guinn, the author of this book has meticulously researched this saga, and provides an extensive source listing. It’s so complete that it seems almost every line in the text is sourced from a letter, an interview, police reports, etc. Hats off to his comprehensive research efforts.

The lyrics of "Goodnight Saigon" are about Marines in battle bonding together, fighting their fears and trying to figure out how to survive. [1] The singer, a Marine, sings of "we" rather than "I", emphasizing that the Marines are all in the situation together. [1] In the bridge Joel sings of the darkness and the fear it induced in the Marines. [1] This leads into the refrain, which has multiple voices coming together to sing that the Marines will "all go down together", emphasizing their camaraderie. [1] [2] Clyde and Bonnie loved lavishing their relatives with money and gifts, (when they could), and they both liked to dress nicely. That was about the only luxury they could enjoy, because they were almost always on the run, never able to relax or enjoy themselves. Most of their robberies netted them so little in the way of booty, they were hardly worth the trouble.

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Regardless of how one feels about police or criminals, the death of someone soon to start their married life is a tragic affair. Many people might feel this way about police but how many wd feel that way about criminals? At any rate, Guinn seems to try to examine Clyde's murders realistically. It's all too easy to oversimplify & to let sensationlist gossip get the upper hand.

Bonnie follows Clyde wherever he goes; her only real goal in life is to travel away from the mundane trappings of her upbringing. Before she met Clyde, Guinn writes that it is possible that Bonnie worked as a prostitute to make enough money for the makeup and posh clubs she wanted. As an aficionado of crime fiction, I thought I would dip my toe into the non-fiction world of real life crime. Like many people, I had heard bits and pieces about various criminal celebrities of the 1930s, like Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, and Bonnie and Clyde. Part of my brain realized their real life stories were probably far from what has been depicted in the movies, TV, etc. so at the recommendation of a good friend who studies this era of crime, I chose to read this book about Bonnie and Clyde. It is also a miracle of compression. It captures perfectly the emotional dilapidations of a dying relationship. If there is anyone who recognises nothing of themselves, a partner or a partnership in their bitter exchanges, especially during the final row (cathartic though it proves), I wish to live inside your head and life for ever.

I would not recommend this book if you are not really interested in the Bonnie and Clyde story as it is nothing like what you see in the movies or have probably read about. To me it is more interesting actually but I can see how it may bore some people or be hard to get through. Of the seven men who'd died directly by his hand to date—he'd been erroneously blamed for two other murders—only two killings had been premeditated. The first was in 1931, when Clyde used a lead pipe to crush the skull of a fellow inmate who'd repeatedly raped him on a Texas prison farm. The second came six weeks before H. D. Murphy died outside Grapevine, when Clyde helped Joe Palmer murder a guard who'd abused Palmer in prison." - p 3 Turns out that a lot of things I thought I knew about Bonnie and Clyde were not true. They were not a tall and handsome couple like Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. They were also not very smart-both of them spent some in jail and for Clyde that was some hard time. I guess that old adage is right: crime does not pay.

As the train rolled across the wooded Wisconsin countryside en route to the state mental hospital, he was asked whether he liked to hunt. 'Only Bull Moose,' he replied wryly.""

sometimes we're wet💦 sometimes we squirt sometimes we cream down my bu++ whole 2023-04-25T18:33:46Z Comment by hiiii:) This book has made me want to know all about them plus it made me cry. It made me fall in love with Bonnie most of all but I also started to see the good of Clyde. Alan Cumming has included this song on his album Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs: Live at the Cafe Carlyle. He sings it in touching memory of his grandfather, Tommy Darling. [14] Charts [ edit ] Chart (1983-84)