Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Site
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2015
- A short stop at the ambush site of Bonne & Clyde. An isolated road in rural Louisiana, a broken down friend and about a dozen heavily armed LEO's hiding in the bushes. The outcome was obvious. Death for Bonnie & Clyde.
It was a short visit for Bonnie and Clyde too.
Oh I get it
lol
It wasn't fresh mowed grass, back then,,, it was 4ft. Tall, wild grass. Perfect cover,,
This guy is a Clown.
There were only six lawmen involved in the ambush of Bonnie & Clyde...2 Texas Rangers, 2 Dallas County deputies and 2 local deputies from Bienville Parish...Clyde was born at Telico near Ennis, Tx... about 20 miles from where I live and grew up...Bonnie grew up in far west Dallas/Cement City...Clyde lived with an uncle and aunt and went to school in his early years...just to the east of my hometown of Corsicana...
Not to be nit-picky but Frank Hamer, at the time of the Bonnie and Clyde ambush, was a *former* Texas Ranger. He was retired from the Rangers. Perhaps Manny Gault too.
blanche barrow was born in my home county
One day, a car stepped in front of a BAR.....
Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger etc etc! To think my grandmother was just a young girl, listening to their crimes on my great grandmother’s radio, is fascinating to me! Nice video indeed!
Fr it's crazy my great grandfather was around when they were alive on the run
I actually have a license plate that was on one of many of Baby Face Nelson’s cars, it is a 1930 Minnesota license plate
Same here. My Gram told me people rooted for them.
They all died in the same year
1934 was a bad year for criminals
I wonder if anyone has ever tried using a metal detector there to find old casings
That place has been picked clean by the local's immediately after the killing. In fact, the mayor of Arcadia told me that people were out with pocket knives digging out the bullets in the trees on the opposite side of the road. He was nine years old then and remember's it well. That road has been improved, widened, reasfaulted over and over again over time. I doubt that there's anything to be found today.
Many bullets ended up in the trees, embedded in the car, or in the bodies, but I'm sure that some passed through the car and or missed completely and ended up in the ground. Even bullets on a relatively flat trajectory bury themselves nicely in the earth. You could crawl on your hands and knees looking closely right after shooting a box of 30-06 in a grassy field and still wouldn't be able to spot where any of them went in (unlike a bullet striking a tree). I bet there are a least a dozen or so slugs still buried in the forest, but good luck finding any, even with a metal detector.
Very good question! I always thought the same thing! 👍 sure I'll bet you would find old casings but they'd be buried deep! Don't forget we're talking 86 years ago!
Lol wowwwwwww i was just thinking the same
It wasn't their partner that was stopped on the side of the road. It was the father of their partner.
I've been to the spot, too. Ted Hinton's son who runs the museum back in Gibsland said the spot changed a lot. His father took him out there once, he said, when he was a boy. The fellow who owns the land where the posse hid had it bulldozed to accommodate a road back to his place. In 1934 it didn't have small pine trees but was weedy, with mosquitoes. What will strike you if you visit the spot is how close to the road the posse was--not right on it but closer than the impression you get from watching films and newsreels. Bonnie and Clyde never had a chance.
Jim Pauff Yes I have thought that too.The officers must have been very close to Clyde's car when they started shooting.
Nor did they deserve a chance
They were ruthless murderers, they deserved to die
There was no way that the police were going to give them a chance most police officers were afraid of them so they were going to be shut down they weren’t even gonna give them a chance to surrender and Bonnie and Clyde knew that was their future
Of course not. They made asses and fools out of laws every where😂😂😂 that's why people love them so much. Besides being Robin Hoods😂 remember. The same system they had then is the same one we have today. You'll never get ahead, and if you try you'll be killed or shoved back down into your place. There's too many people in control that love their power and make sure your never to forget it.
The law enforcers who ambushed Bonnie and Clyde had a great deal of an advantage. The bushes and hedgerows provided them with good cover.
Actually they probably wouldn’t have gotten caught until the 50s if their 3rd wheelers father didn’t set them up. He didn’t want to see his boy dead since clydes brothers wife revealed his name to the sheriff. The 3rd wheelers father made a deal with law enforcement to spare his sons life and to actually reduce his jail sentence so he set up Bonnie and Clyde which got them ambushed
Well, unfortunately for him (Methvin) Oklahoma didn't see it that way and he was arrested and went to prison anyway, "in Oklahoma". The deal was with Texas.
My mistake, Methvin was paroled and later died in Louisiana. He was imprisoned for bank robbery. I'm thinking a plea deal because it was him along with Clyde that killed the two highway patrolmen.
What makes you think the 50’s?
I disagree. The mass of attention was focusing more and more on ridding these criminals from the streets. Clyde Barrow was a murderer, and Bonnie Parker was attributed one murder by then. It was deemed safer to kill them than attempt an arrest. Clyde had a BAR. That was a deadly weapon to face in a shoot-out. Blanch Barrow shortened her sentence by simply naming their wheelman (not a "3rd wheeler" - I understand your classification here). The nation's LEOs were already aware of who did what, but Blanch confirmed it - that's standard practice in Prosecuters Rules of Charges. They'd never have lasted thru WWII's security if they'd survived the 1930s.
@@pearlcaster8287 the problem was they were hard to track down tho. Would have been cool to see Bonnie alive today in jail tho
FYI, if Bonnie & Clyde were coming from Gibsland, and were heading south on Rt. 154, then the markers for the ambush site are on the wrong side of the road (look it up on Google maps), and the posse was concealed in the bushes on the opposite side of the road as the markers. Also, Bonnie & Clyde's car came to a stop on the same side of the road that the ambushers were on. The markers are on the side of the road where old man Methvin's truck was parked to steer Bonnie and Clyde into the other lane of the road to force them closer to the ambushers. And remember, the road in 1934 was much narrower than it was today, so Bonnie and Clyde were probably no more than 10-15 feet from the posse when they were killed. I imagine the parking spot where the markers are was made there because it was a more level place to make the pullover spot, and because the ambush side of the road had a steep incline, but that isn't where they were shot from, or where they were when they were shot at and killed.
That's true. The markers are on the opposite of the road from where the LEO was laying in wait. And, you're probably right in that where the officers were laying is on high ground. Placing the marker on the opposite side of the road may be due to a better location. At least, it points to where the officers were hiding on the opposite side.
Next time please try reading the names on the plaque of the officers and also read the original tombstone. Some of us will never get there and please give us what highway or road that is and the nearest major highway. Other than that it was good but could have been better.
@@rturner63 : The location is easy enough to find. You can ask anyone in the county once there and they'll tell ya. Tombstone? I didn't see a tombstone when I was there, but the stone plaque/memorial is there however shot up and full of holes. People in Louisiana need to practice I guess. Modern upgrades and widening of roads have whittled down the location and it's not really the same. The old museum in Gibsland
They were shooting at the car as it traveled at least 200ft. And, I think the car ended up on the opposite side of their travel lane. So, is the marker where the cops were; Or, where the car stopped?
@@mhmitzee Don't say County here in Louisiana...it's Parish. Don't mess up here either...Napoleonic Laws still in place. Welcome to Gibsland, Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
I visited the site while on a road trip holiday last year, and yes... it is a very lonely spot, ideal for an ambush. It was too early for the Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum in Gibsland to be open, but it looked like an interesting place to visit.
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Gibsland is very close to this museum, but did you see a sign that stated Mt. Lebanon before you got to the museum? That's the actual community where the museum is located, about 8 miles from the actual site of the killings.
@@liberty5069 I honestly can’t recall if I saw a sign to Mt Lebanon, I did a lot of miles that trip & saw a lot of signs! As I remember it there were two Bonnie & Clyde Museums quite near each other… one was the Ambush Museum on Main Street in Gibsland, the other was The Authentic Bonnie & Clyde Museum on S 2nd Street Gibsland… but my guess is there could well be others in the vicinity!
The law officials were NOT on both sides of the road.
Absolutely right Stephen & they set the truck up with the front right wheel off on the side of the road against the oncoming traffic ,so that B&C had to pull up closest to the six waiting officers up in the trees. It was massacre & it was meant to be.
So true they wasn't on both sides that guy is a bullshit he needs get is fax right before tells a story
Who said they were? Its always been shown law officials were on the left hand side of the road.
If they were on both sides of the road they would have been in a crossfire . with that much lead flying they would have shot their own guys.
Exactly..they were on the drivers side of the vehicle
Someday they will go down together, they will lay them side by side, few will grief to the law a relief, but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.
Bonnie was a pretty decent poet.
You really need to give credit, even to a murderer.
@@kennethcurtis1856 : Bonnie never killed anyone. It was all Clyde and members of his gang.
@@mhmitzee she did shoot out of the kitchen window during the first raid though I read
Oh thank you we all were wondering how Bonnie's poem ended.
That was definitely a country mile😂
When the governor of Texas called on retired Texas Ranger Frank Hamer it was pretty much lights out game over.
Frank Hamer is my cousin that helped take out Bonnie and Clyde
@@mikedaniel7195 He murdered them!, Big CHICKEN!😡
@@packingten No, he didn't. He brought two useless murderers to justice.
@@packingten So what exactly do you call what Bonnie and Clyde did to the several police officers they shot down in cold blood? Especially the 2 officers that were shot just getting off of their patrol motorcycles. Got blown away with a shotgun.
@@emilycassi1495 A credit to their community is what I call them. Getting rid of the violent filth in their polyester clown costumes that plague our towns and cities.
It was CW's dad pulled over to the side of the road. I've watched that movie many times. It's actually very accurate. The real life Blance Barrow (Buck's wife) did a lot of informal consulting on the movie. The director, Arthur Penn, and her became good friends.
It was Henry medvins father not cw moss
The movie with warden Beatty is a Hollywood bunch of bs. The movie the Highwaymen is much better and a lot more accurate. The warren Beatty shows him out of the car but Clyde was in the car when they shot them. Like I said that old movie is Hollywood bs.
Very inaccurate in almost every way-but a huge Hollywood hit with glamorous stars
Blanche Barrow did no consulting on the movie and did not become good friends with director Arthur Penn.Where do you
get your information? They needed Blanche's OK for the use of her name, showed her a script she thought was ok they
bought her a new fence for her yard, then filmed something completely(They lied to her) She was very unhappy with the
film.She did NO consulting on the movie nor did she make any friends!
@allengold6260 There was no "C.W. Moss." His name was W.D. Jones. The C.W. Moss character in the movie was a combination of W.D. Jones and Henry Methvin.
Nicely Paved Road Now. Back then, it was a Dirt Road.
They were not on both sides of the road
They were on one side
With Ivy Methvins truck
Parked in the road so
Bonnie and Clyde had
To pull over.
Methvins truck was positioned on the southbound side of the road heading north. Clyde was driving south and slowed to stop on the northbound side alongside Methvins truck thus putting him closer to the lawmen in wait on the east side of the road on the high ground giving them the advantage of surprise and better aim.
The scene in the movie quite accurately portrays the place where the ambush occurred.
The kill scene in the Highwaymen movie was actually filmed there at the original kill spot. My dad was the supervisor for the oil and gas company that has that lease, and the movie people had to get their permission to use one of their well locations. They graveled that section of the highway and added some shrubbery to try and make it look right. Then they used CGI to add trees along the highway during editing.
That road looks way different than when I was there in 1972.
Was a one lane dirt road back in 34, I think.
@@RW4X4X3006 it was
Wait how old r u
@@lopelorbes6297 68
What was it like in 1972?
The Highwaymen sticks with the broader details that are consistent across all accounts: that Ivy Methvin, father of Barrow gang member Henry Methvin, agreed to help in the ambush, and that his truck was planted in the road so that Clyde would slow down.
I was told by Old man" Boots " whose dad was 1 of the ambush posse ,that they took the wheel off Methvins Truck, and he was handcuffed to a tree close by,
Can you imagine being handcuffed to a tree when all that shootin started lmao??
I have family-owned land a mile from this site in Bienville Parish. Although now their death site was considered to be Gibsland, La which is actually about 10 miles away, or Arcadia, which is even further away at 18 miles, they actually were killed just outside an old sawmill town named Sailes (where my property is located). Bonnie and Clyde shopped in Sailes at a local mom-and-pop store owned by relatives. My mother, who was 4 years old at the time, was picking peas with my grandmother when her mother stopped and said "listen." They heard a continuous "popping" sound that seemingly went on for minutes but thought nothing of it until they were told a few weeks later that Clyde and Bonnie (how the locals referred to them) were shot and killed by police ambush. The area is actually more rural now than during the time of their deaths as the sawmill shut down in Sailes, LA and the people left the area for work elsewhere.
Great story and thanks.
Did any family members know the Methvins? Just curious.
@@JackTheSkunk They never mentioned the Methvins to me. My understanding is that the townfolk were naive about Clyde and Bonnie's criminal career. They saw them as a couple that regularly passed through. A couple of my old relatives, now passed away, said that Clyde and Bonnie were very cordial and nice to the people in the small town. Sailes was considered their refuge from their crime sprees. There was a rumor going around for many years that they hid their stolen money in the ground around Sailes. When I was young, my parents took me and my brother to wooded areas to look for the stolen "treasures." We never found anything.
I wouldn’t like to drive down that road at night. Looks like something out of Jeepers Creepers 😳
Bonnie and Clyde escaped from an ambush near Dexter, Iowa and made it to the home of cohort Henry Methvin's father in northern Louisiana. They holed up there, and Methvin's father (named Ivy) made a deal where his son got off with a lesser sentence in which he set up Clyde and Bonnie. That resulted in their ambush. Interesting video---lovely countryside.
My brother used to live in bienville parish where this is located and he said the old timers told him the local sheriff involved in the shootout turned white headed within just a year or two.
Maybe it was because they meant to kill them and not capture them.
@@Xonid1 you couldn't capture them Clyde wouldn't go back to prison he was thinking of the awful things done to him in the prison they had to kill them are be killed
@@johannajackson8784 - Reports are that Barrow was killed with the first shot. Would Parker have surrendered if given the chance?
There were 6 law officers on Clyde's side of the car it was ivy methvins truck they used as a decoy Bonnie was hit with 53 bullets Clyde had 51
Coroner said, Clyde was hit 17 times, Bonnie 26. The first shot hit Clyde in the head, killing him instantly. Bonnie wouldn’t have lasted more than a few seconds.
In 1933 at 9:00 in the evening in San Antonio Texas, my father was hit by a police car responding to a tip that Bonnie and Clyde were in town They threw them in the back of the police car and proceeded to drive around for 2 hours searching for Bonnie and Clyde before taking him home Could you imagine what kind of lawsuit you could file against the city these days if that were to happen?
Before “taking him home”????
How old are you? Your father was alive in 1933?
In much more recent years my friends were just standing inside the front door talking when they heard a whole bunch of loud sounds and a big bang.
They looked out and a police car was sitting on their front lawn and suddenly a group of police officers descended on them to ask them if they had seen anything but they hadn't been looking outside and hadn't seen a thing,
Apparently police were rushing from one crime scene to another and can't remember exactly but I think that a police officer had been shot that day and their was a possibility that there was a gun man at the scene they were racing to so the officers were no doubt feeling a lot of tension and stress and one of their cars collided with a civilian's car.
Who was at fault I couldn't say nor could my friends because they didn't see the accident but seems very possible that the fact that the police officers were in a rush to get to an important crime scene played a part.
King, my mom was born in 1933 and my grandfather was a cop in 1933. My dad was a WWII vet, fought in the battle of Okinawa. I wasn't born until the 1960s, my mom and dad had me late in life and I am a GenXer.
@@Sc0rch91 probably in his 60s or 70s
As I never failed to remind my late mother, Bonnie and Clyde were killed on her 8th birthday.
OMG.... You mean she was in the car with them?
@@garymazzeo3490no… u Bimbo 🤓😭
If law enforcement had been on both sides of the road there would have been too great a chance of dangerous cross fire. They stayed on one side only and that was more than enough.
Anyone with brains should know that
@@lukewilkins1190 Thank you for that insightful comment. In the excitement and drama of the moment even dangers such as posed by cross fire can be ignored. Anyone with a brain knows that.
That’s funny I thought the same thing
Louisiana is only one of two states I have yet to visit out of the 50. I’ll have to visit this site. I’ve seen the bullet riddled car a few times up close and personal. Wow. That was a lot of lead flying.
@Jim Rolfe It's in Whiskey Pete's Hotel & Casino PRIMM NEVADA
Is there still blood stains on it?
Some misinformation based on what I've read.
According to the lengthy book I read about them
(despite what is said here) they were not bank robbers.
Clyde tried a couple of times to rob banks and it didn't go well.
The impression the book left was that Clyde was basically just a car thief for the most part.
He was really good at hot wiring cars.
Yes, as well he was quite willing to shoot people who got in the way of people who tried to stop him from stealing cars and felt little reluctance to shoot police officers who tried to apprehend him and he could be decisive and didn't cringe when confronted by the law.
He also was a very good driver though one article suggested that he was able to escape police so often because inexplicably police at the time didn't have cars that could drive as fast as his cars.
Believe the book said that once he expressed an interest in meeting another well known American outlaw
(possibly Dillinger) but the outlaw did not return the sentiment and expressed no interest in meeting a glorified car thief like Clyde Barrow.
One thing clear from the book is that the 1960s movie romanticized a lot of the story of Bonnie and Clyde.
If I remember correctly Clyde had once purposely injured his own foot while in prison to reduce the work he was expected to do.
Bonnie was severely injured in a high speed car crash they had and could no longer really walk and so had to be carried any time she was our of the car.
Clyde's family was so poor when he was young that not only did they not have a house but they didn't even have a tent and for a while were sleeping under the family car to stay out of the elements.
And it's not like Bonnie and Clyde were living a life of luxury when they were on the run.
It seems they were primarily just camping out in isolated spots or staying in cheap motels most of the time.
And although Bonnie posed for those photos holding a gun and looking tough and those photos became a sensation when the media got hold of them the author of the book felt that likely Bonnie shot at someone only once -a man who tried to stop them from stealing his car ....though of course to normal human beings shooting at someone even once is still far too often and I believe that that man was killed.
Amazingly the author of the book written in the 90s was still able to track down people who had known them or met them including a man who as a teenager encountered them camped out in an isolated spot. Believe that they were not only friendly to him but also gave him some money.
Clyde's sister-in-law was very unhappy at how she was portrayed in the movie which showed her running around screaming hysterically though personally I think that running around screaming hysterically is the most natural thing to do when one is caught in the middle of a gun fight between the Barrow gang and the police.
Believe she may have lived till the 1990s.
Bonnie and Clyde were just scrawny kids who stole just enough to get by on. Not at all
"glamorous" like Beatty and Dunaway....but that's Hollywood.
Using Methvin's truck as a decoy was brilliant. Clyde's rumored 6th sense about danger failed them that fateful day.
Yes Clyde injured his own foot in prison. He cut off three of his own toes to get out of work and then found out 48 hours later he was going to be released from prison next day cuz his mother had arranged it.
My father went to the courthouse were they laid both of them out under a large oak tree for people to view. My father said people were trying to snip their hair off for souvenirs.
I patrolled that area as a state trooper. One Saturday night I got into a high-speed chase on this road. It was not Bonnie and Clyde. It was the local town drunk.
Local folks said that Bonnie and Clyde had so many previous wounds that their bodies wreaked of unspeakable odor.
Bonnie and Clyde, or “Easiest ‘Cause of Death’ to determine, ever!
Very interesting. Thank you for posting.
My ex-wife gave me directions to that place to visit. She said she was hoping history would repeat itself
ironic also is the fact that clyde bought that truck for the man driving because they were friends. go figure.
Snitching!😖
Stopped at the site in 2005. No one was around and I snapped a few pictures. Only one stone there at the time. The law had to put them down. Yes they were kids in their 20's. But they were murderers too. Officer Hamer was well depicted by Kevin Costner. I'm sure it is a terribly sad thing to open fire on humans and especially a young woman. The job had to be done.
Wonderful video. Do you think there's any original shotgun bullets around from that time?
What about the people that were killed by Bonnie and Clyde?
Kinda cool that that stretch of road is still wooded and not a strip mall
I'm from Spain and one day I would like to visit that place :) I'm really interested in the story of Bonnie and Clyde, any extra recommendations about tourism in that area?
The actual ambush took place 15 to 20 feet behind the markers where the old highway used to be. There's a path you can take to get to the spot but it's in the brush and the mosquitos are pretty big. Be warned...
Were you driving in the same direction as Clyde fr the cafe ? In Hinton's reenactment the roadster was coming from the rightside of the marker?
Clyde lost what little brains he had on this spot.
Mad to think on this morning of May 23, 1934, bonnie and Clyde woke up like everyone else, having no idea by 9:15am they'd be dead. Live by the gun, die by the gun i guess
Gibsland Louisiana.
Ive been there. It was an asphalt road back then...
It was gravel in 1934
I think it's creepy there at midnight. 👻
I've been to this exact spot... it's interesting to see.. but the truth of the matter is they got what they had coming... You reap what you sow...
Well, Clyde did, but Bonnie never killed anyone or fired on law enforcement. She was just in love with Clyde is all and refused to leave his side.
@@mhmitzee So that makes her innocent ???
@@mhmitzee bullshit
@@Thepitz2000 it might make her an accomplice but not a murderer. Her intent was to stay with Clyde. Clyde was the dirty one - "Not Bonnie."
You are dead wrong. She killed at least 2 cops while they were lying in the road.
I'm not sure but I think the police would not be allowed to ambush someone in this manner today.
Today, they would try to disable the automobile in an ambush, then let the perps take the first shot.
they came from the opposite direction and the cops were across the street
3:10.....What a place for an ambush..........I never saw it but I have seen Dealy Plaza another well-planned ambush site. I am an old outdoor hunter type, and I could feel it in my bones. Perfect.
Bonnie wrote a rather lovely poem about their own near deaths. They knew ,,, just a matter of wrong place and wrong time for you two,, Oh how infamous you are together now,,,and oh how terrible together forever now ,,, Bonnie and Clyde ,,, R.I.P.
I wonder if you analize the trees would there be bullet holes/marks?
Are you sure it is on the left of the road? The road has a dip at one end (3:11) and a dip at the other end with a curve in the distance (3:22). If you take a look at the 'Footage Farm' video, at 5:15 mark...
(ruclips.net/video/aq7uBsuqImY/видео.html), you will see the men looking in the direction at the road end with the curve in sight and then they hid in the bushes on the right side. While waiting to ambush them, the car appeared in a valley and approaching up towards a road incline (no longer seems to be a dip).
In today's ambush site, it clearly shows that there is no valley at both ends of the road, except the left turning bend is still there, but there is no valley at the other end, just a dip and approach uphill.
That's why I've asked, are you sure this is the ambush site? If the guys set an ambush as shown in the 'Footage Farm' in the black/white vifeo, where they hid in the bush facing the road end with the curve, in the color video that curve is at the other end, indicating that the Plaque should have been erected opposite the recent site. Scan the 2 videos and see for yourself. The guys with guns should have ambushed Bonnie and Clyde opposite where the Plaques are. That's where the road end is straight and no curve. Otherwise, the spot where they were gunned down is wrong.
Yea somethings off on that ambush site
Actually the officers were only on the drivers side of the road. If you watch the Stock Footage right after they were killed there are *no* holes in the door on Bonnie's side she was hit by bullets that went through Clyde and ones that missed Clyde. The officers didn't park the truck and act like they needed help they stopped a guy that knew Clyde and handcuffed him to a tree and left the hood up as a decoy.
It would have been dumb on their part to create a crossfire and kill each other. "stopped a guy that knew Clyde and handcuffed him to a tree and left the hood up as a decoy"... also correct, the movie was wrong. Plus, it was a little narrow dirt road... nothing like the way it looks now.
LOL... 70 plus years later after the ambush .... you think ???.... of course it's going to look different...lol
Keeperofpeace - LOL at your LOL!!!!
@@keeperofpeace1423 LOL that was good LOL LOL oh man LOL
@@Powertuber1000 You're correct. the markers mark the spot where the lawmen were laying in wait across the road on the high ground and yes, Methvin's father was seize by Hammer and handcuffed to a tree and his truck staged to look disabled baiting Clyde to slow and stop at the truck when he approached. When Clyde was killed his foot slipped off the clutch and the car idled forward about anywhere from 50 to 100 yards stopping in a ditch and embankment on the same side of the road law enforcement was hidden. Bonnie was shot in the face by Hammer when ran up to the stopped car through her window. That's where the bullet hole on the right side of her face came from. If there's any example of denial of rights and trial by one's peers, it's the ambush and killing of Bonnie & Clyde. They never even drew their weapons when they gun down. (Never had the chance and didn't know they were in a kill zone).
It looks like somebody peed on the law enforcement monument. It looks like this site has changed quite a bit since then. The bushes and foiliage were almost at the roadside then. Point blank.
I thought the road was narrow and primitive back then.
It was.
I've heard no ghost of them because the devil took them straight to hell..
Very evil cold blooded killers Bonnie & Clyde. They deserved what they got.
How far is this from The Ambush Museum?
How do you get there? Where is it located actually? I can't find it trying to surprise my wife on our upcoming trip please help!?
From where the Monument is located, the officers where on the other side of the road.
Opposite side of the road. He pans the camera across the spot a time or two. Next to the gravel turn around spot. It is a clay bank with the relatively short pine trees, as compared to the taller pines behind them. Almost directly across the road from the monuments. I walked all back around there, behind it....other worldly feeling when you consider you are standing right on the spot where history was made. Their ambush spot is shown at 3:10 in the video.
Hank Hammond on this opposite side of the road where the posse was, was that gravel lot or road next to the trees there in 1934? Beside the lump of trees where the posse was hidden?
@@kellygotell1179 99.99% chance that turnaround lot wasn’t there in 1934. It was only a dirt road back then, much narrower that the two lane pavement today. Pictures from the death scene show a narrow dirt road that might be wide enough for two cars meeting each other to pass and not much more.
Hank Hammond thank you very interesting
Ex-Con Jack Brown knew both of them before they knew each other. He said Clyde was so perverted that he had to be kept away from the other prisoners in Texas or they would have killed him. I hope to post Jack's story on RUclips soon. "Jack Tells It Like It Is " a recording made at a speech in a High School in the late 1960s.
If my understanding is correct, Clyde wasn't but a 130 IBS 5 '3 or 5'5 tall he wasn't a big man.
I wonder if there are still come shell casings locatable with a metal detector in the woods there.
Being from a family of relatives who were morticians and owned a funeral home i think morbidly that it would be cool to dig both of them up and open their caskets and see what they look like today even in skeleton form
After nearly nearly 80 years, there would be little remains, if any, and no skeleton forms. There were no vaults for the caskets.. BTW, how about digging up your family? How would you like that? There's a reason for R.I.P. on tombstones. It meas "REST IN PEACE." That means leave them alone.
@@pearlcaster8287 so what do u think about crimes that happened 20 30 or even 40 years ago and the investigators want to exume a body to try and prove there case. Do u think thats ok to do that. Its no different than if there was an investigation into whether or not the bodys in those bodys in those caskets were really those of bonnie and clyde. Same difference. Ur digging them up and looking at it and testing it.
It’s no different then looking at mummies remains in Egypt…. It’s interesting
The man’s name is Hamer. One “m”.
They done that car just like they did Clint Eastwood's bus in the movie the Gauntlet
I'm just trying to figure out how can a person have so much hatred in their heart and be so bloodthirsty that they would kill somebody the way they did
So what direction did their car come from?
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I guess a little different road now
We went to the museum in 2001 quite a bit of things in the place run by a man named tex he had fallen some how the day before and was pretty stiff he was a wealth of knowledge about the two then drove down the road to the maker stone had numerous bullet holes in it
Where is this site of Bonnie and Clyde death at?
I was there last July, someone has stole the big bronze plaque. The pedestal is still there.
Bonnie Clyden was not vicious killers my mother was really good friends with Bonnie Parker my grandfather hid them out on the family farm my mother was 10 years old she was like a daughter to Bonnie Parker now Bonnie Clyde got blind for a lot of stuff they did not do and they did not deserve what the law enforcement did to them, Bonnie taught my mother how to do the Charleston she could sing and dance real good so that's her I'm sorry that's not correct they did what they had to do to survive yeah they shot some police officers it was either them or they but Bonnie and Clyde wasn't all that bad they help my grandfather out a lot on the family farm and Bonnie was pregnant with Clyde's baby 6 weeks and she told my mother if I get to have my precious baby if it's a girl I'm going to name her Francis after you Bonnie repented to my mother they climb trees together mother loved her dearly so you need to rethink that again sir I know the facts
They were good people, Yeah they shot some police, but it was them or us????
Did u actually say that?🤣
I would love to have a time machine and go back and empty my rifle into those two myself.
Too bad your grandfather wasnt tried and convicted for helping those cold blooded murderers
I believe there’s something to this one sided story about these two individuals that don’t add up. RIP. Bonnie and Clyde you didn’t deserve this. God bless you Janice Mayo for your truthfulness.🙏🏿
@@jerrybrady9103 Too bad you weren’t in Bonnie and Clyde’s path during there times of trying to survive Jerry Boy!!!
@@mini14head You wouldn’t get first shot of big boy. You’d be road kill 😂
I bet metal detecting that wooded area will find a lot of spent cartridges which would sell for a nice sum
Maybe the pizza Clyde was eating or the meatball sandwich Bonnie had can be found also?
I like the new memorial. Remember the LEO's, forget the turds.
I agree with you
*FUCK THE POLICE*
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They weren't modern day "Robin Hoods" but murderous rampaging ghouls of death. RIP the victims of their terror.
Why doesn’t it surprise me it’s been vandalized🤷♂️
It was the father of one of the former member's of the Barrow gang whom assisted law enforcement with the ambush.
Don’t blame for the shot first and ask later with those two. They would do the same.
That's the longest mile in history.
So who is worse the bank rober or the outlaw carrying a badge
Kind of surprising the land around the death site has never been developed.
That road isstill deserted now imagine how I was back then ?
Bonnie and Clyde were two of the most vicious and ruthless outlaws in American history. Why do we always try an pretend they were Romantic Robin Hood types? My heart goes out the the innocent people they murdered and their families.
Truth
It’s not pretend. Nobody is pretending. They WERE idolized back then by many and seen as heroes by many. It’s true, it’s fact, it’s history. Were they really heroic? I don’t think so. Nonetheless; nobody is pretending anything.
where did you learn to kiss butt lke that, did you take a class.
R.I.P Bonnie and Clyde 😂😂😂 fuck da police 🤣
This site is 15 miles from my house...
Why couldn't you stabilize that camera, so that viewers could read each plaque properly?
F’Bonnie. F’Clyde. Ha Ha they got lit up!!!
The LAW always wins- 👮♂️
I’m confused. Is this marker where the shooting happened or where the car came to rest?
Both. They stopped the car, then were shot. But it is not the exact spot. The road was narrower then, and after Barrow was shot, the car rolled to a ditch on the east side of the road. They were shot as they were rolling and after they stopped.
Weren’t they coming from the opposite direction?
Very confusing. Look up the road of reenactment by the original lawmen.
Seems you have it reversed.
In the original reel the car seems to have come out of the curve down the road and ended up opposite and across the road.
Why hasn’t anyone picked up on this??? The marker is across the actual place the car ended.
90 years after the fact and it’s still desolate.
They put Bonnie and Clyde down like a rabid dog
With fire power
they was not on both side of the road they were on one side
My parents read and saw the news footage story about Bonnie &Clyde way back then and they died by our federal officers who pumped some rounds into their car and then a few seconds later they were dead .
I'm wondering if anyone noticed the two hard hat's, that were fu-in off checking out the B&C site, while on somebody's clock-!!! Notice how "twitchy" the one guy got...oh shit Merv, we're being filmed...
Never heard of them robbing a bank
John Dillinger was such a badass he robbed police stations, taking all of their guns and tear gas. Never killed anyone.
John dillinger mever killed anyone? Really?
He may have killed 1 officer during a bank get away, but I'm not sure it was proven which gang member did it.
That’s not the original stone , or site. The right stone was square and not buried in to the grown, and so it has a different writing at the bottom, of the city information, but your vido it’s appreciated it. Thank you
It all looked way different. It was 87 years ago!!