They stole my grandmother's family's car at gunpoint in Henderson, TX. I never knew Bonnie was technically married at the time of her death. Strange times.
My great grandma was 100 when she died in 2009. It's insane to think she was already 20 when the great depression started. It's a shame I was only 12 when she died.
The fascinating thing is that to this day people don’t remember them with animosity. Like... if someone says a name like Dahmer or Bundy. It brings up certain emotions. But Bonnie and Clyde are still held up with an oddly positive light. Even though they were 100% not good people
Because they were known more as badass thieves on the run rather than a serial killer lurking in the shadows murdering innocent people.. Edit: Just to reiterate, I am saying that they are _known_ as this by the general public. Not saying that I agree with this depiction.
Sort of like George Floyd. He was a career criminal that once robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint and actually died from an overdose of fentanyl. Yet people still consider him a hero.
@@JohnDoe-vf2yo What's your source on him dying from a fentanyl OD? There were two autopsies, made by actual medical examiners (not some looney right wing conspiracy theorists), both of which appointed Floyd's cause of death as asphyxiation caused by compressions to his neck and back, which limited O2-flow to his brain. Recent fentanyl and methamphetamine use, did increase the chance of death, but was not the cause of it. If the police officer hadn't compressed his neck, Floyd would be alive today. Also, no one is saying he's a hero, he's a symbol against the racist behaviour of the US police forces. Don't pretend like his criminal record is some secret everyone is denying, it's just not relevant. This man did not deserve to die, because he paid with a fake 20$ bill, and if he had been a white man, he wouldn't have.
Can you do one on Joe Medicine Crow. He was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Nation and the last Plains Indian war chief, which he managed to achieve while serving in WWII completing all four tasks required to become a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him (counting coup), taking an enemy's weapon, leading a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse and this is only part of this True Native American Badass.
I've heard that story! Incredible. Many Native American soldiers in World War II actually did their tribal war rituals before going into battle against the Germans or Japanese. Truly fascinating history.
Been to both of the graves. It used to be easy to visit the Barrow plot but they've upped the security I believe. Bonnie, in N. Dallas, is in a very non-descript plot in a huge cemetery.
Their descendants were attempting to move Bonnie's remains to the same cemetery as Clyde's. The Crown Point cemetery director was against it because Bonnie is the most famous resident.
I'm surprised he glossed over the behavior of the ppl in the town when they towed the car in, grabbing, ripping and stealing anything off the bodies they could reach including hair.
on Netflix theirs a movie called "The Highwaymen" and it's a story of the men who killed Bonnie and Clyde. in the end, in the scene when they are parading the car through the town you can see the people ripping at the bodies trying to get a piece of history...
Bonnie's poem is pretty much spot on except their burials. They are not buried side by side, but miles apart. Distant modern relatives are trying to get that changed however and have Bonnie moved to lay next to Clyde in his cemetery.
Maybe partially, though Joker as a character is about 50 years older than Harley Quinn. Also, Harley wasn't originally a love interest when introduced in Batman: The Animated Series. In the first episodes where she is included she refers to joker simply as "boss", the creators simply thought it would be fun to give the Joker a female henchman. I agree though. When they eventually decided to expand on Harley as a character, they must have taken some inspiration from Bonnie and Clyde.
@@amys2292 though I do remember him he passed away in 1989 when I was three so all the stories I know were told by my grandmother. He absolutely refused to believe Bonnie ever killed anyone especially the State Troopers. He also used to take peaches down there to Dallas from Lindale Texas and would sell some to the Barrow’s family store. II’ll try to get back to you after a visit this weekend
When I was in Junior High, we would sing the song about Bonnie and Clyde on the bus on the way home. There was no one on the bus that didn’t know every word. I have no memory of why we knew such a morbid song but I can still sing it. Bonnie and Clyde were pretty lookin' people But I can tell you people They were the devil's children, Bonnie and Clyde began their evil doin' One lazy afternoon down Savannah way, They robbed a store, and high-tailed outa that town Got clean away in a stolen car, And waited till the heat died down, Bonnie and Clyde advanced their reputation And made the graduation Into the banking business. "Reach for the sky" sweet-talking Clyde would holler As Bonnie loaded dollars in the dewlap bag, Now one brave man-he tried to take 'em alone They left him Iyin' in a pool of blood, And laughed about it all the way home. Bonnie and Clyde got to be public enemy number one Running and hiding from ev'ry American lawman's gun. They used to laugh about dyin', But deep inside 'em they knew That pretty soon they'd be lyin' Beneath the ground together Pushing up daisies to welcome the sun And the morning dew. Acting upon reliable information A fed'ral deputation laid a deadly ambush. When Bonnie and Clyde came walking in the sunshine A half a dozen carbines opened up on them. Bonnie and Clyde, they lived a lot together And finally together they died,
Dee, I was thinking of the same song watching this documentary. When I was nearing the end of primary school (in Australia) in 1986, our music class sang that song among others from our grade music book. I've not heard that song again since then, but I still remember the tune behind the lyrics.
I went warily into this video because I have seen too many like it where the presenter seemed more enamoured of their appearance, or their own perception/modern political agenda than the historicity. I genuinely appreciated this. Your concise manner and adherence to history is refreshing. Loved it. Subbed.
Right? Like either way she was party to it so no props to her but never read of her directly killing anyone. Like specifically isolating her own crimes one would think she'd never be gun down if she wasn't always with Clyde. From what I've read Clyde was the killer in most of the deaths and it was his Browning that proved troublesome for lawmen
@@theroachden6195 you can’t prove that.. the only time she even held a gun was when she was moving one from the bed and shot her foot. Which caused her to walk with a limp.
Fun fact: when they were casting the Bonnie and Clyde movie Warren Beatty had been cast and Shirley MacLaine was planning to audition until she found out he was playing Clyde. Would have been a bit awkward since they're siblings.
“To say that it was overkill would be an understatement”. Asking one of those lawmen if that was the case, I’m sure their comment would be something like, “Overkill is underrated”.
If you asked the lawmen they probably would have said that they should have reloaded and emptied the guns again. Or if you asked the families of the police they killed some of which we're doing a routine check and didn't even know who they were and they would have said they could have been shot a few more times.
Which Armory? Clyde and other members of the Barrow gang robbed several Armories, and the guy doing this doc...I guess it's supposed to be a doc?...left out a lot of stuff...lol
The costumes in the movie made a quite large impact on fashion at the time. Vintage 30s styles inspired by Bonnie became popular again. Fashion has always borrowed from the past, but having one particular catalyst like this is quite rare (and fun). It also happened more recently with the hairstyles from Peaky Blinders (you didn't think those shaved sides came out of thin air, did you?). I also have a suggestion for a Geographics topic; quick clay. It's usually quite solid, but will liquify under the right (wrong) conditions. It's terrifying, and more than 100 000 norwegians are living on top of it. Search for the Rissan slide if you want to learn more.
Only negative comment: undercuts were a thing way before peaky blinders was popular. But it certainly prolonged the trend. I've had an undercut since 2012. Not inspired by anything other than a picture my stylist showed me (I was changing hairstyles every 2 months). Now I maintain it because Covid
@@thunderbird1921 they are becuase they were inlove, took care of each other like you saw many times in this video, rather than the crimes they commit.
I've seen the car in person, so many bullet holes. At first glance, it looks like the car was ambushed from both sides, but it wasn't. Which means all the bullet holes on one side were from the bullets entering one side of the car , then through both occupants and out the other side of the car.
Supposedly Clyde Barrow wrote a letter to Henry Ford praising the quality and performance of the Ford flathead v8. That was a great motor, one of the best up until the appearance of the Chrysler Hemi in the 1950s.
@@jeremystewert4303 It was said that Henry Ford faked those letters to boost sales, there was a John Dillinger letter as well....both signatures on the letters were not Clydes nor Dillingers actual signatures...
@@forcedtohaveahandle Something to do with the Romanian Revolution back in the late 1980's where a man named Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were executed for Genocide, and other charges. I believe (if I recall correctly) the execution was performed by firing squad, and I think there was a television crew who attempted to capture their fates.
I would use the word "infamous" rather than "famous." Bonnie and Clyde are certainly well known and remembered decades after their death, but let's not forget that they were criminals who used violence to obtain what they desired. Yes, all all humans have problems but some of us manage our problems without having to use violence against other people.
My grandparents who were living in Louisiana at the time saw their bullet ridden bodies as they were brought to be embalmed. I imagine that was pretty harrowing.
In order for them to have been close enough see that they would have had to be part of the mob that was tearing them apart. Basically, your grandparents, along with the rest of the townspeople, are/were every bit as much monsters as the Barrow gang were. And, honestly, with company like that it is no wonder the Barrows were so messed up. Don't get mad, they, and you too, are in good company. Because, sadly, that is how most of the U.S., just a bunch of monsters. So long as you don't get to know anyone here everyone seems like "nice-enough" people. But get to know them/us, we are all straight up monsters. All it would take is a simple little push.
@@danielduncan6806 you sound a little ... off. Just because they saw doesn't mean they were part of the mob. You must really be exhausted from jumping to all of those conclusions!
My grandfather and great grandfather were inside a bank in Durant Oklahoma when it was robbed by Bonnie and Clyde or I just should say Clyde and a friend. Not sure if was W.D. Jones or one of the others. My grandpa told my dad that Clyde was shorter and smaller than he thought he would be. They didn't take anything off the people inside the bank, just took the money.
@@mrsx7944 yes I believe that he was about 5 foot 5 or 6 and 125 pounds. It said in a book that I have about them. Its called Go Down Together by Jeff Guinn
I actually did a psych project on bonnie & clyde syndrome in nursing school, I wish I had a video of article like this for a jump start on it back then! It took ages to get dzhokhar tsarnaev and Charlie mansion fangirl posts & articles to stop showing up in my social & news feeds
They did terrible things but once you understand how much they despised the life they lived (Clyde only killing because he was too afraid of prison to return after what happened to him in Eastham and decided he’d rather die than return), it makes it a little more understandable. I’m not justifying the fact that Clyde killed people and Bonnie enabled him. They still did awful, awful things that no one should ever go unpunished for, but I am saying that I can’t entirely state that they were pure evil either.
Hammer was not a “Park Ranger” he was a “Texas Ranger”. HUGE difference. He def deserves his own episode. An episode educating the world on the good & sadly bad of the Texas Rangers would be amazing. The FBI sends agents to be trained by the Rangers. That’s the level they’re on in the law enforcement community.
You did a good job with this one Simon Whistler. TY This specific event during the Depression years here in the US remains of historical interest. Another biography that validates the name of one of my college history courses, "History as People".
The way Simon so smoothly transitions into the sponsors is perfectly ingenious and is becoming another rather enjoyable perk for his shows! Love the content Simon, ALL of it! Thankyou!
@darius Bish i watched some cuts of the netflix show and it is hella unrealistic like oda nobunaga was not a derranged lunatic like he is portrayed and most of the battles were set in wrong environment
I live in Joplin, I can see the Bonnie and Clyde apartment out my bedroom window. They redid the stone a few years back but you can still see some bullet holes around the door.
IIRC they weren't buried side by side. Bonnie's family blamed (rightly or wrongly) Clyde for corrupting her and prevented her from being buried near him.
I live about 30 minutes from Joplin. And I've known there was a house that the two were found in at one point, but I never knew it was quite as important as it is.
I hopped a fence of a tiny cemetery just a few blocks from downtown Dallas to see Clyde's gravesite. I had cleaned up the overgrown grass and weeds from his headstone. Sad that Bonnie's family would not allow her to be buried next to Clyde. I wont lie, it was pretty cool to see.
"...even though he was only 16 years old, he didn't hesitate to use guns." Well, clutch my pearls, Limey. If he's not afraid of an inanimate object that the media tells me is evil (and they wouldn't lie to me), he must be a monster.
@@forcedtohaveahandle true. I just found it sad that she was such a great poet and was trapped by the bad decisions she made. She could've had a different end. ... But then again, perhaps it was fated.
According to Hamer, clyde was dead but bonnie was still breathing when they opened the door. Also, clyde liked what he called whippet guns, a cut down pump or auto shotgun with barrel and stock cut down and a small strip of leather on the end to slip over the shoulder that he could whip out from under his coat.
@@ratagris21 very true, I knew that but I'm also an idiot and didn't realize I implied that all cut down shotguns were called whippets. Yes model 5 was his favorite.
Our family has a picture of my paternal grandparents hamming it up with Bonnie and Clyde, posing with pistols and shotguns in Dallas. Grandmother told us that “we were all nothing but a bunch of kids pretending to be gangsters. We didn’t know they were the real thing!” Granddaddy would never talk about them, and what little we could get out of Grandmother never included how they knew each other. It was funny seeing my sweet little Grandmother posing with a pistol. She just smiled and went into their bed room, returning with the thirty eight revolver that she said Clyde had given her after the photo was taken. Many years after that, Granddaddy shot and killed a man that had broken into their home with the same pistol.
I got a chance to see that Bonnie and Clyde Ford V8 getaway car when I was a kid. It was displayed at a county fair. Really something. That thing toured around the country for decades.
In the Bonnie And Clyde film Frank Hamer was portrayed as having a fabulous handle bar moustache. That actor, Denver Pyle, went on to play Uncle Jesse on TV in The Dukes Of Hazzard.
Two doors down from a bank they robbed in Ponder, there was the Ranchman’s cafe. The place had the best chicken fried steak, but it has closed until we get back to normal.
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Great coverage and video! 😁👍Bonnie & Clyde even though they are not buried next to each other their names will always be together in history. Their families in 2019 did start looking into moving Bonnie to the plot between Cumie(Clyde's mom) and his plot.... As far as I know they haven't been successful in that yet, but are looking into it.
1:50 - Chapter 1 - A tale of two outlaws 5:10 - Chapter 2 - When bonnie met clyde 7:40 - Mid roll ads 9:10 - Chapter 3 - The spree starts 12:50 - Chapter 4 - The gang falls apart 15:40 - Chapter 5 - Breakout at eastham 17:45 - Chapter 6 - A hail of bullets
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Make emperor caracalla next pliz
Can you guys do an episode on Marcus Agrippa?
Can you do one for Shaka Zulu?
This is the first time my broke self could show support for one of Simon's channels~
Please please please can we get a bio on Sir David Attenborough? He has so many firsts under his belt and one hell of a career and life.
“Another inmate was already serving a life sentence and agreed to take the blame” WHAT A GUY
I think homie just felt bad Clyde was getting that booty busted
Lmao actually tho
Bonnie's poem that was published shortly before they died is actually major foreshadowing and that is iconic
The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde
Most people living that life have a sense of fatalism.
"Sometime in the future, two violent criminals will be shot and killed by lawmen."
But they were not buried side by side!!!
That's not iconic means. You might have meant ironic 🤷♂️
"You're not a true romance, you're just a conjugal visit. Oh but that's not even your real husband now is it?"
Another man of culture how wonderfull lol
Juliet is vicious!
"Hey partner! You better put a muzzle on your Misses! 'Fore teach her how we handle disrespect down in Texas!"
@@normalguyhere9158 I studied the best.
I watched this video specifically to get that video
They stole my grandmother's family's car at gunpoint in Henderson, TX. I never knew Bonnie was technically married at the time of her death. Strange times.
Cool story.
That’s crazy
My great grandma was 100 when she died in 2009. It's insane to think she was already 20 when the great depression started. It's a shame I was only 12 when she died.
And my grandmother's relatives stole a car at gunpoint in Henderson, Texas 👀
Of course they did, lol.
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The fascinating thing is that to this day people don’t remember them with animosity.
Like... if someone says a name like Dahmer or Bundy. It brings up certain emotions.
But Bonnie and Clyde are still held up with an oddly positive light. Even though they were 100% not good people
Because they were known more as badass thieves on the run rather than a serial killer lurking in the shadows murdering innocent people..
Edit: Just to reiterate, I am saying that they are _known_ as this by the general public. Not saying that I agree with this depiction.
Sort of like George Floyd. He was a career criminal that once robbed a pregnant woman at gunpoint and actually died from an overdose of fentanyl. Yet people still consider him a hero.
@@JohnDoe-vf2yo What's your source on him dying from a fentanyl OD?
There were two autopsies, made by actual medical examiners (not some looney right wing conspiracy theorists), both of which appointed Floyd's cause of death as asphyxiation caused by compressions to his neck and back, which limited O2-flow to his brain. Recent fentanyl and methamphetamine use, did increase the chance of death, but was not the cause of it. If the police officer hadn't compressed his neck, Floyd would be alive today.
Also, no one is saying he's a hero, he's a symbol against the racist behaviour of the US police forces. Don't pretend like his criminal record is some secret everyone is denying, it's just not relevant. This man did not deserve to die, because he paid with a fake 20$ bill, and if he had been a white man, he wouldn't have.
That's Holywood for you. They even make Bugsy Malone hero played by Warren Beatty (again). Not to speak about glorified Mafia in The Godfather.
Sorry, I meant Bugsy Siegel.
Can you do one on Joe Medicine Crow. He was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Nation and the last Plains Indian war chief, which he managed to achieve while serving in WWII completing all four tasks required to become a war chief: touching an enemy without killing him (counting coup), taking an enemy's weapon, leading a successful war party, and stealing an enemy's horse and this is only part of this True Native American Badass.
I've heard that story! Incredible. Many Native American soldiers in World War II actually did their tribal war rituals before going into battle against the Germans or Japanese. Truly fascinating history.
@@thunderbird1921 Exactly. The world needs to hear more about them rather than just snippets about the Wind Talkers
Yes they should definitely do a video of him. I think his story deserves a film as well.
Ooh. Okay, I'm convinced, now make Simon make it!
If you keep copying and pasting this comment on every video maybe they'll notice.
They are buried in different cemeteries here in Dallas. I believe Bonnie’s mother didn’t want her next to Clyde. He is next to his brother.
Been to both of the graves. It used to be easy to visit the Barrow plot but they've upped the security I believe. Bonnie, in N. Dallas, is in a very non-descript plot in a huge cemetery.
Their descendants were attempting to move Bonnie's remains to the same cemetery as Clyde's. The Crown Point cemetery director was against it because Bonnie is the most famous resident.
I'm surprised he glossed over the behavior of the ppl in the town when they towed the car in, grabbing, ripping and stealing anything off the bodies they could reach including hair.
One guy even tried to cut off Clyde's trigger finger as a souvenir.
@@hashtag415 ohhhh f"€k! 🤢
on Netflix theirs a movie called "The Highwaymen" and it's a story of the men who killed Bonnie and Clyde.
in the end, in the scene when they are parading the car through the town you can see the people ripping at the bodies trying to get a piece of history...
ironic two people that took any thing they wanted in life with no remorse had everything taken away from them with no remorse in death
@@blairfleming5861 poetic
Bonnie's poem is pretty much spot on except their burials. They are not buried side by side, but miles apart. Distant modern relatives are trying to get that changed however and have Bonnie moved to lay next to Clyde in his cemetery.
Bonnie and Clyde are definitely the inspiration for the Joker and Harley Quinn duo
or Light Yagami and Misa from Death Note
Maybe partially, though Joker as a character is about 50 years older than Harley Quinn.
Also, Harley wasn't originally a love interest when introduced in Batman: The Animated Series. In the first episodes where she is included she refers to joker simply as "boss", the creators simply thought it would be fun to give the Joker a female henchman.
I agree though. When they eventually decided to expand on Harley as a character, they must have taken some inspiration from Bonnie and Clyde.
"The Highwaymen" with Woody Harrelson and Kevin Costner was really good!
I agree, The Highwaymen is very good. Respect for the film that it doesn't glamorize Bonnie and Clyde.
My Great Grandaddy knew all of them. Apparently Clyde had bad case of little man syndrome and Bonnie looked like a porcelain doll according to him
Yes, his criminal file said he was only 5'7" tall!
Ooo you have any more details?
@@amys2292 though I do remember him he passed away in 1989 when I was three so all the stories I know were told by my grandmother. He absolutely refused to believe Bonnie ever killed anyone especially the State Troopers. He also used to take peaches down there to Dallas from Lindale Texas and would sell some to the Barrow’s family store. II’ll try to get back to you after a visit this weekend
@@apacifistmachinegunner669 Thanks for the reply! I agree with your great grandfather on the subject of if Bonnie killed anyone
That's a cool story to be passed down to your relatives.
"Bonnie and Clyde were dead. They were about as dead as you could get."
- "... Unless we kill 'em again."
So dead the embalming fluid leaked out. 🤣🤣🤣
🤓😆😆
When I was in Junior High, we would sing the song about Bonnie and Clyde on the bus on the way home. There was no one on the bus that didn’t know every word. I have no memory of why we knew such a morbid song but I can still sing it.
Bonnie and Clyde were pretty lookin' people
But I can tell you people They were the devil's children,
Bonnie and Clyde began their evil doin'
One lazy afternoon down Savannah way,
They robbed a store, and high-tailed outa that town
Got clean away in a stolen car,
And waited till the heat died down,
Bonnie and Clyde advanced their reputation
And made the graduation
Into the banking business.
"Reach for the sky" sweet-talking Clyde would holler
As Bonnie loaded dollars in the dewlap bag,
Now one brave man-he tried to take 'em alone
They left him Iyin' in a pool of blood,
And laughed about it all the way home.
Bonnie and Clyde got to be public enemy number one
Running and hiding from ev'ry American lawman's gun.
They used to laugh about dyin',
But deep inside 'em they knew
That pretty soon they'd be lyin'
Beneath the ground together
Pushing up daisies to welcome the sun
And the morning dew.
Acting upon reliable information
A fed'ral deputation laid a deadly ambush.
When Bonnie and Clyde came walking in the sunshine
A half a dozen carbines opened up on them.
Bonnie and Clyde, they lived a lot together
And finally together they died,
Dee, I was thinking of the same song watching this documentary. When I was nearing the end of primary school (in Australia) in 1986, our music class sang that song among others from our grade music book. I've not heard that song again since then, but I still remember the tune behind the lyrics.
Wheels on the Bus not good enough eh.
@@koDaffi Nope. I lived in Texas. I need say no more.
Only heard this in bamabass
@@deemariedubois4916 wow. Your childhood songs were pretty sophisticated and morbid.
I went warily into this video because I have seen too many like it where the presenter seemed more enamoured of their appearance, or their own perception/modern political agenda than the historicity. I genuinely appreciated this. Your concise manner and adherence to history is refreshing. Loved it. Subbed.
1:48 that right there is why they became so famous. The photos that were found and published.
I could never find any evidence that when it came to robberies Bonnie ever did anything more than sit in the car.
I'm sure she'd have murdered someone if need be though. She was just as evil as Clyde
@@theroachden6195 BS, she was just Clyde's girlfriend. More media hype than villain.
Right? Like either way she was party to it so no props to her but never read of her directly killing anyone. Like specifically isolating her own crimes one would think she'd never be gun down if she wasn't always with Clyde. From what I've read Clyde was the killer in most of the deaths and it was his Browning that proved troublesome for lawmen
@@theroachden6195 you can’t prove that.. the only time she even held a gun was when she was moving one from the bed and shot her foot. Which caused her to walk with a limp.
@@theroachden6195 bull crap if I ever heard it 😂
Fun fact: when they were casting the Bonnie and Clyde movie Warren Beatty had been cast and Shirley MacLaine was planning to audition until she found out he was playing Clyde. Would have been a bit awkward since they're siblings.
Eeeeewwwwww
I never liked Faye Dunaway in that role. It didn't fit her.
“To say that it was overkill would be an understatement”.
Asking one of those lawmen if that was the case, I’m sure their comment would be something like, “Overkill is underrated”.
If you asked the lawmen they probably would have said that they should have reloaded and emptied the guns again. Or if you asked the families of the police they killed some of which we're doing a routine check and didn't even know who they were and they would have said they could have been shot a few more times.
As I get older I remember all the people I've lost along the way. Maybe being a tour guide wasn't the best choice for a career.
Simon you kill me. That sponsored segment was entertaining as heck
Dude, you didn’t mention the time B & C raided a national guard armory. Clyde was fond of BAR’s.
The rifle was bigger than him!
That rifle is wicked, the cyclic rate was awesome for then with large caliber
@@jeremystewert4303 I’ve heard he sawed down the barrel for easier use.
Clyde had balls.
Which Armory? Clyde and other members of the Barrow gang robbed several Armories, and the guy doing this doc...I guess it's supposed to be a doc?...left out a lot of stuff...lol
Hamer was a Texas Ranger, not a Texas park ranger. That is a big difference.
HUGE DIFFERENCE!!
😆
I laughed at that piece of research
Yeah he was a cousin of my family, he always laughed and said it might have been too much.
Yeah that cracked me up
The costumes in the movie made a quite large impact on fashion at the time. Vintage 30s styles inspired by Bonnie became popular again. Fashion has always borrowed from the past, but having one particular catalyst like this is quite rare (and fun). It also happened more recently with the hairstyles from Peaky Blinders (you didn't think those shaved sides came out of thin air, did you?).
I also have a suggestion for a Geographics topic; quick clay. It's usually quite solid, but will liquify under the right (wrong) conditions. It's terrifying, and more than 100 000 norwegians are living on top of it. Search for the Rissan slide if you want to learn more.
Oooh, excellent suggestion 😉
Only negative comment: undercuts were a thing way before peaky blinders was popular. But it certainly prolonged the trend.
I've had an undercut since 2012. Not inspired by anything other than a picture my stylist showed me (I was changing hairstyles every 2 months).
Now I maintain it because Covid
@@chesh1rek1tten i don't think an undercut is the same as shaved sides. Or is it?
This couple is romanticized WAY too often. They were brutal criminals and murderers.
They’re a cute couple though.
@@TKinfinity01 Perhaps, but evil. I have no sympathy for them.
@@thunderbird1921 they are becuase they were inlove, took care of each other like you saw many times in this video, rather than the crimes they commit.
@@thunderbird1921
That was a joke. Obviously what they did I do not agree with.
It's the fault of yandere Anime ._.)
This makes me want to watch The Highwaymen on Netflix again. Great movie!
Awesome movie
So damn good
Manos Arribas
Yes, I saw that too and didn’t really know much about Bonnie&Clyde before, except their names. So at least it was informative for me.
I'm watching it tonight after seeing everyone on here talk about it 🤣🤣
Can you make a video about fred Hampton? A leader of the black Panthers who was assassinated by the FBI?
Hampton was assassinated by Chicago police acting under the direction of States Attorney Edward Hanrahan.
There was a lot of Tomfoolery going on w the Panthers. So many backstabbers.
Can we also go over some of the actions said group did?
I happily binge watch these quality, fascinating and eye opening videos.
Nice work, Simon 👌
3:59 - "monkey paw wish" - I use that expression all the time and most folks look at me sideways not knowing what it means, lol!
Did you call Hammer a Park Ranger...thems fighting words sir
Lol Yeah he did call him a park ranger
I've been low-key obsessing over Bonnie & Clyde recently, so this is perfect timing! Love the videos!
Same
hey i got a good idea for you can you do a video about the guy who survived two atomic bombs Tsutomu Yamaguchi
17:23 Hamer wasn’t a “Texas PARK Ranger” ffs... Texas Ranger. He didn’t hunt Yogi Bear.
I've seen the car in person, so many bullet holes. At first glance, it looks like the car was ambushed from both sides, but it wasn't. Which means all the bullet holes on one side were from the bullets entering one side of the car , then through both occupants and out the other side of the car.
You are correct. At close range the bullets fired from high powered rifles went in one side and out the other.
Supposedly Clyde Barrow wrote a letter to Henry Ford praising the quality and performance of the Ford flathead v8.
That was a great motor, one of the best up until the appearance of the Chrysler Hemi in the 1950s.
I was going to comment on that but you beat me to it! “I always try to look out for one to steal. They’re just so fast!”
@@jeremystewert4303 It was said that Henry Ford faked those letters to boost sales, there was a John Dillinger letter as well....both signatures on the letters were not Clydes nor Dillingers actual signatures...
The most famous couple we have all been waiting for this channel to cover :D
Not the Ceaucescu's?
@@us89na who
@@forcedtohaveahandle Something to do with the Romanian Revolution back in the late 1980's where a man named Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu were executed for Genocide, and other charges. I believe (if I recall correctly) the execution was performed by firing squad, and I think there was a television crew who attempted to capture their fates.
I would use the word "infamous" rather than "famous." Bonnie and Clyde are certainly well known and remembered decades after their death, but let's not forget that they were criminals who used violence to obtain what they desired. Yes, all all humans have problems but some of us manage our problems without having to use violence against other people.
If you haven’t done a video on him yet, can you do one on Czar Nicolas II?
It's funny how no one remembers nor cares about the murdered police officers and store clerks, but every detail of the criminal lives is remembered.
Always the case.
You wanna talk about one of police officers killed and how they used to hand black men over to the mob to get lynched? 🤣 Me too, let's talk about that
My grandparents who were living in Louisiana at the time saw their bullet ridden bodies as they were brought to be embalmed. I imagine that was pretty harrowing.
In order for them to have been close enough see that they would have had to be part of the mob that was tearing them apart. Basically, your grandparents, along with the rest of the townspeople, are/were every bit as much monsters as the Barrow gang were. And, honestly, with company like that it is no wonder the Barrows were so messed up.
Don't get mad, they, and you too, are in good company. Because, sadly, that is how most of the U.S., just a bunch of monsters. So long as you don't get to know anyone here everyone seems like "nice-enough" people. But get to know them/us, we are all straight up monsters. All it would take is a simple little push.
@@danielduncan6806 seek professional help.
@@LordVysh wow. That person read a LOT into your one small comment 🤣🤣.
@@danielduncan6806 you sound a little ... off. Just because they saw doesn't mean they were part of the mob. You must really be exhausted from jumping to all of those conclusions!
My grandfather and great grandfather were inside a bank in Durant Oklahoma when it was robbed by Bonnie and Clyde or I just should say Clyde and a friend. Not sure if was W.D. Jones or one of the others. My grandpa told my dad that Clyde was shorter and smaller than he thought he would be. They didn't take anything off the people inside the bank, just took the money.
That's interesting. You can tell Clyde was a small guy.
@@mrsx7944 yes I believe that he was about 5 foot 5 or 6 and 125 pounds. It said in a book that I have about them. Its called Go Down Together by Jeff Guinn
@@plymouthduster2252 Near the beginning of Simon's video they show Clyde's arrest record.
He was 5' 7", (barefoot) and weighed 150 lbs..
Omg there was an ad for Raid: Shadow Legends. I couldn't help, but laugh. Shout out the Business Blaze.
I actually did a psych project on bonnie & clyde syndrome in nursing school, I wish I had a video of article like this for a jump start on it back then! It took ages to get dzhokhar tsarnaev and Charlie mansion fangirl posts & articles to stop showing up in my social & news feeds
The criminal element always had a psychotic edge to it.
Romance now: omg I love you so much, it would break my heart if you would cheat on me ;~;
Romance then: let's rob a bank together, hun?
It's true what the old folks say. Life was better back then
@@blidge8282 yep
"Life was better back then" I'm pretty sure robbing a bank was never part of a normal relationship no matter the time period :D
@@healbot_Aipha should be though xD
Texas Park Rangers! 😂
Do something on the Texas Rangers!
They did terrible things but once you understand how much they despised the life they lived (Clyde only killing because he was too afraid of prison to return after what happened to him in Eastham and decided he’d rather die than return), it makes it a little more understandable. I’m not justifying the fact that Clyde killed people and Bonnie enabled him. They still did awful, awful things that no one should ever go unpunished for, but I am saying that I can’t entirely state that they were pure evil either.
Hammer was not a “Park Ranger” he was a “Texas Ranger”. HUGE difference. He def deserves his own episode. An episode educating the world on the good & sadly bad of the Texas Rangers would be amazing. The FBI sends agents to be trained by the Rangers. That’s the level they’re on in the law enforcement community.
Thanks, he must not have ever seen Walker, Texas Ranger lol
Biographic on famous Canadians? Leonard Cohen, Alex Trebek, Terry Fox, and early prime ministers?
Awesome as always
You did a good job with this one Simon Whistler. TY This specific event during the Depression years here in the US remains of historical interest. Another biography that validates the name of one of my college history courses, "History as People".
I just have to say I recently came across your channel and I am hooked! Keep up the great work!
These 5 became known as the classic lineup. For a minute I thought I was watching a Pink Floyd documentary.
Fun fact, At the spot where they died is a concrete marker that tells you this is the spot where it happened.
When do we get the episode about Simo whistler?
The RUclips legend who has 10 channel he updates every day.
...and gets a LOT of it dead wrong.
Still a better love story than twilight
I was always waiting for this episode since I watched the 🎥🍿. Thanks Símöñ
Frank Hamer was a retired Texas Ranger, not a park ranger. Very different law enforcement career
Yeah, I doubt he cared if Yogi swiped a picinic basket every so often.😅
Yeah, that hurt my head.
The way Simon so smoothly transitions into the sponsors is perfectly ingenious and is becoming another rather enjoyable perk for his shows! Love the content Simon, ALL of it! Thankyou!
You should do biographics on Tokugawa Ieyasu
@darius Bish i watched some cuts of the netflix show and it is hella unrealistic like oda nobunaga was not a derranged lunatic like he is portrayed and most of the battles were set in wrong environment
The presenter of these biographies are just so good, I nearly find it more pleasurable to watch him than the actual bio....keep up the good work🙂
Unacceptable the commercial did not have the same enthusiastic MWWA that he has on Business Blaze 0 out of 5 stars
I live in Joplin, I can see the Bonnie and Clyde apartment out my bedroom window. They redid the stone a few years back but you can still see some bullet holes around the door.
Requests: Catalina Sforza, Liliuokalani of Hawaii, Anne of Great Britain, Juana of Castile, Sir Douglas Mawson, Sir Thomas Walsingham
IIRC they weren't buried side by side. Bonnie's family blamed (rightly or wrongly) Clyde for corrupting her and prevented her from being buried near him.
I live about 30 minutes from Joplin. And I've known there was a house that the two were found in at one point, but I never knew it was quite as important as it is.
Fantastic episode!
They never really got that much from all of the robberies. But the frequency of their criminality is what did them in
I hopped a fence of a tiny cemetery just a few blocks from downtown Dallas to see Clyde's gravesite. I had cleaned up the overgrown grass and weeds from his headstone. Sad that Bonnie's family would not allow her to be buried next to Clyde. I wont lie, it was pretty cool to see.
Oh wow so “fetch” finally caught on after 20 years lol
"...even though he was only 16 years old, he didn't hesitate to use guns."
Well, clutch my pearls, Limey.
If he's not afraid of an inanimate object that the media tells me is evil (and they wouldn't lie to me), he must be a monster.
Hamer wasn’t a park ranger, he was a Texas Ranger. One of the most elite law enforcement agencies in the country.
Imagine not doing an Irishman or woman on today of all days, booo urns 😂🇮🇪
Well, he is English so I guess that adversity to the Irish still has to be there lol
I completely forgot that today was St Patrick's day.
@@spekify604 same
“I was saying boo-urns...”
Lots of people being pinched for not wearing green today. 😷
Thanks for the fact filled video. So much more in-depth than the movie. Was a fan of theirs since I was 17.🌺🌺
Bonnie's poetry is still amazing
And sadly prophetic.
hardly prophetic, their violent end was inevitable
@@forcedtohaveahandle true.
I just found it sad that she was such a great poet and was trapped by the bad decisions she made.
She could've had a different end.
...
But then again, perhaps it was fated.
Simon was really selling that KFC. 😆
Been rewatching your video on Patton. Here are some suggestions, Omar Bradley, and Bernard Montgomery
Your add transitions are amazing my dude.! Its hard to skip through when you slide in there all perfect ;)
@1:07 - good trigger finger discipline by Ms. Parker there.
According to Hamer, clyde was dead but bonnie was still breathing when they opened the door. Also, clyde liked what he called whippet guns, a cut down pump or auto shotgun with barrel and stock cut down and a small strip of leather on the end to slip over the shoulder that he could whip out from under his coat.
Browning model 5 12 gauge shotgun is the whippet gun.
@@ratagris21 very true, I knew that but I'm also an idiot and didn't realize I implied that all cut down shotguns were called whippets. Yes model 5 was his favorite.
Simon, You should really do a Biographics on me
I second this motion, Mr President.
Who are you?
Calvin Cleavage?
hey its that one guy who did a thing
Yes! Simon does need to tells us how the alcohol was poisoned during Prohibition. Ahh, good times...good times. ;)
Our family has a picture of my paternal grandparents hamming it up with Bonnie and Clyde, posing with pistols and shotguns in Dallas.
Grandmother told us that “we were all nothing but a bunch of kids pretending to be gangsters. We didn’t know they were the real thing!” Granddaddy would never talk about them, and what little we could get out of Grandmother never included how they knew each other.
It was funny seeing my sweet little Grandmother posing with a pistol.
She just smiled and went into their bed room, returning with the thirty eight revolver that she said Clyde had given her after the photo was taken.
Many years after that, Granddaddy shot and killed a man that had broken into their home with the same pistol.
I got a chance to see that Bonnie and Clyde Ford V8 getaway car when I was a kid. It was displayed at a county fair. Really something.
That thing toured around the country for decades.
Good video 👍
Please do a bio on Colonel Paterson and the man eating lions of the Tsavo...thanks.
It's always wild when you hear the name of places close to you in a RUclips video. It's like people know we exist????
Yeah.
In the Bonnie And Clyde film Frank Hamer was portrayed as having a fabulous handle bar moustache.
That actor, Denver Pyle, went on to play Uncle Jesse on TV in The Dukes Of Hazzard.
Two doors down from a bank they robbed in Ponder, there was the Ranchman’s cafe. The place had the best chicken fried steak, but it has closed until we get back to normal.
THANK YOU SO MUCH BIOGRAPHICS - I was going to comment and suggest Bonnie and Clyde but thought it wouldn’t be a great suggestion as it is two people and I didn’t know how it would work with the biographic format but it seems my prayers have been answered, thank you so much !
Finally I’ve been waiting for this one
I was so hoping you would do a Bonnie and Clyde one 😁
We need more channels Simon!
Great video, keep it up🙌
I have a feeling this video will be a good predictor of the GTA VI story.
Just FYI, the picture used at 2:21 is of a group of US Marines not the US Navy.
Great video !
Great coverage and video! 😁👍Bonnie & Clyde even though they are not buried next to each other their names will always be together in history. Their families in 2019 did start looking into moving Bonnie to the plot between Cumie(Clyde's mom) and his plot.... As far as I know they haven't been successful in that yet, but are looking into it.
I saw the death car at Whiskey Pete’s Casino, Primm, NV/ CA state line last Friday; timing.
I love the small nods to business blaze subscribers
0:52 that's my concealed carry position for my 1873 .22 revolver 😆. I call it "pirate carry".
1:50 - Chapter 1 - A tale of two outlaws
5:10 - Chapter 2 - When bonnie met clyde
7:40 - Mid roll ads
9:10 - Chapter 3 - The spree starts
12:50 - Chapter 4 - The gang falls apart
15:40 - Chapter 5 - Breakout at eastham
17:45 - Chapter 6 - A hail of bullets