On this day in 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush as they were driving a stolen Ford Deluxe along a road in Bienville Parish, La.
[T]here is a kind of American poetry in a stickup gang seen chasing across the bedraggled backdrop of the Depression--as if crime were the only activity in a country stupefied by poverty. -- Pauline Kael
WATCH Bonnie and Clyde, Arthur Penn
LISTEN Bonnie and Clyde, Serge Gainsbourg and Brigitte Bardot; Luna and Laetitia Sadier
NAMECHECK Irma Vep
