Bonnie and Clyde Map

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Summary: String town, Okla. Clyde was getting more recondition for his crimes and Bonnie was released when she claimed she didn’t know him. She lied to her mom about getting a job but then joined Clyde in a place outside Dallas. Clyde used maps to learn his way around places and even practiced driving. Law enforcement found some of Clyde's shooting targets. In July 1932 Bonnie and Clyde shared their Wichita Falls place with Raymond Hamilton. Clyde and Raymond teamed up on a robbery and got $440 dollars in cash. While Bonnie was visiting her mom, Clyde, Raymond and some others stole a car and then stopped at a party. Sheriffs approached them and they opened fire. Clyde and Raymond managed to escape but they lost one of their car wheels. They told a pitiful story to someone in a farmhouse and got them to take Clyde and Raymond in another car yet that one broke down as well. They stole another car and picked up Bonnie before he got on the road once again. Theme Connection: Loyalty, even though Bonnie promised her mom that she would not return to Clyde and a life of crime, she still remained loyal to him. Bonnie lied to her mom about getting a job and went to live with Clyde instead. “In truth, she was joining Clyde, who rented a little place there to get out of Dallas. Over the next two years, the couple would regularly take refuge in such hideouts for a few days up to a few weeks” (Blumenthal 59) Primary Source: Bonnie Parker and her mother Emma

Summary: Eastham Farm Texas Clyde was sent to Eastham prison where he met Ralph Fults on a bus ride. Fults warned him about the mistreatment and Clyde got to experience seeing it first hand when the guards started to beat up Fults. He stayed and watched, which ultimately saved Fults' life and made him loyal to Clyde. After this, Clyde was relocated to a different camp and there he faced more abuse with Crowder. Scally and Clyde hatched a plan and killed Crowder but weren’t punished for it. Clyde injured himself to move to Huntsville and his sentence had been shortened. Theme Connection: Morals, after Clyde had witnessed and been through the abuse of prison, he promised he would never go back. He was mad about how guards were treating prisoners and he believed that the prison system was wrong. Clyde “fumed over the injustice of prison life.” and he “couldn’t stand to see those guys getting beat up all the time” (Blumenthal 41). Primary Source: Mugshot of Clyde

Summary: Joplin MO. When Buck is released from prison, he and his wife join Bonnie and Clyde. Together, they rented an apartment in Joplin MO. They felt at home and were able to take a break, but still had to be very cautious. The day before they planned to leave, police came to the apartment looking for bootleggers, but they were quickly shot by the gang, which killed two officers. They managed to escape all the way to Texas, although severely injured. Their belongings were found, and photos were sent to newspapers throughout the country. Now that police knew what they looked like, they were out to kill them. From that point, they spent all of their time on the run, managing to go through numerous states. They went from living a comfortable lifestyle to one of hostile behavior and barely surviving. Theme Connection: Media Because Police and the general public had photos of Bonnie and Clyde, it made them much easier to spot and trace down. With them becoming higher class criminals and more desired by law enforcement, they were on much thinner ice, and had to dramatically change their lifestyle, and the way that they operated. Them and their crimes being publicized gave them almost celebrity status, which they had to run from. Primary Source: Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, Joplin MO.

Summary: Eastham Farm, Texas Prison system 1930-1932 In 1930, Lee Simmons became manager of the Texas prison system with promises of “cleaning it up”. On his way to Eastham Prison, he met an escapee named Fults, who told him about the horrors that he should expect from the farm. These accusations of the prison are affirmed when Clyde witnesses Fults being beaten by a police officer. He decides that treatment of this kind was unfair and inhumane, so he and Fults start a plot for revenge. Their days working on the farm were excruciating and cumbersome, and the men had to endure significant abuses. Once Cyde was moved into camp 1, a new type of mistreatment was introduced, “Building Tenders, which were men who had been serving long sentences and were entrusted with the job of keeping other inmates “in check”. Clyde, amongst many other men, were abused by these inmates. Because of the torment they had caused, he murdered Ed Crowder, who was a significant offender. He was never punished. Back home, his family and lawyers were working on a plan to get him out, but life in prison was burning him out, so like many other men on the farm, he mutilated his foot, which got him into the infirmary in Huntsville. That experience changed him forever. Theme Connection: Law Enforcement Being imprisoned altered Clyde as a person. He developed a resentment towards government and law, and the mistreatment that he experienced shaped the way that he would later go on to view the world. He would even go on to abuse his love, Bonnie. Primary Source: Eastham Farm, Texas

Eastham Farm, Texas Prison System Summary: Clyde was arrested for burglaries and thefts in three different towns. Clyde was originally held in jail in Waco, TX before being transferred to Easham Farm. Theme Connection: Clyde was assigned to Camp 2 at Eastham Farm prison. The treatment of prisoners between 1930 and 1932 was harsh, violent, and inhumane. Food was scarce and often rancid as, "food vendors often dumped their spoiled goods on the prison" (Blumenthal 39). Additionally treatement in the prison was harsh and violent. Clyde's sister recollects once when she visited him and "both her brother's eyes were black and blue" as he had been beaten on multiple occasions for not keeping up and breaking rules (Blumenthal 40). The work the prisoners were expected to do was oftentimes extreme and "dozens of Eastham prisoners, suffering from exhaustion.... cut their own Achilles tendons to get a break from the fields" (Blumenthal 44). After working with another prisoner to cut off two toes, Clyde's sentence was shortened, however the harsh conditions in prison left a mark on Clyde and he remained resentful for the rest of his life. Primary Source:

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