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With the Great Depression having resurfaced in so many accounts during the current economic distress, it comes as no surprise that the FBI would choose now to release documents about the 1930s’ most infamous couple: Bonnie and Clyde. The decision marked the 75th anniversary of the killing of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker by federal agents in rural Louisiana on May 23, 1934.

http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/FBI_Rele ... line_90529

Yes, apparently Bonnie and Clyde are a hot topic on several message boards again.

These FBI files and a whole section complete with official documents and photographs (including their bullet ridden car and a rock marking the place where they were killed) have been devoted to Bonnie and Clyde on footnotes.com.

The Department of Justice--National Motor Vehicle Theft Act- "Wanted" page even has a complete and intimate description of both as well as a list of relatives in Dallas, Gladewater etc--including cousins!

Bonnie's husband- Roy Thurston was in the Texas State Penitentiary at the time but her mother's address in Dallas on Lamar are given as well as Clyde's father 's address in "rural Dallas".

The six folks (a sheriff and deputy from Louisiana; two sheriff's deputies from Dallas; two special agents for the Texas Department of Corrections) would be pretty surprised to hear they were Federal agents, I think.

Bonnie and Clyde were one pair the Feds had nothing to do with terminating. Once again either the press gets it wrong or the Feebs puff up their role in things. Or both.