The Barrow Gang was an American

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active between 1932 and 1934. They were well known outlaws, robbers, murderers, and criminals who, as a gang, traveled the

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during the

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. Their exploits were known all over the nation. They captured the attention of the American press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the '

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era'. Though the gang was notorious for the

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they committed, they preferred to rob small stores or gas stations over banks. The gang was believed to have killed at least nine police officers, among several other murders. The gang was best known for two of its members, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, an unmarried couple. Clyde Barrow was the leader. Other members included: * Clyde's older brother Marvin "Buck" Barrow * Buck Barrow's wife Blanche Barrow * W. D. Jones * Henry Methvin * Raymond Hamilton * Joe Palmer * Ralph Fults

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File:Buck and Blanche FOIA FBI.jpg, Blanche and Buck Barrow 1931 File:BlancheBarrowMug1933.jpg, July 27, 1933 – Blanche Barrow File:Clyde Champion Barrow Mug Shot - Dallas 6048.jpg,

Clyde Barrow Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut "Champion" Barrow (March 24, 1909May 23, 1934) were American outlaws who traveled the Central United States with their gang during the Great Depression, committing a ser ...

age 17 in a 1926 mugshot File:WDJones1stMugAt15.jpg, 22 October 1931, W. D. Jones, 15, and friend LC Barrow were arrested after disappearing with, then wrecking, a bootlegger's car.Beaumont, Texas

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. FBI file 26-411
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pp. 54-55. "The car we had torn up belonged to a bootlegger who had hired us to deliver his liquor. We got to pulling on a bottle and just hooked 'em with the liquor and the bootlegger's car." "Riding with Bonnie and Clyde." File:WDJonesMug1973.jpg, W. D. "Deacon" Jones in 1973 File:HenryMethvinMugshot1931.jpg, Mug shot of Henry Methvin, December 1931, age 20 File:WDJonesAndBarrow1933.jpg, Barrow, Parker and Jones paused on a disused road to take pictures of themselves in the late winter or early spring of 1933. File:Bonnieclyde f.jpg, File:BonnieParkerCigar1933.jpg, Parker's playful pose with a cigar brands her in the press as a "cigar-smoking gun moll" when police find the undeveloped film in the Joplin hideout File:Bonnie apuntant de broma a Clyde amb una escopeta.jpg, File:WDJonesAndGuns1933.jpg, File:BarrowDeathCarArsenal1934.jpg, Over a dozen guns and several thousand rounds of ammunition from Bonnie Parker's shotgun, (including 100 20-round BAR magazines) were in the perforated Ford after deaths of Bonnie and Clyde.

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{{Bonnie and Clyde Organized crime groups in the United States Prohibition gangs American gangsters of the interwar period

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