Bonnie and Clyde several civilians. The couple were eventually ambushed and killed by law officers near Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Their exploits were revived and cemented in American pop folklore by Arthur Penn's 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde". Even during their lifetimes, their depiction in the press was at considerable odds with the hardscrabble reality of their life on the road, especially for Bonnie Parker. While she was present at one hundred or more felonies during the two years she was Barrow's companion, she was not the cigar-smoking, machine gun-wielding killer depicted in the newspapers, newsreels, and pulp detective magazines of the day.
Bonnie and Clyde or fortune from robbing banks, but to seek revenge against the Texas prison system for the abuses he suffered while serving time. Several accounts describe Bonnie and Clyde's first meeting, but the most credible tells that Bonnie Parker met Clyde Barrow on January 5, 1930, at the home of Clyde's friend Clarence Clay at 105 Herbert Street in the neighborhood of West Dallas. Parker was out of work and staying with a female friend to assist her during her recovery from a broken arm. Barrow dropped by the girl's house while Parker was in the kitchen making hot chocolate. When