Then, while I was in the Navy, the binder suddenly disappeared.
Where was bonnie and clyde ambushed full#
, next door to my grandfather’s dry cleaning shop.įor years, my dad had a black, three-ring binder full of 8×10 black and white photos of the ambush site, the death car, and Bonnie and Clyde in the car and on the tables in Conger Furniture Co. When Bonnie and Clyde were taken to Arcadia, they were “laid out” on tables in Conger Furniture Co. Ernest ran the film back to Arcadia for processing, and then returned time and again to the ambush site for more film to run in to Arcadia. When word quickly reached Arcadia, my paternal uncle, Ernest Murphy, and his brother, King Murphy, rushed to the “death car” and King began taking black and white photos. My dad, HB Auld, had celebrated his 20th birthday in Arcadia, the day before the ambush. Their final setting outside Gibsland, LA, was near Arcadia, LA, where my dad was born and raised. His epitaph reads: “Gone but not forgotten.” Clyde Barrow was buried in Western Heights Cemetery in Dallas, next to his brother Marvin. The dead criminals were taken to nearby Arcadia, LA, laid out on tables in a furniture store, and later buried in separate locations back in Texas: Bonnie Parker was buried in the Fishtrap Cemetery, although she was moved in 1945 to the new Crown Hill Cemetery in Dallas. When they stopped to help Methvin with his broken-down pickup, six lawmen from Texas and Louisiana stood up and opened fire on their 1934 Ford V8, killing the duo with more than 150 shots. For much of their murder spree, they were accompanied by Clyde Barrow’s brother, Buck Barrow, and his third wife, Blanche.īonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow had stopped in at a cafe in Gibsland for a sandwich and were on their way down Highway 54, one of the backroads of Louisiana, when they were lured into stopping by the father of one of their former cohorts, Henry Methvin. The criminal pair had cut a swath of murder and robbery across the United States during the past 21 months.
They were ambushed outside of Gibsland, LA, on May 23, 1934.
Today is the 87th anniversary of the deaths of Bonnie and Clyde. He authored the book, “Ambush” and inscribed it for me that day. He ran the Bonnie and Clyde Museum in Gibsland, LA, until his death December 5, 2016, at the age of 81. Boots was just four months old when the pair died at the hands of his father, Ted, and five other lawmen. Author, HB Auld, Jr., and “Boots” Hinton, son of Dallas County Deputy Ted Hinton, one of the six lawmen who lay in wait for Bonnie and Clyde that day.The bullet-riddled monument at the site of the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde.The small hill along the highway 54 ambush site where the six lawmen hid, then stood up and fired more than 150 shots at the criminal pair, killing them instantly.It was originally a narrow gravel road when Bonnie and Clyde traveled it to their deaths. Highway 54 as it looked on November 5, 2011, when I visited.
I believe this was one of the photos my uncle, Ernest Murphy, and his brother, King, took at the scene following the ambush. The “death car” with the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde still inside.A photo of the “death car” Clyde was driving with girlfriend Bonnie beside him, when they were ambushed outside Gibsland, LA.Bonnie and Clyde horsing around with Bonnie holding Clyde “at bay” with her sawed-off shotgun.Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow on the side of the road during their crime spree.
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