Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde

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Alan Cumming has included this song on his album Alan Cumming Sings Sappy Songs: Live at the Cafe Carlyle. He sings it in touching memory of his grandfather, Tommy Darling. [14] Charts [ edit ] Chart (1983-84) LYDEN: Their lives may have ended on that dusty highway, but Bonnie and Clyde live on as two of the most famous criminals to capture the public imagination.

Even as notorious criminals, the two remain ordinary in regular life. But for pictures, they take care to wear their absolute best and brandish guns as if they were advertising something. They pose in evocative positions. Guinn discusses one iconic picture of Bonnie placing her foot on the bumper of their car with a cigar in her mouth and a revolver at her side. The photo scandalized and inspired millions of people. It hinted at the sexual freedom possible in the 30s, as well as freedom from a job or the legal system.

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There's always been a certain glamour attached to the celebrity criminals of this era - Bonnie and Clyde themselves, John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd - so it's quite interesting to read just how unglamourous the reality was, how dangerous, dirty and painful Bonnie and Clyde's lives were, how they were attracted to the criminal life by the harshness and impossibility of the Depression, how they never intended to set out to kill anyone and how often they kidnapped law enforcements officers instead of killing them, mostly treating them fairly and kindly along the way, how devoted they were to their families and each other, and how resigned to their fate they were.

In school, Bonnie liked to make up songs and stories. She also liked to write poems. Once she was on the run with Clyde, she had plenty of new material to write about. Stewing in jail for a short spell in April 1932, Bonnie wrote ten poems that she grouped as Poetry from Life’s Other Side. They were poems about the lives of criminals and the women who suffered because of them, including “The Story of Suicide Sal,” about a woman who joins a gang and is left to rot in prison by an uncaring man: Mr. GUINN: Well, the movie is wonderful entertainment, but it's less than five percent historically accurate. I would not recommend this book if you are not really interested in the Bonnie and Clyde story as it is nothing like what you see in the movies or have probably read about. To me it is more interesting actually but I can see how it may bore some people or be hard to get through. Chapter 1 gets into the pre-history of Bonnie & Clyde, details of socio-economic misery that it's unfortunate that anyone shd have to live thru. The section that chapter 1 starts is prefaced by a surprising 1910 quote from former president Teddy Roosevelt: I've seen Larry Buchanon's documentary entitled The Other Side of Bonnie & Clyde (1968). In it, Barrow Gang associate Floyd Hamilton is shown being questioned about Bonnie & Clyde. Strangely, the scene is introduced by the interviewer saying that he's going to give Hamilton a polygraph test. That never happens. The person presented as being Hamilton is shown as saying:The element of inevitable doom in Bonnie & Clyde’s tale probably contributes a lot to this, and while Guinn makes it a very real presence, he hardly had to invent it; throughout much of their brief criminal careers, B&C knew there was only one possible ending to their story, and were often completely frank and casual about it. Floyd Hamilton: "Well, after each crime was committed, gun battle or what you might call it, run-in with the law, we would question them, & they would tell us, in other words, their side of the story." Bonnie didn't mind having guns around. She just didn't want to shoot them." - p 165, GO DOWN TOGETHER Many movies and TV shows have been made about American outlaw couple Bonnie and Clyde, but several never came to fruition, including the Go Down Togetherfilm. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow met in 1930 and together with the "Barrow gang", carried out a series of armed robberies, notably banks, during the Great Depression. The Barrow gang's crimes were highly publicized in American newspapers, and in 1934, Parker and Barrow were gunned down and killed by a group of lawmen in Texas. Years later, their romance, notoriety, and dramatic deaths would prove to be irresistible to Hollywood. Mr. GUINN: One of the very ironic things about the whole Depression is that when it arrived, the poor people in Texas didn't even know that things had changed at all. But in the Depression, when Bonnie and Clyde made the conscious decision that they would, in fact, live as criminals from there on out, their timing was perfect and that they started doing these things at the exact moment so many Americans saw banks as the enemy, the government as the enemy and wanted any kind of entertainment to take their minds off their troubles, and the media fed into this, and in a sense, Bonnie and Clyde became the first two modern icons created by the media in America.

Lccn 2008053342 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9677 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA16840 Openlibrary_edition As the train rolled across the wooded Wisconsin countryside en route to the state mental hospital, he was asked whether he liked to hunt. 'Only Bull Moose,' he replied wryly."" Have things changed that much now? In the 21st century? 90 yrs later? Pittsburgh is rife w/ nepotism & croneyism. The spouse of a well-placed administrator will advance in record-time while someone much more qualified will go nowhere slow.As an aficionado of crime fiction, I thought I would dip my toe into the non-fiction world of real life crime. Like many people, I had heard bits and pieces about various criminal celebrities of the 1930s, like Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Ma Barker, and Bonnie and Clyde. Part of my brain realized their real life stories were probably far from what has been depicted in the movies, TV, etc. so at the recommendation of a good friend who studies this era of crime, I chose to read this book about Bonnie and Clyde.