Bonnie & Clyde, Barrow Gang Historical Document Archive USB Drive

Bonnie & Clyde, Barrow Gang Historical Document Archive USB Drive

2,331 pages of Bonnie & Clyde and the Barrow Gang FBI Files, Court Documents, Dallas Police Department Files, Joplin Police Department Files and Barrow Gang Newspaper Articles.

This collection includes as a finding aid, a unified full-text index of all computer recognizable text in all documents in this collection, making it possible to quickly search all computer recognizable text across all pages of all collections in one search.

When Bonnie met Clyde in January 1930, she was 19 and married to an imprisoned burglar, who she married when she was 15. Clyde was arrested a few days after they met Bonnie and her husband to commit a burglary. He escaped jail in Waco, Texas using a gun Bonnie smuggled to him. Clyde was recaptured and was sent back to prison. Clyde was paroled in February 1932. He soon returned to a life of crime, apparently murdering an Oklahoma sheriff and a storekeeper. By August, Bonnie and Clyde were together for good and making news as they were pursued across Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kansas, Iowa, and Illinois.

At the core of the Barrow Gang were Bonnie and Clyde. At different times the group included others such as Clyde's older brother Marvin "Buck" Barrow and his wife Blanche, William Daniel Jones, Raymond Hamilton, Henry Methvin, Joe Palmer, Mary O'Dare, and others.

Bonnie and Clyde and their gang are believed to have committed 13 murders, including the killing of nine law enforcement officers. Barrow and Parker never stood trial for the murders, kidnappings, burglaries, and other crimes they were accused of committing, because on May 23, 1934, a posse composed of police officers from Louisiana and Texas, including Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, concealed themselves along a highway near Sailes, Louisiana. Six months earlier on November 22, 1933, a Dallas sheriff set a trap near Grand Prairie, Texas in an attempt to overcome Bonnie and Clyde, but they were able to escape the gunfire. This time Texas and Louisiana law enforcement had more firepower that morning. The two, Parker age 23 and Barrow age 25, fell for a trap and were ambushed by six officers and killed before ever being able to give off a shot.

This set is a compilation of 4 digitalized document collections from BACM Research:

Bonnie & Clyde and the Barrow Gang FBI Files and Court Documents

Bonnie & Clyde, Barrow Gang Dallas Police Department Files

Bonnie & Clyde Joplin Police Department Files

Bonnie & Clyde, Barrow Gang Newspaper Articles (1933-1935)

Descriptions of the four individual collections making up the composite collection Bonnie & Clyde, Barrow Gang Historical Document Archive USB Drive

Bonnie & Clyde: Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, and the Barrow Gang FBI Files, Court Documents and Histories

1,576 pages of FBI files and U.S. District Court for the Dallas Division of the Northern District of Texas documents covering Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, and the Barrow Gang, and published histories on Bonnie and Clyde.

For the complete description see:

https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/2fo1/


Bonnie & Clyde, Barrow Gang Dallas Police Department Files

173 pages of Dallas Police Department historical records and files created, collected by, or sent to the Department related to Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and other members of the Barrow Gang.

The material includes photographs, typescript, and handwritten documents, wanted posters, fingerprint cards, memoranda about the activities and whereabouts of members of the Clyde Barrow Gang. While the Dallas County Sherriff's Department headed the search, the Dallas Police Department provided intelligence on the gang's movements and associates.

For the complete description see:

https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/bonnie-and-clyde-barrow-gang-dallas-police-department-files/

 
Bonnie & Clyde Joplin Police Department Files

A 312-page file from the Joplin, Missouri Police Department, the documents cover Bonnie & Clyde dating from 1933 and 1934, several date from 1938 to 1949.

The file includes correspondences between then Joplin Chief of Detectives Ed Portley and other police and sheriff departments on gathering and dispersing information about the fugitives and their cars and weapons. Also includes newspaper clippings about the killers. Later dated memos deal with closing up loose ends and responding to inquiries.

For the complete description see:

https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/2r4gur/

Bonnie & Clyde, Barrow Gang Newspaper Articles (1933-1935)

270 full sheet newspaper pages dating from January 8, 1933, to May 5, 1935, with coverage of Clyde Barrow, Bonnie Parker, and the Barrow Gang.

Newspapers in this collection include:

Brownsville Herald (Brownsville, TX) 
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, TX)
La Grange Journal (La Grange, TX)
The Meridian Tribune (Meridian, TX)
The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, TX)
The Cuero Record (Cuero, TX)
The Mexia Weekly Herald (Mexia, TX)
The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, TX)
Brownwood Bulletin (Brownwood, TX)
Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, TX)
The Tribune (Hallettsville, TX)
The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, TX)
The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, TX)
The Cotulla Record (Cotulla, TX)
The Clifton Record (Clifton, TX) 
The Wortham Journal (Wortham, TX)
The Daily Sun (Goose Creek, TX) 
The Orange Leader (Orange, TX)
The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, TX)
Timpson Daily Times (Timpson, TX)
Cleburne Times-Review (Cleburne, TX)
The Deport Times (Deport, TX)
Mt. Pleasant Times Review (Mount Pleasant, TX)
Evening Star (Washington, DC)
Imperial Valley Press (El Centro, CA)
Telegraf (Baltimore, MD)
The Chapel Hill Weekly (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Henderson Daily Dispatch (Henderson, NC)
The Waterbury Democrat (Waterbury, CT)
The Key West Citizen (Key West, FL)
The Bismarck Tribune (Bismarck, ND)
The Times-News (Hendersonville, N.C.)
The Indianapolis Times (Indianapolis, IN)
Roanoke Rapids Herald (Roanoke Rapids, NC)
El Democrata Del Condado de Costilla (San Luis, CO)
The Eureka Mirror (Eureka, MT)
The Nome Nugget (Nome, AK) 

For the complete description see:

https://downloads.paperlessarchives.com/p/bonnie-and-clyde-barrow-gang-newspaper-articles-1933-1935/