Bonnie and Clyde - robbers, outlaws and criminals

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were well recognized robbers, outlaws and criminals who, with their gang, travel the Central United States during the Great Depression. Their exploits capture the notice of the American public during what is occasionally referred to as the "public enemy era" between 1931 and 1934. Though recognized today for his dozen-or-so bank robberies, Barrow in fact preferred to rob small stores or rural gas stations. The gang is supposed to have killed at least nine police officers and committed several civilian murders. The couple themselves were lastly ambushed and killed in Louisiana by law officers. Their standing was cemented in American pop folklore by Arthur Penn's 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.

Even during their lifetimes, the couple's representation in the press was at considerable odds with the hardscrabble realism of their life on the road, mostly in the case of Parker. Even though she was physically there at a hundred or more felonies during her two years as Barrow's companion, she was not the machine gun wield cartoon killer portray in the newspapers, newsreels, and, particularly, the pulpy detective magazines of the day. Gang member W. D. Jones was unsure whether he had still seen her fire at officers. Parker's repute as a cigar smoking gun moll grow out of a playful snapshot found deserted by police at a hideout, out to the press, and published nationwide; while she did sequence smoke Camel cigarettes, she was not a cigar smoker.

Birth Name	Clyde Chestnut Barrow
Date Of Birth	March 24, 1909
Place Of Birth	Ellis County, Texas
Date Of Death	May 23, 1934
Place Of Death	Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Birth Name	Bonnie Elizabeth Parker
Date Of Birth	October 1, 1910
Place Of Birth	Rowena, Texas
Date Of Death	May 23, 1934
Place Of Death	Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Jesse James - American outlaw, gang leader, robber, murderer

Jesse James was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank robber, train robber, and murderer from the state of Missouri and the mainly famous member of the James Younger Gang. Already a famous person when he was alive, he became a famous figure of the Wild West after his death. Some new scholars place him in the context of regional insurgencies of ex-Confederates following the American Civil War rather than an expression of frontier lawlessness or economic justice. Jesse and his brother Frank James were partner guerrillas during the Civil War. They were accused of join in atrocities committed against Union soldiers.

After the war, as associate of one gang or another, they robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains. Despite popular portrayals of James as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the wealthy and giving to the poor, there is no proof that he and his gang used their robbery gains for anyone but themselves. The James brothers were most active with their gang from about 1866 until 1876, when their effort robbery of a bank in Northfield, Minnesota, resulted in the imprison or deaths of several members. On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford, who was an associate of the gang living in the James house and who was hopeful to collect a state reward on James' head.

Birth Name	Jesse Woodson James
Date Of Birth	September 5, 1847
Place Of Birth	Clay County, Missouri, USA
Nationality	American
Known for	Robbery
Spouse	Zerelda Mimms
Date Of Death	April 3, 1882
Place Of Death	St. Joseph, Missouri, USA