The first of many books purporting to tell their “real story” was published just months after their deaths the 1967 movie “Bonnie and Clyde,” starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, prompted a revival that continues to this day.
For two short years they had been icons of outlaw glamour their legend would outlive them by decades. Thousands overran the Dallas funeral homes where their bodies were displayed. Someone snipped a lock of Bonnie’s hair and a piece of her bloodstained dress a man tried to cut off Clyde’s ear. Within minutes of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow’s deaths from police gunfire in 1934, gawkers drawn by the sound of shots surrounded their bullet-riddled Ford and snatched gory souvenirs.
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