Bonnie & Clyde, Barrow Gang Historical Document Archive USB Drive

Description: Bonnie & Clyde, Barrow Gang Historical Document Archive USB Drive 2,331 pages of Bonnie & Clyde and the Barrow Gang FBI Files, Court Documents, Dallas Police Department Files, Joplin Police Department Files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 for 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 Histories1,576 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.FBI FILES948 pages of FBI files covering Bonnie Parker, Clyde Barrow, and the Barrow Gang. These files, once thought to be lost, were discovered and eventually declassified and released by the FBI in May 2009. Previously only three pages of FBI files on Bonnie & Clyde were known to remain in the custody of the FBI. These “lost” files were released in their entirety, without redactions. The files contain details about the Barrow Gang’s crime spree not previously published before the discovery of these files. These files describe the Bureau's involvement in the pursuit of Bonnie and Clyde, which began almost exactly a year before their deaths.In late 2006, a FBI historian working out the Dallas Field Office recovered these files. They had been thrown in the trash many years earlier to make space for new files. At that time, a FBI employee retrieved the files from the trash. The FBI historian discovered their existence while preparing a historical exhibit in Dallas. The files then entered the review process for declassification. FBI FILES CONTENTS:United States Department Of Justice Bureau of Investigation Dallas Field Office File# 26-4114:Dallas Field Office File# 26-4114 - MemosDallas Field Office File# 26-4114 - Section 1Dallas Field Office File# 26-4114 - Section 2Dallas Field Office File# 26-4114 - Section Sub AThe files date mostly from May 5, 1933 to February 1, 1935. The files show on how many different levels law enforcement worked together closely in the hunt for the Barrow Gang. The files show the sharing of information, leads, and informants, with the FBI often acting as a clearinghouse for the spread of information across the Midwest. New Orleans Division Special Agent Lester Kindell, for example, played a central role in this cooperative effort to track the fugitives in Louisiana and parts of Texas, joining hands with former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and other local law enforcement agencies. Kindell was also closely involved in discussions that led to the final confrontation with Bonnie and Clyde, although he did not participate in the fatal ambush. Within the collection each file section is named as the original file was named and includes all pages that were in that file, in the arrangement released by the FBI.Highlights among the files include:Memos detailing the investigation of two stolen cars, which lead to FBI getting involved in the case. A bureau report on the April 13, 1933 Joplin Missouri police shoot-out. Reports of information obtained from informants days before Parker and Barrow were killed. Reports tell of the extent of the injuries Bonnie sustained during the gang's run. Several handwritten letter pages from Texas Ranger Frank Hamer on The New Inn Shreveport, Louisiana hotel stationary.A June 30, 1933 letter from George T. Corry, sheriff of Collingsworth, Texas to the Bureau concerning his being taken on a ride, kidnapped, by the Barrow Gang. A July 8, 1933 report with 8 pages of detailed information of the gang's kidnapping of George T. Corry, sheriff of Collingsworth, Texas and Wellington, Texas Chief of Police Paul Hardy. A July 10, 1933 memo gives an account of the appearance at the Bureau’s Dallas office of the brother of Constable J. W. Harryman, who was killed at the Joplin shootout by Barrow Brothers, who stated his intention to kill the Barrow Brothers.An August 17, 1933, 26-page report on the gang's activity from July 20, 1933 to July 27, 1933. The report summarizes the various leads and witness interviews during this stretch of the hunt for the Barrow Gang. The report contains a death bed interview of Marvin "Buck" Barrow. Buck received wounds to the head during the Platte City shootout. He received additional wounds in the back during a shootout in an open field near Dexter, Iowa. He died at Kings Daughters Hospital in Perry, Iowa on July 29, 1933. The agent who interviewed Buck described him as being cynical. Although near death, the report says that he would laugh heartily on the retelling of his escapades. The report also gives the results of a jail house interview with Buck's widow, Blanche Barrow. Later in the report is the transcript of the 5-page confession Blanche gave on August 16, 1933.A November 20, 1933 report covers the informant information that lead to the failed "Sowers Ambush." Dallas County authorities learned that Barrow and Parker would be attempting to meet up with family members near Sowers, Texas. Waiting for them were Sheriff "Smoot" Schmidt, Ted Hinton, Ed Caster and Bob Alcorn. When they spotted Bonnie and Clyde in a black 1933 Ford V8 coupe they opened fire. Although wounded, Bonnie and Clyde were able to escape and steal another car at gunpoint.A December 23, 1933 report conveying information from a nurse friend of Bonnie, Hattie Crawford, who says she treated Clyde's gunshot wounds. A 5-page, December 14, 1933 memo recounts the information given in an interview by captured Barrow Gang member William Daniel Jones.A January 5, 1934 report indicating a willingness on the part of Bonnie's brother, Hubert "Buster" Parker, to give up Clyde if it meant saving Bonnie.Memos, telegrams, and handwritten reports from mid-January 1934 chronicle the Barrow Gang going to the Texas State Prison system's Eastham State Farm and launching a raid freeing Raymond Hamilton (Floyd Hamilton's brother), Joe Palmer, Henry Methvin, and Hilton Bybee. During the escape one guard was killed and another wounded. A January 17, 1934 Bureau report written at Eastham State Farm concerning information gain from interviews at the prison. A March 29, 1934 report gives details of gang's actions after the Eastham State Farm Prison breakout, with information provided by a recaptured Hilton Bybee.An April 21, 1934 memo following information concerning Clyde Barrow's attempts to contact a former girlfriend.An April 24, 1934 memo shows that Bailey Tynes, Clyde Barrow's cousin, was paid $4.00 a day as a bureau informant.An April 24, 1934 memo to J. Edgar Hoover tells of the immunity deal that Texas authorities made with Methvin family "provided the Methvins would place Barrow and Bonnie Parker on the spot."A May 3, 1934 Bureau report contains a 5-page transcript of a signed statement by a captured James Mullen, giving an account of the Gang's situation since the Eastham prison breakout.From May 3 to May 22, 1934 a variety of typed and handwritten memos, letters, and telegrams indicate a tighter, ceaseless, and destined hunt for Bonnie and Clyde. FBI Headquarters Interesting Case MemorandumThese three pages titled, "Clyde Champion Barrow, with aliases, and Bonnie Parker, with aliases, National Motor Vehicle Theft Act, Interesting Case Memorandum," were once the only Bonnie & Clyde FBI files known to exist within the Bureau. They were produced in 1934 and revised in 1984. This three-page memo was intended to provide a clear summary of their backgrounds, crimes, and law enforcement’s hunt to bring them to justice. It was meant to be used as background for interested journalists, researchers, and FBI employees. COURT DOCUMENTSBonnie & Clyde - Barrow Gang Criminal Case File - U.S. District Court for the Dallas Division of the Northern District of Texas documents covering the Barrow Gang. Includes copies of indictments, detail of charges, are records of arraignment.United States v. Raymond Hamilton, et. al Grand Jury Indictment - U.S. District Court for the Dallas Division of the Northern District of Texas - Grand jury true bill in the criminal case of Unites States v. Raymond Hamilton, Clyde C. Barrow, Bonnie Parker, Henry Methvin, Joe Palmer, and Hilton Bybee. The defendants were accused of theft of weapons from the Texas National Guard armory.United States v. Mary Pitts, alias Mary O'Dare, et. al - U.S. District Court for the Dallas Division of the Northern District of Texas - This file consists of the criminal case United States v. Mary Pitts, alias Mary O'Dare, et. al. The charges were conspiring to harbor and conceal Clyde Barrow and Bonnie ParkerJesse Warren v. Henderson Jordan - This file covers the court case Jesse Warren v. Henderson Jordan, at issue was ownership of the automobile that Clyde Barrow stole and was killed in. ADDITIONAL MATERIALFugitives; The story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie ParkerThis 260-page book was published in 1934, full title: Fugitives The Story of Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker as Told by Bonnie's Mother (Mrs. Emma Parker) and Clyde's Sister (Nell Barrow Cowan)Compiled, Arranged, and Edited by Jan I. Fortune. This book was published just three months after the deaths of Barrow and Parker. While probably not holding up to journalistic standards of today, it is still two interesting family stories from both the Barrow and Parker family. Reference is made to the contents of letters and diary entries.Fugitives purported to tell the story of Bonnie & Clyde from a more sympathetic, family point of view; author Jan Fortune had interviewed Nell Barker (Clyde's sister) and Emma Parker (Bonnie's mother). But Fortune was a screenwriter, not a historian.According to James R. Knight's author of Bonnie and Clyde: A Twenty-First-Century Update, both Barker and Emma Parker denied to him making many of the statements attributed to them. Nonetheless Fugitives further softened Bonnie & Clyde's image as hard-core criminals, suggesting among other things that they were products of their environment. "Now that they were dead," according to Knight, "it became possible [for Fortune and others] to begin to show them as complex, contradictory human beings instead of cartoon-character gangsters... The swing of the pendulum to the other extreme of John Steinbeck-type folk heroes took a little longer." National Register of Historic Places Registration Form - Bonnie & Clyde Garage Apartment, Joplin MissouriNational Parks Service 39-page report on the granting into the National Register of Historic Places of the Bonnie and Clyde Joplin hideout. The Joplin hideout was designated a national historic place on May 15, 2009. The report includes detailed information about the location and physical aspects of this garage apartment at 3347 1/2 Oak Ridge Drive. It includes a well researched 14-page history of the Joplin Shootout. The report includes 8 photos of the apartment taken in February 2009. Bonnie and Clyde, Barrow Gang Dallas Police Department Files173 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.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.Highlights in this collection include:An October 13, 1932, wanted report sent out of Abilene, Texas. It accuses Clyde with robbing a Piggly Wiggly grocery store in Waco. It includes descriptions of other crimes attributed to the Barrow Gang, including other robberies, murders, and assaults. The report identifies Raymond Hamilton as an accomplice. This is one of the first official documents to by name mention Bonnie Parker as an accomplice.A letter dated June 13, 1933, from San Angelo, Texas Constable's Department to the Dallas, Texas Police Department requesting information about Bonnie and Clyde's exact names and family relations.A letter dated July 18, 1933, from Ed Portley, chief of the Joplin, Missouri Police Department to several Texas Police Departments. Portley had two of his officers murdered by the Barrow Gang and was writing to police chiefs and sheriffs across Texas calling to their attention the importance of working together to capture the gang.Portley wrote in part, "We would be thankful to receive from you any ideas or suggestions that you may have that would be a means of aiding or assisting in their capture... The Last we heard of them was when they killed an officer near Van Buren, Ark and also raped a lady in that vicinity... it is for this reason that we believe that something special should be done to secure the capture of these murderers. Any program that might be arranged to that end among the parties interested most, will meet with our approval, we have been trying to see if we can get our rewards changed to 'dead or alive' but we can't make the parties who offered the rewards see like we do."Copies of confessions given by W.D. Jones, a member of the Barrow Gang, who ran with Clyde and Parker for eight and a half months, from Christmas Eve 1932 to early September 1933. In the confession he gives an account of his beginnings with the Barrow Gang. In his statement to Dallas police Jones said, "[A]bout two o'clock in the afternoon... I was walking along the road intending to go down to the lake and to go to a dance at the Five Point Dancehall that night. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow drove up from behind me and stopped. They were in a V8 Coupe... They spoke to me and told me to get in the car and I got in. They asked me if I wanted to go with them, and I told them I did not, and Clyde said I was going anyway, and I did."Two months after leaving the gang, Jones was arrested in Houston. Charged and convicted at age 19 of "murder without malice," he was sentenced to a 15-year prison term. He was paroled after spending six years in Huntsville Prison in Texas.A telegram sent by Clyde Barrow to the Dallas, Texas District Attorney, on May 14, 1934. Clyde's long and rambling message to DA King, disassociates himself from Raymond Hamilton after the events of the Eastham Prison Breakout. A fingerprint is on the telegram, "just to let you know thjis (SIC) is on the level," wrote Barrow.Coroner reports on Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow from the Office of the Coroner of Bienville Parish Arcadia, Louisiana - Ten pages of handwritten accounting of the autopsies of Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) and Clyde Chestnut Barrow (March 24, 1909 – May 23, 1934). The reporting is made by Dr. J.L. Wade, the corner of Bienville Parish.A letter by a funeral home employee describing the post-mortem condition of Bonnie Parker's body Bonnie & Clyde Joplin Police Department FilesA 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.A highlight of the file is a correspondence from Cumie Barrow regarding the Joplin incident.On March 22, 1933, Clyde's brother Buck was granted a full pardon and released from prison, and he and his wife Blanche moved in with Bonnie, Clyde and W.D. Jones in a temporary hideout at 3347 1/2 Oakridge Drive in Joplin, Missouri. The Joplin police assembled a five-man force in two cars on April 13 to confront what they suspected were bootleggers living in the garage apartment. The Barrow brothers and Jones opened fire, killing Detective McGinnis outright and fatally wounding Constable Harryman.The group escaped the police at Joplin but left behind most of their possessions at the apartment, including Buck's parole papers (three weeks old), a large arsenal of weapons, a handwritten poem by Bonnie, and a camera with several rolls of undeveloped film. Police developed the film at The Joplin Globe and found many photos of Barrow, Parker, and Jones posing and pointing weapons at one another. The Globe sent the poem and the photos over the newswire, including a photo of Parker clenching a cigar in her teeth and a pistol in her hand, and the gang of criminals became front-page news throughout America as the Barrow Gang.In addition to the files described above the collection include:National Register of Historic Places Registration Form Bonnie & Clyde Garage ApartmentUnited States Department of the Interior National Park Service's report on Bonnie & Clyde's garage apartment in Joplin, MO. Contains much historical information about the apartment and its use by Bonnie & Clyde. On Thursday, April 13, 1933, the square stone building was the site of a [deadly shootout between local lawmen and members of the notorious "Barrow Gang." The NPS found that the garage apartment represents a defining moment in the saga of Bonnie & Clyde, and that it was Missouri's most intact and best-preserved structure with a strong and clear association with the notorious gangster lovers. 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.In January of 1930, Bonnie who was 19 and married to a convicted murderer, met 21-year-old Clyde in Texas. Not long after Clyde was sent to prison. Bonnie while visiting Clyde in prison gave him a gun, she had hidden on herself. He used the gun to escape prison but was soon captured.In February 1932, they were reunited when Clyde was paroled. Later that year Bonnie and Clyde joined up with Raymond Hamilton. Hamilton left the pair and was replaced by William Daniel Jones in November 1932.The gang expanded to five members when Clyde's brother Ivan M. “Buck” Barrow, on March 23, 1933, received a full pardon from the governor of Texas. Soon after leaving Texas State Prison, Buck and his wife Blanche joined Barrow, Parker, and Jones.On May 20, 1933, the United States Commissioner at Dallas, Texas, issued a warrant for Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. They were charged with the interstate transportation of a stolen automobile. This federal crime allowed the FBI to enter the hunt for the pair.On July 29, 1933, the gang got into a shootout with police in Iowa. Buck Barrow was fatally wounded, and Blanche was captured. In November of 1933 Jones was captured in Houston.On November 22, 1933, a trap was set by the Dallas, Texas sheriff and his deputies to capture Bonnie and Clyde near Grand Prairie, Texas, but the couple escaped the officer’s gunfire.On January 16, 1934, five prisoners, including Raymond Hamilton were freed from the Eastham State Prison Farm at Waldo, Texas by Barrow and Parker. Two guards were shot by the escaping prisoners with automatic pistols, which had been previously concealed in a ditch by Barrow. As the prisoners ran, Barrow covered their retreat with bursts of machine-gun fire. Among the escapees was Henry Methvin of Louisiana. On April 1, 1934, Bonnie and Clyde encountered two highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas. Before the officers could draw their guns, they were shot. On April 6, 1934, a constable at Miami, Oklahoma was killed by Bonnie and Clyde, they also abducted a police chief, whom they wounded.This increase in violence against law enforcement led to an increase in efforts by law enforcement to end their crime spree. The FBI and local law enforcement received tips that Bonnie and Clyde were in the Louisiana and Texas border area. It was learned that they were with the Methvins and had staged a party at Black Lake, Louisiana on the night of May 21, 1934, and were due to return to the area two days later.On May 23, 1934, Barrow and Parker approached Sailes, Bienville Parish, Louisiana in their Ford sedan. There one of America's most remarkable manhunts came to an end. A posse composed of police officers from Louisiana and Texas, including Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, concealed themselves in bushes along the highway near Sailes, Louisiana. In the early daylight, Bonnie and Clyde appeared in an automobile and when they attempted to drive away, the officers opened fire. Bonnie and Clyde were killed instantly.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)

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