The Crimes Of Bonnie And Clyde

We are going to create an outline, then we are planning to watch the video once more, write our rough draft, then edit the paper and take it to the writing center, and then perfect it. In the episode of the First 48, There are two crimes committed. One in Tulsa and the other in New Orleans. In Tulsa, an uncle calls to report his nephew has been shot. The uncle is severely beat up and hung over. Investigators try to figure out what happened but the uncle is no help he says he was too drunk to remember anything. Their main suspect is Joseph Brown, the uncle says he does not believe joe would have beaten them up and killed his nephew. Joe confesses with an hour left of the first 48. Then in New Orleans, there is a shooting and the victim is Cash

The movie begins with the narrations of Clyde Barrow and goes into detail about his childhood and how he first got started with criminal activity. Bonnie and Clyde took place during the Great Depression in the 1930’s, therefore Barrow’s family lived in poverty and had little money. Clyde had an older brother known as Marvin “Buck” Barrow, and tells the story about how they first begun their crime sting by stealing chickens. During times of the Great Depression, money, food, and basic everyday items needed to live were hard to get. At a young age, Clyde begun following in the footsteps of his older brother Buck, and begun to commit acts of crime in order to get what they needed and wanted. (FIX!!!!!)

In October of 1938 the police started to become suspicious, as more immigrants were dying under similar circumstances. The outcome of the case was that everybody was sentenced to prison. The two quite possibly could have gotten away with the killing, until they could not contain themselves of only killing their clients husbands. They eventually expanded and started to kill others. This happened

Another duty that once belonged to the U.S. Marshals was to capture run-away slaves. Upon the passage of a law (The Fugitive slave law of 1850), the Marshals would hunt and capture run-aways and return them to their owners. If any marshal or deputy marshals was found to be negligent in performing his duties under this new law, they were imposed a severe financial penalty. In the “Old West “era the Marshals came in and with them they brought law and order. They captured, or killed outlaws such as Bill Doolin; the founder of the wild bunch, Doolin and his gang were bank robbers, Doolin was killed by a U.S. Deputy Marshal. Other outlaws captured by the marshals were Billy the Kid and Ned Christie. These outlaw’s faces were plastered all over asking

Bonnie and Clyde were a young couple in love during the Great Depression running from the law most of their lives. (Klein) They both grew up in small towns and were close to their families. (Klein) Bonnie was very interested in literature and Clyde loved music, but during their high school years they both fell in with the wrong crowd and it went downhill from there.(Klein)

The roaring twenties were a fun decade for america a rebirth after world war one and celebration of a growing and thriving country. It was not all celebration however, there was a dark and prejudiced side of America during this time which was especially dark for the infamous pair Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. After a string of burglaries and then a double homicide took place involving two Italian men near Sacco and Vanzetti around Charlestown Massachusetts stakes were high for the recover the criminals. Unfortunately after 20 days of searching the pair came in contact with a car linked to the crime and fitting the description as two Italian men they were arrested on May 5th 1920 (Stark) . Both men were not only foreign immigrants but

Butch cassidy started off in the McCarthy gang participating in horse and cattle theft, bank robberies, until getting arrested. He served only a little more than half of a 2 year sentence

They escaped capture in various encounters with the law. However, their activities made law enforcement efforts to apprehend them even more intense. During a shootout with police in Iowa on July 29, 1933, Buck Barrow was fatally wounded and Blanche was captured. Jones, who was frequently mistaken for “Pretty Boy” Floyd, was captured in November 1933 in Houston, Texas by the sheriff’s office. Bonnie and Clyde went on together. (Bonnie and Clyde par. 9)

Sacco & Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind by Bruce Watson takes a look at history and tries to give us all of the details of what happened in this case. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo were Italian immigrants that stood trial and were executed for robbery and murder, despite the fact that many did not believe they were guilty.

On January 2, 1932, ten officers were called to the Young family farm near Brookline, which was a village in the Ozark region of Missouri. There were there to arrest two local brothers for auto theft. The officers that were called to the scene were familiar with the Young brothers because they were well known as minor thieves throughout the 1920’s. On top of that, each of them had spent time in a state and federal penitentiary for burglary and theft. The three brothers were Paul Young, Harry Young and Jennings Young. Even though the three brothers had run-ins with the law, the local law enforcement considered the brothers' petty crimes as relatively harmless. That was until June 2, 1929, when Harry Young murdered Republic City Marshal Mark Neo, after he stopped Harry Young for drunk driving along with his other brothers who were in the car as well. Harry and his brothers fled to Texas, where they lived for a

Butch Cassidy: Wanted Dead or Alive Butch Cassidy was no man with a clean slate. He was an infamous outlaw of the Old West, taking all he could from trains and banks. He worked with many people throughout his lifetime who helped him with his misdeeds. He was born in Beaver, Utah on April 13th, 1866.

As the two said before their execution, they would have been happy to have been martyred for the cause of ANarchism, but they were most upset because they were being killed for being common robbers, something Anarchists did

The legal authorities in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) are depicted as the antagonists to the protagonists Bonnie and Clyde. The police are depicted as bumbling, as they trying to catch the Barrow Gang, but are looking in the wrong place and arresting the wrong people. The Barrow Gang take a mocking tone to the police’s efforts and embarrass and humiliate Texas Ranger Frank Hamer when they capture him. This is an example of how the Barrow Gang are depicted as anti-establishment in the film. Bonnie and Clyde are not presented as typical heroes.

They were two Italian immigrants, arrested for robbing a paymaster in Massachusetts on the 15th April 1920. The evidence against them was extremely weak, but they were found guilty and sentenced to death in 1921. The judge was openly hostile to the defendants, calling them "those anarchist bastards" in private and made it clear that they must be guilty because of their national origin. Many in rural America supported the executions, they believed that cities were full of foreigners determined to overthrow the existing America way of life. The Sacco and Vanzetti case is an example of how racial prejudice can cause justice to suffer.

These degenerates played an important role in American history, they were more than just bank-robbers and gunslingers, and they were men that affected all facets of society. They were celebrities, some of the most recognized men in America. Their evil deeds made the front page of every newspaper. They were some of the richest men in America, but most of all; they were the scapegoats for America's problems. They were hated by many, respected by few and feared by all.