On This Day January 5

Clyde Barrow (1909–34) first met Bonnie Parker (1911–34) at the West Dallas, Texas home of Clyde’s friend Clarence Clay on January 5, 1930. Two months after he first met Parker, Barrow was arrested on seven accounts of burglary and car theft, convicted, and sentenced to two years in jail. Parker smuggled a gun to him and he escaped. Bonnie and Clyde then embarked on a crime spree with their gang until the pair were betrayed by a friend.

Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, sometime between 1932 and 1934

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