Bonnie and Clyde’s Final Ride
HISTORY This Week
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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May 23, 1934. On a muggy Louisiana morning, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow speed toward the Texas border. They’ve been on the run for over a year—wanted for robbery and murder—and the lurid news accounts of their exploits have made them famous. But today, Bonnie and Clyde’s legendary crime spree comes to an end … in a hail of bullets.
Why did some come to view these Depression Era outlaws as agents of chaos the country needed? And what was the real motivation behind their crimes?
Special thanks to our guest, John Neal Phillips, author of Running With Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults.
** This episode originally aired May 22, 2023.
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| 0:41.6 | History this week. May 23, 1934. |
| 0:50.4 | I'm Sally Helm. |
| 0:54.5 | 915 on a hot muggy morning in Louisiana. |
| 0:59.6 | Clyde Barrow is speeding down the road heading toward the Texas state line. |
| 1:05.7 | Beside him in the car is his girlfriend, Bonnie Parker. |
| 1:09.9 | These two are wanted for dozens of robberies |
| 1:14.1 | and more than a dozen murders. |
| 1:17.6 | And Americans have been breathlessly following the manhunt, |
| 1:21.7 | the search for Bonnie and Clyde. |
| 1:26.9 | In the most famous movie version of their story, which came out in 1967, Bonnie reaches |
| 1:32.6 | into the back seat and pulls a pair out of a cardboard box. |
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