EP. 67: Bonnie & Clyde Part 1: The Outlaws
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The great depression was hard on everyone everywhere, and Texas was no exception. People couldn’t work, could barely eat and just needed a break. The people wanted excitement, they wanted romance, they wanted something to cheer for…even if it was evil. That’s when a petty chicken thief met a beautiful wanna-be movie star, both from the poor side of town. They set off on one of the most wide-ranging, violent, notorious, and legendary crime sprees in American history. Pretty soon, everyone knew their names…Bonnie & Clyde. Meet two of America’s most notorious outlaws in this episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to the wise Texas, your award-winning Texas History |
| 0:14.5 | Podcast. I'm your host Ken Wise. I want to thank you for tuning in for some |
| 0:18.8 | Texas history today. I hope everybody enjoyed the last episode |
| 0:23.2 | episode 66 on the Texas Tories. |
| 0:25.6 | This episode is being released at the end of March 2019 right in the middle of the 183rd anniversary of the Texas |
| 0:36.8 | Revolution and I've certainly got another episode on the front burner |
| 0:41.7 | concerning the revolution. |
| 0:44.0 | But before we get to that, we're going to fast forward about a hundred years. |
| 0:48.2 | You might have noticed some new intro music. |
| 0:50.6 | Today we're going to go to another period in Texas history and later in the |
| 0:56.1 | episode you'll understand why. We're going to the 1930s. The 1930s saw the United States in the midst of the Great Depression. |
| 1:06.4 | Times were hard. Jobs were hard to come by or impossible to come by and folks were barely |
| 1:12.0 | scraping by. Texas was no exception. |
| 1:15.0 | And in the middle of all this depression, people were craving distraction. |
| 1:20.0 | They needed a distraction, they needed glamor. They wanted someone to succeed. |
| 1:27.0 | Anyone. Even if it was evil. |
| 1:31.0 | And that distraction came in the form of a diminutive chicken thief who could drive |
| 1:37.8 | like a bat out of hell and his cute feisty girlfriend who just wanted something exciting to happen. |
| 1:45.0 | It came in the form of Bonnie and Clyde. Clyde Barrow was born on March 24, 1999 in Teleco, or Teleco, Texas, which is near Ennis in North Texas. |
| 2:05.8 | He was born to Henry and Cummy Barrow. |
| 2:08.5 | They had seven kids and were dirt poor. |
| 2:11.7 | He moved to West Alice in 1922. |
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