Ambush

The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde

Ted Hinton

• Publisher: Eakin Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781681791760
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

The story of Bonnie and Clyde-their love, their desperate killings, and their destruction in an explosion of gun fire-has fueled an American legend more than seventy years. But it is only with this book by the last surviving officer of the six who shot Bonnie and Clyde that the full story of their capture has been told.

Ted Hinton's description of a secret, illegal police trap-hidden at the time from the press and public-is one of many revelations he draws from his intimate knowledge of the greatest manhunt of the 1930s. As a Dallas lawman he spent seventeen months, night and day, on the trail of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. He knew the notorious criminals personally from the seamy, hoodlum-ridden Dallas neighborhoods where they all grew up. He shared their code of toughness and genu­inely admired the extraordinary courage, skill, and loyalty that made Bonnie and Clyde stand out almost as heroes in the public imagination. Hinton admired them, but he never doubted that they had to be stopped. The long trail could only end in a shootout and their deaths-or his.

Hinton's experiences as a green young sheriff's deputy and his compassion for outlaw lovers give Ambush an unusual dimension of humanity. Twenty-seven photographs underscore the book's vivid au­thenticity. And the author's meticulous research, using sources avail­able to no one else, makes this the definitive work of fact. The result is a powerful human drama of crime and the law: the real story of Bonnie and Clyde.

Index

Alcorn, Bob: ambush, final, ix, 157–186 passim; deputy sheriff, 27–28; encounters, with Clyde and Bonnie, 129–132, 138–139, with W. D. Jones, 100–103, with Buck Barrow, 78; first ambush, 104–107; and Ted Hinton, 49, 55, 100, 109, 111, 192; Joplin aftermath, 38–39, 47; mechanic, 132; posse, 134–135, 142; reward money, 188, 192

Allbright, George, 75

Allen, J. E., 142

Alma (Arkansas) bank, robbery of, 55

Ambush: final, ix, 157–172 (see also Cover-up); first, 103–105

Ammunition: Browning Automatic Rifle (B.A.R.), 37, 57, 64; Clyde Barrow’s guns, 71–72, 102, 107, 123, 143, 170–171, 173; Ted Hinton’s guns, 104, 111–112, 132, 157

Andrews, Reverend Clifford, 191–192

Arcadia, Louisiana, 161–189 passim

Arp, Texas, 97

Atoka, Oklahoma, 19

Bailey, Harvey, 89–94

Baker, Lincoln, 62

Barnes, George Kelly. See Kelly, Machine Gun

Barrow, Blanche Caldwell, 35–36, 48, 53–55, 189; “Blythe,” 78; captured, 73; incidents, at Dexfield, 69–74, at Joplin, 36–39, in Platte City, 61–65; testimony and sentence, 77–80; wounded, 65, 68–69

Barrow boys, 8–9, 14

Barrow, Buck, 29, 35–36, 48, 77–78, 102; and Clyde Barrow, 36, 78, 80; captured, 73; death, 77, 79; early life, 7–9; funeral, 80–81; incidents, at Dexfield, 69–74, at Joplin, 36–39, at Platte City, 61–65; wounded, 65, 68–69, 72

Barrow, Clyde: alias Elvin Williams, 11, 188; ambush and death, 164–171, 173; axes toes, 12–13; and Buck Barrow, 8–9, 17, 35–36, 78–80, 190; car accident, 50–54; cars, 107, 108, 111, 144...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Dedicated to Law Enforcement and The Men and Women of all Its Branches Who Maintain the Peace
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Foreword
• Preface
• “The Life and Death of Bonnie and Clyde” by Bonnie Parker
• I The Dirty Thirties
• II Ante Up
• III Murder Begins
• IV No Turning Back
• V The Hamilton Connection
• VI The Barrow Gang Forms
• VII Hell Breaks Out in Platte City
• VIII A Twenty-Acre Battleground
• IX A Mystery Solved
• X Machine Gun Kelly Was a Piker
• XI The First Ambush
• XII Full Time on a Hard Trail
• XIII Near Misses
• XIV New Help for an Old Chore
• XV The Hamilton Split
• XVI Ambush: The Real Story
• XVII Two True Lovers
• Appendix A: People Killed by the Barrow Gang,
• Appendix B: Chronology: The Career of Bonnie and Clyde
• Index