From The Texan:
Along a quiet stretch of road in northwest Louisiana, the escapades of one of the country’s most notorious crime couples came to a bloody end.
On the morning of May 23, 1934, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were killed after law enforcement officers from Texas and Louisiana ambushed them, riddling their stolen car with bullets.
Thus ended the yearlong manhunt in a way that almost seemed prescient.
A few weeks before she died, Parker gave her mother a poem called “The End of the Line,” part of which read:
The young couple, only in their early 20s at the time of their death, had stolen automobiles, robbed banks, broken criminals out of prison, and committed murders during their crime spree carried on at the height of the Great Depression from 1932 to 1934.
The 1967 movie Bonnie and Clyde that made Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway household names was also controversial at the time because of its supposed glorification of criminals and the graphic violence of its final scene (spoilers):
