Great Book on Bonnie & Clyde

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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I just finished, “Go Down Together - The True, Untold Story of Bonnie & Clyde”. It was almost as hard to put down as, “Public Enemies”.

And for the railroad tie-in, Henry Methvin, who turned-out to be Clyde’s Judas in the ambush killing of the pair in Louisianna, got bombed on April 19, 1948, passed-out on some railroad tracks and got bisected by an SP passenger train.

That had to hurt.

I also liked how Blanche Barrow (later remarried) complained about the Warren Beatty movie: “That movie made me look like a screaming horse’s a–!”. I can’t watch that movie because of the way they portrayed her and all the screeching Estelle Parsons did (not to mention all the other Hollywood BS they injected into it).

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I thought Methvin’s FATHER turned them in.

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It was a conspiracy between Henry and his father. Henry’s father initiated the deal to get Henry pardoned in Texas (that is, before Henry took part in the slayings of two Texas motorcycle cops and which he got away with because they pinned his part in it on Bonnie). But Henry was in on the whole plot and he intentionally slipped-away from B&C at a restaurant so they’d come looking for him the next day at his parents’ house.