Paul Schneider - Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend

1903

3/14

Buck born in Jones Prairie, TX.

1909

3/24

Clyde Barrow born in Telico, TX.

1910

10/1

Bonnie Parker born in Rowena, TX.

1914

12/31

Bonnies father, Charles Parker, dies in Rowena.

1915

Parker family moves to Cement City, TX.

1921

Barrow family moves to West Dallas, TX.

1925

12/21

Buck arrested for tire theft; charges dropped.

1926

9/23

Bonnie marries Roy Thornton.

c. 12/1

Clyde rents car and visits Eleanor in Broaddus, TX; forgets to return it. Arrested; charges dropped.

1928

Blanche Caldwell moves to West Dallas.

1929

10/13

Clyde, Buck, and Frank Clause arrested in Dallas on burglary charges; charges dropped.

11/11

Buck and Blanche meet in West Dallas.

11/29

Clyde, Buck, and Sidney burgle gas station in Denton, TX. Buck shot, arrested. Clyde hides under house.

1930

1/14

Buck begins five-year term in Texas prison system at Ferguson Prison Farm, just north of Huntsville.

1/1430

Clyde meets Bonnie in West Dallas.

2/714

Clyde arrested at Bonnies mothers house.

3/2

Clyde convicted in Waco, TX, of two burglaries and five car thefts. Sentenced to two years in prison.

3/8

Buck escapes from Ferguson Prison Farm.

3/11

Clyde escapes from the Waco jail with three others using gun smuggled in by Bonnie.

3/18

Clyde arrested in Middleton, OH; returned to Texas where sentences revert from concurrent to consecutivefrom a two- to fourteen-year total.

3/25

Clyde charged with murder; charges eventually dropped.

5/1

Clyde arrives at Eastham Prison Farm in Weldon, TX.

OctDec

Clyde moved to camp 2.

1931

10/29

Clyde murders Ed Crowder at Eastham Prison Farm.

12/27

Buck turns himself back into prison.

1932

1/27

Clyde cuts off his own toes to get transferred back to Huntsville, where Buck is imprisoned.

2/2

Clyde released on parole.

Apr

Clyde, Ralph Fults, and Ray Hamilton commit a series of robberies, including their first bank job, in Lawrence, KS.

3/18

Clyde, Bonnie, and Fults steal two cars in Tyler, TX.

3/19

Bonnie arrested with Fults after shootout in Kaufman County, TX. Clyde escapes.

3/30

John N. Bucher murdered during robbery in Hillsboro, TX, for which Clyde was the driver.

4/14

Clyde and Fults kidnap Chief of Police James Taylor in Electra, TX. Later the same day they kidnap postman W. N. Owens in Fowlkes, TX.

6/15

Bonnie released from jail.

6/29

Clyde and Hamilton rob train station in Grand Prarie, TX.

7/1

Clyde robs the Neuhoff Meat Packing Company in Dallas.

7/5

Clyde and Hamilton murder Eugene Moore at an outdoor dance in Stringtown, OK.

7/1314

Clyde, Hamilton, and Bonnie kidnap Deputy Sheriff Joe Johns in Carlsbad, NM.

7/15

Shootout at the bridge in Wharton, TX.

10/11

Howard Hall murdered in his grocery store in Sherman, TX. Clyde implicated.

11/30

Clyde, Bonnie, and others rob a bank in Oronogo, MO.

12/25

Clyde, traveling with Bonnie and W. D. Jones, murders Doyle Johnson in Temple, TX.

1933

1/6

Clyde, traveling with Bonnie and W. D. Jones, murders Deputy Sheriff Malcolm Davis outside the home of Ray Hamiltons sister in West Dallas.

1/13

Clyde, Bonnie, and W. D. Jones implicated in bank robbery in Ash Grove, MO.

1/26

Clyde, Bonnie, and W. D. Jones abduct officer Thomas Persell inSpringfield, MO, and release him later outside Joplin, MO.

3/22

Buck receives a full pardon from Governor Miriam Fergusson of Texas. Within days, he and Blanche rejoin Clyde, Bonnie, and W. D. Jones.

4/13

Shootout at Joplin, MO, leaves lawmen Wes Harryman and Harry McGinnis dead. Clyde, Buck, and W. D. Jones are all wounded.

4/27

Gang abducts Sophie Stone and H. D. Darby in Ruston, LA, and later releases them unharmed.

5/12

Clyde and Buck fail in bank robbery attempt in Lucerne, IN.

5/19

Gang robs a bank in Okabena, MN, and shoot their way out of town.

6/10

Bonnie nearly killed in car wreck in Wellington, TX.

6/23

Buck kills Henry Humphrey during shootout in Alma, AR.

7/7

Clyde and Buck burgle the National Guard Armory in Enid, OK.

7/18

Gang robs three gas stations in one half-hour in Fort Dodge, IA.

7/19

Shootout at Platte City, MO, leaves Buck gravely wounded and Blanche half-blind.

7/24

Blanche and Buck are captured during shootout at Dexfield Park near Dexter, IA. Bonnie, Clyde, and W. D. Jones are wounded.

7/29

Buck dies in Perry, IA