My Life with Bonnie and Clyde (57 page)

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. “First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933.”
nationalcenter.org/FRooseveltFirstInaugural.html

Schultz, Stanley K. “American History: 1865 to the Present, Lecture 19, The Great Depression and the New Deal.” University of Wisconsin, 2002.
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/textonly/lecture19.html

Audio/Visual Media

Parker, Billie Jean. Interview by Jud Collins. RCA Victor sound recording, #LSP 3967, 1968.

Piper, Kurt. Video interview.
Remembering Bonnie and Clyde
. Video documentary. Tim Leone, writer and director. St. Louis: Turquoise Film/Video Productions, 1994.

Index

References to illustrations are in italic type
.

Abolt, Carl,
130

Accidents, automobile,
82
,
92
,
103
; Alma,
109
,
216
; Wellington,
88
,
95
,
96
,
262–63n.2

Adel, Iowa,
288n.3

Adkins-Beck Packing Company,
37

Adolphus Hotel, Dallas, Tex.,
5

Agricultural Adjustment Act,
166

Ain’t We Crazy?
(popular song),
156

Alabama,
87
,
107
,
169

Albany, Tex.,
294n.25

Alcatraz prison,
296n.39

Alderson Federal Prison for Women, W.Va.,
189

Alsup, Ralph (“Fuzz” and “Other Ralph”),
239n.39

Alma, Ark.,
102
,
274n.24
; shootout,
101–103
,
108–109
,
215–16
,
270–71n.12

Alto, Tex.,
221

Amarillo, Tex.,
7
,
59
,
247nn
.
1
,
3
,
262–63n.2
,
247n.44

Amelia Island, Fla.,
259n.3

American Beach, Fla.,
259n.3

American Legion: Armistice Day program (1933),
5

American Plains.
See
Great Plains

Amytal (amobarbital, or amobarbital sodium),
266n.5

Anacostia River, Washington D.C.: Bonus March,
15

Andrews sisters,
156

Antlers, Okla.,
104

Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty”,
88

Arkansas,
59
,
61
,
62
,
87
,
88
,
107

Arkansas River, Ark.,
266n.5

Armistice Day,
5–6
.
See also
Veterans Day

Arthur, Bill,
284n.17

Ash Grove, Mo.,
255n.23
.
See also
Bank of Ash Grove

Atlantic Ocean: U.S. coast,
83
,
259n.3

Atoka County, Okla.,
209

Atz, August,
254n.21

Atz, Cleo,
254n.21

Auburn Prison, Auburn, n.Y.,
236n.31

Austria,
167

Bacon, Harry,
241n.16

Baker, Clarence,
248n.14

Baker, Lincoln,
275n.29

Ballew, Smith,
157

Band Box Beauty Shop, Dallas, Tex.,
189

Bank of Ash Grove, Ash Grove, Mo.: robbery of,
241–42n.16
,
255n.23

Bank robbery: problems with,
70
,
254–55n.22
; techniques of,
250n.9

Barker-Karpis gang,
37
,
167
,
241n
.
12
,
248n
.
15
,
295n.36
.
See also
Karpis, Alvin; Murray, Edna

Barrow, Artie (Blanche’s sister-in-law).
See
Winkler, Artie Barrow

Barrow, Audrey Faye (Blanche’s sister-in-law),
161
; Barrow-Parker harboring trial, defendant in,
291n.8

Barrow, Blanche Caldwell,
3
,
4
,
7
,
8
,
18
,
35
,
45
,
84
,
85
,
86
,
89
,
94
,
108
,
134
,
138
,
140
,
141
,
153
,
155
,
158
,
160
,
163
,
168
,
172
,
174
,
178
,
184
,
192
,
196
,
197
,
198
;
animals and dolls as surrogate children,
194
,
226n.3
; Barrow family, conflicts with,
23
,
143
,
147
,
161–62
,
235n.23
; Barrow family, living with,
234n.22
; Barrow-Parker harboring trial, defendant in,
146
,
164
,
291n.8
; and Billie Parker,
101
,
183–95
; and Bonnie,
25–26
; Bonnie and Clyde, reaction to deaths of,
146
;
Bonnie and Clyde
, 1967 motion picture,
179–83
; Buck, fighting with,
83–86
; Buck, first meeting with,
5
,
226n.6
; Buck, marriage to,
6
,
8
; Buck, reunion with,
17
; Buck, robbery accomplice of,
227n
.
8
,
232n
.
19
,
235n.28
; Buck and Clyde in prison, visiting,
11
,
227n
.
9
,
236n.29
; Buck’s crimes, prior knowledge of,
228–30n.10
,
240n.10
; childless,
226n.3
; Clyde, fighting with,
255n.26
; Clyde leaving Blanche and Buck,
286n.24
; Clyde’s statement to Cumie,
238n.37
; cooking and food,
40
,
50
,
73
,
81
,
82
,
101
,
111
,
112
,
128
,
185–86
; in custody,
134–43
,
149
; Dallas, bus trip to,
72–74
; death of,
194
; and Denison police,
21–22
; Dexfield Park, camped in,
124–29
,
282–83nn
.
8–16
; Dexfield Park, captured in,
132–136
,
286nn
.
26
,
28
,
287n.29
; Dexfield Park, flight in,
285nn
.
21
,
22
; Dexfield Park, separated from Bonnie, Clyde, and W. D. in,
129–32
,
285n.21
; Dexfield Park and Schwartz photographs,
287n.29
; Dexfield Park shootout
129
,
283–85nn
.
17–20
; Dexter, escape attempt in,
287–88n.1
; drinking,
44–45
,
82
,
111
,
112
,
242n.20
; driving,
67
,
192
,
251n
.
10
,
252n
.
14
,
254n.21
; Eastham, mistaken about Clyde’s plan to raid,
236n
.
29
,
237n.33
; Eastham, plan to raid,
27–28
; Eddie Frasure, marriage to,
169–83
; and Esther Weiser,
175–78
,
191–97
; ex-convict, problems of,
170
; eye, treatment of,
138
,
143
,
145
,
151
,
154
,
165
,
289–90n.4
; father, living with,
172
; father, visits to,
89–91
; fishing,
185
; Florida, trips to,
81–87
,
259n.2
; Fort Smith, flight from,
270n.12
; Fort Smith, hiding in,
98–104
,
268n.16
; friends, compartmentalization of,
191–92
,
235n.23
; hospitalization,
194
; hysterical,
245–46n.40
,
277n
.
40
,
287n.32
; interrogated,
139–41
,
149–50
,
288–89nn
.
4
,
6
; jigsaw puzzles,
44
,
241n.14
; John Callaway, first husband,
8
,
149
,
226n
.
3
,
228n
.
8
,
292n
.
2
,
293n.24
; Joplin, plan to visit,
29–35
; Joplin, trip to,
37–40
; Joplin apartment,
42–56
,
43;
Joplin shootout,
36
,
245nn
.
38
,
39
; Kaufman County jail, visiting Bonnie and Fults in,
193
,
239n.39
; as Lua Talb,
161
; Mary O’Dare, confused with,
181–82
; and memoir manuscript,
194
,
296n.40
; men, protective tendencies from,
73–74
,
256n.2
; Missouri, extradition to,
141
; Missouri court, tried in,
144–45
,
150
,
289nn
.
1–3
; mother, conflicts with,
3
,
161–62
,
171–72
,
194
,
225n.1
; mother, visits to,
24–35
; movies and music,
44
,
156–57
,
293n.15
; murders, reaction to,
52–54
,
56
,
58
,
103
,
108–109
,
268n.14
; parents, desired reunification of,
225n.2
; parole denied,
292n.2
; pet name “Baby,”
9
,
103
,
109
,
113
,
115
,
128
,
129
,
130
,
133
,
135
; philosophical outlook on life,
196
; photography,
153–54
,
227n.10
; as poet,
198
; prison boyfriends,
157–60
,
293nn
.
18
,
22
; prison release,
166–67
,
295n.38
; prison years,
145–47
,
150–68
,
291–92nn
.
1
,
2
; Ralph Fults, reunion with and memories of,
193
; Raymond Hamilton, memories of,
232n
.
19
,
235–36n.29
; Red Crown, flight from,
122–24
,
278–82nn
.
1–7
; Red Crown cabins,
110–17
,
272–75nn
.18–
28
,
273n.19
; Red Crown shootout,
117–21
,
276–78nn
.
34–50
; Ruston abduction,
60–63
,
247n.7
; scrapbooks,
260n
.
6
,
294n.25
; Snow Ball the dog,
24
,
35
,
35
,
52
,
55
,
244n.34
; and suicide,
112–13
,
143
; surveillance of,
175
,
191
; weapons, handling of,
243–44n.32
,
251n.9
; weight loss as fugitive,
256n
.
3
,
288n.3
; Wellington, flight from,
95–97
,
263–64nn
.
3–9
; working,
11
,
14
,
173
,
234n.22
; wounded,
105
,
119–21
,
278n.49

Barrow, Clyde Chestnut (Blanche’s brother-in-law),
5
,
13
,
16
,
17
,
20
,
21
,
24
,
26
,
37
,
41
,
51
,
76
,
77
,
79
,
88
,
89
,
93
,
94
,
106
,
108
,
118
,
127
,
137
,
149
,
150
,
151
,
154
,
161
,
162
,
167
,
177
,
242n
.
18
,
246n
.
43
,
248–49n.15
,
253nn
.
17
,
19
,
255n.23
; in Alabama,
260n.6
; birth, confusion over date of,
231n.15
; Blanche, fighting with,
255n.26
; Bonnie, fighting with,
48–49
,
72
,
243n.27
; Bonnie, protection of,
234n.20
; Bonnie, suicide pact with,
275n.27
; and Bonnie’s drug use,
101
,
267n.10
; Buck, fighting with,
66–71
,
81
,
83
,
87
,
89
,
249n
.
5
,
255n
.
26
,
263n.6
; “Bud”, known as,
237n.32
; controlling personality,
237n
.
33
,
272n.17
; cooking and food,
30
,
40
,
81
,
82
,
111
,
112
,
115
,
126
,
128
,
129
,
240n.8
; death of,
146
,
190
,
209
,
290–91n.6
; Dexfield Park, camped in,
124–29
,
282–83nn
.
8–16
; Dexfield Park, flight from,
285nn
.
21
,
22
,
286n
.
26
,
290n.6
; Dexfield Park shootout,
129
,
283–85nn
.
17–20
; drinking,
73
,
78–80
,
82
,
111
,
112
,
115
,
223
,
257–58n.11
; driving,
67
,
70
,
87
,
190
,
247n
.
4
,
247n
.
7
,
251n
.
10
,
257n
.
7
,
260n.5
; Eastham,
11
; Eastham, brutalized at,
206–207
,
231–32n.18
,
238–39n.38
,
271–72n.14
; Eastham, plan to raid,
14
,
25–31
,
206–207
,
208
,
233n
.
10
,
236n.29
; Eastham, raid of,
217–19
; Eastham letters,
232n.21
; family, confusion about visits with,
249–50n.6
; family, visits with,
65
,
70
,
78–80
; Florida, trip to,
81–87
; Fort Smith, hiding in,
98–104
,
268n.16
; Fort Smith and trip to Dallas,
265nn
.
2
,
3
; in Georgia,
260n.4
; Grapevine shootings,
186–89
; Houston, confused with Buck in,
228–30n.10
; “the Howards” and “cooking beans” family code names,
256–57n.7
; humor,
269–70n.9
; jigsaw puzzles,
44
,
241n.14
; jobs, trying to hold,
233n
.
14
,
238n.37
; Jones, relationship with,
241n.13
; Joplin, trip to,
37–40
,
241n.12
; Joplin apartment,
42–56
,
43;
Joplin shootout,
36
,
50–56
,
243n
.
31
,
244–45nn
.
35
,
36
; Kaufman County jail, visiting Parker and Fults in,
239n.39
; Kaufman County shootout,
32
,
185
,
239n.39
; Mary O’Dare, dislike of,
182
; mother, statement to,
238n.37
; motion pictures about,
179–83
; murders,
32
,
36
,
52–54
,
89
,
206–23
,
237n
.
34
,
238n.38
; as musician,
170
,
190
,
230n
.
12
,
256n
.
6
,
296n.42
; noisiness of,
41–42
,
46–47
,
242n.24
; Paris, Tex.,
257n.9
; personality of,
255n.25
; and “Pretty Boy” Floyd,
78–80
,
257n.10
; prison release,
14
; prison sentence for,
231n.17
; Ralph Fults,
238n.38
; and Raymond Hamilton,
236n.29
; Raymond Hamilton, hatred of,
237n.33
; and Raymond Hamilton in Hill County jail, helping,
237n.33
; Red Crown, flight from,
122–24
,
278–82nn
.
1–7
; Red Crown cabins,
110–17
,
272–75nn
.
18–28
; Red Crown shootout,
117–21
,
276–78nn
.
34–50
; robberies of,
45
,
47–48
,
59
,
64
,
65–70
,
89
,
107
,
127
,
182
,
209
,
211–12
,
220
,
234n
.
22
,
241–42n.16
,
241n
.
16
,
243n
.
27
,
247n
.
3
,
253n
.
17
,
254n
.
21
,
254–55n.22
,
268–69nn
.
4
,
8
,
271n.13
; Ruston abduction,
60–63
,
247–48nn
.
6
,
8
,
11
,
249n.17
; temper,
48–49
,
71
,
268–69n.4
; toes cut off,
11
,
231n
.
17
,
237–38n.36
; weapons of,
25
,
47–48
,
64
,
118
,
139
,
207
,
219
,
211
,
212
,
234n
.
22
,
242–43nn
.
25
,
26
,
30
,
246n
.
42
,
251n
.
9
,
271n
.
13
,
279n
.
1
,
290n.6
; Wellington, flight from,
95–97
,
263–64nn.3–9
; Wellington accident,
262–63n.2
; Wellington officers, debate over killing,
263nn
.
3
,
5
; Western Heights, buried at,
195
; witnesses, techniques to confuse,
241n
.
13
,
272n.18
; wood craftsman,
197
; wounded,
36
,
57–58
,
60
,
67–69
,
105
,
284n.19