"There's an authenticity to it," Ackerman said. Their poems help turn them into real people again and show them as doomed lovers and partners in crime. Indeed, Bonnie and Clyde were often glamorized, he said. Bonnie didn't want to go to prison either, Ackerman said, which is why she never turned herself in even though it was thought that police might be willing to go easy on her.ĭuring the Great Depression, the duo were almost folk heroes - sort of like Robin Hood and Maid Marian, Ackerman said. According to a memoir by Blanche Caldwell Barrow, the wife of Clyde's brother Buck, Clyde cut off two of his toes while in Texas' Eastham Prison Farm because he desperately wanted to get out of hard labor there. He had a brief period of escape after Bonnie smuggled a gun to him but was quickly recaptured. Clyde Barrow holds his partner-in-crime, Bonnie Parker.Ĭlyde had been in prison before, from 1930 to 1932.
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