"Even the police were looked on, sort of, as the enemy," he says. ![]() In Bonnie and Clyde, Guinn says, the poor saw rebels taking on the balance of power. It was a horrible existence."īut this was the height of the Depression, and people were looking for heroes. "They had to live in their car, and live in fear," he says, "and drive all night and hide all day. It's a link to mythology."īut Bobby Livingston of the RR Auction House says that the legend is nowhere near reality. might seem the equivalent of getting a real-life Romeo's sword, or the little vial of poison that Juliet took to kill herself. Getting Clyde's gun, or Bonnie's, in this auction. "Bonnie and Clyde seem so romantic to people that don't know the real story," he says. He wrote Go Down Together: The True, Untold Story of Bonnie and Clyde. The two guns are a link to another time, says author Jeff Guinn.
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