Bonnie Parker's Baby and the Devil's Back Porch

by Jim Gatewood

Overview

Right after her sixteenth birthday, Bonnie married her high school sweetheart, Roy Thornton. She was disappointed when her doctor told her she was not genetically capable of having children. Roy began drinking, disappearing for weeks at a time. Until one day, he did not return.
Bonnie was living with a friend when she went on her first date with Clyde. They became inseparable. Then at the age of twenty; two months after Clyde had been incarcerated Bonnie realized she was pregnant. When she went to the Huntsville prison to give Clyde the news they fought and Bonnie left in tears. Brokenhearted, Bonnie never responded to Clyde's jailhouse letters.
After two years behind bars, Clyde received an unexpected parole. Bonnie felt renewed hope when she reunited with Clyde at Teddy William's apartment. Her Santa Claus, Sugar Daddy had returned, and a future of riches seemed to be within her grasp.
Clyde Barrow was without a doubt the most underestimated desperado of the Great Depression. --- He had amassed a fortune. The outlaw couple planned to buy a large track of Louisiana timberland, where their timber harvest would allow them to retire in luxury. Deputy Sheriff Ted Hinton and the Dallas County Sheriff’s posse however had other plans for the Barrow Gang.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940016280134
Publisher:	Mullaney Publishing Group
Publication date:	02/08/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Jim Gatewood has spent the last eleven years with the Dallas County Assassination Review Board. In his quest he has rediscovered much of the forgotten history of Dallas' most colorful period when crime, law and order, and the emergence of the city's most prominent figures, who would leave their mark upon America's History.

His father was a Chicago stock broker and Jim was born eleven days before the market crash of 1929, Jim made his journey from Chicago to Dallas in a laundry basket in the back seat of a 1929 Hudson. He would spend his entire life in Dallas and, today bears the mark of a great storyteller and historian. He engages his listeners carrying them back in time to long-forgotten places and revealing the secrets hidden away in the dusty attics of time.

Among the many books written about notable figures of Dallas, Texas
you will meet; Benny Binion, Dallas Gambler and Mob boss - Sheriff Bill Decker a Texas legend - J. Frank Norris - Top O' Hill Casino & The Texas Oil Rich - The Ku Klux Klan's stronghold over Dallas - Slats Rodgers and the Love Field Lunatics - Bonnie and Clyde's Baby Daughter - Captain Will Fritz and the Dallas Mafia and learn that the JFK's Assassination Was a Mafia Hit.

You will be there when a young boy named Orville (W.O. Bankston) came to Dallas in an empty box car-cold broke and hungry to become a life long friend of Sheriff bill Decker.

You will meet Harry Weatherford, the best rifle shot in Sheriff Decker's
cadre, who was placed on top of the County Records Building to protect
the motorcade and how he saved Jaclyn Kennedy's life by firing at Lee Harvey Oswald, causing Oswald's third shot to go high completely missing the motorcade striking the curb on Elm Street.

Travel with Jim through the history of Dallas as he preserves the previously unpublished legacy of our city.