There were only six lawmen involved in the ambush of Bonnie & Clyde...2 Texas Rangers, 2 Dallas County deputies and 2 local deputies from Bienville Parish...Clyde was born at Telico near Ennis, Tx... about 20 miles from where I live and grew up...Bonnie grew up in far west Dallas/Cement City...Clyde lived with an uncle and aunt and went to school in his early years...just to the east of my hometown of Corsicana...

It was a short visit for Bonnie and Clyde too.

It wasn't fresh mowed grass, back then,,, it was 4ft. Tall, wild grass. Perfect cover,,

I wonder if anyone has ever tried using a metal detector there to find old casings

One day, a car stepped in front of a BAR.....

I've been to the spot, too. Ted Hinton's son who runs the museum back in Gibsland said the spot changed a lot. His father took him out there once, he said, when he was a boy. The fellow who owns the land where the posse hid had it bulldozed to accommodate a road back to his place. In 1934 it didn't have small pine trees but was weedy, with mosquitoes. What will strike you if you visit the spot is how close to the road the posse was--not right on it but closer than the impression you get from watching films and newsreels. Bonnie and Clyde never had a chance.

Bonnie & Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger etc etc! To think my grandmother was just a young girl, listening to their crimes on my great grandmother’s radio, is fascinating to me! Nice video indeed!

Actually they probably wouldn’t have gotten caught until the 50s if their 3rd wheelers father didn’t set them up. He didn’t want to see his boy dead since clydes brothers wife revealed his name to the sheriff. The 3rd wheelers father made a deal with law enforcement to spare his sons life and to actually reduce his jail sentence so he set up Bonnie and Clyde which got them ambushed

The law officials were NOT on both sides of the road.

FYI, if Bonnie & Clyde were coming from Gibsland, and were heading south on Rt. 154, then the markers for the ambush site are on the wrong side of the road (look it up on Google maps), and the posse was concealed in the bushes on the opposite side of the road as the markers. Also, Bonnie & Clyde's car came to a stop on the same side of the road that the ambushers were on. The markers are on the side of the road where old man Methvin's truck was parked to steer Bonnie and Clyde into the other lane of the road to force them closer to the ambushers. And remember, the road in 1934 was much narrower than it was today, so Bonnie and Clyde were probably no more than 10-15 feet from the posse when they were killed. I imagine the parking spot where the markers are was made there because it was a more level place to make the pullover spot, and because the ambush side of the road had a steep incline, but that isn't where they were shot from, or where they were when they were shot at and killed.

Someday they will go down together, they will lay them side by side, few will grief to the law a relief, but it's death for Bonnie and Clyde.

The law enforcers who ambushed Bonnie and Clyde had a great deal of an advantage. The bushes and hedgerows provided them with good cover.

I visited the site while on a road trip holiday last year, and yes... it is a very lonely spot, ideal for an ambush. It was too early for the Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum in Gibsland to be open, but it looked like an interesting place to visit.

That was definitely a country mile😂

When the governor of Texas called on retired Texas Ranger Frank Hamer it was pretty much lights out game over.

They were not on both sides of the road They were on one side With Ivy Methvins truck Parked in the road so Bonnie and Clyde had To pull over.

It was CW's dad pulled over to the side of the road. I've watched that movie many times. It's actually very accurate. The real life Blance Barrow (Buck's wife) did a lot of informal consulting on the movie. The director, Arthur Penn, and her became good friends.

The scene in the movie quite accurately portrays the place where the ambush occurred.

Were you driving in the same direction as Clyde fr the cafe ? In Hinton's reenactment the roadster was coming from the rightside of the marker?

That road looks way different than when I was there in 1972.

Louisiana is only one of two states I have yet to visit out of the 50. I’ll have to visit this site. I’ve seen the bullet riddled car a few times up close and personal. Wow. That was a lot of lead flying.

Nicely Paved Road Now. Back then, it was a Dirt Road.

Wonderful video. Do you think there's any original shotgun bullets around from that time?

I wonder if you analize the trees would there be bullet holes/marks?

My brother used to live in bienville parish where this is located and he said the old timers told him the local sheriff involved in the shootout turned white headed within just a year or two.

Very interesting. Thank you for posting.

I wonder if there are still come shell casings locatable with a metal detector in the woods there.

I have family-owned land a mile from this site in Bienville Parish. Although now their death site was considered to be Gibsland, La which is actually about 10 miles away, or Arcadia, which is even further away at 18 miles, they actually were killed just outside an old sawmill town named Sailes (where my property is located). Bonnie and Clyde shopped in Sailes at a local mom-and-pop store owned by relatives. My mother, who was 4 years old at the time, was picking peas with my grandmother when her mother stopped and said "listen." They heard a continuous "popping" sound that seemingly went on for minutes but thought nothing of it until they were told a few weeks later that Clyde and Bonnie (how the locals referred to them) were shot and killed by police ambush. The area is actually more rural now than during the time of their deaths as the sawmill shut down in Sailes, LA and the people left the area for work elsewhere.

The Highwaymen sticks with the broader details that are consistent across all accounts: that Ivy Methvin, father of Barrow gang member Henry Methvin, agreed to help in the ambush, and that his truck was planted in the road so that Clyde would slow down.

I'm from Spain and one day I would like to visit that place :) I'm really interested in the story of Bonnie and Clyde, any extra recommendations about tourism in that area?

Bonnie and Clyde escaped from an ambush near Dexter, Iowa and made it to the home of cohort Henry Methvin's father in northern Louisiana. They holed up there, and Methvin's father (named Ivy) made a deal where his son got off with a lesser sentence in which he set up Clyde and Bonnie. That resulted in their ambush. Interesting video---lovely countryside.

There were 6 law officers on Clyde's side of the car it was ivy methvins truck they used as a decoy Bonnie was hit with 53 bullets Clyde had 51

In 1933 at 9:00 in the evening in San Antonio Texas, my father was hit by a police car responding to a tip that Bonnie and Clyde were in town They threw them in the back of the police car and proceeded to drive around for 2 hours searching for Bonnie and Clyde before taking him home Could you imagine what kind of lawsuit you could file against the city these days if that were to happen?

From where the Monument is located, the officers where on the other side of the road.

What about the people that were killed by Bonnie and Clyde?

If law enforcement had been on both sides of the road there would have been too great a chance of dangerous cross fire. They stayed on one side only and that was more than enough.

How do you get there? Where is it located actually? I can't find it trying to surprise my wife on our upcoming trip please help!?

As I never failed to remind my late mother, Bonnie and Clyde were killed on her 8th birthday.

Are you sure it is on the left of the road? The road has a dip at one end (3:11) and a dip at the other end with a curve in the distance (3:22). If you take a look at the 'Footage Farm' video, at 5:15 mark... (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l9dnqKWk2tetnY0.html), you will see the men looking in the direction at the road end with the curve in sight and then they hid in the bushes on the right side. While waiting to ambush them, the car appeared in a valley and approaching up towards a road incline (no longer seems to be a dip). In today's ambush site, it clearly shows that there is no valley at both ends of the road, except the left turning bend is still there, but there is no valley at the other end, just a dip and approach uphill. That's why I've asked, are you sure this is the ambush site? If the guys set an ambush as shown in the 'Footage Farm' in the black/white vifeo, where they hid in the bush facing the road end with the curve, in the color video that curve is at the other end, indicating that the Plaque should have been erected opposite the recent site. Scan the 2 videos and see for yourself. The guys with guns should have ambushed Bonnie and Clyde opposite where the Plaques are. That's where the road end is straight and no curve. Otherwise, the spot where they were gunned down is wrong.

The actual ambush took place 15 to 20 feet behind the markers where the old highway used to be. There's a path you can take to get to the spot but it's in the brush and the mosquitos are pretty big. Be warned...

How far is this from The Ambush Museum?

ironic also is the fact that clyde bought that truck for the man driving because they were friends. go figure.

Some misinformation based on what I've read. According to the lengthy book I read about them (despite what is said here) they were not bank robbers. Clyde tried a couple of times to rob banks and it didn't go well. The impression the book left was that Clyde was basically just a car thief for the most part. He was really good at hot wiring cars. Yes, as well he was quite willing to shoot people who got in the way of people who tried to stop him from stealing cars and felt little reluctance to shoot police officers who tried to apprehend him and he could be decisive and didn't cringe when confronted by the law. He also was a very good driver though one article suggested that he was able to escape police so often because inexplicably police at the time didn't have cars that could drive as fast as his cars. Believe the book said that once he expressed an interest in meeting another well known American outlaw (possibly Dillinger) but the outlaw did not return the sentiment and expressed no interest in meeting a glorified car thief like Clyde Barrow. One thing clear from the book is that the 1960s movie romanticized a lot of the story of Bonnie and Clyde. If I remember correctly Clyde had once purposely injured his own foot while in prison to reduce the work he was expected to do. Bonnie was severely injured in a high speed car crash they had and could no longer really walk and so had to be carried any time she was our of the car. Clyde's family was so poor when he was young that not only did they not have a house but they didn't even have a tent and for a while were sleeping under the family car to stay out of the elements. And it's not like Bonnie and Clyde were living a life of luxury when they were on the run. It seems they were primarily just camping out in isolated spots or staying in cheap motels most of the time. And although Bonnie posed for those photos holding a gun and looking tough and those photos became a sensation when the media got hold of them the author of the book felt that likely Bonnie shot at someone only once -a man who tried to stop them from stealing his car ....though of course to normal human beings shooting at someone even once is still far too often and I believe that that man was killed. Amazingly the author of the book written in the 90s was still able to track down people who had known them or met them including a man who as a teenager encountered them camped out in an isolated spot. Believe that they were not only friendly to him but also gave him some money. Clyde's sister-in-law was very unhappy at how she was portrayed in the movie which showed her running around screaming hysterically though personally I think that running around screaming hysterically is the most natural thing to do when one is caught in the middle of a gun fight between the Barrow gang and the police. Believe she may have lived till the 1990s.

I wouldn’t like to drive down that road at night. Looks like something out of Jeepers Creepers 😳

So what direction did their car come from?

My ex-wife gave me directions to that place to visit. She said she was hoping history would repeat itself

I've been to this exact spot... it's interesting to see.. but the truth of the matter is they got what they had coming... You reap what you sow...

Stopped at the site in 2005. No one was around and I snapped a few pictures. Only one stone there at the time. The law had to put them down. Yes they were kids in their 20's. But they were murderers too. Officer Hamer was well depicted by Kevin Costner. I'm sure it is a terribly sad thing to open fire on humans and especially a young woman. The job had to be done.

Gibsland Louisiana. Ive been there. It was an asphalt road back then...

they came from the opposite direction and the cops were across the street

3:10.....What a place for an ambush..........I never saw it but I have seen Dealy Plaza another well-planned ambush site. I am an old outdoor hunter type, and I could feel it in my bones. Perfect.

Kinda cool that that stretch of road is still wooded and not a strip mall

Where is this site of Bonnie and Clyde death at?

I thought the road was narrow and primitive back then.

Actually the officers were only on the drivers side of the road. If you watch the Stock Footage right after they were killed there are *no* holes in the door on Bonnie's side she was hit by bullets that went through Clyde and ones that missed Clyde. The officers didn't park the truck and act like they needed help they stopped a guy that knew Clyde and handcuffed him to a tree and left the hood up as a decoy.

I think it's creepy there at midnight. 👻

I’m confused. Is this marker where the shooting happened or where the car came to rest?

I bet metal detecting that wooded area will find a lot of spent cartridges which would sell for a nice sum

Mad to think on this morning of May 23, 1934, bonnie and Clyde woke up like everyone else, having no idea by 9:15am they'd be dead. Live by the gun, die by the gun i guess

Bonnie and Clyde, or “Easiest ‘Cause of Death’ to determine, ever!

Very confusing. Look up the road of reenactment by the original lawmen. Seems you have it reversed. In the original reel the car seems to have come out of the curve down the road and ended up opposite and across the road. Why hasn’t anyone picked up on this??? The marker is across the actual place the car ended.

Which way were Bonnie and Clyde coming from. I always thought it was from the curve in the distance

Why couldn't you stabilize that camera, so that viewers could read each plaque properly?

Ex-Con Jack Brown knew both of them before they knew each other. He said Clyde was so perverted that he had to be kept away from the other prisoners in Texas or they would have killed him. I hope to post Jack's story on KZfaq soon. "Jack Tells It Like It Is " a recording made at a speech in a High School in the late 1960s.

I'm not sure but I think the police would not be allowed to ambush someone in this manner today.

Thanks for that I enjoyed watching 👍🇦🇺👍🇦🇺👍🇦🇺

I wonder if all the brass in the woods was picked up by now?

Bonnie wrote a rather lovely poem about their own near deaths. They knew ,,, just a matter of wrong place and wrong time for you two,, Oh how infamous you are together now,,,and oh how terrible together forever now ,,, Bonnie and Clyde ,,, R.I.P.

Clyde lost what little brains he had on this spot.

I guess a little different road now

I'm just trying to figure out how can a person have so much hatred in their heart and be so bloodthirsty that they would kill somebody the way they did

I was there last July, someone has stole the big bronze plaque. The pedestal is still there.

That’s not the original stone , or site. The right stone was square and not buried in to the grown, and so it has a different writing at the bottom, of the city information, but your vido it’s appreciated it. Thank you

It looks like somebody peed on the law enforcement monument. It looks like this site has changed quite a bit since then. The bushes and foiliage were almost at the roadside then. Point blank.

The man’s name is Hamer. One “m”.

2:15 "This is the site where Bonnie and Clyde were... arrr... Massacred, hehehehe" 😂 With almost heart warming, Santa Clause -style laughter 🤭

What road is that memorial on? I typed in Gibsland Louisiana and it just showed the museum.

We went to the museum in 2001 quite a bit of things in the place run by a man named tex he had fallen some how the day before and was pretty stiff he was a wealth of knowledge about the two then drove down the road to the maker stone had numerous bullet holes in it

I've heard no ghost of them because the devil took them straight to hell..

Being from a family of relatives who were morticians and owned a funeral home i think morbidly that it would be cool to dig both of them up and open their caskets and see what they look like today even in skeleton form

My parents read and saw the news footage story about Bonnie &Clyde way back then and they died by our federal officers who pumped some rounds into their car and then a few seconds later they were dead .

Did the movie use the original site of the ambush

Where exactly is that at?

Weren’t they coming from the opposite direction?

That road isstill deserted now imagine how I was back then ?

Kind of surprising the land around the death site has never been developed.

I was unaware the ambush site was now a state highway. I had the vague belief it happened upon a rural farmroad, at the time; hence, it was still a rural farmroad. I read sometime ago, therefore my uncertanity of whom to attribute this death site to, but I believe Baby Face Nelson. I believe it was in American Rifleman magazine. Anyway, no romanticisms were made of them; hence, a small marker is the only thing on the site. So, it's seldom visited or viewed. One of the gangsters and two FBI men shot it out there, resulting in the death of the gangster and the rwo FBI agents. Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway glamorized Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, but truth be told, these two were small-time grocery-store robbers; just pocket-lint compared to Dillenger, Baby Face Nelson and Pretty Boy Floyd. Reading their bios (and Melvin Purvis'), Machine Gun Kelly was a kidnapper, glorified by his "moll." In comparison, these gunmen were amatures compare to Capone, Luciano,, et al.

Kinda sad it's so empty. I guess they've "died" for good now.

They done that car just like they did Clint Eastwood's bus in the movie the Gauntlet

In the direction you are driving The car ended up on the left side of the road. Yet the marker is on n the right side. None makes sense. What’s up with that. In the short film. Two lawmen look down the road and it curves to the left

Bonnie Clyden was not vicious killers my mother was really good friends with Bonnie Parker my grandfather hid them out on the family farm my mother was 10 years old she was like a daughter to Bonnie Parker now Bonnie Clyde got blind for a lot of stuff they did not do and they did not deserve what the law enforcement did to them, Bonnie taught my mother how to do the Charleston she could sing and dance real good so that's her I'm sorry that's not correct they did what they had to do to survive yeah they shot some police officers it was either them or they but Bonnie and Clyde wasn't all that bad they help my grandfather out a lot on the family farm and Bonnie was pregnant with Clyde's baby 6 weeks and she told my mother if I get to have my precious baby if it's a girl I'm going to name her Francis after you Bonnie repented to my mother they climb trees together mother loved her dearly so you need to rethink that again sir I know the facts

Their car was surrounded by people after they were killed, trying to get souvenirs. I wonder how so many people got there so quickly since they were in the middle of nowhere.

Why doesn’t it surprise me it’s been vandalized🤷‍♂️

I'll have to go see this. I'm from Dallas.

That's the longest mile in history.

What happened to bonnie parker death dress.

It was the father of one of the former member's of the Barrow gang whom assisted law enforcement with the ambush.

Don’t blame for the shot first and ask later with those two. They would do the same.

This site is 15 miles from my house...

You drove from the opposite direction Bonnie and Clyde were going. They were coming from the cafe. The law enforcement were in wait on the other side, hitting drivers side first. Why wouldnt you drive going the other direction?