Editing Bonnie and Clyde (section)

== Clyde Barrow ==
'''Clyde Chestnut Barrow'''<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/bonnie-and-clyde|title=FBI – Bon and Clyde|work=FBI|access-date=July 28, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516063710/https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/bonnie-and-clyde|archive-date=May 16, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://texashideout.tripod.com/coroner.html |title=Coroner's report |website=TexasHideout.Tripod.com |date=July 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110803095828/http://texashideout.tripod.com/coroner.html |archive-date=August 3, 2011 |url-status=dead |access-date=July 21, 2008 }} {{cite web |url=http://texashideout.tripod.com/bc.htm |title=Bonnie and Clyde's Texas Hideout |website=TexasHideout.Tripod.com |access-date=July 21, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513174606/http://texashideout.tripod.com/bc.htm |archive-date=May 13, 2008 |url-status=live }}</ref> was born in 1909 into a poor farming family in [[Ellis County, Texas]], southeast of Dallas.<ref>Barrow and Phillips, p. xxxv.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fba88 |title= Barrow, Clyde Champion |last= Long |first= Christopher |work= Handbook of Texas Online |date= June 12, 2010 |publisher= Texas State Historical Association |access-date= December 1, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121022014902/http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fba88 |archive-date= October 22, 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref> He was the fifth of seven children of Henry Basil Barrow (1874–1957) and Cumie Talitha Walker (1874–1942). The family moved to Dallas in the early 1920s, part of a migration pattern from rural areas to the city where many settled in the urban [[slum]] of [[West Dallas]]. The Barrows spent their first months in West Dallas living under their wagon until they got enough money to buy a tent.<ref>Guinn provides a comprehensive description of West Dallas, p. 20.</ref>

Barrow was first arrested in late 1926, at age 17, after running when police confronted him over a rental car that he had failed to return on time. His second arrest was with his brother [[Buck Barrow|Buck]] soon after for possession of stolen turkeys. Barrow had some legitimate jobs during 1927 through 1929, but he also [[safe-cracking|cracked safes]], [[robbery|robbed stores]], and [[motor vehicle theft|stole cars]]. He met 19 year-old Parker through a mutual friend in January 1930, and they spent much time together during the following weeks. Their romance was interrupted when Barrow was arrested and convicted of auto theft.

Clyde was sent to [[Eastham Unit|Eastham Prison Farm]] in April 1930 at the age of 21. He escaped from the prison farm shortly after his incarceration using a weapon Parker smuggled to him. He was recaptured shortly after and sent back to prison.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/bonnie-and-clyde |title=Bonnie and Clyde |website=Federal Bureau of Investigation |language=en-us |access-date=February 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224230425/https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/bonnie-and-clyde |archive-date=February 24, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Barrow was repeatedly [[sexual assault|sexually assaulted]] while in prison, and he retaliated by attacking and killing his tormentor with a pipe, crushing his skull.<ref>Guinn, p. 76.</ref> This was his first killing. Another inmate who was already serving a [[life imprisonment|life sentence]] claimed responsibility. 

In order to avoid [[hard labor]] in the fields, Barrow purposely had two of his toes chopped off in late January 1932, by another inmate or himself. Because of this, he walked with a limp for the rest of his life. However, Barrow was set free six days after his intentional injury. Without his knowledge, Barrow's mother had successfully petitioned for his release.<ref name=AmExp>{{cite episode |title=Bonnie and Clyde (Part 1) |series= American Experience |publisher=PBS |date=January 19, 2016 |season=24 |number= 4}}</ref> He was [[parole]]d on February 2, 1932, from Eastham as a hardened and bitter criminal. His sister, Marie, said, "Something awful sure must have happened to him in prison because he wasn't the same person when he got out."<ref>Phillips, ''Running'', p. 324 n 9</ref> Fellow inmate [[Ralph Fults]] said that he watched Clyde "change from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake".<ref>Phillips, ''Running'', p. 53.</ref>

In his post-Eastham career, Barrow robbed grocery stores and gas stations at a rate far outpacing the ten or so bank robberies attributed to him and the [[Barrow Gang]]. His favorite weapon was the [[M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle]] (BAR).<ref name=AmExp /> According to John Neal Phillips, Barrow's goal in life was not to gain fame or fortune from robbing banks but to seek revenge against the Texas prison system for the abuses that he had suffered while serving time.<ref name="eastham">Phillips, John Neal (October 2000). [http://www.historynet.com/bonnie-clydes-revenge-on-eastham.htm/1 "Bonnie & Clyde's Revenge on Eastham"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111113220823/http://www.historynet.com/bonnie-clydes-revenge-on-eastham.htm/1 |date=November 13, 2011 }}. Historynet.com, originally published in [http://www.historynet.com/magazines/american_history ''American History''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100502061938/http://www.historynet.com/magazines/american_history |date=May 2, 2010 }}</ref>