I would like to add to Jurrel’s answer, an example of the recognized criminals during those years: Bonnie & Clyde were a famous fugitive couple in 1930’s. During 1932 and 1934, they were killing, robbing and stealing along the way. (244) On April 13, 1934, an FBI agent, through investigation in Louisiana, obtained information which definitely placed Bonnie and Clyde in a remote section southwest of that community. Special agents in Texas had learned that Clyde and his companion had been traveling from Texas to Louisiana. The FBI and local law enforcement authorities in Louisiana and Texas concentrated on apprehending Bonnie and Clyde, whom they strongly believed to be in the area. It was learned that Bonnie and Clyde, with another gang member, had staged a party at Black Lake, Louisiana on the night of May 21, 1934, and were due to return to the area two days later. …show more content…
Before dawn on May 23, 1934, a posse composed of police officers from Louisiana and Texas, including Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, concealed themselves in bushes along the highway near Sailes, Louisiana.
In the early daylight, Bonnie and Clyde appeared in an automobile, and when they attempted to drive away, the officers opened fire. Bonnie and Clyde were killed instantly. (1*) Moreover, John Dillinger was another prominent criminal between 1932 and 1936. He and his gang of bank robbers committed 12 assaults and ten homicides. Dillinger became the first person to be distinguished as “Public Enemy Number one” by the FBI and his emblematical director J. Edgar Hoover. Finally, on July 22, 1936, Dillinger was shot and killed by an FBI agent when he exited of a movie
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Bonnie had a bitter taste in her mouth thinking that she wasn't part of the gang but still knowing it was for her own good.4 Clyde had picked her up in Dallas and they had started to make their way to New Mexico, while during the depression it was very hard for anyone to take a vacation during these times; a police officer had seen the car and had their plates ran. The police officer had realized that the car had been reported stolen so he approached the car and Bonnie and Clyde forced him into the car at gunpoint, but later releasing him so he could tell their story.
Sacco and Vanzetti were arrested on May 5, 1920, when they went with two other men, Orciani and Boda, to pick up Boda's car from a garage. The car was not ready, so they left the garage and hopped a street car. The police stopped the street car and arrested them. Orciani was arrested the next day, but let go when his alibi checked out. Sacco was only charged with the Braintree murders. Vanzetti, however, was charged with both the Braintree murders, and another robbery, the Bridgewater crime.
In 1933 Nelson, and his new friends, Tommy Carrol and Eddie Green robbed banks in Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. Most of the blame for these went to Dillanger and his gang. A year later Dillanger joined gangs with Nelson.
Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker burst upon the American Southwest in the Great Depression year of 1932. At the time of Clyde’s first involvement with a murder, people paid little attention to the event. He was just another violent hoodlum in a nation with a growing list of brutal criminals, which included Al Capone, John Dillenger, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the Barker Gang. Not until Bonnie and Clyde joined forces did the public become intrigued. The phrase “Bonnie and Clyde'; took on an electrifying and exotic meaning that has abated little in the past sixty years.
The 1960s till 1980s was the period of the Hollywood New Wave, where American cinema reflected the politically and socially driven films of the time. The Hollywood New Wave overlapped with the Second Wave Feminism. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) reflects those movements of the time with its unique editing and shooting techniques. Geoff King describes the camera movements as (Smith, 2010). When Bonnie and Clyde premiered in 1967, America was in the height of a sexual revolution, which reflected these themes in the film. In the film, Bonnie is a sexually frustrate woman, because the man she loves is initially impotent in their sexual encounters. She gets sexually attracted by violence and crime, which is a concept that was rarely explored on screen.
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Lizzie Borden took an axe, And gave her mother forty whacks. And when she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one This child’s playground verse has immortalized the story of the Lizzie Borden murder case, a case in which has become one of America history’s most investigated unsolved murder cases. It begins on Thursday August 4th 1892 in the town of Fall Rivers Massachusetts Andrew Borden a wealthy director of several banks in the area was found dead in the parlor of his Massachusetts home.
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Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were notorious gangsters during The Great Depression that committed small, petty crimes such as robbery and theft, to larger crimes such as murder. Bonnie and Clyde weren’t just criminals they were also an inseparable couple, and some might even say heroes of their time. With a total of thirteen deaths, nine in which were police officers, Bonnie and Clyde are still seen by many as romantic figures (Police kill famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde, 2017). When most
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Al Capone (1899-1947) was immersed in crime activity from childhood when he joined the James Street Boys and then the Five Points Gang. He came by his nickname, Scarface, early in life when he was slashed across his left cheek in a barroom fight, leaving a prominent scar. He was an infamous criminal who rose through the ranks of crime by taking over crime territories, and assassinating crime bosses and gangs. Prohibition gave him another means to make large amounts of money when he began bootlegging. In 1925, he became Chicago crime boss with gambling, prostitution, and other illegal rackets bringing in millions of dollars.
Two of them were Capone's longtime friends Antonio Lombardo and patsy lolordo. Capone then decided to get rid of Moran once and for all. February 14, 1929 Capone men dressed in police uniform entered a garage at 2122 N.Clark that was the main liquor headquarters of Moran, the seven men that were in the garage thought it was a police raid. Capone men line them up on the wall and shot them to death using shotguns and machine guns. Six of the seven were Moran member, the other one was an unlucky friend that was there at the wrong time.
Have you ever heard of the infamous couple Bonnie and Clyde? If not, they were American criminals who traveled the central U.S. with The Barrow Gang. They would rob and kill people. Sometimes, the gang involved the older brother of Clyde, Buck Barrow. Known today for all of his robberies, Clyde liked robbing small stores or rural gas stations. They killed at least nine police officers and several civilians. Their reputation was well known and they ended with a gruesome death. All starting during the Great Depression, this rebellious group was made.
After the hungry 40’s, in the 19th century when the benefits of the industrial revolution began to appear, crime rates went down because food prices were more stable and sometimes decreasing and there was a higher amount of exports of industrial goods leading to more money. (Clive Emsley, Crime Reasoning Notecard, 41.) The police played a very small role in the decrease in crime but the years of carefully thought out policing systems ..