The story of Bonnie and Clyde - their love, their desperate killings, and their destruction in an explosion of gunfire - has fueled an American legend for over forty years. But it is only with this book by the last surviving officer of the six who shot Bonnie and Clyde that the full story of their capture has been told. Ted Hinton's description of a secret, illegal police trap - hidden at the time from the press and public - is one of many revelations he draws from his intimate knowledge of the greatest manhunt of the 1930s. As a Dallas lawman he spent seventeen months, night and day, on the trail of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow. He knew the notorious criminals personally from the seamy, hoodlum-ridden Dallas neighborhoods where they all grew up. He shared their code of toughness and genuinely admired the extraordinary courage, skill, and loyalty that made Bonnie and Clyde stand out almost as heroes in the public imagination. Hinton admired them, but he never doubted that they had to be stopped. The long trail could only end in a shootout and their deaths - or his.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Author
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not the Real Story But...,
By
This review is from: Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde (Hardcover)
Ted Hinton was one of the six officers who ambushed and killed Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker. He had also known Clyde and Bonnie before they became outlaws, growing up in the same West Dallas slum, and remained a friend of the Barrow and Parker families. This gives the book some unique personal insights usually absent from cops & robbers documentaries. That, plus some previously unpublished photos, are worth an extra star in this reviewer's mind. On the other hand, Hinton's version of the final ambush is as questionable as every previous account and there are errors scattered throughout the book, possibly owing to slips of memory, or possibly due to slipups from Hinton's collaborator. Bonnie Parker was not present at the Stringtown, OK shooting, a fact attested to by all eyewitness accounts. Moreover, the Hinton-Grove account of the shooting, with Bonnie dancing with both Clyde and Hamilton, whirling about in a red dress, and the "prettiest girl" in the place, is actually copied almost word for from a 1945 dime novel (The Blood-Soaked Career of Bonnie Parker: How Clyde Barrow and His Cigar-Smoking Moll Fought It Out With the Law! by W.R. and Mabel Draper). The chapter on "Machine Gun" Kelly and Harvey Bailey appears to be largely nonsensical fiction. Contrary to Hinton--and he seems to inject himself into the case much sooner than he actually was--W.D. Jones was not identified by Dallas deputies immediately after the Joplin, MO gun battle and remained unidentified for months afterwards. The Barrows' participation in professionally executed bank robberies at Okabena, MN and Alma, ARK is highly questionable and, again contrary to Hinton, no witnesses identified Clyde and Bonnie in the November 1933 robbery of a Texas refinery (a job actually pulled by the Whitey Walker-Blackie Thompson gang). Still, there is much good information here and it is a must for Bonnie and Clyde aficionados.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
surprisingly poetic,
This review is from: Ambush : The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde (Paperback)
I'm not sure who's responsible--Hinton or his co-writer--but this little volume is surprisingly "literary" in its account of the B & C saga. Hinton was one of two Dallas deputies who were on the manhunt from the beginning, and his account of the long hunt is interesting in its emphases and interpretations. His main idea--spoiler alert--is that the posse basically kidnapped Irvine Methvin to use as bait to lure Clyde into slowing or stopping that fateful day in May, 1934, in Louisiana. After the shootings, Frank Hamer made a quick deal with the old guy, to get a pardon in Texas for Irvine's boy Henry (who'd run with B & C and who'd done the shooting on the two highway patrol officers) in exchange for Irvine's agreement not to press charges against the posse. True? I don't know, but it sure is interesting and gives a drastically different view of the ending of the manhunt. On the actual shootings, Hinton delivers a tour de force evocation of 12 seconds of maximum violence as six officers, each with several guns (Hinton had four, a BAR, a semi-auto shotgun and two .45s) emptied their weapons into Clyde's V-8. Hinton maintains that Clyde was reaching for a gun after Alcorn called "HALT" and therefore the shooting was justified. But it's in his self-interest to do so. So what really happened? We can only guess.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde,
By
This review is from: Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde (Hardcover)
Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde is Ted Hinton's account describing the early years and the facts leading up to the bloody end of two desparate criminals. Hinton speaks out as one of the six men who killed Bonnie and Clyde in a hailstorm of bullets without warning on the morning of May 23, 1934 near Gibsland, Louisiana. This book is well illustrated and provides several rare pictures. I recommend this book to readers.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product).
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
So You'd Like to...
|
|
