Ambush: The Real Story of Bonnie and Clyde

By Ted Hinton

Book Overview

The story of Bonnie and Clyde--their love, their desperate killings, and their destruction in an explosion of gun fire--has fueled an American legend for over forty years. But it is only with this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0883190419
• ISBN13: 9780883190418
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Shoal Creek Pub
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Murder plain and simple

These two people were murdered plain and simple. Even back then BS made the world go round and the only difference was the sensationalism came in the form of newspapers and not 24 hour cable news channels. I am not condoning what Bonnie and Clyde did, but I do feel that any good marksman and one shot in the head a piece would have done the trick, but the 150 rounds of ammunition was just the publicity the FBI and Hoover needed to prove the effectiveness of the new FBI, which got him the publicity and funding he needed. We still have no proof Bonnie ever killed anyone, just a bunch of "eyewitnesses." Imagine if she never committed murder? Did she deserve to die that way? Boy how times have changed, if a police officer discharges his weapon today, an investigation is launched and he is placed on administrative duty. Also a few of the lawmen were breaking the law themselves by being in Louisiana, which was not thier jurisdiction. I guess this is one of those instances of "do as I say..not as I do."

Not the Real Story But...

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 That, plus some previously unpublished photos, are worth an extra star in this reviewer's mind.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.

the true story of the deaths of Bonnie & Clyde

Ted Hinton one of six lawmen who participated in the ambush of Bonnie & Clyde. He grew up in the same neighborhood as Bonnie & Clyde, giving him a different perspective than most other lawmen involved in tracking the outlaws down. The book is much more accurate than many B & C books, avoiding the myths that are perpetuated in many works. Extemely interesting, including the "captured" film left behind at the scene of a shootout in Missouri and photos taken at the ambush scene & funeral home.

It rocks, sort of.

all it did was make the cops look like heroes, some was true, but not really.

Excellent. By far the most informative on the subject.

This book is great for the Bonnie and Clyde or outlaw enthusiast. For years we all believed the story we had grown up with. Ambush was written by one of the men who participated in the slaying of this notorious duo. He, along with the others made a vow not to tell what really happened until only one remained. Well, this is it. The truth. Great reading. A can't put down book.