Summary

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 162631
Story Slug Bonnie& - Clyde - Revisited
Location Joplin, MO
Format PKG
Date 6/10/1999
Archive Time 30:24
TRT 1:35
Supers "Bonnie and Clyde" Warner Bros. :00 "Myth or Madness" United Home
Video Description Bonnie and Clyde clip, pictures of real Bonnie and Clyde, man hold book he wrote on the pair, sot, pictures of Clyde, movie clip, photo of building where shootout took place, photo of cop killed, sot with man who owns home, standup, man sot, cu of building including bullet hole
Script LEAD: THE TALE OF BONNIE AND CLYDE'S NATIONWIDE CRIME SPREE IS WELL KNOWN IN THIS COUNTRY. BUT THE COUPLE'S SHOOT-OUTS WITH POLICE IS GETTING RENEWED ATTENTION FROM THE JAPANESE. A FILM CREW IS IN JOPLIN, MISSOURI THIS WEEK, FILMING THE SCENE OF ONE OF BONNIE AND CLYDE'S FAMOUS RUN-INS WITH POLICE. WALT MCCLURE TAKES US BACK IN TIME TO THE DUO'S STOP IN JOPLIN. TAKE PKG/SCRIPT: NATS OF MOVIE Theirs is a story that's been immoratalized on film. But in real life, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's crime spree through the Southwest brought them through Joplin in 1933. Joplin police lieutenant Jim Hounschell has written about the pair. SOT "His brother had just gotten out of jail, Buck Barrow, and decided he wanted to meet Clyde so they decided on Joplin as a meeting place. Buck came ahead to Joplin and rented an apartment building." Clyde wasn't on vacation. He and a friend cased out local businesses and ripped them off, until neighbors caught on and called police. When officers arrived at 3347 and a half Oak Ridge Drive, the ensuing shootout left a Joplin police detective and a Newton County constable dead. SOT " All the pictures historians have of Bonnie and Clyde... the majority of them were found in this house. Bonnie left so quickly she left her cameras behind." Joplin City Councilman Pat Tuttle's father owns the home. SOT "Every April, when the paper ran an article about the anniversary of the shooting, you'd see people come by and slow down and look." STAND UP "Today this is an unassuming house on a quiet street and unless you knew the story of Bonnie and Clyde, you'd never know anything happened here." Lieutenant Jim Hounschell is a Bonnie and Clyde expert. He says it's not something to be glorified but is it history worth remembering. SOT "They were considered at that time, as now, the lowest kind of low, but it's kind of exciting. It's kind of an exciting part of our history and it would be a shame to just forget it." That's why the curious still come to this corner of the world, more than 65 years later. MIDSOUTH
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