Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum
On Main Street in Gibsland sits the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum, housed in what was once Ma Canfield’s Café, where Bonnie and Clyde stopped for sandwiches just minutes before their deaths. One of Clyde’s shotguns pulled from the death car is among artifacts.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, better known as Bonnie and Clyde, were the most well-known gangsters of the early 1930s, overshadowing John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly and Baby Face Nelson during the public enemy era of American history. Radio and newspapers of the day meticulously covered the couple’s trail of bank and store robberies, auto thefts, abductions and kidnappings and more than a dozen killings (of which seven were law enforcement officers) in numerous U.S. states.
Excessive and frequently sensationalized media accounts of the couple’s antics split opinion among the Great Depression-stricken American public—with some seeing Bonnie and Clyde as romantic Robin Hoods of the day and the others seeing the couple as bloodthirsty killers. The spree ended when an accomplice’s tip set up a law enforcement ambush on a lonely road outside of Gibsland in Bienville Parish. Bonnie and Clyde, each shot dozens of times while sitting in their car, died at the scene.
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Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum
On Main Street in Gibsland sits the Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum, housed in what was once Ma Canfield’s Café, where Bonnie and Clyde stopped for sandwiches just minutes before their deaths. One of Clyde’s shotguns pulled from the death car is among artifacts.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, better known as Bonnie and Clyde, were the most well-known gangsters of the early 1930s, overshadowing John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd, Machine Gun Kelly and Baby Face Nelson during the public enemy era of American history. Radio and newspapers of the day meticulously covered the couple’s trail of bank and store robberies, auto thefts, abductions and kidnappings and more than a dozen killings (of which seven were law enforcement officers) in numerous U.S. states.
Excessive and frequently sensationalized media accounts of the couple’s antics split opinion among the Great Depression-stricken American public—with some seeing Bonnie and Clyde as romantic Robin Hoods of the day and the others seeing the couple as bloodthirsty killers. The spree ended when an accomplice’s tip set up a law enforcement ambush on a lonely road outside of Gibsland in Bienville Parish. Bonnie and Clyde, each shot dozens of times while sitting in their car, died at the scene.
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