One of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of 14. At 19, he met Clyde Barrow in a Texas prison, and the two men together founded what would later be known as the Barrow gang. "Running with Bonnie and Clyde" is the story of Fults's experiences in the Texas criminal underworld between the years 1925 and 1935 and the gripping account of his involvement with the Barrow gang, particularly its notorious duo, Bonnie and Clyde. Fults's "fast ten years" ...
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One of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of 14. At 19, he met Clyde Barrow in a Texas prison, and the two men together founded what would later be known as the Barrow gang. "Running with Bonnie and Clyde" is the story of Fults's experiences in the Texas criminal underworld between the years 1925 and 1935 and the gripping account of his involvement with the Barrow gang, particularly its notorious duo, Bonnie and Clyde. Fults's "fast ten years" were both dramatic and violent. As an adolescent he escaped numerous juvenile institutions and jails, was shot by an Oklahoma police officer, and was brutalised by prison guards. With Clyde, following their fateful meeting in 1930, he robbed a bank to finance a prison raid. After the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde, in 1934, he joined forces with Raymond Hamilton; together the two robbed more banks and eluded countless posses before Hamilton's capture and 1935 execution. One of the few survivors among numerous associates who ended up shot, stabbed, beaten to death, or executed, Fults was later able to reform himself, believing that the only reason he was spared was to reveal the darkest aspects of his past - and in so doing expose the circumstances that propel youth into crime. Author John Neal Phillips tells Fults's story in vivid and at times raw detail, recounting bank robberies, killings, and prison escapes, friendships, love affairs and marriages. Dialogues based on actual conversations amongst the participants enhance the narrative's authenticity. Whereas in books and films, Fults, Parker, Barrow and Hamilton have been romanticised or depicted as one-dimensional, depraved characters, "Running with Bonnie and Clyde" shows them as real people, products of social, political and economic forces that directed them into a life of crime and bound them to it for eternity. Although basing his account primarily on Fults's testimony, Phillips substantiates that viewpoint with references to scores of eyewitnesses interviews, police files and court documents, and contemporary news accounts. An important contribution to criminal and social history, "Running with Bonnie and Clyde" should be interesting reading for scholars and general readers alike.
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