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If you look at the real life photos of the car, there were no bullet holes in the windshield on Clyde’s side unlike the movie. One thing all the guys agreed on was that the Louisiana deputy shot first as Clyde stopped to see what was up with Methvin. His first two shots hit Clyde in the head and killed him. Clyde’s foot came off the clutch and the car idled forward. As it did, they all unloaded in it. That’s pretty consistent with the car too. Look at all the holes in the front windshield on Bonnie’s side. You can tell they are exit holes and there are no holes in the back. So as that car went forward, they were shooting from the side.

I noticed that too in the ending credits.

I thought they did a great job with the final shootout scene. All the actor's mannerisms looked realistic. Especially Hamer.

Texans.

Yeah, but I don’t think anybody ever stepped off that hill and I don’t think anybody ever game them a chance to surrender.

Hoover was a big fan of technology and proving the worth of cutting edge law enforcement techniques.

Hamer used the long tradition of patience and staying on the trail. Embarrassing indeed.

At 44:00 they start talking about the ambush.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6YP7tv7ODu0&feature=youtu.be

Hell no.

"Get the drop" was the overall theme in my opinion.

I don't think they could have done the movie any better.

When I was a kid in the late 1940s living in a small rural town in north Arkansas, it was standard for small traveling carnivals to visit throughout the south and midwest. I remember that virtually every one that came to our town over the years, always had a "Bonnie & Clyde" car in a big tent. You could pay 50¢ to go in the tent and see "the car Bonnie & Clyde were killed in."

What the various carny owners would do was go to some junkyard and buy a black 1934 Ford for a few dollars, take it out to a field and have some of the carny workers shoot it full of holes. Then they'd throw some cow's blood around in it, put it on a flatbed trailer and haul it around to gull all the suckers in the small towns. Gulled me! Hell, I was a kid and wanted to see where Bonnie & Clyde met their Maker.

Anyway, when I see something about "Bonnie & Clyde's 1934 death car," I always have to wonder. Is it really ........??

L.W.

Well, let’s see...its 10:30. If I leave now, I can be there by lunch.

With their record of killing cops, I don't think negotiating a surrender was on Hamer's 'to do' list.

I agree with that. I’m just not sure why the movie portrayed it like he did give them a chance.

Someone earlier said that one of the cops was across the road. There are no bullet holes on that side. Plus, I don't think any cops are dumb enough to be shooting at each other with machine guns.

I don't believe it did show he gave them a chance.

To me it showed he was there to kill them. And he did.

They showed Bonnie reaching for something on the seat. When she did that, they cut loose.

He never stepped off the hill and they never said “boo” to them. When Clyde slowed down to almost a stop, they all stood up and shot the schit out of that car.

Hamer says in the movie he is there to kill them at least three times. I don’t think they were trying to portray anything else.

Then why does it show him stepping off the hill in front of the car and saying “Stick’em up”?

That didn’t happen.

How the fugk would you know?

By all accounts, the movie is based on Hamer's accounts while he was still alive.

Everybody else had their turn to give their version, this was his.

Hamer was notoriously tight lipped and turned down all interviews and book deals.