On May 23, 1934, notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde
Barrow were shot to death by Texas and Louisiana state police
near Sailes, Louisiana.

Bonnie Parker met the charismatic Clyde Barrow in Texas when
she was 19 years old and her husband (she married when she
was 16) was serving time in jail for murder.

After the ambush, the bullet-riddled Ford V8 was towed
away and eventually became a macabre tourist attraction.
It was displayed at various fairs and carnivals, drawing
crowds fascinated by the notorious couple’s bloody
demise.

The Bonnie and Clyde death car on display today.

    
    
    
   

SANDY KOZEL

Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)

Widely regarded as one of the greatest cinema actors of the 20th
century, Brando received numerous accolades throughout his
career, which spanned six decades, including two Academy
Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Cannes Film Festival
Award, three British Academy Film Awards, and an Emmy
Award.

Marlon Brando is credited with being one of the first actors to
bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting to
mainstream audiences.

He made his film debut playing a wounded G.I. in The Men
(1950) and won two Academy Awards for Best Actor for his
roles as a dockworker in the crime drama film On the
Waterfront (1954).

1972

The infamous Western outlaw known as “Billy the Kid” was
mostly likely born in a poor Irish neighborhood on New York
City’s East Side on November 23, 1859. (Much about his early
life is unknown or unverified.) Before he was shot dead at age
21, Billy reputedly killed at least nine people in the American
West.

Billy the Kid called himself William H. Bonney, but his original
name was probably Henry McCarty. Bonney was his mother
Catherine’s maiden name, and William was the first name of
his mother’s longtime companion—William Antrin—who acted
as Billy’s father after his biological father disappeared.

Photo of Billy the Kid (second at left ) at a poker game. This photo is the 2nd known photo of Billy the Kid, and was discovered in 2019.

On September 23, 1875, Billy the Kid was arrested for the first
time after being involved in the stealing of a basket of clothes
from a Chinese laundry. It was a result of a 15-year-old’s prank,
gone wrong.

He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West,
eventually earning a reputation as an outlaw and murderer
with a rap sheet that allegedly included 21 murders.

The exact details of Billy the Kid’s birth are unknown, other
than his name, William Henry McCarty. He was probably born
sometime between 1859 and 1861, in Indiana or New York.

 

An old photo purchased from a California antique shop shows the
infamous outlaw Billy the Kid, apparently taking part in a game of
croquet. The image could be worth up to $5 million. It took more
than a year of careful inspection to confirm the authenticity of
the photo.

MIKE GRACIA

Richard Benjamin Speck
(December 6, 1941 – December 5, 1991)