Remington Timeline: 1934 – Guns of Bonnie & Clyde

By G&A Staff

April 1, 1934 was a quiet Easter morning for Texas Highway Patrol officers H.D. Murphy and Edward B. Wheeler as they patrolled Route114 outside of Grapevine, Texas. The two troopers saw a lone car on a side road and stopped their motorcycles to see if it was a motorist who needed assistance. As they approached the car two men emerged from it and began firing at the troopers both of whom fell to the ground badly wounded. Then a small woman walked up to them and shot both again with a sawed off shotgun, killing them instantly. The Clyde Barrow gang had struck again.

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The 1920s and early 1930s were a hard time for America. The passage of the Prohibition Act (1920 – 1933) led to the rise of organized criminal gangs who manufactured or smuggled illegal liquor into the country and often fought “wars” over territory. The Great Depression of 1929 saw millions unemployed, a general dislocation of society and widespread disregard for the rule of law and order.

The so-called “Roaring Twenties” and “Lawless Thirties” were times of great social change and economic unrest with all its attendant problems. A new class of criminal arose who were equipped with modern …Read the Rest

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