"BONNIE & CLYDE SHOOT-OUT IN DEXTER IOWA" at Woodward Iowa Public Library
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- This video is a presentation by Rod Stanley at the Woodward Iowa Public Library about the "BONNIE & CLYDE SHOOT-OUT IN DEXTER IOWA". This was held Saturday, March 10, 2018.
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Rod is a nice guy. He gave me a tour of the museum AND drove me out to the Dexter campsite with less than a days notice, most people wouldnt do that. I really enjoyed it and would love to go back.
Hey, Rod, I met you this past February 2020 when I stumbled on you and Dexter's mayor and a couple others in the library because it was the only place in Dexter I saw with an 'Open' sign out front. Interrupted your meeting but you were kind enough to take me over and unlock the museum, then followed me in your car back up to Dexfield Park, showed me where the Fellers' property was, got me to the remnants of the old bridge and as close as we could maneuver in the snow down to the Raccoon River. Too much snow to get up to the campsite-- I'm hoping I can make another trip over there in the spring or summer. First, thank you again for all the time you took out of your day for me. I have kept all info I gathered in my files, as well as your OneLive Webcast from some years ago, and now this video's going in there, too. I've since been to Joplin, have found the B & C FBI files which come to some 1,000 pages, got to meet (like you, completely serendipitously), 2 relatives of Wes Harryman who died at the Joplin apartment, one of whom knew relatives of the Arcadia coroner who clearly answered several questions I had, that we all have, about why no autopsies were done on either body and whether Bonnie was pregnant or not at the time of her death. There is evidence, in writing, that she was, and this woman verified that via the coroner's revelations he finally told later in his life. It's also interesting that you say Clyde was 24 when he died. I've long believed that's true, that he was born not in 1909 but in 1910, making him 2 months past his 24th birthday on 5/23/34. He was born at home and, with much digging, I found he had no birth certificate, which wasn't unusual for poor people who gave birth at home. The "news" was captured in the family Bible, and there his birthdate is written as 3/24/1910. Their whole story gets more and more interesting the more you delve into it and, one more time, I want to thank you for your kindness to me and to your dedication to preserving the history of the Dexfield Park shoot out. And, thanks for mentioning the Stuart First National Bank robbery in '34. I was staying at a hotel in Stuart when I was over there and I stopped after parting ways with you on my way back and got pix of the sign hanging on what is now a hair salon (very interesting, considering both of Clyde's older sisters were hairdressers and the eldest own a salon). My timing couldn't have been better-- just as I got back to the hotel parking lot the temp had dropped some 30 degrees and snow was blowing sideways. I moved up here to Dubuque just a year ago, from Atlanta, so, uh, yeah, had I waited until the next day to explore Dexter & the Park I would not have been able to be outside of my car for more than a few minutes. I looked it up-- that next day, though the snow had stopped, it was colder in Stuart than it was on top of Mt. Everest. Whole different world up here, which leads me, finally, to say, I know another reason Clyde liked being in Iowa, now having driven across much of it myself. So many stretches of miles and miles of farmland and fields, much of it flat, as opposed to the heavily forested Georgia. When they needed to pull over and sleep/rest, there were so many options (even more back then, I'm sure) where he had a near 360 degree view as far as the eye could see. And, with hardly any people around, he had plenty of space and privacy for target practicing and for feeding his obsession with cleaning his guns constantly, which often resulted in accidental firing as was the case in Joplin, which did draw attention to them there. And, yeah, all the little towns, small banks, gas stations, markets, several apparently in Dodge right in a row they hit multiple times in several days. Keep doing what you do! It's history, and it's valuable. Priceless, really.
Mr. Stanley .. thanks for posting this video .. in 1970 i lived at a house down the hill next to the bridge . I was 13 and a old man across the road told us kids the story and even took us across the bridge to have the people that had their car stole to tell us the story . I believed the story until later in life then thought no way .. Then I saw a show that talked about it . I love history and is neat to think i lived and played where history was made . I am glad I found this video .. thanks again
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Thank You great Presentation
A farmer near Garrison Iowa has 2 of the BAR's recovered at the Dexter shootout. His great grandfather was a Dallas county deputy sheriff.
What a great presentation!
Poor poor Clyde. The system truly let him down...
Yep
Yes. What's more sad is that it still happens to this day, the same way. You'd think they would have learned by now, but no.
I enjoyed your presentation, thank you.
Great video Bubba! I live in Joplin MO and I've seen the shootout at their Joplin hideout. My wife is from Grapevine TX and I've seen their Grapevine shooting site but now it's actually in South Lake. I've also seen the Commerce Oklahoma shootout and Stringtown OK shootout. Ivy Methvin was also cousins to Prentis Oakley the Sheriff of Acadia Parish and I image that on top of that and Henry's pardon motivated it. I've also seen the bank in Orenogo MO they robbed along with the Poteau Oklahoma bank.
Wow. You have hit a lot of the great places. I have been to Stringtown where most of it all began as well as the Poteau Bank and an old bordello in Wichita Falls, TX which is an old bar now. I did not know that Ivy and Prentis were cousins, but it makes great sense. Supposedly Prentiss was the first one to open fire on the car and the first round supposedly slammed Clyde in the back of the head and that is why the car rollled to a stop rather than zooming off. The ambush site near Arcadia, LA is great to visit and I understand that the movie about Frank Hamer and Manny Gault was actually shot on location there, although they had to bring in more brush to make it look like it did in 1934.
In the year 2011 the death car was still at Whiskey Pete's casino, which is right at the border between California and Nevada, on the road to Vegas. It had its own little corner of the casino, with some other things in glass cases around it, but you didn't have to pay anything to go over and walk around it and look at it. When I first saw it there in the early 2000's it didn't even have glass around the car and I wasn't sure it was real, being right there where you could touch the thing!
Clyde and Film star Warren Beatty have things in common
how nice to talk about them
I do not like this guy he is a smart ass....Clyde was indeed sexually assaulted by the inmate he killed as was other prisoners were sexually assaulted by the guy Clyde killed that was the reason the "lifer" took the wrap for Clyde as the lifer if truth were known was also a sexual assault victim of the ass hole Clyde killed
Very interesting
Im from Colorado, and just stopped at the old site yesterday. Its funny, from the old photos i could not picture the park being right there off that highway/road. Then you said its .5 mile back and that made more sense. Is it private property now? I would love to see where everything happened that day.
This dude Super obsessed, regardless of his mis information
Where can I see this group?
well done, very interesting presentation. i'm pretty sure clyde never wrote henry ford, the middle name being the give away, do you have any evidence of clyde ever using his middle name? surely he knew what it was... it's widely believed ford, hearing clyde perferred his v-8 ford's would have wanted to capitalize on that, and did.
True, but... It was Clyde himself who scribbled 'Champion' as his middle name during an early arrest (pre-Eastham prison). He was a teenager and maybe thought giving the wrong middle name would somehow help him dodge charges. I'm dubious about the authenticity of the letter to Henry Ford, too, for other reasons, but in regard to the possibility that it was Clyde (or Bonnie, for Clyde), in my research I've found a reason why he/they could have used "Champion" as his middle name again. It's well known that both had a good sense of humor and were quick to laugh, even at themselves so, as it so happens, in the first decades of the 20th century, when Clyde was born and growing up, not going to school all that often, hanging out with big brother Buck and his friends whenever they'd let him and, no doubt, picking up on a lot of lingo of the era (as all kids do in all eras)-- "Champion" was slang for (to be as family-friendly as I can possibly be) the male sexual organ. Once I found that out, I can totally see both Clyde and Bonnie thinking it'd be funny to continue using that as, supposedly, Clyde's middle name. And I'm sure, when he scribbled it on the jail intake form, he knew exactly what he was doing/saying.
@@3ScotsInk interesting, I wondered why "Champion"....
@@3ScotsInk seems a stretch, and i've never seen or heard of clyde using "champion". can you link me to your evidence? change my mind.
Clyde did write that letter to Mr. Ford. And he always used Champion as his middle name a few years before the shootout. He changed his middle name from Chestnut to Champion
@@tomitstube any book about them will mention that he used that name, it is common knowledge.
Quick corrections 1. Bonnie was 15 when she married Roy. Six days before her 16th birthday to be exact. 2. Bonnie's tattoo was described by the corner as two hearts with an arrow going thru them with Bonnie on one side and Roy on the other (no forever) Interesting talk
Cool.
It is true that Clyde changed his middle name from Chestnut to Champion. He thought Champion was more authentic for a gangster.
Like your video
Why doesn't he show the pictures?
My cousin is Frank Hamer who helped take out Bonnie and Clyde
Just because Frank shot Jesse James (Bonnie and Clyde), doesn't make him Jesse James. Henry Methvin was way more guilty than Bonnie Parker was
No comment.
Blanche did not write her book in 1988. She DIED in 1988 on Christmas Eve. She wrote her book while in prison 1933-1939.
I think Marvel Feller was related to Bob Feller
360 degrees? Know what you mean but that's funny. Good story about Dexter.
My understanding is that Bonnie stayed in the running car mainly because by then not only had the Joplin photos been sent all over the country but also the news of her horrible leg injury, the bandaging and severe limp was well enough known to have ID'd her much more easily than Clyde could be ID'd. He looked very different over the years from his youth to his death in photos including the ones from undeveloped film in the death car. Some of that may have been that he was chameleon-like (sort of like Ted Bundy) but also, for instance, his face changed over the years from having his nose broken at least 3 times by my count and being shot at least once in the face, in his cheek/jaw area. He also apparently knew how to charm people with an appealing smooth, deep baritone voice and, when he wanted, impeccable manners, which can distract us from noticing who a (wanted) person is at any time in history including today.
It is really good to know that WD Jones not only went straight but thanks to good ol' iowa coincidence. He became a multimillionaire and philanthropist. When he accidently mixed 38 different medicines from some stolen doctor bags with a pound of hotdogs (that Clyde almost forgot at the market.) and Clyde's favorite brand of whisky. With tbe hopes of making a strong pain reliever for Buck's brain. It was a good pain reliever all right. But surprisingly Jones found that his formula also made a phenomenal penetrating oil! The original name of his oil was:
WD's Formula 40.
We know it now as WD40!!!!
Norman Larsen the created WD40
Wow! I didn't know that thanks for the info
Lol
Ha!
They didn’t even clap him??? He did a great presentation, people are so ignorant
WD gave a girl he met in a bar a ride home, he let her out but she was supposed to come back to the car to be taken somewhere else, inside her boyfriend had started a fight with her, when WD walked up to the door to see why she was taking so long, the boyfriend shot him. The boyfriend yrs later killed himself with that same shotgun.
It was his time
They also early on stole bullet proof vests from the Armories and tested them out (on fences, not on each other!) against the BARs and quickly found the vests were no match. Blew them to pieces. Thus, they knew, in shoot outs with law enforcement, if the "laws" were wearing vests, it didn't matter. They could still shoot to kill if they absolutely had to-- which Clyde avoided having to do as much as possible, preferring to shoot over everybody's heads with his "scattergun" to make posses and townsfolk scatter. Which is exactly what he did in Dexfield Park. I stayed for 5 days in September in the Joplin apartment "hideout" and got to see where the two officers Harryman & McGuinness died. Clyde didn't shoot McGuinness-- that was either Buck or W.D. He did shoot Harryman, in the chest with a shotgun, killing him instantly because, as so many other times, the cops simply didn't know who they were dealing with and Harryman made the mistake, in trying to stop Clyde from closing the garage door, firing a shot from his service weapon into the garage, and Clyde fired back. Not excusing the criminality, but I think, to the extent possible, knowing what really happened during Clyde & Bonnie's relatively short careers as outlaws is important to preserving history.
thats good that the engineers made the road like that. they were thinking that day.job security
Numerous historical inaccuracies, but entertaining all the same.
The first time I seen the death car Primm Valley Casino we took out monorail over there I think they had Al Capone's car or it's supposed to be last time we was out in Vegas it was over at Whiskey Pete's Casino Hotel I think they had some close of Clyde's and newspaper articles and a video I can't remember if they had guns in there around the car
As a blood relative of John Dillinger, I would only ask that you tell the story without a smile on your face. It is not a comedy routine.
Good point
Death Car was stolen from Ruth Warren in Topeka Kansas around april 29, 1934.....presently at Whiskey Pete's Casino in Primm Nevada.....
That car had about 7000 miles on it when they killed B&C in it. A testament to the amount of driving Clyde did. It was a brand-new car with almost no miles on it until Clyde. Not even a month.......
@@junkdeal Wow. That's very interesting! I have read numerous reports that Clyde would put insane amounts of miles beneath he and Bonnie while on the run. This does, in fact verify that!
Another fun fact is this. Their run of just under 24 months in total criminal behavior and complete freedom is quite a long time compared to other 30s-era bad-guys. Clyde was an accidental success story. But he didn't deliberately plan to out-fox cops for so long. He was successful due to this constant movement. Commonly, outlaws use safe-houses and are connected to underworld figures to help them out. This was almost always their downfall. They are vulnerable to "rat-finks" among their protectors, and of course time is never on their side. Someone holed up for a period of time begins to be a "target location" as the lines of pursuit begin to converge. "All roads lead to Rome" sort of thing. Imagine trying to kill a frog with a baseball bat! Where is it at any moment in time?! An animal in a den is quite another matter. In fact, any time Clyde tried to "hole up" is exactly when he almost came to grips with his destiny! Joplin, Red Crown Court, to an extent, Dexter Park, and of course in Arcadia, LA! His obsessive mobility was exactly counter to what everyone in his position would try to do! It took a long time for Hamer and Gault to determine a repetitious pattern in their "circuit". It always ended up at their family grounds, but the rest wasn't easy to determine. In fact Ted Hinton said later that the way to catch them would have been to stake out their "home base". As bad as they were wanted, Dallas officials could not afford to fund a major ongoing stakeout. More than once Hamer actually spotted them travelling in the other direction while cruising their known circuit! He couldn't react in time! Once they determined the actual circle, and discovered a lack of robberies and sightings in one segment of that circle, he sensed that Louisiana was where they might often lay up. Good old plain, slow, detective work uncovered their likely location. Again, a trusted cohort and temporary suspension of wide-ranging mobility was their downfall. Before then, a contact with Clyde was ALWAYS an accident, and no one was ever prepared! Remember the Johnny Depp movie about Dillinger, when he said "They have to be in all the banks all the time, and I only have to be in one bank one time!!" The entire Southwest couldn't be in constant lying-in-wait for Clyde to maybe just happen to show up!! Therein lay his success!! Quite an accident at that!!
@@junkdeal it is noted by members of the barrow gang and FBI, that Clyde was actually one of, if not the BEST driver in the world. I wouldnt call his success an accident, Clyde was very smart. He was an expert escape artist, and he always believed in being prepared. He wasn't a dope head, he never drank to excess, and always stayed sharp. He knew no one could drive like he could and he always stayed calm in gun battles, never panicked, this is why he won almost 10 shootouts. He also never wanted to kill anybody, he would rather kidnap the police than shoot them, but he killed without hesitation if he had to because he wanted to stay alive and free
@@gregtrust5599 I agree with what you say about his abilities. BUT the "accidental success" I mention was his unusual habit of CONSTANT movement, contrary to common criminal habits of "going to ground" or using safe houses and hideouts. This was the accidental part of his success. It was his natural habit, rather than an engineered method of escaping capture. You can't hit a frog with a baseball bat if he is hopping around! Also, a fixed location also is also known as a target!! Several times after Hamer and Hinton started to prowl the circuit they thought Clyde was using, they actually encountered Clyde driving another direction and could not react in time. One time they were going to flatten him with a quarry truck as Clyde drove by, but heavy traffic ruined the chance.......................They could never plan to be in a specific spot where he would be. He mostly never was in one spot! 3 serious exceptions to his usual moving around were almost, and eventually was, his downfall. Racking up in the Red Crown motel, the apartment in Joplin, and eventually hanging around near Gibsland in an abandoned home for days at a time resulted in episodes where they began to zoom in on him and attempt to destroy him on site. They elected to get him using yet another habit of being super punctual (!) on any meeting he promised to be at! He was only 15 minutes late for his execution on his way to one of these meetings!!
They ended up in dexter bc they stole mail out of a mailbox in Yale and a magazine featuring the park was in there
This was a good video I would love to meet you and talk to you. My dad came from Platte City. He passed away in 1974 when I was 20. He had many stories but I at the time didn't particularly listen like I wish I would have. I met a man when I was down there in 1971 that was a police officer that was dad's age, that had a thumb missing. That was supposed to have happened at that shootout. I do remember quite a bit of what Dad told me too much to say right now. I live in Winterset. I would love to make the attempt to meet you this year and talk about these events. The Red Crown of the time had a restaurant or something that was a major place that young people would go to. It wasn't exactly a hotel they had cabins they were taken out early in the seventies and my dad went out and salvaged a window pane that came from there. It did have bullet holes but I didn't get it when he died somebody else did before I could get to it. He was actually near that there that night with other people because they had heard what was going to go on and they were wanting to go see it. I would love to relate his story as I remember it to you please leave something on a message or something so that we can get in touch with each other. I'm leaving this message this is Sunday the 22nd of December 19. My email address is Frank. T r u m b l e. 54 at gmail.com I'm using voice command and it's not exactly you working the best for me that email address is all small letters. That's the correct spelling of my last name. please once again I would love to meet and speak with you.
My sons name is Clyde Barrow. This will never die . BARROW fam in the house
Thanks for video but not a shoot out. It was an ambush.
He didn’t want to go out to the chain gang because killing inmates while out in the yard and then claiming they “ran” was the method corrupt guards used to murder inmates. Clyde had reason to suspect this was being planned for him so he had part of his toes cut off in effort to cause medical reason not to.
Let em rip
Always take "history according to to Hollywood" with a grain of salt.
Maybe a bag of salt. They even combined WD Moss and Henry Methvin into Michael Pollard's character. So much for historical accuracy.
Phil Lossiffer WD Jones not moss.... And in the movie Michaels character is CW Moss. (Henry Methvin And WDJones) combined And yes thats the shitty part about hollywood they dont care about facts only what will make a good story
Don’t believe anything Hollywood puts out.
@@PBNJ95 So much for MY accuracy....got my names mixed up. :>]
Are they sure Bonnie & Clyde died in the shooting in Louisiana?
YES
They survived. No problem
You need to do a better history study. He is so wrong on so many things in other words he doesn't no what he's talking about.
He doesnt know how to end a story
He also goes off topic. From B& C to baseball to Boy Scouts.
…some people should stay in the closet
Boring