Bonnie & Clyde’s Route 66 Hideout: The Joplin Shootout and Lost Artifacts

Walk With History heads to Joplin, Missouri on Route 66 to trace Bonnie and Clyde’s 1933 hideout and the shootout that helped make them nationally infamous.

After renting a garage apartment in April 1933, Clyde and Bonnie, Buck and Blanche Barrow, and W.D. Jones stayed 13 days before police—suspecting bootleggers—ambushed the apartment, leading to a gunfight in which two officers were killed. Fleeing in haste, the gang left behind Kodak film that produced the first widely seen photos of Bonnie and Clyde.

Join us to see those photos, artifacts, and stories of the infamous duo!

A smiling woman wearing a cap stands in front of a historic building, with images and text referencing Bonnie and Clyde and Route 66.
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