Sparky, that's a
very good point. Few young'uns these days know their history, but Bonnie and Clyde were folk heroes in their time, getting back at banks for all the wrongs they'd perpetrated against the citizenry.
Back in the GD1, the government didn't bail out folks who couldn't make the interest payments on their homes and farms and there was a lot of bitterness and anger toward the "greedy bankers." (Imagine that!)
And then here comes Bonnie and Clyde, a fun couple who preyed on small, isolated banks and seemed to have a good attitude about it and strove not to hurt innocent bystanders.
I found this quote at NPR when they interviewed Arthur Penn, who directed the 1967 movie "Bonnie and Clyde."
In the 1930s, when the Barrow Gang was at large, "the country was really ... in desperate straits," Penn says. "I didn't have sympathy for the killing, but I could understand these bumpkins essentially working out the equation in their mind: 'If the banks come and take my house, I'm gonna go get what they have.'"
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... d=12753252