Bonnie and Clyde and Me!

Rating:
Summary: insiders true story of life with Bonnie & Clyde
Review: great listening for anyone into Bonnie & Clyde. Floyd Hamilton was there for many of the escapades and outlived Bonnie & Clyde to rob more banks. He served time in Alcatraz and was almost successful in escaping the island prison. He finally found God and straightened up his life. The added commentary & old radio audio is a little cheesy but Hamilton's narrative--to those familiar with the people and places he is talking about--is spellbinding.

Rating:
Summary: insiders true story of life with Bonnie & Clyde
Review: great listening for anyone into Bonnie & Clyde. Floyd Hamilton was there for many of the escapades and outlived Bonnie & Clyde to rob more banks. He served time in Alcatraz and was almost successful in escaping the island prison. He finally found God and straightened up his life. The added commentary & old radio audio is a little cheesy but Hamilton's narrative--to those familiar with the people and places he is talking about--is spellbinding.

Rating:
Summary: Floyd Hamilton, converted ganster.
Review: Had the distinct pleasure of meeting and spending a couple hours with Floyd before his death. It is great to hear his voice again, reproduced on these tapes. He can give you an inside view of the police brutality prominent in the days of Bonnie & Clyde. The "rubber hose" method of questioning, and getting confessions.
According to Floyd, Clyde lived approximately where Texas Stadium sits today and once found guilty of minor crime as a teenager, met the rubber hose every time something happened in the vicinity.

Floyd's brother Raymond Hamilton, however was a considerably more violent and murderous criminal. Floyd joked that his mother was the only woman to ever have 2 sons on the FBI's most wanted list at the same time.

Sid Underwood has done a great job of telling the Ray Hamilton Story in "Desperation Desperado" The Chronicle of Raymond Hamilton. (ISBN# 0890159661) Ray was executed by the state at age 21. He and another death row inmate to be executed the same day, flipped a coin to see who met "Old Sparky" first!

Rating:
Summary: Floyd Hamilton, converted ganster.
Review: Had the distinct pleasure of meeting and spending a couple hours with Floyd before his death. It is great to hear his voice again, reproduced on these tapes. He can give you an inside view of the police brutality prominent in the days of Bonnie & Clyde. The "rubber hose" method of questioning, and getting confessions.
According to Floyd, Clyde lived approximately where Texas Stadium sits today and once found guilty of minor crime as a teenager, met the rubber hose every time something happened in the vicinity.

Floyd's brother Raymond Hamilton, however was a considerably more violent and murderous criminal. Floyd joked that his mother was the only woman to ever have 2 sons on the FBI's most wanted list at the same time.

Sid Underwood has done a great job of telling the Ray Hamilton Story in "Desperation Desperado" The Chronicle of Raymond Hamilton. (ISBN# 0890159661) Ray was executed by the state at age 21. He and another death row inmate to be executed the same day, flipped a coin to see who met "Old Sparky" first!