This Day in History May 23

May 23

1701 Captain Kidd hung in London after conviction of piracy & murder
1774 Chestertown tea party occurs (tea dumped into Chester River)
1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1788 South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify US constitution
1861 Virginia citizens vote 3 to 1 in favor of secession
1862 Battle at Front Royal VA
1862 Valley Campaign-Stonewall Jackson takes Front Royal VA
1864 Battle of Dallas GA
1864 Battle of North Anna VA, 1st of 3 days of fighting
1873 1st Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43
1873 Canada's North West Mounted Police Force (RCMPF) forms
1887 1st Canadian transcontinental train arrives in Vancouver British Columbia
1903 1st automobile trip across US from San Fransisco to New York starts
1908 Dirigible explodes over San Fransisco Bay, 16 passengers fall, none die
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany
1916 Heavy battles at Fort Douaumont Verdun
1934 American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police in Bienville Parish, La
1934 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66)
1939 U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive
1939 British decoration, George Cross, 1st presented
1939 Submarine Squalis sinks off Portsmouth NH
1940 1st great dogfight between Spitfires
1943 826 Allied bombers attack Dortmund
1944 British/Canadian troops occupy Pontecorvo Italy
1944 Chinese counter offensive at Hunan front
1945 German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1977 Benin adopts its constitution
1989 Lincoln Square in the Bronx is named

This is where Bonnie and Clyde bit the bullet(s), about where car is parked. They came driving up this long hill when they slowed down to help a guy they knew who was faking a flat on his truck. He had sold out to the lawmen in exchange for clemency for his son, who was a sometime member of the Barrow gang. I shot photo from about where the six shooters were hidden. The site has changed little since that time.

are they still finding bullets around there?

I doubt it. There weren't many to be found. Most of the shots fired hit the car or the bodies.

In 1925, my dad was born in a sod house, south side of the railroad tracks in Big Bow, Kansas.

Gone, but not forgotten.