do you know who bought them? he was anonymous. i don t know. bobby livingston can t reveal the buyer s name but he shares the surprisingly personal reason the mysterious buyer valued the two weapons so highly. seems his family had crossed paths with bonnie. my mother took pity on the packer family and would take them food. why did you buy the clyde barrow gun? he said i thought they should stay together. the sale of the bonnie and clyde guns suggest to earl that his father s collection is worth every bit of the $4 million he has been told. he plans to gradually sell off most of it, so his 50 year love
you look back at the history of people who were ruthless. even though hits may be bad, history is history. in 1986 earl s father robert earns that frank hamer s family is about to auction off two spec la tack layer pieces of bonnie and clyde memorabilia the most personal weapon a 45 that was in clyde s wasist band and a 38 tht bonnie had taped to her thigh. when the opportunity came up, holding a gun that he knew clyde probably used and had on his person. this was his top choice. robert and his wife mary ann drive to ouaustin for the sale. robert s friends and competitors fill the hall. my dad got up to conversion with someone, go get a drink and the guns came up for auction he
was police raised him and called him off to jail. bonnie sneaks a revolver into the jail and clyde makes the run for it he is captured jailed and beaten by the guards. he is released in 1932 a hardened criminal. he and bonnie go on a rampage robbing banks and killing a dozen people. all along he is consumed one idea revenge on the guards who beat him. let s raid this place and turn everybody lose and i would like to shoot every dam one of these guards. he leads the raid in 1934. five convicts are released from prison and one prison guard is killed. he is humiliated calls in a texas ranger named frank hamer. put clyde and bonnie p on the spot and shoot everyone in
sight. those are his own words. he developed an informant who wr released the duo s location. he sets up an ambush. he appears over a hill bonnie at his side. he opened up with a deafening fuselage. bonnie and clyde are dead without being able to shoot a single shot. the inevitable end bonnie parker and clyde barely who died as they lived the gun. to augment the eager pay they take the weapons and other personal items. frank hamer wound up with all of the weaponry that was recovered in the car. it is no surprise to easterly an avid collector like his father would covet his trophy
one of the people you can directly attribute to bonnie parker. two guns poufound on the bod of bonnie and clyde. it hits a snag. bonnie s gun the serial number had been scratched off. that being the case it doesn t hold too well with the atf. davis livingston anxiously await word from the fed al aut roarities will they allow the sale to go through or seize the gun. they decided it was a historic artifact that needs to be saved and went ahead and reissued a serial number and put it on the gun. five months later the collection including the 48 and clyde s 35 are the center piece of r and r, dang officers outlaws auction. my wife and i went to the live auction.