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Bonnie and Clyde represented what a criminal was at their time, both being wanted all over the United States and going on a crime spree that extinguished many lives, while joined hand in hand as two of the most dangerous people of their time. With the death counts stacking up so did their infamy gaining them fame for what they've done wrong. People have always romanticized and exaggerated criminals since rebellion was first defined. However this was just the ruthlessness of a two criminal banded together to form the facade of a romantic rebellion.

Jesse James, one of the most notorious and infamous of all the American criminals even up to this day may have been an inspiration for Clyde, the man behind wheel. Many people thought of him as a

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