Since their deaths, dozens of movies and television series have been made glamorizing the lives and deaths of Bonnie and Clyde. This is the true story.
During the Great Depression, gangsters became unlikely heroes. They were glorified in movies and fueled American imaginations, desperate for entertainment.
It would be the "Biggest Thing on Earth," the salvation of the common man, a dam and irrigation project that would provide a source of cheap power—boosting an entire region of the country.