Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Site

At 9:15 a.m. on May 23, 1934, Texas Ranger Frank Hamer and Sheriff Henderson Jordan ended the chase eight miles south of Gibsland on Highway 154. Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow had stopped at Ma Canfield's Café in town to buy sandwiches before the ambush. Two granite monuments mark the death site now. The Bonnie & Clyde Ambush Museum opened in 2005 in the former Ma Canfield's building on Main Street in Gibsland. The museum displays a replica "Death Car" similar to the vehicle the pair died in — the actual car is in Nevada. Personal effects are here: clothes, possessions, memorabilia. For years the museum showed the 1967 Warren Beatty film car, later sold to a Tennessee museum. The monuments stand where the shooting happened. The café building holds what they left behind. The distance between the two is the final interval of the most wanted fugitives in Depression-era America.