Bonnie and Clyde Shootout Site

Stringtown, Oklahoma

Some accounts assert that Bonnie Parker had nothing to do with this one; she was visiting her mom in Texas. Others say she was in the car with Clyde Barrow and other gang members on August 5, 1932, sitting, drinking from a bottle of moonshine, when a sheriff and his deputy approached the car. A shootout commenced, the sheriff was shot seven times (but lived), the deputy was killed, and the Barrow gang went on to kill eight more lawmen over the next two years.

In 2007 a tan granite slab was erected at the site to give an account of the shootout and memorialize the two officers. It gives Bonnie the benefit of the doubt and does not mention her.