4 Quotes by John Neal Phillips

On Clyde inviting Buck to join him and Bonnie: [W.D.] Jones later said, 'He [Clyde] didn't mean to do Buck no harm. He just couldn't see that far ahead.' Of Blanche, he said 'She was a good little girl— good—hearted. She begged Buck not to go. She slipped into a trap. Blanche was just an innocent little girl who got mixed up in something—a love affair. I never knew that love could be so strong.

[W.D.] Jones later commented that people frequently helped them, 'Not because it was Bonnie and Clyde. People in them days just helped—no questions asked.

[From Raymond Hamilton's pre-execution interview]'What about Mary O'Dare?' came another question.'That girl "ratted"on me to save her own neck," Raymond said bitterly.'How about Bergie and the two sisters?' another newsman inquired. 'I'm not squealing on any women,' Hamilton mused. 'Women have enough trouble without men heaping more on them.

Ranger Captain Fred McDaniel drove Fults to Austin. There the outlaw was interviewed about his experiences with Clyde Barrow and Raymond Hamilton. Fults, in turn, probed the Rangers for information about the ambush of Bonnie and Clyde.'Yeh,' McDaniel said, 'they approached me and Hickman and Gonzualeson that Clyde and Bonnie deal.We told them 'no thanks, we don't ambush people and we don't shoot women.