Joplin shootout was a Indian Wars and Frontier Conflicts engagement fought in Missouri, 1933.
A gun battle at a rented garage apartment in Joplin, Missouri, left two lawmen dead and marked one of the Barrow Gang's bloodiest clashes with police. Officers approaching the hideout on suspicion of bootlegging were met with automatic-weapon fire from Clyde Barrow and his companions; Constable J.W. Harryman and Detective Harry McGinnis were killed and the gang shot its way out and fled. Left behind in the apartment were possessions, weapons and a camera whose developed film produced the now-iconic photographs of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow that spread their legend nationwide. The Joplin shootout confirmed the Barrow Gang as a lethal threat to law enforcement across the Southwest and intensified the multi-state manhunt that would pursue them for the next year until their deaths in Louisiana.
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