But in 1968, the witty hipster Mike NIchols’ social satire “The Graduate,” like the Warren Beatty film “Clyde,” changed the course of Hollywood filmmaking but failed to take best picture.

By then Bonnie and Clyde were dead, shot to pieces in a law enforcement ambush in rural Louisiana. Raymond Hamilton went to the electric chair on May 10, 1935.

Dison, a former law enforcement officer, lives a few miles from where the ambush posse ended Bonnie and Clyde’s crime spree. Historical research is his passion. Learn more about Dison’s work ...