THE uniquely American legend began 75 years ago Saturday, when outlaws Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were gunned down in an ambush — ratted out by one of their own gang.

They were celebrated in their own time, not least because their string of robberies carried a whiff of Robin Hood during the Great Depression, while their own mid-spree photos were widely published after their bullet-riddled deaths.

The 1967 film “Bonnie & Clyde” presented a graphic, slow-motion re-enactment of the couple’s end that scandalized as much as it glamorized them in memoriam. The “Dirty ’30s” Dust Bowl style of these two lives on — right on the money for our own lean and mean times.

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