They all agree that the handwriting was not Barrow's. Marie and others who knew Clyde did admit, however, that the letter's laconic tone sounded like something that Clyde would have written. And the fact that Barrow loved the Ford V8 is well documented. But the letter itself is not from Clyde Barrow. John Neal Phillips Dallas, Texas American History is on the World Wide Web, on TheHistoryNet .
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