"The whole country was out looking for us, for who knew where Kit would strike next. Sidewalks cleared out, stores closed their doors and drew their blinds. Posses and vigilance committees were set up from Texas to North Dakota. Children rode back and forth to school under heavy guard. A famous detective was brought in from Boston. He could find no clues. People left their lights on when they went to sleep. My clarinet teacher said I probably wasn't responsible, but others said I was. Then, on Thursday, the Governor of Oklahoma sent out the National Guard to stand watch at the Federal Reserve Bank in Tulsa when word got out that Kit meant to rob it. It was like the Russians had invaded."
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1970s American filmsCrime drama filmsUnited States National Film Registry filmsRoad filmsFilms set in Montana
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Badlands (film)
Badlands is a 1973 film about a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend who slaughters her father and several others in the Dakota badlands. It was loosely based on the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950's.
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