The Joplin Globe is a seven-day digital edition and five-day print edition daily newspaper published in Joplin, Missouri, United States, covering parts of 14 counties in southwestern Missouri.

[5] In 1933, The Joplin Globe had a country-wide scoop, obtaining the camera left behind by Bonnie and Clyde after a deadly confrontation with local police, developing and publishing the rolls of film in it, including the now-legendary photos of Bonnie Parker holding Clyde Barrow at mock gunpoint and of Bonnie with her foot on a fender, pistol in her hand, and cigar in her mouth.

[6] Gilbert Barbee was born in 1850 in Ritchey, Newton County, Missouri.

[7] Barbee made his fortune in lead mining[7] and owned the Joplin Globe from 1899 to 1911.

[8][9] Barbee also donated money and land to build the Children's Home, an orphanage in Joplin.