@@ANB433 that wasn't sarcastic that was a genuine comment. I'm glad he cleared it up about how he became an adult or I'd of been stumped watching it lol.
Pitt was perfect with his "paranoia". Everyone in the movie great! The movie made me feel like I was right there in 1882 watching Jesse's demise unfold! Truly a masterpiece in my opinion.
it was because he did not want to be a coward. shooting someone from behind back then was very looked down upon. at least when you had a beef with them. jesse killed nearly all his victims from behind, but the reason why most dont see him as a coward was because he was calculated. it takes balls and brains to survive the bloodbath of a civil war and live life on the run as an outlaw and still manage to kill 17 people. there are always grey areas to things like this, but i think alot of the reason bob was considered a coward was because he was close to jesse, a fan even, so it almost seemed like he was betraying jesse. therefore the coward thing seemed even more likely.
@@gravejames7221 if you idolize the guy and he turns out not to be the man you thought he would be and cause of that begin to snitch and later shoot him in the back in his own house with his family makes you in my book a straight up coward.
Just finished reading Jesse James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J Stiles, and I honestly couldn’t recommend it enough. If you are even slightly interested in Jesse James, The U.S Civil War, Reconstruction etc, then you should totally read it. Brilliant biography of a man shrouded in myth. The Civil War shaped and created Jesse. From the moment he was dragged through the family land by militiamen as a fifteen year old and he witnessed his step-father being hanged; Jesse’s bitterness and hatred of the Union was cemented. There is no Jesse James without the political element.
Absolutely.And I will look out for that book.Thanks.We do ACW Reenactments (& others)There is such a lot of interest in it & so many people discuss the James Boys & the Youngers & feel they got a raw deal.
Thabk you im going to read it. I agree to look at Jesse without taking into account the brutal nature of war and how he was dragged into it by murdering and torturing his family is not an accurate assesment of his life and some accountability for those atrocities and how they woykd impact anyone in his shoes has to be addressed
You are so right.But most people don't see it that way & call him a murderer,psycho & many other things.And are you aware about the hell the Youngers also went thru?It was a time out of hell.As all wars r.But those in power r always too dumb to see it.Will humans ever reach maturity?
My family on my Dad's side were neighbors of the James family in Missouri. My family moved to Campbellsville, Ky about the same time that they moved off. My great, great grandmother was around 6'2" and could shoot a crow out of the sky with a pistol at great range according to my Dad who remembers her doing this when he was a kid. At around 80 years old she beat the shit out of a goat with her cane for butting my Dad and his brother around the yard. Poor bastard never came out of the barn till he died. The bank hold up in Kentucky happened in Columbia, KY. That robbery happened a month after my family moved to Campbellsville. It's long been speculated that "Granny" may have helped them at times, not confirmed. My Dad's brother swears she did, him being passed away can't debate it with him. Granny killed a man at 13 years of age with a shotgun while they were trying rape/rob her mother. Life was hard back then and made the people hard as well. The Pinkerton agency were some of the shittiest convicts with badges ever created. The people that hired them tried getting meaner people than the outlaws.
That is a crazy story. Easy to forget how wild it was back then. My 2nd great grandfather was stationed in Texas alongside the original rangers. His son wrote down some of his stories. Crazy how it wasn’t even too long ago. Thanks for sharing
Turns out I am a decendent of Jessie James via Emmitt Vestal Sr aka Texas Slim.... sounds like James got a bad rap then just kept on going for revenge... we can't demonize these men. Im reading Emmits Book... it takes you back in time... these men did what they needed to do to survive.
I'm NOT! My folks would leave their enemies hanging by their thumbs in the barn and then go to Church. Jesse would just go to Baptist Church Sunday morning.
I live where his stomping grounds were. I once had a look at a picture of Jesse on a mule. The picture was taken in front of a late friends house. To leave Clay county was only about ten miles . The picture of Jesse was from the late 1890s How true was the picture. My friends grand father was a minister. My late friends ( his grandfathers) house is still there.
@@jiveassturkey8849 I know, it’s just not true. There’s a photograph taken of Jesse after he was shot dead by Robert Ford, he was shot in the back of the head in 1882
I enjoyed the movie with Pitt. I really liked the part where the narrator was saying Ford imagined visiting the victims families who’d been killed by James. I honestly think he should have.
Honestly, I love the documentary BUT I can't stand the background music. WHY background music? WHAT possible function does it serve except to distract, annoy, and grate on the nerves? AND, for people who suffer form tinnitus or hearing loss it makes it so hard to hear the words.
Psalms 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Jesse or his family never had to leave Clay County or Kearney even after his “atrocities”. Later after marrying Zerelda he moved. I live about a mile from his Kearney home.
I never heard that he married before Zelda. I’ll have to check that out. I live in Kearney-his home town-my house not being a mile from his family farm. So everything is Jesse James around here. I met a man that actually met Frank James a couple times as a child. That blew my mind -thinking it was not actually that long ago in history.
Andrew are you a descendent of his son? Or sons? I think I read one moved to California. Idk. Many around here try to claim they are related but they aren’t. Sadly I think my ex husband is a distant relative of Bob Ford! Jesse’s killer. They aren’t proud of that.
The Robin Hood question always makes me chuckle, he was as far from that as you can get. He robbed, stole and murdered his entire adult life, likely turned insane by the actions of the union soldiers when he was a young man. He systematically went through his entire friendship circle and shot them.
He reputedly told Ford, after you shoot me in the back, I want Tyrone Power to portray me in a 20th Century Fox movie. Throw in Henry Fonda for good measure.
I'm from southwest Missouri. The border war region known as the "burnt district" per Ewings "general order #11". Frank James actually sold shoes in my home town in the 1880s-1890s, after the "James gang" was finished. Somewhere around 400 "Bushwackers" held control over most of the southern half of Missouri throughout the war, despite some 50,000 U.S. troops dedicated to run them out. Jesse James grew up during that. He had immunity from the law because the people here seen his bank and train robbing as a continuation of the war. Robbing and killing federals, northern business owners, pinkertons, and their hired guns only earned the loyalty of the local population. Mostly because it was something they took great pleasure in doing themselves when the opportunity arose.
I live in the town of the bank he was finally stopped at, we hold a “Jesse James day” every year where actors play the cops and actors play James gang and a shootout occurs. It’s honestly a amazing experience
I live in Clay County, Missouri, and only a few miles from Kearney, MO, Jesse's hometown. One of my distant cousins, Ballentine Munkirs, was friends with Frank and Jesse in the 1870s. Ballentine's family farm was only a half mile away from the James farm and Ballentine was a Bushwhacker during the Civil War. When Jesse and Frank robbed the Clay County Savings Bank in Liberty, MO (their first robbery), the sheriff arrested Ballentine. He thought Ballentine was a part of the gang. He wasn't; he was innocent. After the arrest Ballentine stayed clear of Frank and Jesse.
At the end of the day Jessi James and his gang were nothing but ruthless thieves and murderers. I never knew he shot unarmed men, namely bank clerks, before until l saw this. But, like most outlaws history tends to portray them as some kind of romantic heroes of the people through books and films, rather than the cruel, heartless people they really were
I live in the town Jesse James was shot in and it's still a tourist trap lol. It is interesting to view the home and the bullet hole where he was killed. The home is super tiny though. Maybe four rooms. Room size around 12ft X 12ft at most. Ford had to be close when he pulled the trigger.
*There's far more to the story* of the James Brothers, their family, and families of the era, and particularly in the area of Missouri, Kansas, Northern Arkansas, Western Kentucky, and Nebraska. It also was affecting all of the Industrial States and West to California. This story had the true individuals that were at the core of most all 8f the tragic history around the Civil War, and the post war ramp up of the aggressions against the Native Peoples. The initiator of these conflicts were 3 divisions of extreme wealth: 1) *The elite Owners of the Business and Industries that were point focused on the known wealth potentials in natural resources, Metals/Minerals, the Railroad Industry, and the expansion West.* 2) The *Southern extreme elite,* and their ownership of the enslaved free labor, this peaking at an average of 1200 - 1400, owners 9f Cotton, Tobacco, and Sugar Plantations, "the 1% elite Plantations of the South then being the wealthiest people in the world. 3) *Their elite counterparts, the International Bankers and Financiers of Britain whom desired the control and profits of the USA Banking, Stock Market, and Financing of Loans, in a fast paced growing nation. These were and remain the Family that financed all wars in/for the Western Hemisphere since the time of Napoleon and Wellington, the same that later were awarded the ownership of the "Federal Reserve Bank Corporation")* These efforts were obvious to those whom were in the path of their expansion: the Native Peoples; the landowners affected by forced sales and/or removal from their homes/land; the smaller businesses that got consumed by the Elite Industrialists and their Monopolies; those whom watched the growth of profits by the Plantation Owners, and those Americans whom were "Educated, Alert, Business Minded". ... and 8n the same manner as today, the News Medias we're largely privately owned and used for the agendas of the elite, to invite the naive Public towards preoccupied chaos, while they carried out their own aggressive acts for profits, for feeding the Ego Mind's Greed. The James Brothers, Dalton's, and others got caught up in these elite aggressions, and while many of the local folks understood the scenarios, the mass Public believed the drama stories of a more criminal outlaw produced story. Likely they were w/o choice but to become outlaws, once they began to retaliate, but the Public deserves to finally get the greater clarity on the era and subject. Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist Historian PS: *"History"* vs Based on Historical Events. There's no go-to Written History Book, that I'm aware of, to read the more accurate facts. Makes one wonder, Why? But with vast research and studies, this is the greater Facts I have discovered and observed through the Records.
At last an intelligent person makes comment! Thank you Beth. Just remember DNA is an inherited trait. My people were REB's. You can guess what part of the DNA I received While others in my line are liberal democrats I lean toward that big fat red headed blow hard up state New York Yankee Trump. Maybe he's a rebel? I don't know?
This reminds me of an episode of The Brady Bunch where Bobby was idolizing Jesse James. His parents let him stay up and watch a movie on television about the outlaw thinking it will set him straight. Only to find out all the violence was cut out of it. Bobby - "Boy, it's nice he's willing to give that woman a ride home." (The previous scene would have shown James killing the woman's husband.) Bobby gets a reality check when a man tells Bobby that his father was killed by James... ruclips.net/video/aw55xIGi7-k/видео.html
I had not thought of that for years and years, yet when I read your comment, I remembered it vividly! The consternation when the show cut out the very parts his parents thought would change his mind was pretty funny (I was never a big Brady Bunch fan, but, like all 60s kids, if it was on tv, I watched it..). That episode was my favorite!
@@jamescoombs2569 I idealized Marsha!! I had a girl crush on her, I wanted to be her, blue eyes blond hair, cute cute cute... I ended up a goth girl, that was my look...thank god I moved to LA in the late 80s...I was finally cool...I look back and cringe, but cringe with pride!😅😅
Watch the movie ( alpha dog.) It's about the second most famous Jessie James Hollywood. I went to school with him in junior high. Messed up story but they only tell half if that in the movie... Thanks for the video... I never new this story.
Jesse James is my great grandfather, I'm the outlaw chairman. I'm from braxton county West Virginia. My grandmother is Colombian. Jimmy Skidmore and his brothers Mark Skidmore, Timmy Skidmore, Richard Skidmore and they're sister Connie Skidmore are all from West Virginia and grand children of Jesse James.
Any fan of Louis L'Amour Westerns knows he was a villain. L'Amour did extensive research, including his vast collection of contemporary diaries. James's nickname was "Dingus," which had a bad connotation, even among outlaws.
But the lumbee gang ran by Henry Barry Lowry was more badass made up of Indians and some African Americans, they were more wanted than Jesse James gang and had a bigger bounty on their heads , they mostly stuck to the swamp lands to pick off their enemies and to escape , that's who u need to do your next video on.
I agree! I have heard a little about this gang, I believe, and it was very obscure and wild. I'd love to see that next! Thanks for the suggestion, it's a good one!
@@christineparis5607 oh yeah it's a great story and one that needs to be explored more and your welcome kinda getting tired of hearing about Jesse James and Billy the kid , don't get me wrong their story is cool and all but the lumbee gang I'm more interested in and they had a bigger bounty on their heads than the James gang and just want to know more about them .
One of the best I've seen. Thank you for your accuracy. Bob and Charlie are my second uncles. Hollywood never seems to get it right. Look up follow your past a lion TV of New York special that aired on the Travel Channel. For more on the James and Fords.
They must have had a huge family, or every one in Missouri is related. I've met hundreds of people who claim to be related to either Jesse James or members of his gang... who were mostly cousins of his.
@@danielblackburn1241 nope. It was a legend created by the guy who opened the cave for tourists. The story doesnt even make sense, considering how far those chests would need to be hauled UNDER WATER to get to the so called "Loot Rock". They had to dynamite a LOT of rock just to open up that part of the cave.
@@greybeast8089 Jesse James never faked his death, I beilive Brushy bill was The kid, but he died at the age of 71. Not in his 90s, That guy in the 1950s wasn’t Jesse James, there are multiple pictures of his courpse
Tee Culture why ? For being born with a Baptist reverend for a father? For being confederate sympathizers? For not having a father figure growing up? For being tortured by union soldiers? I’d be a monster too
Poor Sandra! In Hollywood, "bad boys" are always supposed to be wonderful at heart, and changed by the love of a good woman... I think she thought that, and didn't realize he was really a sleaze to the bone...
How are you related? I am a Cole thru my Grandmother. Her father was born in 1874. When Jesse was murdered by Bob Ford, my Great Grandpa Cole went w/ his father to pick Jesse’s body to prepare for burial. I still have Cole’s & some Golden’s in Missouri. Btw - Great Grandpa Cole was first cousins w/ Jesse, Frank & Sarah. The Younger brothers are also cousins of mine. I named my son Cole after my Grandmothers family.
Who knows what he was? History is written and rewritten constantly by people who were not there. Just like your video, you were not there, yet we are to believe you this far into the future? No, I’m more inclined to believe the exact opposite, simply because you said it.
@@uncle.7yearsago734 there’s an abundance of sources and oral histories passed down that say he was not simply a villain in a black hat fighting good guys in white hats. History is written by the victor in the immediate aftermath of conflict and then years and years later is rewritten again by often just the loudest group. It’s sickening.
If I had a nickel for every fool on here claiming that they're related to Jesse James, I'd be rich. I guess technically, I'm related to Jesse too because if you go all the way back in history to the first humans we all descend from them. So actually I'm related to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, the Queen of England, Obama, Bush...well hell I'm related to every human on the planet and so are you.
@stagga lee He was a outlaw, that's how he made a living. Look at Freeway Ricky Ross and El Chapo, They were notorious drug lords who were millionaires. Respect to them to. Freeway Ricky Ross is now a entrepreneur who reformed his life whilst he was incarcerated.
What do you think, was Jesse James an old west Robin Hood, or just a villain?
@@TheAntManChannel 👍👍👍
Considering what happened to him during the war and what the union did to his family. He was a Robin hood and ended up as a martyr
Total villain
He was a badass!
Villain. That shouldn't even be controversial.
“Walter, just cause you killed Jesse James don’t make you Jesse James” -Mike (Breaking Bad)
Literally why I came to this
Waltuh put your dick away Waltuh
OMG I'm glad you told me he started out as a baby. I'd of been sat watching it thinking how did he become an adult. I'm so glad you cleared it up.
Paul Cowlishaw 😂
@@ANB433 what's funny
Paul Cowlishaw your sarcastic comment!
@@ANB433 that wasn't sarcastic that was a genuine comment. I'm glad he cleared it up about how he became an adult or I'd of been stumped watching it lol.
When I was a little kid I used to think old people were born old lol
Brad Pitt really captured the psychotic troubled nature of the outlaw Jesse James
Achilles reincarnated he was
- Master Yoda, probably
Such an underrated performance
Pitt was perfect with his "paranoia". Everyone in the movie great! The movie made me feel like I was right there in 1882 watching Jesse's demise unfold! Truly a masterpiece in my opinion.
Lmao I am some how related to Jessie. 😂😂😂
Yes he did
I love this channel,however the background music has to go!
Somebody on Fiverr could make this music. I hope they listen.
i agree
@Easy dubs Lol are u
Easy dubs Lol I guess we’re family then because I’m related to him on my moms side
It really isn't that big of a problem 🙄😂 people complain about EVERYTHING
saying "Hello Bob" before shooting someone sounds just like something you did back then...
it was because he did not want to be a coward. shooting someone from behind back then was very looked down upon. at least when you had a beef with them. jesse killed nearly all his victims from behind, but the reason why most dont see him as a coward was because he was calculated. it takes balls and brains to survive the bloodbath of a civil war and live life on the run as an outlaw and still manage to kill 17 people. there are always grey areas to things like this, but i think alot of the reason bob was considered a coward was because he was close to jesse, a fan even, so it almost seemed like he was betraying jesse. therefore the coward thing seemed even more likely.
@@gravejames7221 I think that was a reference to Billy the kid saying "hello bob" before shooting Bob Ollinger
@@jasonhope8099 Ford shot Jesse in the back, so the guy who shot Ford called out his name so he'd turn around.
@@gravejames7221 if you idolize the guy and he turns out not to be the man you thought he would be and cause of that begin to snitch and later shoot him in the back in his own house with his family makes you in my book a straight up coward.
Its hard when you feel sympathy for bad people. But in war no ones the good guy.
There are no winners in wars
Only survivors
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If someone threatens my life for their said beliefs I'm taking their whole town and family down
I do agree there no one is a winner or loser in a war
Just finished reading Jesse James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J Stiles, and I honestly couldn’t recommend it enough. If you are even slightly interested in Jesse James, The U.S Civil War, Reconstruction etc, then you should totally read it. Brilliant biography of a man shrouded in myth.
The Civil War shaped and created Jesse. From the moment he was dragged through the family land by militiamen as a fifteen year old and he witnessed his step-father being hanged; Jesse’s bitterness and hatred of the Union was cemented. There is no Jesse James without the political element.
Absolutely.And I will look out for that book.Thanks.We do ACW Reenactments (& others)There is such a lot of interest in it & so many people discuss the James Boys & the Youngers & feel they got a raw deal.
Yeah that's how it is with all terrorists.
Thabk you im going to read it. I agree to look at Jesse without taking into account the brutal nature of war and how he was dragged into it by murdering and torturing his family is not an accurate assesment of his life and some accountability for those atrocities and how they woykd impact anyone in his shoes has to be addressed
@@susanmccormick6022 Nah They got what they deserved.
You are so right.But most people don't see it that way & call him a murderer,psycho & many other things.And are you aware about the hell the Youngers also went thru?It was a time out of hell.As all wars r.But those in power r always too dumb to see it.Will humans ever reach maturity?
My family on my Dad's side were neighbors of the James family in Missouri. My family moved to Campbellsville, Ky about the same time that they moved off. My great, great grandmother was around 6'2" and could shoot a crow out of the sky with a pistol at great range according to my Dad who remembers her doing this when he was a kid. At around 80 years old she beat the shit out of a goat with her cane for butting my Dad and his brother around the yard. Poor bastard never came out of the barn till he died. The bank hold up in Kentucky happened in Columbia, KY. That robbery happened a month after my family moved to Campbellsville. It's long been speculated that "Granny" may have helped them at times, not confirmed. My Dad's brother swears she did, him being passed away can't debate it with him. Granny killed a man at 13 years of age with a shotgun while they were trying rape/rob her mother. Life was hard back then and made the people hard as well. The Pinkerton agency were some of the shittiest convicts with badges ever created. The people that hired them tried getting meaner people than the outlaws.
hahaha
That is a crazy story. Easy to forget how wild it was back then. My 2nd great grandfather was stationed in Texas alongside the original rangers. His son wrote down some of his stories. Crazy how it wasn’t even too long ago. Thanks for sharing
Family myths.
Finally a story about a relative or neighbor that I can believe
Damn I had no idea that Pinkerton actually exists I thought it was something they made up in rdr2
Same
Agent milton
Ross
Nope they were real. And outlaws hated them worse than poison.
@@scorpion_scorpi study up on some history
Turns out I am a decendent of Jessie James via Emmitt Vestal Sr aka Texas Slim.... sounds like James got a bad rap then just kept on going for revenge... we can't demonize these men. Im reading Emmits Book... it takes you back in time... these men did what they needed to do to survive.
You sound psychotic. These murdered people for sport but yeah "did what they needed to do"
Yawn. EVERYONE claims that be his distant relative. And he didn't get a "bad rap". He was a bad person. Stop romanticizing a criminal.
Broken family, no dad, imagine how many Jesse James are out there now.
#TEAM TRUMP It's not okay at all. But i understand why he joined the war and turned evil.
So all the have to do is kill a lot of people and in 75 years the will be famous
@ozrocksinger That's interesting man. I love to read about Jesse James. I do it almost everyday!
There are kids out there who are in the same circumstances but didn't victimize themselves.
@@TheUsername217 I completely understand that he want's revenge. 1000% understand that. But it should've been only that.
When I read half of the comments, I wonder : “Is there someone here who’s NOT related to Jesse James ?” 😋
I'm NOT! My folks would leave their enemies hanging by their thumbs in the barn and then go to Church. Jesse would just go to Baptist Church Sunday morning.
I'm related
I'm not
@@MRGIGS34 sure you are
Exactly. Literally EVERYONE claims to be his descendant. It's so lame.
This guy sounds like a great bad guy for Red Dead Redemption.
Afrika Smith I’m related to him 😂
Me too
@@andrew.cash13 are u I seen a guy in the comments who said he was too
AaA yeah I am
@@andrew.cash13 ok il take your word for it
Half the people in the comments: I’m ReLaTeD tO hIm
I am related to him on my moms side though
Weston My point was nobody cares
Dia Beetus okay? Dumbass jerk
No body cares about your shit opinion
Weston At least 4 people do so far, I don’t understand why you’re so upset.
Jesse James is one of my distance relatives. It's nice to be able to learn more about him.
He was a sick monster
same here- either you're lying or you're related to me down some line
He must be the inspiration behind Team Rocket.
Sounds legit to me
He may not have been Robin Hood, but that doesn't make the hardships he faced any less sympathetic.
I have no sympathy. He was a heartless killer.
¿why such cheerful, modern music for this film?
I live where his stomping grounds were.
I once had a look at a picture of Jesse on a mule.
The picture was taken in front of a late friends house.
To leave Clay county was only about ten miles .
The picture of Jesse was from the late 1890s
How true was the picture. My friends grand father was a minister. My late friends ( his grandfathers) house is still there.
drmachinewerke1 he never died from a gunshot wound, got a creditable dude whose 3rd great cousin was Jesse so they have insider info about it
I know a guy with a picture of Jesse on his porch in holt mo
Jesse died in 1882, so it couldn’t have been from the late 1890s
@@ashmyblunthe's insinuating that Jesse faked his death in 1882.
@@jiveassturkey8849 I know, it’s just not true. There’s a photograph taken of Jesse after he was shot dead by Robert Ford, he was shot in the back of the head in 1882
I enjoyed the movie with Pitt. I really liked the part where the narrator was saying Ford imagined visiting the victims families who’d been killed by James. I honestly think he should have.
Why?
You do realize that's an ego thing because he killed his idol n he wanted to free himself from his own guilt.
Now I finally understand America's obsession with this guy he was one bad ass.
Not really
Honestly, I love the documentary BUT I can't stand the background music. WHY background music? WHAT possible function does it serve except to distract, annoy, and grate on the nerves? AND, for people who suffer form tinnitus or hearing loss it makes it so hard to hear the words.
It's the shot in the back that's the bone of contention, historically.
Went to the Jessie James bank measure after court on liberty square. Pretty impressed. Crazy that I live around all this history
Crazy,no.Lucky,yes.I would so love to visit Lees Summit.
Psalms 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
Jesse or his family never had to leave Clay County or Kearney even after his “atrocities”. Later after marrying Zerelda he moved. I live about a mile from his Kearney home.
he married before Zerelda
sandii kieffer I’m actually related to him
I never heard that he married before Zelda. I’ll have to check that out. I live in Kearney-his home town-my house not being a mile from his family farm. So everything is Jesse James around here. I met a man that actually met Frank James a couple times as a child. That blew my mind -thinking it was not actually that long ago in history.
Andrew are you a descendent of his son? Or sons? I think I read one moved to California. Idk. Many around here try to claim they are related but they aren’t. Sadly I think my ex husband is a distant relative of Bob Ford! Jesse’s killer. They aren’t proud of that.
sandii kieffer no his mother was one of my great grandmas sisters or something like that I don’t know the exact details
The Robin Hood question always makes me chuckle, he was as far from that as you can get. He robbed, stole and murdered his entire adult life, likely turned insane by the actions of the union soldiers when he was a young man.
He systematically went through his entire friendship circle and shot them.
He reputedly told Ford, after you shoot me in the back, I want Tyrone Power to portray me in a 20th Century Fox movie. Throw in Henry Fonda for good measure.
I'm from southwest Missouri. The border war region known as the "burnt district" per Ewings "general order #11".
Frank James actually sold shoes in my home town in the 1880s-1890s, after the "James gang" was finished.
Somewhere around 400 "Bushwackers" held control over most of the southern half of Missouri throughout the war, despite some 50,000 U.S. troops dedicated to run them out. Jesse James grew up during that. He had immunity from the law because the people here seen his bank and train robbing as a continuation of the war. Robbing and killing federals, northern business owners, pinkertons, and their hired guns only earned the loyalty of the local population. Mostly because it was something they took great pleasure in doing themselves when the opportunity arose.
Brad Pitt played Jesse James pretty good
This is only 3-4 generations ago. His grandchildren died in the early 90s. That's insane.......
And I'm one of his descendants-
Wow! His Mother was a REAL looker!
Hahahahahahaha
Mick G.
Wtf Which one was his mother?
Have respect
In those old photos people allways have scary eyes
He looked like a creep and just eewwww. You sometimes can tell a lot about a person when looking at an picture of them.
I think he had the thousand yard stare😵
It's only because of the photography in those days.
@@Trajan2401 maybe😕
can imagine the chaos if billy the kid was in the James gang?? A pitty those guys never crossed paths.
Legend has it that they did.
Wow, If that is his real story...
someone should make a movie!
lol, yes, because th'Paxsters by John E. WordSlinger
Trouble is Hellieweird can never keep to the script.I loved the Young Guns movies,but accurate they were not.Emilio was born to play Billy,I swear!
"That dirty little coward
That shot Mr. Howard
And laid poor Jesse in his grave"
I live in the town of the bank he was finally stopped at, we hold a “Jesse James day” every year where actors play the cops and actors play James gang and a shootout occurs. It’s honestly a amazing experience
I know,so wish I could see it.
Long live Jesse James
We need him now.
@@goldenvrpca7962 we don’t need any more murderers in this world.
Jesse James home is in now in St. Joseph MO behind the Patee House Museum
Hell! Back then he was more popular than Elvis! (at least in the South)
I live in Clay County, Missouri, and only a few miles from Kearney, MO, Jesse's hometown. One of my distant cousins, Ballentine Munkirs, was friends with Frank and Jesse in the 1870s. Ballentine's family farm was only a half mile away from the James farm and Ballentine was a Bushwhacker during the Civil War. When Jesse and Frank robbed the Clay County Savings Bank in Liberty, MO (their first robbery), the sheriff arrested Ballentine. He thought Ballentine was a part of the gang. He wasn't; he was innocent. After the arrest Ballentine stayed clear of Frank and Jesse.
At the end of the day Jessi James and his gang were nothing but ruthless thieves and murderers. I never knew he shot unarmed men, namely bank clerks, before until l saw this. But, like most outlaws history tends to portray them as some kind of romantic heroes of the people through books and films, rather than the cruel, heartless people they really were
If I had lived in those days I probably would have been a cruel and heartless person also.
The music absolutely drives me crazy I didn’t get past two minutes
I live in the town Jesse James was shot in and it's still a tourist trap lol. It is interesting to view the home and the bullet hole where he was killed. The home is super tiny though. Maybe four rooms. Room size around 12ft X 12ft at most. Ford had to be close when he pulled the trigger.
Total BULLSHIT! that was his renters that lived in st.joe Missouri dumbass!
Yes it is.I want to know why the house was moved though.
@@ringokidd387 renters?
@@susanmccormick6022 yes ma'am! For Sure my family was there
*There's far more to the story* of the James Brothers, their family, and families of the era, and particularly in the area of Missouri, Kansas, Northern Arkansas, Western Kentucky, and Nebraska. It also was affecting all of the Industrial States and West to California.
This story had the true individuals that were at the core of most all 8f the tragic history around the Civil War, and the post war ramp up of the aggressions against the Native Peoples.
The initiator of these conflicts were 3 divisions of extreme wealth:
1) *The elite Owners of the Business and Industries that were point focused on the known wealth potentials in natural resources, Metals/Minerals, the Railroad Industry, and the expansion West.*
2) The *Southern extreme elite,* and their ownership of the enslaved free labor, this peaking at an average of 1200 - 1400, owners 9f Cotton, Tobacco, and Sugar Plantations, "the 1% elite Plantations of the South then being the wealthiest people in the world.
3) *Their elite counterparts, the International Bankers and Financiers of Britain whom desired the control and profits of the USA Banking, Stock Market, and Financing of Loans, in a fast paced growing nation. These were and remain the Family that financed all wars in/for the Western Hemisphere since the time of Napoleon and Wellington, the same that later were awarded the ownership of the "Federal Reserve Bank Corporation")*
These efforts were obvious to those whom were in the path of their expansion: the Native Peoples; the landowners affected by forced sales and/or removal from their homes/land; the smaller businesses that got consumed by the Elite Industrialists and their Monopolies; those whom watched the growth of profits by the Plantation Owners, and those Americans whom were "Educated, Alert, Business Minded".
... and 8n the same manner as today, the News Medias we're largely privately owned and used for the agendas of the elite, to invite the naive Public towards preoccupied chaos, while they carried out their own aggressive acts for profits, for feeding the Ego Mind's Greed.
The James Brothers, Dalton's, and others got caught up in these elite aggressions, and while many of the local folks understood the scenarios, the mass Public believed the drama stories of a more criminal outlaw produced story.
Likely they were w/o choice but to become outlaws, once they began to retaliate, but the Public deserves to finally get the greater clarity on the era and subject.
Beth Bartlett
Sociologist/Behavioralist
Historian
PS:
*"History"* vs Based on Historical Events.
There's no go-to Written History Book, that I'm aware of, to read the more accurate facts. Makes one wonder, Why?
But with vast research and studies, this is the greater Facts I have discovered and observed through the Records.
At last an intelligent person makes comment!
Thank you Beth.
Just remember DNA is an inherited trait. My people were REB's. You can guess what part of the DNA I received While others in my line are liberal democrats I lean toward that big fat red headed blow hard up state New York Yankee Trump. Maybe he's a rebel? I don't know?
Facts
its poetic justice that this fiend who was known for shooting his victims in the back was himself killed in the same fashion by someone he knew !!!!!
I think it was a form of suicide. He gave that gun to his killer.
He was killed dy a week man
I always think this about Jesse James; I bet he knew the best fishing spots, and the croppies and bulegills at that time were HUGE
It's a shame humans will overfish and not think of the fish of tomorrow
@@urbanwarchief what a gay comment
This reminds me of an episode of The Brady Bunch where Bobby was idolizing Jesse James. His parents let him stay up and watch a movie on television about the outlaw thinking it will set him straight. Only to find out all the violence was cut out of it.
Bobby - "Boy, it's nice he's willing to give that woman a ride home." (The previous scene would have shown James killing the woman's husband.)
Bobby gets a reality check when a man tells Bobby that his father was killed by James... ruclips.net/video/aw55xIGi7-k/видео.html
magusxxx yes!! my favorite episode!! so proud of the show when they aired it!!!
I had not thought of that for years and years, yet when I read your comment, I remembered it vividly! The consternation when the show cut out the very parts his parents thought would change his mind was pretty funny (I was never a big Brady Bunch fan, but, like all 60s kids, if it was on tv, I watched it..). That episode was my favorite!
I , idolized Marcia 😍
@@jamescoombs2569
I idealized Marsha!! I had a girl crush on her, I wanted to be her, blue eyes blond hair, cute cute cute...
I ended up a goth girl, that was my look...thank god I moved to LA in the late 80s...I was finally cool...I look back and cringe, but cringe with pride!😅😅
Watch the movie ( alpha dog.) It's about the second most famous Jessie James Hollywood. I went to school with him in junior high. Messed up story but they only tell half if that in the movie... Thanks for the video... I never new this story.
My grandma did a ancestry thing online and it turns out I’m related to this guy 😂
Me to 😂😂my cuzin did one to & i got the family tree
Lots of people on here making that same claim! Where were all these family members when he had to rob and steal to put food on the table? 😂
Yawn. I've literally seen this comment 50 times. It's so cringey.
@@Chell330 me too!! He was my cousins uncle's brothers old neighbors grandfather's step father in law. What a coincidence!!
Jesse James is my great grandfather, I'm the outlaw chairman. I'm from braxton county West Virginia. My grandmother is Colombian. Jimmy Skidmore and his brothers Mark Skidmore, Timmy Skidmore, Richard Skidmore and they're sister Connie Skidmore are all from West Virginia and grand children of Jesse James.
Any fan of Louis L'Amour Westerns knows he was a villain. L'Amour did extensive research, including his vast collection of contemporary diaries. James's nickname was "Dingus," which had a bad connotation, even among outlaws.
Loved that film about Jesse & Robert
But the lumbee gang ran by Henry Barry Lowry was more badass made up of Indians and some African Americans, they were more wanted than Jesse James gang and had a bigger bounty on their heads , they mostly stuck to the swamp lands to pick off their enemies and to escape , that's who u need to do your next video on.
I agree! I have heard a little about this gang, I believe, and it was very obscure and wild. I'd love to see that next! Thanks for the suggestion, it's a good one!
@@christineparis5607 oh yeah it's a great story and one that needs to be explored more and your welcome kinda getting tired of hearing about Jesse James and Billy the kid , don't get me wrong their story is cool and all but the lumbee gang I'm more interested in and they had a bigger bounty on their heads than the James gang and just want to know more about them .
@@kristinanichols7816
I've heard the same jesse james stories too, and I also want to know more about the obscure or little known!
One of the best I've seen. Thank you for your accuracy. Bob and Charlie are my second uncles. Hollywood never seems to get it right. Look up follow your past a lion TV of New York special that aired on the Travel Channel. For more on the James and Fords.
They must have had a huge family, or every one in Missouri is related. I've met hundreds of people who claim to be related to either Jesse James or members of his gang... who were mostly cousins of his.
Everyone needs to know he did much more then just this, just didn’t get caught so no one lnew
There are several tourist traps in Missouri based on Jesse James, including a very good cave.
The genuine cave is on my families property in southern MO and no one is allowed to go there except family .
@@QuantumPyrite_88.9 i was talking about Meramec Caverns. There isnt a "genuine cave" as the James gang didnt use one.
@@SMDoktorPepper yes they did
@@danielblackburn1241 nope. It was a legend created by the guy who opened the cave for tourists. The story doesnt even make sense, considering how far those chests would need to be hauled UNDER WATER to get to the so called "Loot Rock". They had to dynamite a LOT of rock just to open up that part of the cave.
@@SMDoktorPepper So the photograph I have of Dingus and some of his buddies standing in front of the cave is wrong?
Can you imagine the team they would have made if Billy the kid accepted Jesses offer?
When was Billy mentioned? I think I missed it
Billy The Kid and Jessie James were close friends till they died well into their 90’s
@@greybeast8089 Damn I didn’t know that
@@johnp.smithasimpleman7281 Because not really true though they did meet.
@@greybeast8089 Jesse James never faked his death, I beilive Brushy bill was The kid, but he died at the age of 71. Not in his 90s, That guy in the 1950s wasn’t Jesse James, there are multiple pictures of his courpse
Teenage boys are impressionable..
Looks like the union army created monster
Tee Culture why ? For being born with a Baptist reverend for a father? For being confederate sympathizers? For not having a father figure growing up? For being tortured by union soldiers? I’d be a monster too
kayakchrispy Finally someone who gets it. I still agree he was a evil man after the war. But if soldiers tortured my family i would turn evil too!
Jesse was never killed. He survived to the present where he married Sandra Bullock and became extremely wealthy by making cheap motorcycles.
Too funny.
No
Smh no
Poor Sandra! In Hollywood, "bad boys" are always supposed to be wonderful at heart, and changed by the love of a good woman...
I think she thought that, and didn't realize he was really a sleaze to the bone...
Yeah........ I'm gonna be looking for that Rob Lowe movie!
It's called: Frank And Jesse.
Love the apologies for James crimes.
PTSD excuses his murders? LMAO!
Just found out I’m related to Jesse James. I’m trying to learn about more now
Just found out today that he is my great great uncle so decided to come learn abt him
He is my great great grandfather
He’s my cousin on my dads side.
Ayo we're realted
Tragic? Oh poor guy. His name will live on for centuries. Real tragic.
Who did the music, maybe someone wants to have a word, otherwise brilliant 🙋♀️👍
Life was cheap and often short in those lawless days. It must have been terrible living in those times.
@Lily Rose That goes without saying. There is and never has been an excuse for slavery.
@@gustaaf1892 Began in the yr dot & will probably continue till time runs out for humans & Gaii erases her parasites.
When you are related to him and watching this for a school Project.
Wait I’m related too!!
Ay I'm realted to him to,so ig we technically family lol
Drop the background music.
He didn't have a long life. I suppose he lived long enough to learn you don't mortally wound a man before ordering him to open a safe...
Yeah, talk about having no impulse control....
This is so cool! I’ve been getting more into my family history and I learned that he was my great great great uncle connected on my dads side
Are you sure? That would mean we’re related.
@@TDKn1ght wow we might
Ew
@@The_Prosecut0r bye ugly
Jesse james is my distant cousin
mskill_yt hes my dad
I dunno what he is but wanna figure it out soo. as possible..lol
He’s my son
mskill_yt he’s my distant cousin to
He’s my daughter
How would I find the picture James sent to the newspaper that was redacted?
Bro you can’t all be related to Jesse James
Biologically speaking, we are, technically, all related as we come from the same species. So you and I are related to Jesse James too 😄
@@Wasriel I mean technically all people alive today are distantly related-
Found out I'm related to jesse james so I thought I would learn more about him
Same tho-
@@agayclownnamedjack And me too.
Tragic is rolling a joint out of used joint papers
Bro I’ve been smoking tree a long time;
never have I ever done that.
@@benjaminlandshut7015 some just ain't that lucky:(
I thought I heard in this video that the Fords had fought for the South in the Civil War. I understand that Bob was 20 in 1882, so that cannot be so.
James was not only a murderer, but a rebel traitor. The people who mythologized him are the same people who promote the Lost Cause.
PATRIOT
Can you blame him after what those Union soldiers did to his family?
@@Trajan2401 Did James' victims become murderers? What about his slaves?
Hank Jr wrote a song outlaw from the south. Hank said frank and Jesse James took from the rich and gave it to the poor..... FACTS
The James boys are my cousins and I don't lie..ever!
How are you related? I am a Cole thru my Grandmother. Her father was born in 1874. When Jesse was murdered by Bob Ford, my Great Grandpa Cole went w/ his father to pick Jesse’s body to prepare for burial. I still have Cole’s & some Golden’s in Missouri. Btw - Great Grandpa Cole was first cousins w/ Jesse, Frank & Sarah. The Younger brothers are also cousins of mine. I named my son Cole after my Grandmothers family.
I had a wanted poster for him a few years back but i lost it
Who knows what he was? History is written and rewritten constantly by people who were not there. Just like your video, you were not there, yet we are to believe you this far into the future? No, I’m more inclined to believe the exact opposite, simply because you said it.
You could use this argument about anything in history. This really wasn’t that long ago.
@@uncle.7yearsago734 there’s an abundance of sources and oral histories passed down that say he was not simply a villain in a black hat fighting good guys in white hats. History is written by the victor in the immediate aftermath of conflict and then years and years later is rewritten again by often just the loudest group. It’s sickening.
That's what they said Billy the kid did before shooting he yelled hello bob
Yes , there was more than one guy named Robert around late 1800,s
If I had a nickel for every fool on here claiming that they're related to Jesse James, I'd be rich. I guess technically, I'm related to Jesse too because if you go all the way back in history to the first humans we all descend from them. So actually I'm related to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, the Queen of England, Obama, Bush...well hell I'm related to every human on the planet and so are you.
Adam & Eve were not Gentiles they were Jewish
Correction. Everybody KNEW about Jesse James BEFORE the movies came to life.
0:29 what's up with that dudes face
He sad
I’m related to this man
The thumbnail is a picture of a woman.
Too many ads.
I- I’m related to Jesse James. It’s a great conversation starter 💀😭
Really? How?
Jesse James is kind of like Jesus. Everyone is related to him . Hmu.cousins make dozens
No you aren’t
@@austinmiller9059 well i am, my dad loves bragging about it, I think it's stupid tbh
Bullshit
Jesse James was a great man. He was an Aryan hero. Be like Jesse James!
I’ll make sure to murder a few people and rob some trains thanks for the tips 👍
Picture in thumbnail looks like the son of david bowie and kevin bacon
The son or the daughter ? 😉
And to think, the english voice over for Pokemon named it's two main villains after this guy.
We know you’re here from Pokémon don’t even lie
This was in Pokémon? Which series?
@@ender1853 The Team Rocket grunts that have been stalking the protagonist for over 20 years are named Jessie and James as a nod to this man.
Vile Weasel I’m so stupid how did I not realize that lol
Are there any movie stars not in this movie? RIP Carradine and Paxton and any others I missed.
Jessie was a notorious bad ass. RIP JESSIE JAMES!
@stagga lee I bet Jessie James could gun down dozens of crips in bloods in just a matter of seconds!
@stagga lee He was a outlaw, that's how he made a living. Look at Freeway Ricky Ross and El Chapo, They were notorious drug lords who were millionaires. Respect to them to. Freeway Ricky Ross is now a entrepreneur who reformed his life whilst he was incarcerated.
Bloods & Crips have bigger guns than Jessie did.
When’s John marston and Arthur Morgan going to be mentioned?
His mom was a handsome woman!
Charlie and Bob Ford were too young to have been fellow guerrillas during the Civil War days. 7:53