1 00:01:11,900 --> 00:01:13,699 He was growing into middle age... 2 00:01:13,700 --> 00:01:18,200 and was living then in a bungalow on Woodland Avenue. 3 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:21,499 He installed himself in a rocking chair... 4 00:01:21,500 --> 00:01:23,799 and smoked a cigar down in the evenings... 5 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,899 as his wife wiped her pink hands on an apron... 6 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:30,900 and reported happily on their two children. 7 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:37,899 His children knew his legs... 8 00:01:37,900 --> 00:01:41,899 the sting of his mustache against their cheeks. 9 00:01:41,900 --> 00:01:47,799 They didn't know how their father made his living or why they so often moved. 10 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:51,600 They didn't even know their father's name. 11 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,099 He was listed in the city directory as Thomas Howard. 12 00:01:57,100 --> 00:01:59,699 And he went everywhere unrecognized... 13 00:01:59,700 --> 00:02:03,299 and lunched with Kansas City shopkeepers and merchants... 14 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:07,100 calling himself a cattleman or a commodities investor... 15 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,600 someone rich and leisured who had the common touch. 16 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:17,399 He had two incompletely healed bullet holes in his chest... 17 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:19,199 and another in his thigh. 18 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:21,899 He was missing the nub of his left middle finger... 19 00:02:21,900 --> 00:02:26,000 and was cautious, lest that mutilation be seen. 20 00:02:26,900 --> 00:02:30,799 He also had a condition that was referred to as "granulated eyelids"... 21 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,599 and it caused him to blink more than usual... 22 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:39,600 as if he found creation slightly more than he could accept. 23 00:02:40,300 --> 00:02:43,399 Rooms seemed hotter when he was in them. 24 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:45,699 Rains fell straighter. 25 00:02:45,700 --> 00:02:47,699 Clocks slowed. 26 00:02:47,700 --> 00:02:50,900 Sounds were amplified. 27 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:53,999 He considered himself a Southern loyalist and guerrilla... 28 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,199 in a Civil War that never ended. 29 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:03,400 He regretted neither his robberies, nor the 17 murders that he laid claim to. 30 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:13,499 He had seen another summer under in Kansas City, Missouri... 31 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:18,700 and on September 5th in the year 1881... 32 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:22,500 he was 34 years old. 33 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:32,399 You just... You just slide them things right in there, right in your sleeve... 34 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:35,599 and then, when you get ready, you just shake it out. 35 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,900 Like that, right there. You shake it out. 36 00:03:41,900 --> 00:03:45,699 Mary Todd Lincoln, tyrant's wife, fall into hysterics when the moon was full. 37 00:03:45,700 --> 00:03:48,399 President's men would tie her up with hay-baling wire... 38 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,799 keep her from ripping her husband's ears off. 39 00:03:50,800 --> 00:03:55,499 You never heard word one about the wife of the Confederacy's Jefferson Davis, did you? 40 00:03:55,500 --> 00:03:57,499 - I didn't. - No, you didn't. 41 00:03:57,500 --> 00:04:00,800 He did his duty by her. 42 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:04,899 - Oh, my God, I'm speaking to children. - No, I get it, I get it, I get it. 43 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:09,399 The president of the Confederacy discerned his wife's needs and satisfied them... 44 00:04:09,400 --> 00:04:14,800 with the utmost skill and the utmost courtesy. 45 00:04:15,800 --> 00:04:19,899 - Charley, you spit all over my boot. - Sorry. Sorry, sorry, Jesse. 46 00:04:19,900 --> 00:04:23,200 - Here, get it off. - I'll wipe it... I'll wipe it off. 47 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:27,099 But Abraham Lincoln probably sent his wife on a shopping expedition. 48 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:31,700 - A three-act play. - With money stole from us. 49 00:04:31,900 --> 00:04:34,700 Chow! 50 00:04:36,600 --> 00:04:39,799 I think insanity run on both sides of that Lincoln family. 51 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:41,899 You're right about that. 52 00:04:41,900 --> 00:04:45,400 The river... You jump in the river. 53 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,299 - Chow! - Don't be shy now, Dick. 54 00:04:50,300 --> 00:04:52,799 - One more piece of meat. - When you diddle a lot... 55 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:56,200 There's a good piece of bacon fat in there for him. 56 00:05:30,700 --> 00:05:32,799 Excuse me. 57 00:05:32,800 --> 00:05:37,300 I see I've traipsed right on in and interrupted you. 58 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:41,099 Who are you, then? 59 00:05:41,100 --> 00:05:43,900 Bob Ford. 60 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,500 Charley's brother? 61 00:05:47,100 --> 00:05:49,400 Yeah. 62 00:06:02,600 --> 00:06:05,999 I was lying when I said I just happened down here. 63 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,200 I've been looking for you. I feel lousy I didn't say so at the outset. 64 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:14,599 Folks take me for a nincompoop... 65 00:06:14,600 --> 00:06:18,499 on account of the shabby first impression I make, whereas I think of myself... 66 00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:21,799 as being just a rung down from the James brothers. 67 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:24,999 I was hoping if I ran into you aside from those peckerwoods... 68 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:29,900 I could show you how special I am. 69 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:44,599 I honestly believe I'm destined for great things, Mr. James. 70 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:49,900 I got qualities that don't come shining through right at the outset. 71 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:55,700 You give me a chance, I'll get the job done. I guarantee you that. 72 00:07:00,100 --> 00:07:03,200 Hey, Dick, is it true you diddled a squaw? 73 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:09,399 Come on, you can tell me. I've always wanted to lay down with a redskin. 74 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:11,700 Well, Charley... 75 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:15,899 there's a feeling that comes over you... 76 00:07:15,900 --> 00:07:19,699 getting inside a woman whose hands has scalped a congregation. 77 00:07:19,700 --> 00:07:22,699 There's this thunderous sound that comes from their cooch... 78 00:07:22,700 --> 00:07:26,099 on account of the fact that they birth a child standing upright... 79 00:07:26,100 --> 00:07:29,299 like a wild animal. - What's it sound like? 80 00:07:29,300 --> 00:07:34,199 Whatever a thunderous cooch sounds like there, Charley. I don't know. 81 00:07:34,200 --> 00:07:35,799 No. 82 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:38,299 They got a noisy quim on account of the fact that... 83 00:07:38,300 --> 00:07:44,100 they use their cunnis as a saddlebag to carry sundries across the plains. 84 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,499 Come on, what'd it really feel like? Did it feel good? 85 00:07:47,500 --> 00:07:49,999 Come on, fess up, now. 86 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:52,800 I like you, Charley. 87 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:55,999 I like you too, Charley. 88 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,900 Well... 89 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:01,900 You're not so special, Mr. Ford. 90 00:08:02,000 --> 00:08:06,099 You're just like any other tyro who's prinked himself up for an escapade. 91 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:10,800 Hoping to be a gunslinger like them nickel books are about. 92 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:14,700 You may as well quench your mind of it... 93 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:19,000 because you don't have the ingredients, son. 94 00:08:33,300 --> 00:08:35,799 Well, I'm sorry to hear you feel that way... 95 00:08:35,800 --> 00:08:39,900 as I put such stock in your opinions. 96 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:48,399 As for me being a gunslinger, I've just got this one granddaddy Paterson Colt... 97 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:51,099 and a borrowed belt to stick it in. 98 00:08:51,100 --> 00:08:55,300 But I also got an appetite for greater things. 99 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:02,600 I hoped by joining up with you, it'd put me that much closer to getting them. 100 00:09:05,100 --> 00:09:08,100 Well, what am I supposed to say to that? 101 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:11,499 Let me be your sidekick tonight. 102 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:12,799 Sidekick? 103 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,099 So you can examine my grit and intelligence. 104 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:16,999 I don't know what it is about you... 105 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:20,499 but the more you talk, the more you give me the willies. 106 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:24,299 Now, I don't believe I want you anywhere within earshot this evening, okay? 107 00:09:24,300 --> 00:09:26,700 You understand? 108 00:09:29,900 --> 00:09:34,200 - Well, I'm sorry... - Why don't you just get now? Scat. 109 00:09:39,500 --> 00:09:41,500 All right. 110 00:09:43,300 --> 00:09:47,099 I was with a girl once, wasn't a squaw. 111 00:09:47,100 --> 00:09:49,299 But she was pretty. 112 00:09:49,300 --> 00:09:54,600 She had yellow hair like a... 113 00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:57,499 Oh, like something. 114 00:09:57,500 --> 00:10:00,499 Like hair bobbed from a ray of sunlight? 115 00:10:00,500 --> 00:10:04,099 Yeah. Yeah, like that. 116 00:10:04,100 --> 00:10:06,999 Boy, you... You talk good. 117 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:10,600 You can hide things in vocabulary. 118 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:16,399 Maybe you and me could write her a note, send it by post? 119 00:10:16,400 --> 00:10:18,199 See, all you gotta do, Ed... 120 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:22,400 is predict her needs and beat her to the punch. 121 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:28,099 Well, this girl, she has a real specific job. 122 00:10:28,100 --> 00:10:30,799 - Specific? - We was only together once. 123 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:32,699 She... 124 00:10:32,700 --> 00:10:37,399 She was afraid of lightning, and she came up under the wagon and... 125 00:10:37,400 --> 00:10:40,499 just cuddled right up to me. 126 00:10:40,500 --> 00:10:43,400 She give me a kind price too. 127 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:49,500 Well, I'll be. That is specific. 128 00:10:51,300 --> 00:10:53,799 Yeah, sure, she'd been with other people... 129 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,999 but the kind of things she said to me... 130 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:00,000 people just don't say unless they really mean it. 131 00:11:00,100 --> 00:11:03,199 My love said she would marry only me 132 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,399 And Jove himself could not make her care. 133 00:11:06,400 --> 00:11:09,199 For what women say to lovers, you'll agree 134 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:14,200 One writes on running water or on air. 135 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:19,300 My God, that's good. Let's write her that. 136 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:21,299 No. 137 00:11:21,300 --> 00:11:24,600 Poetry don't work on whores. 138 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:29,800 How do you do? 139 00:11:31,300 --> 00:11:34,300 Am I too late to wish you a happy birthday? 140 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:37,799 How'd you know? 141 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:40,199 You'd be surprised at what I got stored away. 142 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,999 I'm an authority on the James boys. 143 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:45,400 Is you? 144 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:50,899 Well... Well, your brother Frank and I, we just had a real nice visit. 145 00:11:50,900 --> 00:11:55,399 Just chit-chatting about this and that, right over there. 146 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,499 And must've been a hundred subjects entertained... 147 00:11:58,500 --> 00:12:01,800 Good Lord, you know what this stew needs? 148 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,399 Dumplings? 149 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:09,499 Noodles. 150 00:12:09,500 --> 00:12:12,999 You eat yourself some noodle stew and your clock'll tick all night. 151 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:17,800 You ever see that woman up in Fayette? Suck noodles up her nose. 152 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:20,599 - In Fayette? - I don't believe I have. 153 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,799 You never heard of her, huh? 154 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:27,400 You got canals up there you never dreamed of. 155 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:32,499 I don't like to harp on a subject... 156 00:12:32,500 --> 00:12:35,299 I don't care who comes with me. Never have. 157 00:12:35,300 --> 00:12:38,800 That's why they call me gregarious. 158 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:42,999 I hear you and young Stovepipe here had a real nice visit. 159 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:47,399 Your boys have got about a acre of lumber to haul, dingus. 160 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:50,600 You better goose them down yonder. 161 00:12:59,900 --> 00:13:04,299 The James Gang committed over 25 bank, train and stagecoach robberies... 162 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:08,699 from 1867 to 1881. 163 00:13:08,700 --> 00:13:10,899 But except for Frank and Jesse James... 164 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:15,399 all the original members were now either dead or in prison. 165 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:20,899 - mine eye All my soul and all my every part 166 00:13:20,900 --> 00:13:24,399 And for this sin, there is no remedy 167 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,399 It is so grounded inward in my heart. 168 00:13:27,400 --> 00:13:29,799 So for their last robbery at Blue Cut... 169 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:33,599 the brothers recruited a gang of petty thieves and country rubes... 170 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:37,200 culled from the local hillsides. 171 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:55,200 Right on schedule, Buck! 172 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,199 Snuff those lanterns! 173 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:03,199 Look at those fools. They're gonna trip and shoot each other into females. 174 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,200 I bet you I could find them husbands if they do. 175 00:16:51,900 --> 00:16:53,800 Fan out! 176 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,300 Hold your fire! 177 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,500 - Watch him! - Going down. 178 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:19,200 Hold your fire, you idiots! 179 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:22,500 Hold your fire! 180 00:17:31,700 --> 00:17:34,099 Let me in. 181 00:17:34,100 --> 00:17:36,199 Buck! Boys! 182 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,099 Buck, this way! 183 00:17:39,100 --> 00:17:42,400 Do you think that lock will hold? 184 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:45,099 No, I don't. 185 00:17:45,100 --> 00:17:48,100 Let's go, let's go. 186 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:03,700 Let's not get clever, nor courageous, any of you. 187 00:18:15,200 --> 00:18:19,300 Hey there, boys! These are all for me? 188 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:24,600 Looks like Christmas morning in here. 189 00:18:25,500 --> 00:18:28,000 Hey, friend. 190 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:30,999 You mind if I have a peek around? 191 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:34,100 This shit. Nope. 192 00:18:35,000 --> 00:18:37,200 Nope. 193 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:40,199 You got anything good here? 194 00:18:40,200 --> 00:18:42,600 It could be. 195 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,300 Open that safe. 196 00:19:03,700 --> 00:19:06,200 Do it! 197 00:19:08,800 --> 00:19:11,999 - You didn't have to bop him. - Yeah, he did. They needed convincing. 198 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,699 They got their company rules, I got my mean streak... 199 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:18,000 and that's how we get things done around here. 200 00:19:18,300 --> 00:19:22,900 - Get on over here and attend to this thing. - Come on, go. 201 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:29,399 Hold your fire, you idiots! 202 00:19:29,400 --> 00:19:32,100 Dig deeper. 203 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:36,299 - Come on! - Give me your money. 204 00:19:36,300 --> 00:19:39,399 - And you, stand up. - Let's see your hands. 205 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:42,000 What have you got? 206 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,500 Speak English. 207 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:50,300 Money. Money. You understand that? 208 00:19:50,900 --> 00:19:53,300 Give me your money! 209 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:04,700 There's some receipts. 210 00:20:05,500 --> 00:20:08,300 I got fives. 211 00:20:08,400 --> 00:20:12,300 Jesse. Jesse. 212 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,600 Don't look good. 213 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,200 There ain't no 100,000 dollars in here, Dick. 214 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,600 Get down on your knees. 215 00:20:36,900 --> 00:20:38,599 Why? 216 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:41,100 Well, you ought to pray. 217 00:20:41,500 --> 00:20:43,500 I'm gonna kill you. 218 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:51,900 Get at! 219 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:56,500 You're gonna have to make me. 220 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:01,500 All right. 221 00:21:26,100 --> 00:21:31,100 Don't shoot him! No, don't shoot him. 222 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:46,100 Don't tell me what I can and cannot do, Ed. 223 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,900 Round them up! 224 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:17,999 Chicago newspaper publishers made a great deal of the Blue Cut train robbery... 225 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,199 alleging that in no state but Missouri... 226 00:22:20,200 --> 00:22:24,299 would the James brothers be tolerated for 12 years. 227 00:22:24,300 --> 00:22:26,600 Hey. 228 00:22:27,100 --> 00:22:30,400 Can you keep a secret? 229 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,100 It depends on what you're concealing. 230 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:37,599 You afraid of the dark? 231 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:39,599 No. 232 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,600 You superstitious? 233 00:22:44,100 --> 00:22:50,000 I put... I put an acorn in the window to keep the lightning out. 234 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:43,199 Kid, you must've crept up on cat's paws. 235 00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:47,600 I'll wager that's the first and last time you'll ever be caught off-guard. 236 00:23:49,900 --> 00:23:51,900 How old are you? 237 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,700 Twenty. 238 00:23:56,500 --> 00:24:00,699 Except, well, I guess I won't really be 20 till... 239 00:24:00,700 --> 00:24:03,699 Till January, so... 240 00:24:03,700 --> 00:24:06,500 I'm 19. 241 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:12,000 Yeah, you feel older than that, though, don't you? 242 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:18,600 Yeah, I do. 243 00:24:30,700 --> 00:24:35,900 Hey, Frank, you... You think the sheriff's out already? 244 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,700 - More than likely. - Yeah. 245 00:24:42,700 --> 00:24:44,699 I had a real fine time tonight. 246 00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:48,099 - You think so? - Yup. Yeah. 247 00:24:48,100 --> 00:24:51,599 Hey, I wasn't just flapping my lips about my kid brother and me. 248 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:56,399 What I figured was if you and Jesse could gauge our courage and our daring... 249 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:58,799 you might just make us your regular sidekicks. 250 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,900 Your courage and your daring. 251 00:25:02,300 --> 00:25:07,499 I about heard all I want to about sidekicks. You sound like your damn brother. 252 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:12,599 Yeah. Well, I'll be square with you, it's Bob who put me up to it. He's... 253 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,099 He's got plans for the James boys I can't even get the hang of. 254 00:25:16,100 --> 00:25:18,800 - They're that complicated. - Yeah? 255 00:25:18,900 --> 00:25:21,799 Well, you can just get shed of that idea. 256 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,999 Because after tonight, there'll be no more shenanigans. 257 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:27,999 You can jot that down in your little diary. 258 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:32,899 September 7th, 1881, the James Gang robbed one last train at Blue Cut... 259 00:25:32,900 --> 00:25:36,300 and gave up their nightriding for good. 260 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:44,500 Wait. 261 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,600 Well, how are you gonna make your living? 262 00:25:52,700 --> 00:25:56,000 Maybe I'll sell shoes. 263 00:26:04,900 --> 00:26:07,099 I can't believe I woke up this morning... 264 00:26:07,100 --> 00:26:10,599 wondering if my daddy would loan me his overcoat... 265 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,599 and here it is just past midnight... 266 00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:16,399 I've already robbed a rail road train and I'm sitting in a rocking chair... 267 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:19,299 chatting with none other than Jesse James. 268 00:26:19,300 --> 00:26:22,900 Yeah, it's a wonderful world. 269 00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,399 What's this? 270 00:26:32,400 --> 00:26:35,000 Oh, yeah. 271 00:26:35,300 --> 00:26:39,499 I was real agitated this morning, so I was wondering if I would know you or Frank... 272 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:45,199 tell you all apart, and so I had this clipping that described you both. 273 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:47,499 Want me to read it? 274 00:26:47,500 --> 00:26:48,799 Go on. 275 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:53,799 Well... I gotta find it. Hold on. 276 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,199 Here. Here. 277 00:26:56,200 --> 00:27:00,599 "Jesse James, the youngest, has a face as smooth and innocent as a schoolgirl. 278 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:05,099 The blue eyes, very clear and penetrating, are never at rest. 279 00:27:05,100 --> 00:27:08,799 His form is tall and graceful and capable of great endurance... 280 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,399 and great effort. 281 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:15,300 Jesse is lighthearted, reckless, and devil-may-care. 282 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,899 - There's always a smile on his lips..." - All right, all right, all right. 283 00:27:18,900 --> 00:27:23,600 Well, yeah, then it just... Frank, Frank, Frank. That's nothing. And then... 284 00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:37,699 You know what I got right next to my bed? 285 00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:42,899 Is The Train Robbers, or, A Story of the James Boys by R.W. Stevens. 286 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:46,299 I mean, many's the night I stayed up... 287 00:27:46,300 --> 00:27:48,599 with my eyes open and my mouth open... 288 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:52,700 just reading about your escapades in the Wide Awake Library. 289 00:27:53,900 --> 00:27:56,500 They're all lies, you know. 290 00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,900 Yeah, of course they are. 291 00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:08,400 You don't have to keep smoking that if it's making you bungey. 292 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:33,899 Alexander Franklin James would be in Baltimore... 293 00:28:33,900 --> 00:28:38,500 when he would read of the assassination of Jesse James. 294 00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:56,500 He had spurned his younger brother for being peculiar and temperamental. 295 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,899 But once he perceived that he would never see Jesse again... 296 00:29:00,900 --> 00:29:06,400 Frank would be wrought-up, perplexed, despondent. 297 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:48,400 My brother and me are hardly on speaking terms these days. 298 00:29:48,900 --> 00:29:52,100 Well, I wasn't gonna mention it. 299 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:03,899 Are you scared? 300 00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:06,199 No, I'm just surprised a little. 301 00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,999 They ain't as succulent as I like, the devil to clean... 302 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,199 but if a man skins them and fries them in garlic and oil... 303 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,199 mercy, them's good eating. 304 00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:19,500 Well, I never been that hungry. 305 00:30:21,300 --> 00:30:24,300 I give them names. 306 00:30:24,900 --> 00:30:27,200 Such as? 307 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,399 Such as enemies. 308 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,100 I give them names of enemies. 309 00:30:47,900 --> 00:30:51,900 Go tell Wood and Charley to get their gatherings together. 310 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,900 All right. 311 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,900 Me too? 312 00:30:59,100 --> 00:31:02,000 You can stay. 313 00:31:04,100 --> 00:31:06,000 All right. 314 00:31:11,700 --> 00:31:13,900 Hey. 315 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,099 - What do you want, peckerwood? - Nothing. 316 00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:20,899 Except to say Jesse wants you two to gather your parts... 317 00:31:20,900 --> 00:31:23,699 get on your horses and get out of town. 318 00:31:23,700 --> 00:31:26,600 And me to stick around. 319 00:31:28,100 --> 00:31:31,399 Well, whoa, I'm his cousin... 320 00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,299 I'll have you know. 321 00:31:33,300 --> 00:31:35,799 My mama's his daddy's sister. 322 00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:38,900 Is that how they described it to you, Wood? 323 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:41,999 You better watch your tongue, young sapling. 324 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:45,499 Why is it me who's gotta rattle his hocks out of town and not you, Bunny? 325 00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:47,399 Put your horns away. If I know Jess... 326 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:51,099 there's some real nasty sad-suzie work's gotta be done... 327 00:31:51,100 --> 00:31:54,099 and Bob's the ninny that has to do it. 328 00:31:54,100 --> 00:31:57,300 Oh, yeah, I'm sure that's it, Charley. 329 00:31:58,100 --> 00:32:03,700 You only met him 12 hours ago. He doesn't even know your name. 330 00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:08,200 Wood! You tell your daddy I'll be in Kentucky in October. 331 00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:11,599 We can hunt some birds together. 332 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,799 All right. 333 00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:18,200 So how come it's Bob who gets to stay? 334 00:32:19,900 --> 00:32:23,800 Bob's gonna move my gear to a house down the street. 335 00:32:23,900 --> 00:32:25,699 See? 336 00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:28,399 - I don't mind. - Yeah, well. 337 00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,400 Sounds like an adventure. 338 00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:38,399 They moved to 1017 Troost Avenue at night... 339 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:43,800 so that the neighborhood couldn't get a good look at them or their belongings. 340 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,399 Then Bob thought Jesse would give him eight hours' sleep... 341 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,700 and a daydreaming goodbye. 342 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,999 But with a second day in the Thomas Howard house... 343 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:58,899 Bob thought he might never go... 344 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:03,600 but might be brought in as a good-natured cousin to the boy... 345 00:33:04,100 --> 00:33:07,800 and a gentleman helper to Zee. 346 00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:11,799 He went everywhere with Jesse. 347 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:14,299 They made trips to the Topeka Exchange Saloon... 348 00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:18,199 where Jesse could spend nearly 60 minutes sipping one glass of beer... 349 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:22,099 and still complain about feeling tipsy. 350 00:33:22,100 --> 00:33:25,299 Bob would rarely vouchsafe his opinions as they talked. 351 00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:29,599 If spoken to, he would fidget and grin. 352 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:33,799 If Jesse palavered with another person, Bob secretaried their dialogue... 353 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,699 getting each inflection, reading every gesture and tic... 354 00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:41,099 as if he wanted to compose a biography of the outlaw... 355 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:45,000 or as if he were preparing an impersonation. 356 00:33:59,900 --> 00:34:02,700 Go away. 357 00:34:04,700 --> 00:34:09,300 Used to be couldn't no one sneak up on Jesse James. 358 00:34:09,700 --> 00:34:13,000 Now you think otherwise? 359 00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:17,300 I ain't never seen you without your guns, neither. 360 00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,899 I can't figure it out. 361 00:34:32,900 --> 00:34:35,499 Do you wanna be like me... 362 00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,900 or do you wanna be me? 363 00:34:42,900 --> 00:34:46,000 I'm just making fun, is all. 364 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:51,199 Bob was sent away cordially the next day... 365 00:34:51,200 --> 00:34:52,899 with a goodbye from Jesse... 366 00:34:52,900 --> 00:34:57,700 but nothing from Zee beyond what good manners demanded. 367 00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:04,100 It was 40 miles to his sister's farm from Kansas City. 368 00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:09,700 And it was well into the afternoon by the time he arrived there. 369 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,999 Mrs. Martha Bolton rented the Harbison farm in 1879... 370 00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:17,099 just after becoming a widow. 371 00:35:17,100 --> 00:35:19,999 And she made a good income by giving rooms and meals... 372 00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:25,299 to her brothers Charley, Wilbur and Bob, and to members of the James Gang... 373 00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:27,999 who would appear whenever they needed seclusion. 374 00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:29,899 Dick! You're gonna make her sick! 375 00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:33,399 She's gonna upchuck if you don't watch out! 376 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:36,799 Wood Hite had been spurned by Martha in his affections... 377 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:39,599 and his attempt to switch his pursuit to her daughter... 378 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:41,699 was being thwarted by Dick Liddil. 379 00:35:41,700 --> 00:35:45,199 Wait a second, you assured me that you were not ticklish. 380 00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:46,399 Howdy! 381 00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,399 What's going on, now? What's going on...? 382 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,399 - Howdy! - Were you fibbing about that? 383 00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:54,100 - No. - Not at all. 384 00:35:54,700 --> 00:35:56,599 You're not supposed to peek, Dick. 385 00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,199 Well, you're just so pretty I can't help myself. 386 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:01,899 - You need to be warning him about that. - Howdy. 387 00:36:01,900 --> 00:36:05,999 Worry about the field instead, might be able to worry about the work... 388 00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:08,599 Howdy! 389 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,699 - Finally home. - I'm so glad, Bob. 390 00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:14,599 I'm in that room too, Bob. Don't mess with my things. 391 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:17,500 All right, Grandpa. 392 00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:28,199 "July 9th. Diligence, tact, and a keen sense of responsibility... 393 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:33,500 capacity for detail are your dominant traits. Your sense of duty's strong." 394 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:18,699 How long you been there? 395 00:37:18,700 --> 00:37:22,500 Just now arrived. Did I miss much? 396 00:37:23,300 --> 00:37:26,999 Not unless you never seen a man wash his dirty carcass before. 397 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,599 Boy, you got a big old pecker for being such a little squirrel. 398 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,500 That what you come here to see, Dick? 399 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:36,900 No. 400 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:40,499 Your brother said that Jesse kept you in Kansas City some extra days. 401 00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:42,500 What was the reason? 402 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:48,099 Well, I'm not at liberty to say exactly. 403 00:37:48,100 --> 00:37:54,500 Let me ask you this. Did Jesse mention that me and Cummins were in cahoots? 404 00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:56,099 Is that so? 405 00:37:56,100 --> 00:38:00,399 Oh, dear. I went on and said too much, have I? 406 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,400 Well, who else is partners with you two? 407 00:38:04,900 --> 00:38:09,599 See, he'll cut our throats if he finds out. You don't know him like I do. 408 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:13,699 You do Jesse dirt, you connive behind his back... 409 00:38:13,700 --> 00:38:17,400 boy, he'll come after you with a cleaver. 410 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,600 So, what are you two cahoots cooking up? 411 00:38:24,700 --> 00:38:27,300 Don't know that I should say. 412 00:38:27,500 --> 00:38:29,799 I'm not gonna wheedle the dang news from you. 413 00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:31,799 How about we'll leave it a mystery... 414 00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:36,900 and then we won't neither one of us regret our little chat? 415 00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:45,400 Can you hand me that six-gun there, Bob? 416 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,899 If you so much as mention my name to Jesse... 417 00:38:57,900 --> 00:39:00,399 boy, I'll find out about it. 418 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:03,599 You had better believe that. 419 00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,799 And I'll look you up. 420 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:11,399 I'll knock on your door, and I will be as mad as a hornet. 421 00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,500 I will be hot. 422 00:39:15,500 --> 00:39:19,100 You be careful with that iron, Dick. 423 00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:30,299 You know where I stand on these matters and that's all there is to it. 424 00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:34,800 Me and you can be as friendly as pigs from now on. 425 00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:03,099 I'm Bunny Ford, stick your hands up in the air! 426 00:40:03,100 --> 00:40:05,700 Mister. 427 00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,200 Oh, you have some nerve. 428 00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:19,900 We were just reading about the James boys among the Mexicans. 429 00:40:20,700 --> 00:40:23,599 What's this? This ain't Jesse. 430 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,899 - You don't know that. - He would've never wore no mustache. 431 00:40:26,900 --> 00:40:29,399 Never was anywheres near a cannon. 432 00:40:29,400 --> 00:40:31,999 Let me see that picture. 433 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,999 Boy, I can't even calculate what I'm looking at. 434 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,299 - Give me that. - Ever since he was a child... 435 00:40:37,300 --> 00:40:40,599 Bob's collected whatsoever he could find about the James brothers. 436 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:42,999 Yeah, got himself a little museum in his room. 437 00:40:43,000 --> 00:40:47,099 Next time you come snooping around, you better strap on a shooting iron! 438 00:40:47,100 --> 00:40:49,799 Well, you can see how scared I am. 439 00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:54,600 You too, Wood Hite. Cross me again, I'll put a bullet through your head! 440 00:40:54,700 --> 00:40:56,599 Boy, you... 441 00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:59,399 Son, you better recollect who my cousin is... 442 00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:03,599 because you've seemed to misremembered that Jesse loves me like the Good Book. 443 00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:07,399 Now, you may play it like you're a dangerous person in the grocery store... 444 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,999 but don't misremember who you be accounting to... 445 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:12,599 if I so much get my feelings hurt. - I don't care! 446 00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:14,299 Do I have to yell "suwee"? 447 00:41:14,300 --> 00:41:16,499 Why don't we make up, be pleasant for once? 448 00:41:16,500 --> 00:41:19,499 Why don't we pass the evening like pleasant human beings? 449 00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:22,600 I like your nickel suit, cowboy. 450 00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,200 You see something? 451 00:41:50,600 --> 00:41:53,300 Just a bird. 452 00:41:56,100 --> 00:41:58,199 The month of October came... 453 00:41:58,200 --> 00:42:01,799 and Jesse began seeing Pinkerton operatives in every floor walker... 454 00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:07,100 street sweeper, and common man poking about in a store. 455 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,199 On the morning of the 11th, he would wake his wife... 456 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:16,300 with the Scripture pertaining to the Holy Family's flight into Egypt. 457 00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:24,900 Overnight, the Thomas Howard clan vanished from Kansas City. 458 00:42:34,500 --> 00:42:37,399 Shortly thereafter, four of the Blue Cut train robbers... 459 00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:41,100 were arrested in shacks near Glendale. 460 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,800 How Jesse could have known remains a mystery. 461 00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,099 Theirs was a wandering existence. 462 00:43:04,100 --> 00:43:05,999 Men who choose to be outlaws... 463 00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:10,900 cannot afford to remain in one place for very long. 464 00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,399 - Well, goodness. Maybe I'll change my mind. - Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. 465 00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:25,799 - Martha. - Buck up, man. 466 00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,599 Wood and Dick would bicker across the entire state of Kentucky... 467 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:34,699 until they made Russellville, home of Major George Hite, Wood's father... 468 00:43:34,700 --> 00:43:38,700 and uncle to Frank and Jesse James. 469 00:43:45,900 --> 00:43:48,899 You stay away from this one. 470 00:43:48,900 --> 00:43:51,799 She's my daddy's wife. 471 00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:54,100 You got it? 472 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:19,600 Did you cook this, ma'am? 473 00:44:22,000 --> 00:44:25,200 I've got a nigger woman. 474 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,300 How's that? 475 00:44:31,900 --> 00:44:35,499 Dick asked if I cooked this. 476 00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:37,900 Did you? 477 00:44:39,500 --> 00:44:41,500 No. 478 00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:53,100 She knew what he was like when she married him. 479 00:45:18,700 --> 00:45:23,900 I guess we're the night owls, you and I. 480 00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:27,100 I'm glad. 481 00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:30,900 How come? 482 00:45:31,000 --> 00:45:34,499 You're interesting to look at. 483 00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:38,900 You have a real pleasant disposition. 484 00:45:39,600 --> 00:45:44,400 And I don't know, you sort of make me feel warm all over. 485 00:45:45,500 --> 00:45:51,100 You know, I'm what they call a... An inamorato. 486 00:45:54,100 --> 00:45:59,700 Well, I knew there had to be a name for it. 487 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,999 You and the Hites don't get along too well... 488 00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,100 if I'm to trust Wood and his version of the situation. 489 00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,599 We hate each other like poison, if you wanna know the truth. 490 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:18,200 Most of the Hites wouldn't spit on me if I was on fire. 491 00:46:19,500 --> 00:46:22,499 They say that when a woman's on fire... 492 00:46:22,500 --> 00:46:27,800 you're supposed to roll her around on the ground and cover her with your body. 493 00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:31,900 Well, you are a naughty tease. 494 00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:40,800 Isn't it about bedtime? 495 00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:45,000 Well, I'll just kiss those dainty nubbins. 496 00:46:58,000 --> 00:47:00,300 Good night. 497 00:47:13,900 --> 00:47:15,900 Would you stop? 498 00:47:20,300 --> 00:47:25,200 Boy, I believe I drank too much coffee. 499 00:47:28,000 --> 00:47:32,200 I gotta go visit the privy something terrible. 500 00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:03,599 This is embarrassing. 501 00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:08,600 Now, you go ahead and do your duty. I don't mind. 502 00:48:08,900 --> 00:48:13,099 I've sort of got stage fright with a strange man in the commode with me. 503 00:48:13,100 --> 00:48:14,899 I ain't strange. 504 00:48:14,900 --> 00:48:18,700 I'm built just like the rest of them. 505 00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:24,600 You look awful pretty. 506 00:48:25,100 --> 00:48:27,199 Do I? 507 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:32,800 I haven't never in my life seen such well-shaped limbs. 508 00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,500 Is Wood awake? 509 00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,000 It's just me. 510 00:48:53,900 --> 00:48:57,800 And I bet you thought I was a lady. 511 00:49:43,700 --> 00:49:46,900 Well, you ain't much of a housekeeper, are you? 512 00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:51,900 You didn't just happen by. 513 00:49:53,500 --> 00:49:56,100 Why not? 514 00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:26,200 Go on and take a load off your feet. 515 00:50:50,300 --> 00:50:52,799 You ought to get yourself a wife. 516 00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:54,399 Yeah. 517 00:50:54,400 --> 00:50:57,100 I suppose. 518 00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:02,999 I was gonna ask Martha. Charley's sister. 519 00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:07,300 I was gonna ask her if she could imagine it. 520 00:51:07,600 --> 00:51:11,099 But I guess Wood has plans of his own. 521 00:51:11,100 --> 00:51:14,600 And there's always Dick Liddil getting in the way. 522 00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:17,499 I'll give it some thought, though. 523 00:51:17,500 --> 00:51:20,400 Your crops come in? 524 00:51:20,700 --> 00:51:26,700 No, I don't got much. Just a garden patch and a pasture. 525 00:51:28,100 --> 00:51:31,300 I was sick at planting time. 526 00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:33,800 So... 527 00:51:35,100 --> 00:51:38,300 Ed, how you feeling now? 528 00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,200 Why? 529 00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,300 You're acting queer. 530 00:51:53,900 --> 00:51:58,499 Well, you and me ain't been just real good friends lately. 531 00:51:58,500 --> 00:52:02,500 That's not your fault, you understand that. 532 00:52:04,000 --> 00:52:06,500 You hear talk, though. 533 00:52:07,700 --> 00:52:10,000 Talk? 534 00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,100 People tell you things. 535 00:52:22,700 --> 00:52:25,700 Why don't you give me an example? 536 00:52:29,100 --> 00:52:32,200 Jim Cummins come by here. 537 00:52:32,900 --> 00:52:35,100 Jim Cummins. 538 00:52:35,500 --> 00:52:38,600 Oh, and Jim says: 539 00:52:40,300 --> 00:52:44,900 "You know them boys that got caught in the Blue Cut deal?" 540 00:52:47,100 --> 00:52:51,600 Well, Jim says he got word... 541 00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:58,300 that you're planning to kill them. 542 00:52:59,300 --> 00:53:02,400 Why would I do that? 543 00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:06,500 That's just talk probably. 544 00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:13,799 Jim Cummins. He say anything else? 545 00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:18,600 Nope. No, that was it, basically. 546 00:53:28,100 --> 00:53:31,400 That still don't explain why you're scared. 547 00:53:34,100 --> 00:53:37,699 Well, I'm in the same situation, you see. 548 00:53:37,700 --> 00:53:40,399 I was terrified I saw you ride up. 549 00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:43,599 - I just happened by, Ed. - Suppose you heard gossip, though. 550 00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,699 Suppose you heard Jim Cummins come by, you might have thought... 551 00:53:46,700 --> 00:53:51,799 that we were planning to capture you or get that reward, and that ain't true. 552 00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,000 But you might have suspected it. 553 00:54:12,500 --> 00:54:15,299 Haven't heard a lick of gossip lately. 554 00:54:15,300 --> 00:54:20,600 I got 600 dollars stashed away. I don't need no governor's reward. 555 00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,400 Well, it's the principle too. 556 00:54:29,500 --> 00:54:31,299 Well... 557 00:54:31,300 --> 00:54:35,700 - I'm glad I stopped by. - Oh, me too. 558 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,600 What do you say if we were to go for a ride? 559 00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:11,400 We can go into town. I'll buy you dinner. 560 00:55:12,100 --> 00:55:15,300 Then I'll be on my way. 561 00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,000 Okay. 562 00:56:25,500 --> 00:56:28,200 You ready to go for a ride? 563 00:56:43,100 --> 00:56:46,300 We going to your place? 564 00:56:50,300 --> 00:56:53,300 You seen Ed Miller lately? 565 00:56:53,800 --> 00:56:56,800 Nobody has. 566 00:56:59,700 --> 00:57:03,200 Must have gone off to California. 567 00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:09,600 I'd still like to know where we're going. 568 00:57:13,900 --> 00:57:18,700 If you were going to see Jim Cummins, wouldn't you follow this road? 569 00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,900 I guess so. 570 00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:10,400 Howdy. 571 00:58:20,300 --> 00:58:23,400 Oh, are you friends of my pa's? 572 00:58:27,500 --> 00:58:30,300 We're friends of Jim Cummins. 573 00:58:33,500 --> 00:58:36,599 Well, it so happens he's been gone since August. 574 00:58:36,600 --> 00:58:39,500 And never said where he gone to. 575 00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:46,999 - I'm Matt Collins. - Albert Ford. 576 00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,800 Very happy to meet you. 577 00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:59,000 - Dick Turpin. - Pleased to make your acquaintance. 578 00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:12,999 I don't know where he is! Leave me alone! 579 00:59:13,000 --> 00:59:15,700 Shut your mouth! You shut your mouth! 580 00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,299 - You shut your mouth. - I don't know where he is! 581 00:59:20,300 --> 00:59:23,199 - I don't know! - Get in there. 582 00:59:23,200 --> 00:59:24,399 Shut up. 583 00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,800 - I don't know where he is! - Shut up. 584 00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:29,599 - I don't know! - Shut up. 585 00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:30,899 - Jesus. - Shut up. 586 00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:33,399 Jesse, he's just a kid. 587 00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:37,199 He knows where his uncle Jim is and that's gonna make him old soon enough. 588 00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,699 - Maybe he doesn't know. - He knows! 589 00:59:39,700 --> 00:59:41,499 You need to ask and ask sometimes. 590 00:59:41,500 --> 00:59:46,000 Sometimes a child don't remember so much at first. But it'll come back to him. 591 00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,899 My goodness, she's about to rip off, sweetie. 592 00:59:49,900 --> 00:59:52,099 Just a little more here to get her started. 593 00:59:52,100 --> 00:59:54,999 Then I think I can rip her off like a page from a book. 594 00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:58,000 Jesus, he can't even talk. 595 00:59:59,900 --> 01:00:01,699 Where's Jim? 596 01:00:01,700 --> 01:00:03,299 Where's Jim? 597 01:00:03,300 --> 01:00:05,399 Where's Jim? Where's Jim? 598 01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:09,099 Where's Jim? Where's Jim? Where's Jim? 599 01:00:09,100 --> 01:00:11,899 - Where's Jim? - Quit it! 600 01:00:11,900 --> 01:00:14,499 You bastard! I don't know where he is! 601 01:00:14,500 --> 01:00:17,499 You won't believe me! You never even gave me a chance! 602 01:00:17,500 --> 01:00:20,400 You kept my... You kept my mouth shut! 603 01:00:20,900 --> 01:00:24,499 I never know where Jim is or when he comes! So leave me alone. 604 01:00:24,500 --> 01:00:27,800 Get off me, you son of a bitch! 605 01:01:19,900 --> 01:01:22,099 I'm worn out. 606 01:01:22,100 --> 01:01:25,900 I can't. No, see... 607 01:01:28,000 --> 01:01:31,099 My mind's all tangled anyway. 608 01:01:31,100 --> 01:01:35,500 Little deals like this just make me feel dirty. 609 01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,600 Are you all right, Jesse? 610 01:02:26,200 --> 01:02:28,199 Jesse was sick... 611 01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:33,599 with rheums, and aches and lung congestions. 612 01:02:33,600 --> 01:02:37,699 Insomnia stained his eye sockets like soot. 613 01:02:37,700 --> 01:02:41,600 He read auguries in the snarled intestines of chickens... 614 01:02:41,900 --> 01:02:46,299 or the blow of cat hair released to the wind. 615 01:02:46,300 --> 01:02:52,200 And the omens promised bad luck, which moated and dungeoned him. 616 01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:35,699 How come it's you that's gotta do all the chores? 617 01:03:35,700 --> 01:03:40,800 Charley and Bob pay extry to Martha so that they don't have to. 618 01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:44,200 It still don't seem fair. 619 01:03:50,100 --> 01:03:52,500 Martha. 620 01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,900 Well, look what the cat dragged in. 621 01:04:00,800 --> 01:04:02,900 You come from Kentucky? 622 01:04:05,400 --> 01:04:10,200 Why do you have your head in a hole, Martha? 623 01:04:12,300 --> 01:04:16,900 Wood and Dick had a shooting scrape a few months ago. 624 01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:19,800 Cover the kettle, Ida. 625 01:04:24,200 --> 01:04:27,400 And what did you and Dick get in a scrape about? 626 01:04:30,300 --> 01:04:34,499 Well, he tampered with my daddy's wife... 627 01:04:34,500 --> 01:04:37,999 while a pork chop burned on the skillet... 628 01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:40,500 so I shot at him. 629 01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:49,900 Ida! Do not stick your thumb in the cream when you skim it. 630 01:04:50,200 --> 01:04:55,599 His chicanery and his philandering ways... 631 01:04:55,600 --> 01:04:57,699 has instigated such malice. 632 01:04:57,700 --> 01:05:02,600 He's a yellow snake in the grass and he can't be trusted, Martha. 633 01:05:04,600 --> 01:05:08,800 Dick told me a complete other version of that affray. 634 01:05:09,400 --> 01:05:12,799 Wood Hite's downstairs. 635 01:05:12,800 --> 01:05:15,400 You mean he's here? 636 01:05:17,200 --> 01:05:20,800 Yeah, he come in late last night. 637 01:05:23,700 --> 01:05:24,899 Hey, simmer down! 638 01:05:24,900 --> 01:05:30,300 Don't get into a fracas up there, you boys! I've got breakfast almost ready. 639 01:07:40,300 --> 01:07:43,400 He's still sucking air. 640 01:07:43,700 --> 01:07:46,800 But I think he's a goner. 641 01:07:56,000 --> 01:08:00,200 Maybe y'all better come wish him well on his journey. 642 01:08:26,100 --> 01:08:28,500 Wood? 643 01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:32,499 You were a good fellow, Wood. 644 01:08:32,500 --> 01:08:36,599 Oh, I sure hope you're not in frightful pain, Wood. 645 01:08:36,600 --> 01:08:41,200 I'd get you something to drink, but I'm afraid you'd just choke on it. 646 01:08:41,700 --> 01:08:44,099 Little Ida's gonna miss you. 647 01:08:44,100 --> 01:08:47,100 So is the rest of the family. 648 01:08:49,400 --> 01:08:53,900 Well, one thing's settled. Can't take him into Richmond. 649 01:08:54,100 --> 01:08:56,100 Why not? 650 01:08:56,600 --> 01:08:59,399 Well, one, sheriff'll put Bob in jail. 651 01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:03,399 And two, Jesse'll find out his cousin Wood's been shot in our house... 652 01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:07,700 and then that'll be the end of each and every one of us. 653 01:09:16,700 --> 01:09:20,799 "And in one merciless, violent thrust broke in... 654 01:09:20,800 --> 01:09:23,799 and carried all before him, and scented and brewed... 655 01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:26,499 reeking with blood of my virginity... 656 01:09:26,500 --> 01:09:32,000 up to its utmost length in my body." 657 01:09:32,700 --> 01:09:36,400 He ain't disappeared, if that's what you were hoping. 658 01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,499 What chapter you on? 659 01:09:42,500 --> 01:09:47,699 She's met some Algerian corsair down at Gibraltar. 660 01:09:47,700 --> 01:09:50,900 Got herself all agitated. 661 01:09:52,300 --> 01:09:54,599 How's that leg? 662 01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:59,600 Full of torment, Bob. Thanks for asking. 663 01:10:44,600 --> 01:10:47,399 Blessed are the poor in spirit... 664 01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:50,600 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 665 01:10:51,100 --> 01:10:57,600 Blessed are them that mourn, for they shall be comforted. 666 01:10:58,900 --> 01:11:01,700 Blessed are the... 667 01:11:04,300 --> 01:11:06,700 Meek. 668 01:11:08,100 --> 01:11:10,900 Blessed are the meek. 669 01:11:45,900 --> 01:11:48,199 - Is it him? - Yeah. 670 01:11:48,200 --> 01:11:51,399 Why is he here? Does he know about Wood, do you think? 671 01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:53,899 I don't know. All I know is he don't miss very much. 672 01:11:53,900 --> 01:11:58,800 - What should I say about you if he asks? - Tell him I'm in K.C. with Mattie. 673 01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:04,599 He was buffalo hunting. He was thrilled to meet yours truly. 674 01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:08,699 Yeah, over there in Europe there's only two Americans they know for certain... 675 01:12:08,700 --> 01:12:12,500 Mark Twain and Jesse James. 676 01:12:13,000 --> 01:12:17,100 - Why, it's the kid. - How's everything? 677 01:12:18,700 --> 01:12:21,399 - I never take off my gun belts. - Yeah? 678 01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:23,900 Good thinking. 679 01:12:29,100 --> 01:12:32,300 Well, Charley, did you hurt your leg? 680 01:12:33,900 --> 01:12:36,099 Yeah, I slipped... I slipped off the roof... 681 01:12:36,100 --> 01:12:39,899 and I smacked down into a snow bank like a ton of stupidness. 682 01:12:39,900 --> 01:12:42,699 One second I'm screaming, "Whoa, Nelly!" 683 01:12:42,700 --> 01:12:46,300 Next second, poof, I'm neck-deep in snow. 684 01:12:48,300 --> 01:12:53,000 Well, whatever possessed you to climb a roof in December? 685 01:12:58,100 --> 01:13:01,799 There was a k..a kite. What am I saying? There was a cat. 686 01:13:01,800 --> 01:13:04,499 A cat. It was on the roof and I went after him. 687 01:13:04,500 --> 01:13:09,900 It was a tomcat yowling and what all, and I slipped. 688 01:13:21,000 --> 01:13:25,000 I thought maybe your club foot was gaining on you. 689 01:13:33,100 --> 01:13:35,499 Oh, yeah. 690 01:13:35,500 --> 01:13:40,700 Dick went to Kansas City to be with his wife. He was here for a bit. 691 01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:02,499 Hey, here's a cute story, Jess. 692 01:14:02,500 --> 01:14:05,999 Bobby was what, 11 or 12... 693 01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:09,699 and you were by far his most admired personage. 694 01:14:09,700 --> 01:14:10,999 He couldn't get enough. 695 01:14:11,000 --> 01:14:15,399 It was "Jesse this" and "Jesse that" and "Jesse this" from sunrise to sunset. 696 01:14:15,400 --> 01:14:16,699 Fascinating. 697 01:14:16,700 --> 01:14:18,599 No, there's more. This is cute. 698 01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:23,499 We're at supper and Bob asks, "You know what size boot Jesse wears?" 699 01:14:23,500 --> 01:14:27,399 - Charley, Jesse doesn't wanna hear this. - Shush, now, Bob, let me tell it. 700 01:14:27,400 --> 01:14:30,599 Bob says... He says, "You know what size boot Jesse wears?" 701 01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:33,999 He says, "Six and a half." He says, "Ain't that a big enough boot... 702 01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:35,899 for a man 5'8 "tall?" 703 01:14:35,900 --> 01:14:39,899 I decided to josh him a little, you know, he being my kid brother and everything. 704 01:14:39,900 --> 01:14:43,199 So I said, "He doesn't have toes is why." 705 01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:44,899 That's a really stupid story. 706 01:14:44,900 --> 01:14:49,699 "He was dangling his feet off a culvert and a catfish nibbled his toes off." 707 01:14:49,700 --> 01:14:53,300 Bob taxed himself trying to picture it. 708 01:14:59,300 --> 01:15:02,799 That'd be a good joke if it was funny. 709 01:15:02,800 --> 01:15:06,200 Isn't that a cute story, Jess? 710 01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:19,000 Give me some more conversations, Bob. 711 01:15:23,100 --> 01:15:28,499 I got one. This one's about as crackerjack. It's the one about your.. 712 01:15:28,500 --> 01:15:31,300 Let Bob tell it. 713 01:15:31,800 --> 01:15:34,400 All right. 714 01:15:40,100 --> 01:15:42,299 I don't even know what you're talking about. 715 01:15:42,300 --> 01:15:47,200 About how you and Jesse have so much in common. 716 01:15:49,300 --> 01:15:51,099 Go on, Bob. 717 01:15:51,100 --> 01:15:53,799 Yeah, come on, Bob. 718 01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:57,000 Tell us a story. 719 01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:03,500 - Nope. No. - Come on, entertain Jesse. He's here. 720 01:16:09,600 --> 01:16:12,000 Come on. 721 01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:22,099 Well, if you'll pardon my saying so, I guess... 722 01:16:22,100 --> 01:16:27,000 it is interesting the many ways you and I overlap and whatnot. 723 01:16:27,400 --> 01:16:30,399 I mean, you begin with our daddies. 724 01:16:30,400 --> 01:16:33,499 Your daddy was a pastor at the New Hope Baptist Church... 725 01:16:33,500 --> 01:16:39,100 and my daddy was a pastor at the church in Excelsior Springs. 726 01:16:39,700 --> 01:16:44,900 You're the youngest of three James boys, and I'm the youngest of five Ford boys. 727 01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:48,699 Between Charley and me, there's another brother, Wilbur... 728 01:16:48,700 --> 01:16:50,999 with six letters in his name. 729 01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:56,799 And between Frank and you, is another brother Robert, also with six letters. 730 01:16:56,800 --> 01:17:01,500 And my Christian name is Robert, of course. 731 01:17:01,900 --> 01:17:04,199 You have blue eyes, I have blue eyes. 732 01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:09,100 You're 5'8 "tall, I'm 5'8" tall. 733 01:17:13,000 --> 01:17:18,499 Me, I must have had a list as long as your nightshirt when I was 12, but... 734 01:17:18,500 --> 01:17:22,900 I seem to have lost some curiosities over the years. 735 01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:43,300 Ain't he something? 736 01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:59,499 Did I ever tell you the story about that scalawag, George Shepherd? 737 01:17:59,500 --> 01:18:01,599 Shepherd's one of Quantrill's lieutenants. 738 01:18:01,600 --> 01:18:04,799 He give me a story much like Bob's what bring him to mind. 739 01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:07,499 Going on about how much we had in common, and so on... 740 01:18:07,500 --> 01:18:10,199 so he could get in the gang. 741 01:18:10,200 --> 01:18:13,499 How could I have known he had a grudge against me? 742 01:18:13,500 --> 01:18:18,199 How could I have known he was lying to get on my good side? 743 01:18:18,200 --> 01:18:23,299 I said, "George, come on aboard. Glad to have you." 744 01:18:23,300 --> 01:18:29,000 George thought he was smart, except he wasn't. 745 01:18:29,100 --> 01:18:32,399 One morning, George rides into camp... 746 01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:35,500 and about 20 guns open up on him. 747 01:18:38,400 --> 01:18:43,700 See, old George, he only had one eye. You gotta have two eyes, you wanna get Jesse. 748 01:18:47,700 --> 01:18:51,700 You ought not think of me like you do George Shepherd. 749 01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,299 You brought him to mind. 750 01:18:55,300 --> 01:18:58,500 Well, it's not very flattering. 751 01:19:03,600 --> 01:19:07,299 Sure is good eating, Martha. 752 01:19:07,300 --> 01:19:09,699 Well, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. 753 01:19:09,700 --> 01:19:12,700 How come George had a grudge against you? 754 01:19:16,700 --> 01:19:21,700 I said, how come George had a grudge against you? 755 01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:31,499 Well, you see, George had a nephew he wanted me to protect during the war. 756 01:19:31,500 --> 01:19:33,899 This nephew had 5000 dollars on him. 757 01:19:33,900 --> 01:19:38,599 It just so happens he winds up killed and someone swipes that money. 758 01:19:38,600 --> 01:19:42,699 And when George is in prison, someone whispers to him: 759 01:19:42,700 --> 01:19:47,300 "It was Jesse James slit the boy's throat." 760 01:19:51,100 --> 01:19:54,500 It was just mean gossip, was it? 761 01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:59,600 Bob's the expert. Let's put it to him. 762 01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:06,399 Oh, dear, I made him cranky. 763 01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:10,299 I'm not cranky. I just been through this before is all. 764 01:20:10,300 --> 01:20:13,699 Most people get around on making fun of me. They don't ever let up. 765 01:20:13,700 --> 01:20:15,899 Someone's getting awful fresh over there. 766 01:20:15,900 --> 01:20:19,500 Woman, shut your face for once. 767 01:20:25,600 --> 01:20:28,099 Don't want you to skip off to your room and pout... 768 01:20:28,100 --> 01:20:31,499 without knowing why I come by for this visit. 769 01:20:31,500 --> 01:20:33,899 Why? So you could tell us how sorry you are... 770 01:20:33,900 --> 01:20:37,300 you had to slap our cousin Albert around? 771 01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:51,999 I come by... 772 01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:55,599 to ask if one of you two Fords... 773 01:20:55,600 --> 01:20:59,399 would care to ride with me in a journey or two. 774 01:20:59,400 --> 01:21:02,899 I guess we both agree it ought to be Charley. 775 01:21:02,900 --> 01:21:06,600 You've been acting sort of testy. 776 01:21:36,700 --> 01:21:39,499 Have you seen Wood Hite lately? 777 01:21:39,500 --> 01:21:43,900 No. Not at all. 778 01:21:51,000 --> 01:21:53,799 I swear that stew had some squirrel meat in it. 779 01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:57,299 - Still arguing with you, is it? - Yeah. 780 01:21:57,300 --> 01:21:59,399 - You're Charles Ford? - Yes, ma'am. 781 01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,300 You've seen me once or twice before. 782 01:22:02,800 --> 01:22:05,299 I got a letter from George Hite. 783 01:22:05,300 --> 01:22:09,100 He hasn't seen hide nor hair of him. 784 01:22:09,700 --> 01:22:12,699 And you say you haven't seen Wood? 785 01:22:12,700 --> 01:22:16,700 No, I... I can't imagine where he could be. 786 01:22:43,300 --> 01:22:45,200 Yeah? 787 01:22:45,500 --> 01:22:48,500 You finished with your sleeping? 788 01:22:49,100 --> 01:22:52,500 I could use a couple more hours if it's no trouble. 789 01:23:03,300 --> 01:23:05,800 Yeah. 790 01:23:08,500 --> 01:23:13,099 I been holding a discussion with myself over if I ought to tell you this or no. 791 01:23:13,100 --> 01:23:16,700 My good side won out and... 792 01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:20,800 Well, I wanna make a clean breast of things. 793 01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:25,299 Yeah, my mind's a little cobwebby is the only drawback. 794 01:23:25,300 --> 01:23:31,000 I could use a little... A little more sleep. 795 01:23:32,700 --> 01:23:35,600 You know I went to Kentucky? 796 01:23:35,700 --> 01:23:37,799 Yeah. 797 01:23:37,800 --> 01:23:41,100 I come back through Saline County and... 798 01:23:41,600 --> 01:23:43,999 I think to myself: 799 01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:49,700 "Why not stop by and see Ed Miller?" 800 01:23:51,000 --> 01:23:53,600 So I do. 801 01:23:56,600 --> 01:24:00,800 Well, things are not to my satisfaction. 802 01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:05,700 Ed's got himself all worked up over something. 803 01:24:06,300 --> 01:24:10,500 I can see that he's lying like a rug. 804 01:24:12,900 --> 01:24:16,499 So I say to myself, "Enough's enough." 805 01:24:16,500 --> 01:24:20,200 And I say to Ed, "Come on, Ed. 806 01:24:20,300 --> 01:24:23,500 Let's go for a ride." 807 01:24:24,400 --> 01:24:28,200 You understand what I'm saying? 808 01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:32,400 Going for a ride is like... 809 01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:36,600 Going for a ride is like giving him what-for? 810 01:24:37,700 --> 01:24:40,300 Exactly. 811 01:24:43,900 --> 01:24:46,300 So... 812 01:24:48,100 --> 01:24:50,800 Ed and Jesse... 813 01:24:52,300 --> 01:24:55,500 they argue on the road. 814 01:24:59,100 --> 01:25:02,300 Did you ever count the stars? 815 01:25:04,900 --> 01:25:09,700 I can't ever get the same number. They keep changing on me. 816 01:25:10,700 --> 01:25:14,600 I don't even know what a star is exactly. 817 01:25:16,400 --> 01:25:19,499 Well, your body knows. 818 01:25:19,500 --> 01:25:22,900 It's your mind that forgot. 819 01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:35,700 You go on ahead, partner. I'll catch up with you. 820 01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:17,800 It's okay. 821 01:26:39,700 --> 01:26:44,000 It's okay, sweetheart. It's okay. 822 01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:49,500 And when push came to shove... 823 01:26:55,500 --> 01:26:58,800 Jesse shot and killed him. 824 01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:04,000 Jesse did. 825 01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:08,200 You got it. 826 01:27:09,300 --> 01:27:11,600 You... 827 01:27:27,300 --> 01:27:29,499 So, you see, your... 828 01:27:29,500 --> 01:27:32,099 Your cousin, he got off easy. 829 01:27:32,100 --> 01:27:34,600 I was just playing with Albert. 830 01:27:35,200 --> 01:27:39,199 Yeah, I made him squeal once or twice myself. 831 01:27:39,200 --> 01:27:43,100 I'm just not as thorough as you are. 832 01:27:53,500 --> 01:27:57,500 You got a tale to swap with me now? 833 01:28:05,300 --> 01:28:08,600 I don't get your meaning. 834 01:28:09,800 --> 01:28:15,299 Seems to me, if you have something to confess in exchange... 835 01:28:15,300 --> 01:28:18,300 it'd only be right... 836 01:28:18,400 --> 01:28:22,600 that you'd spit it out now. 837 01:28:33,500 --> 01:28:36,500 I can't think of a single thing. 838 01:28:38,500 --> 01:28:41,499 About Wood Hite, for example. 839 01:28:41,500 --> 01:28:46,499 I'm not gonna... I been saying over and over I can't figure out where he's gone. 840 01:28:46,500 --> 01:28:49,699 Now, I'm not gonna change my story just to have something to spit. 841 01:28:49,700 --> 01:28:53,300 - Why was your brother so agitated? - Which? 842 01:28:53,400 --> 01:28:55,400 Bob. 843 01:28:55,900 --> 01:28:59,599 That's just his way. He's antsy. 844 01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:02,000 You know? 845 01:29:17,200 --> 01:29:20,700 You go on back to sleep now. 846 01:29:21,500 --> 01:29:25,500 You got me agitated now, you see? 847 01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:35,799 Yeah, just ain't no peace when old Jesse's around. 848 01:29:35,800 --> 01:29:39,700 You ought to pity my poor wife. 849 01:29:41,400 --> 01:29:43,799 Ed Miller was a good friend of mine. 850 01:29:43,800 --> 01:29:47,899 He introduced me to you at that one poker game. 851 01:29:47,900 --> 01:29:52,900 I'm a little angry with you, if you wanna know the God's honest truth. 852 01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:57,800 You ought to pity me too. 853 01:30:42,500 --> 01:30:46,599 As proof of his confederacy with the James Gang, Bob told the authorities.. 854 01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:50,299 that Dick Liddil was sleeping over at the rented farmhouse... 855 01:30:50,300 --> 01:30:54,000 while his ruined leg mended. 856 01:30:58,100 --> 01:31:02,800 And then, created a map of the Harbison property... 857 01:31:03,100 --> 01:31:09,099 leaving out the creek where Wood Hite's remains now moldered. 858 01:31:09,100 --> 01:31:11,499 Right, you boys are cornered! 859 01:31:11,500 --> 01:31:16,900 Come on out peaceably and nobody'll get shot up! 860 01:31:21,200 --> 01:31:23,100 Don't shoot! 861 01:31:26,800 --> 01:31:29,700 Come on out and show yourself! 862 01:31:43,900 --> 01:31:45,699 Hello. 863 01:31:45,700 --> 01:31:47,799 We got him. 864 01:31:47,800 --> 01:31:50,700 Give me that Colt, son. 865 01:31:54,700 --> 01:31:57,499 - All right. - Andrew James Liddil... 866 01:31:57,500 --> 01:32:00,599 I have a warrant here for your arrest... 867 01:32:00,600 --> 01:32:05,199 Snowstorms would move over Missouri that Sunday, February 19th... 868 01:32:05,200 --> 01:32:09,100 shutting down commerce for more than two days. 869 01:32:09,800 --> 01:32:12,699 - Go, go, go. - Are the papers here? 870 01:32:12,700 --> 01:32:16,499 - He wanted to know if the papers are here. - I don't care what he wants. 871 01:32:16,500 --> 01:32:18,599 Yet this wouldn't prevent Robert Ford... 872 01:32:18,600 --> 01:32:21,099 from presenting himself to Governor Crittenden... 873 01:32:21,100 --> 01:32:24,399 at the Craig Rifles Ball on Wednesday. 874 01:32:24,400 --> 01:32:28,099 I deem it a great privilege on this glorious occasion... 875 01:32:28,100 --> 01:32:30,299 to recognize publicly... 876 01:32:30,300 --> 01:32:33,099 the intelligent and effective assistance... 877 01:32:33,100 --> 01:32:38,099 that Captain Henry Craig has rendered the state of Missouri and myself... 878 01:32:38,100 --> 01:32:41,999 in our joint quest to rid Jackson County... 879 01:32:42,000 --> 01:32:44,099 of the James band. 880 01:32:44,100 --> 01:32:46,899 The task that Captain Craig has assumed... 881 01:32:46,900 --> 01:32:51,199 will require fearless courage, extraordinary vigilance... 882 01:32:51,200 --> 01:32:55,100 and an unerring selection of instrumentalities. 883 01:32:55,300 --> 01:33:00,199 Well, I've gotten the signal from my wife that enough is enough. 884 01:33:00,200 --> 01:33:02,699 However, before I sit... 885 01:33:02,700 --> 01:33:06,299 I would like to ask you to join me in a toast... 886 01:33:06,300 --> 01:33:10,099 to a great son of the state of Missouri... 887 01:33:10,100 --> 01:33:14,900 my friend, Henry Craig. - Here, here. 888 01:33:26,700 --> 01:33:29,200 Yes. 889 01:33:29,300 --> 01:33:32,000 Just let my attorney know. 890 01:33:38,700 --> 01:33:42,299 Who is that? Who is it? 891 01:33:42,300 --> 01:33:44,800 Get out of the way now. 892 01:33:53,900 --> 01:33:58,199 You know, you're more goddamn trouble than you're worth, Bob. 893 01:33:58,200 --> 01:33:59,999 I was just gonna say hello. 894 01:34:00,000 --> 01:34:03,399 No, you weren't gonna do that, Bob. That's not why you're down here. 895 01:34:03,400 --> 01:34:08,899 You think it's your goddamn coming-out. You think you're the belle of the ball. 896 01:34:08,900 --> 01:34:13,299 Now you get upstairs and try to keep your identity secret, you silly little bastard. 897 01:34:13,300 --> 01:34:17,000 The governor'll see you in good time. Take him up, boys. 898 01:34:21,600 --> 01:34:23,999 Bob would later be cross-examined repeatedly... 899 01:34:24,000 --> 01:34:28,299 about the exact nature of the deal he had made with the authorities. 900 01:34:28,300 --> 01:34:32,200 And he was never consistent in his recollections. 901 01:34:35,400 --> 01:34:40,299 My wife's asleep in the other room, so let's speak as quietly as we can. 902 01:34:40,300 --> 01:34:43,500 So you're Dick Little. 903 01:34:44,400 --> 01:34:46,699 Liddil. 904 01:34:46,700 --> 01:34:48,899 I beg your pardon? 905 01:34:48,900 --> 01:34:50,699 I spell it with two D's. 906 01:34:50,700 --> 01:34:53,199 He's given us a full confession, governor. 907 01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:55,499 Newspapers haven't caught onto it yet. 908 01:34:55,500 --> 01:34:59,199 And you've guaranteed him a conditional pardon... 909 01:34:59,200 --> 01:35:04,000 and amnesty for all the robberies he's committed. 910 01:35:04,700 --> 01:35:06,900 You Robert Ford? 911 01:35:09,500 --> 01:35:11,700 How old are you? 912 01:35:12,800 --> 01:35:14,599 Twenty. 913 01:35:14,600 --> 01:35:17,299 You surrender to Sheriff Timberlake as well? 914 01:35:17,300 --> 01:35:21,299 No, no, governor. That's his brother, Charley Ford, he's in the James Gang. 915 01:35:21,300 --> 01:35:24,199 But little Bob here, we got nothing on Bob. 916 01:35:24,200 --> 01:35:27,700 He's just acting in capacity as a... 917 01:35:29,000 --> 01:35:32,100 private detective. 918 01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:34,599 Jesse James sent me a telegram last month... 919 01:35:34,600 --> 01:35:37,899 saying he'd kill me if he had to wreck a train to do it. 920 01:35:37,900 --> 01:35:40,699 He said once I got in his hands, he'd cut my heart out... 921 01:35:40,700 --> 01:35:43,399 and eat it in strips like it was bacon. 922 01:35:43,400 --> 01:35:46,200 I'll wreck his train first. 923 01:35:52,900 --> 01:35:57,199 I'm sorry, Your Excellency. I was thinking about something else. 924 01:35:57,200 --> 01:35:59,699 Jesse James is nothing more than a public outlaw... 925 01:35:59,700 --> 01:36:02,699 who made his reputation by stealing whatever he wanted... 926 01:36:02,700 --> 01:36:05,099 killing whoever got in his way. 927 01:36:05,100 --> 01:36:08,899 You'll hear some fools say he's getting back at Republicans and Union men... 928 01:36:08,900 --> 01:36:11,799 for the wrongs his family suffered during the war. 929 01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:16,999 But his victims have scarcely been selected with reference to their political views. 930 01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:19,899 I'm saying his sins will soon find him out. 931 01:36:19,900 --> 01:36:22,699 I'm saying his cup of iniquity is full. 932 01:36:22,700 --> 01:36:25,699 I'm saying Jesse James is a desperate case... 933 01:36:25,700 --> 01:36:29,500 and may require a desperate remedy. 934 01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:36,000 Y'all got the right man for the job. 935 01:36:51,400 --> 01:36:54,299 Come on. Come on, now. 936 01:36:54,300 --> 01:36:56,800 Come on, now. 937 01:37:40,300 --> 01:37:43,700 Have you ever considered suicide? 938 01:37:44,900 --> 01:37:51,100 I can't say that I have. There's always something else I wanted to do. 939 01:37:51,300 --> 01:37:57,299 Or my predicaments changed, or I saw my hardships from a different slant. 940 01:37:57,300 --> 01:38:02,600 You know all what can happen. It never seemed respectable. 941 01:38:08,500 --> 01:38:11,499 I'll tell you one thing that's for certain. 942 01:38:11,500 --> 01:38:16,400 You won't mind dying once you've peeked over the other side. 943 01:38:19,300 --> 01:38:22,499 You'll no more wanna go back to your body than... 944 01:38:22,500 --> 01:38:25,800 you'd wanna spoon up your own puke. 945 01:38:31,400 --> 01:38:34,399 Hey, since we're looking to rob banks... 946 01:38:34,400 --> 01:38:39,199 I was wondering if we could add another fella to the gang... 947 01:38:39,200 --> 01:38:43,700 and sort of see if we couldn't come out of our next job alive. 948 01:38:45,300 --> 01:38:51,200 Bob wanted to know could he ride with us next time we took on a savings bank or... 949 01:38:56,600 --> 01:39:00,000 A savings bank or a... 950 01:39:00,800 --> 01:39:03,400 A rail road. 951 01:39:09,900 --> 01:39:13,399 Bob isn't much more than a boy to most appearances. 952 01:39:13,400 --> 01:39:16,299 But there's about two tons of sand in him. 953 01:39:16,300 --> 01:39:19,699 And he'll stand with a shooter when that's what's called for. 954 01:39:19,700 --> 01:39:24,900 And he's smart too. He's about as intricate as they come. 955 01:39:26,100 --> 01:39:29,700 You forget I already met the kid. 956 01:39:30,100 --> 01:39:33,399 Hell, he surely thinks highly of you. 957 01:39:33,400 --> 01:39:36,899 All of America thinks highly of me. 958 01:39:36,900 --> 01:39:40,299 Still, not like you got two million names to snatch out of a sock... 959 01:39:40,300 --> 01:39:43,300 whenever you need a third man. 960 01:39:45,900 --> 01:39:49,099 I can see you trying to wear me down on this. 961 01:39:49,100 --> 01:39:52,200 That's my main intention. 962 01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:03,299 Robberies would be conceived but never carried out... 963 01:40:03,300 --> 01:40:07,499 in Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri. 964 01:40:07,500 --> 01:40:08,699 During this time... 965 01:40:08,700 --> 01:40:12,899 Henry Craig enjoined Robert Ford to return to Elias' Grocery Store in Richmond... 966 01:40:12,900 --> 01:40:16,399 and await instructions from Sheriff James Timberlake. 967 01:40:16,400 --> 01:40:18,899 All right, three cans... 968 01:40:18,900 --> 01:40:23,500 peaches. Two cans... 969 01:40:23,900 --> 01:40:26,699 Two cans sifted peas. 970 01:40:26,700 --> 01:40:29,200 One bottle... 971 01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:35,200 Mary's Morning Tonic, and a half... 972 01:40:37,400 --> 01:40:40,900 Half a sack of flour. 973 01:40:41,200 --> 01:40:44,100 I'll be right with you. 974 01:40:59,200 --> 01:41:02,400 I haven't seen any sign of him. 975 01:41:03,000 --> 01:41:06,300 Well, do you know where he's living? 976 01:41:06,500 --> 01:41:08,800 No. 977 01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:11,400 No? 978 01:41:13,200 --> 01:41:16,099 Well, I can't guess how he does it... 979 01:41:16,100 --> 01:41:20,599 but he is always knowledgeable about what's going on. 980 01:41:20,600 --> 01:41:25,800 He's gonna know I've been here with you. You ought to take that for granted. 981 01:41:27,400 --> 01:41:32,300 And he will kill you if he gets the chance. 982 01:41:34,600 --> 01:41:38,100 Are you willing to risk that? 983 01:41:41,800 --> 01:41:44,400 Yes, I am. 984 01:41:46,600 --> 01:41:49,200 I've been a nobody all my life. 985 01:41:49,300 --> 01:41:51,399 I was the baby. 986 01:41:51,400 --> 01:41:55,700 I was the one they made promises to that they never kept. 987 01:41:56,000 --> 01:42:01,600 And ever since I can remember it, Jesse James has been as big as a tree. 988 01:42:04,100 --> 01:42:07,299 I'm prepared for this, Jim... 989 01:42:07,300 --> 01:42:09,699 and I'm gonna accomplish it. 990 01:42:09,700 --> 01:42:11,999 I know I won't get but this one opportunity... 991 01:42:12,000 --> 01:42:15,800 and you can bet your life I'm not gonna spoil it. 992 01:42:26,900 --> 01:42:28,900 Well... 993 01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:31,699 wait for your chance. 994 01:42:31,700 --> 01:42:35,899 Don't let yourself be found alone with him, and do not... 995 01:42:35,900 --> 01:42:39,200 let him get behind you. 996 01:43:06,500 --> 01:43:08,600 You been chosen. 997 01:43:12,600 --> 01:43:15,100 Well, what do you mean? 998 01:43:15,500 --> 01:43:18,199 Well, your brother said that you might wanna join us. 999 01:43:18,200 --> 01:43:22,400 But maybe you like this grocery store more than you said you did. 1000 01:43:24,800 --> 01:43:27,599 - So you missed me? - Oh, yeah. 1001 01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:31,100 I been crying myself to sleep every night. 1002 01:43:39,800 --> 01:43:41,899 Don't let him see us so much as wink. 1003 01:43:41,900 --> 01:43:46,499 He's suspicious as a damn coyote, and he don't trust you one iota. 1004 01:43:46,500 --> 01:43:48,399 - Well, I guess that makes... - Hey. 1005 01:43:48,400 --> 01:43:53,800 He already put away Ed Miller. He said so like it was something piddly he'd done. 1006 01:44:33,900 --> 01:44:39,000 If we're ever alone for more than a minute, I'd like a chance to talk to you further. 1007 01:45:17,900 --> 01:45:21,000 They gave me ten days. 1008 01:45:24,000 --> 01:45:26,400 For what? 1009 01:45:27,500 --> 01:45:30,200 For arresting him. 1010 01:45:35,400 --> 01:45:38,000 You and me, huh? 1011 01:45:40,700 --> 01:45:44,199 It's gonna happen one way or another, Charley. It's gonna happen. 1012 01:45:44,200 --> 01:45:46,899 So it might as well be us who get rich on it. 1013 01:45:46,900 --> 01:45:50,899 - Bob, he's our friend. - He murdered Ed Miller. 1014 01:45:50,900 --> 01:45:54,900 And he's gonna murder Liddil and Cummins if the chance ever comes. 1015 01:45:55,400 --> 01:46:00,900 It seems to me Jesse's riding from man to man, saying goodbye to the gang. 1016 01:46:01,500 --> 01:46:04,800 So your friendship could put you under the pansies. 1017 01:46:06,000 --> 01:46:11,300 I'll grind it fine in my mind, Bob. I can't go any further than that right now. 1018 01:46:14,000 --> 01:46:16,400 You'll come around. 1019 01:46:16,600 --> 01:46:19,199 You think it's all made up, don't you? 1020 01:46:19,200 --> 01:46:23,500 You think it's all yarns and newspaper stories. 1021 01:46:30,400 --> 01:46:33,700 He's just a human being. 1022 01:46:41,000 --> 01:46:44,899 From now on, you two won't go anywhere without me. 1023 01:46:44,900 --> 01:46:50,400 From now on, you'll ask for my permission! From now on, you'll ask to be excused! 1024 01:47:45,400 --> 01:47:50,599 Charley, take them horses around the barn. Bob, you go on inside. 1025 01:47:50,600 --> 01:47:52,099 - Hello, Mary. - Hi. 1026 01:47:52,100 --> 01:47:56,100 Look at this rotten parsnip I found in the compost heap. 1027 01:48:05,400 --> 01:48:08,200 You never mentioned Bob would be here. 1028 01:48:11,600 --> 01:48:15,500 Maybe he was saving it as a pleasant surprise. 1029 01:48:19,200 --> 01:48:22,800 Got two cousins for company now. 1030 01:48:31,600 --> 01:48:34,299 How it's gonna be is... 1031 01:48:34,300 --> 01:48:39,400 we'll leave next Monday afternoon and ride down to Platte City. 1032 01:48:41,300 --> 01:48:44,200 How far is that from Kansas City? 1033 01:48:45,000 --> 01:48:48,700 Platte City's 30 miles south. 1034 01:48:49,400 --> 01:48:54,599 You and me and Charley'll sleep in the woods overnight... 1035 01:48:54,600 --> 01:48:59,900 and we'll strike the Wells Bank sometime before the court recesses. 1036 01:49:03,800 --> 01:49:07,600 What time will that be exactly? 1037 01:49:12,300 --> 01:49:15,800 Well, you don't need to know that. 1038 01:49:29,900 --> 01:49:33,099 You know, I'm real comfortable with your brother. 1039 01:49:33,100 --> 01:49:36,399 Hell, he's ugly as sin, he smells like a skunk... 1040 01:49:36,400 --> 01:49:39,999 and he's so ignorant he couldn't drive nails in the snow... 1041 01:49:40,000 --> 01:49:42,999 but he's sort of easy to be around. 1042 01:49:43,000 --> 01:49:46,700 I can't say the same for you, Bob. 1043 01:49:49,200 --> 01:49:52,500 Well, I'm sorry to hear you say that. 1044 01:49:53,500 --> 01:49:57,699 You know how it is when you're with your girlfriend and the moon's out... 1045 01:49:57,700 --> 01:50:02,600 and you know she wants to be kissed, even though she never said so? 1046 01:50:05,200 --> 01:50:07,500 Yeah. 1047 01:50:09,300 --> 01:50:13,599 Well, you're giving me signs that grieve my soul... 1048 01:50:13,600 --> 01:50:16,099 and make me wonder... 1049 01:50:16,100 --> 01:50:18,799 maybe your mind's been changed about me. 1050 01:50:18,800 --> 01:50:23,200 Well, what do you want me to do? Swear my good faith on the Bible? 1051 01:50:39,800 --> 01:50:42,600 You two having a spat? 1052 01:50:47,000 --> 01:50:50,400 I was getting ready to be angry. 1053 01:50:54,900 --> 01:50:58,200 Sit over here closer, kid. 1054 01:50:59,500 --> 01:51:01,700 Come on. 1055 01:51:11,900 --> 01:51:14,899 Charley, you'll stay with the animals. 1056 01:51:14,900 --> 01:51:16,999 Me and the kid... 1057 01:51:17,000 --> 01:51:21,900 will walk into that bank just before noon. 1058 01:51:22,800 --> 01:51:25,999 Bob will move that cashier... 1059 01:51:26,000 --> 01:51:29,399 away from the shotgun that's under the counter... 1060 01:51:29,400 --> 01:51:32,399 and I'll creep up behind that cashier... 1061 01:51:32,400 --> 01:51:34,999 and I'll cock his head back like so. 1062 01:51:35,000 --> 01:51:36,199 And I'll say: 1063 01:51:36,200 --> 01:51:39,199 "How come an off-scouring like you is still sucking air... 1064 01:51:39,200 --> 01:51:41,599 when so many of mine are in coffins?" I'll say: 1065 01:51:41,600 --> 01:51:45,399 "How did you get to reach 20 without leaking out all over your clothes?" 1066 01:51:45,400 --> 01:51:49,599 And if I don't like his attitude, I will slit that phildoodle so deep... 1067 01:51:49,600 --> 01:51:53,500 he will flop on the floor like a fish. 1068 01:51:56,300 --> 01:51:59,500 My God, what just happened? 1069 01:52:07,900 --> 01:52:11,599 Boy, I could hear your gears grinding... 1070 01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:15,099 hear your little motor wondering, "My gosh, what's next? 1071 01:52:15,100 --> 01:52:17,400 What's happening to me?" 1072 01:52:18,300 --> 01:52:20,399 You were precious to behold, Bob. 1073 01:52:20,400 --> 01:52:23,499 You were white as spit in a cotton field. 1074 01:52:23,500 --> 01:52:26,900 You got him. You got him. 1075 01:52:27,600 --> 01:52:32,600 You wanna know how that feels? Unpleasant. I honestly can't recommend it. 1076 01:52:37,200 --> 01:52:40,299 The old Charley looked stricken! 1077 01:52:40,300 --> 01:52:42,299 I was. I was. 1078 01:52:42,300 --> 01:52:48,200 "This is plumb unexpected," old Charley was thinking."That done ruined my day." 1079 01:52:55,100 --> 01:52:57,500 Hell. Hell. 1080 01:53:27,500 --> 01:53:32,300 Jesse slept with Bob in the children's room that night. 1081 01:53:32,700 --> 01:53:36,200 And Bob remained awake. 1082 01:53:38,100 --> 01:53:42,399 He could see that there was a gun on the nightstand. 1083 01:53:42,400 --> 01:53:47,299 He could imagine its cold nickel inside his grip... 1084 01:53:47,300 --> 01:53:51,700 its two-pound weight reached out and aimed. 1085 01:54:21,900 --> 01:54:24,900 I need to go to the privy. 1086 01:54:25,200 --> 01:54:29,500 You think you do, but you don't. 1087 01:54:51,800 --> 01:54:54,899 You wait for grace, now. 1088 01:54:54,900 --> 01:54:58,499 - Thank you, Mama. - Thank you, Zee. God, that looks good. 1089 01:54:58,500 --> 01:55:00,299 - Thank you, Zee. - You're welcome. 1090 01:55:00,300 --> 01:55:04,200 Well, is this fit to eat or will it just do? 1091 01:55:06,300 --> 01:55:08,499 Woman's cooking's always been a scandal. 1092 01:55:08,500 --> 01:55:11,799 Cut her meat and the whole table moves. 1093 01:55:11,800 --> 01:55:14,099 You want a biscuit? You gonna have a biscuit? 1094 01:55:14,100 --> 01:55:18,800 Here's some butter. Come on. Come on. 1095 01:55:19,800 --> 01:55:21,299 Oh, shoot. 1096 01:55:21,300 --> 01:55:25,199 And so it went, Jesse was increasingly cavalier... 1097 01:55:25,200 --> 01:55:29,099 merry, moody, fey... 1098 01:55:29,100 --> 01:55:32,100 unpredictable. 1099 01:55:32,800 --> 01:55:36,099 He camouflaged his depressions and derangements... 1100 01:55:36,100 --> 01:55:40,299 with masquerades of extreme cordiality, courtesy... 1101 01:55:40,300 --> 01:55:43,900 and goodwill towards others. 1102 01:55:44,100 --> 01:55:48,499 But even as he jested, or tickled his boy in the ribs... 1103 01:55:48,500 --> 01:55:52,299 Jesse would look over at Bob with melancholy eyes... 1104 01:55:52,300 --> 01:55:57,200 as if the two were meshed in an intimate communication. 1105 01:55:59,100 --> 01:56:01,899 Bob was certain that the man had unriddled him... 1106 01:56:01,900 --> 01:56:04,699 had seen through his reasons for coming along... 1107 01:56:04,700 --> 01:56:08,899 that Jesse could forecast each of Bob's possible moves and inclinations... 1108 01:56:08,900 --> 01:56:10,899 and was only acting the innocent... 1109 01:56:10,900 --> 01:56:16,800 in order to lull Bob into stupid tranquility and miscalculation. 1110 01:56:37,500 --> 01:56:40,600 How long you been studying me? 1111 01:56:41,700 --> 01:56:45,300 You're gonna break a lot of hearts. 1112 01:56:52,300 --> 01:56:54,400 How do you mean? 1113 01:57:02,700 --> 01:57:05,400 It's a present. 1114 01:57:09,100 --> 01:57:11,299 It's heavy. 1115 01:57:11,300 --> 01:57:14,300 Well, you gonna look inside? 1116 01:57:15,000 --> 01:57:17,399 It's April Fools' Day, you know. 1117 01:57:17,400 --> 01:57:20,100 It ain't no joke. 1118 01:57:26,700 --> 01:57:29,200 Oh, such extravagance. 1119 01:57:29,800 --> 01:57:32,699 Don't that nickel just shine, though? 1120 01:57:32,700 --> 01:57:34,399 It's more than I could hope for. 1121 01:57:34,400 --> 01:57:37,399 I figured that granddaddy Colt may blow into fragments... 1122 01:57:37,400 --> 01:57:40,399 next time you try to squeeze the trigger. 1123 01:57:40,400 --> 01:57:43,299 Well, you might have something there. 1124 01:57:43,300 --> 01:57:46,800 Tom, supper's ready. 1125 01:57:47,100 --> 01:57:49,299 I'll be right there, sweetheart. 1126 01:57:49,300 --> 01:57:52,500 I might be too excited to eat. 1127 01:57:54,900 --> 01:57:58,300 You know what John Newman Edwards once wrote about me? 1128 01:57:58,400 --> 01:58:01,399 He said I didn't trust two men in 10,000... 1129 01:58:01,400 --> 01:58:04,899 and even them I was cautious around. 1130 01:58:04,900 --> 01:58:07,800 Government's sort of run me ragged. 1131 01:58:08,900 --> 01:58:11,999 I'm going the long way around the barn to say that... 1132 01:58:12,000 --> 01:58:16,399 I been feeling cornered and just plain ornery as of late... 1133 01:58:16,400 --> 01:58:22,000 and I'd be pleased if you'd accept that gun as my way of apologizing. 1134 01:58:23,500 --> 01:58:26,399 Heaven knows I'd be ornerier if I were in your position. 1135 01:58:26,400 --> 01:58:30,400 No. No, I haven't been acting correctly. 1136 01:58:31,300 --> 01:58:35,800 Seems I hardly recognize myself when I'm greased. 1137 01:58:37,900 --> 01:58:40,599 I go on journeys out of my body... 1138 01:58:40,600 --> 01:58:45,499 and look at my red hands and my mean face... 1139 01:58:45,500 --> 01:58:50,100 and I wonder about that man that's gone so wrong. 1140 01:58:53,000 --> 01:58:56,900 I've been becoming a problem to myself. 1141 01:59:08,700 --> 01:59:10,900 Well... 1142 01:59:16,700 --> 01:59:22,200 - I better wash my hands if supper's on. - Yeah, go ahead. 1143 01:59:34,700 --> 01:59:38,500 The day before he died was Palm Sunday. 1144 01:59:38,600 --> 01:59:42,099 And Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Howard, their two children... 1145 01:59:42,100 --> 01:59:44,299 and their cousin Charles Johnson... 1146 01:59:44,300 --> 01:59:50,400 strolled to the Second Presbyterian Church to attend the 10:00 service. 1147 01:59:51,900 --> 01:59:54,399 Bob remained at the cottage... 1148 01:59:54,400 --> 01:59:58,700 and slyly migrated from room to room. 1149 02:00:00,400 --> 02:00:02,399 He walked into the master bedroom... 1150 02:00:02,400 --> 02:00:07,100 and inventoried the clothes on the hangers and hooks. 1151 02:00:12,500 --> 02:00:16,700 He sipped from the water glass on the vanity. 1152 02:00:18,100 --> 02:00:23,300 He smelled the talcum and lilacs on Jesse's pillowcase. 1153 02:00:30,300 --> 02:00:32,699 His fingers skittered over his ribs... 1154 02:00:32,700 --> 02:00:37,500 to construe the scars where Jesse was twice shot. 1155 02:00:40,400 --> 02:00:45,900 He manufactured a middle finger that was missing the top two knuckles. 1156 02:00:52,400 --> 02:00:56,200 He imagined himself at 34. 1157 02:00:57,300 --> 02:01:01,200 He imagined himself in a coffin. 1158 02:01:02,400 --> 02:01:04,299 He considered possibilities... 1159 02:01:04,300 --> 02:01:08,500 and everything wonderful that could come true. 1160 02:01:35,400 --> 02:01:38,200 He's not gonna kill us. 1161 02:01:42,600 --> 02:01:45,600 Yeah, he is. 1162 02:01:47,100 --> 02:01:50,400 Well, I'll stay awake so he can't. 1163 02:02:02,900 --> 02:02:06,200 You're imagining things. 1164 02:02:17,600 --> 02:02:20,500 Ain't gonna be no Platte City. 1165 02:02:21,300 --> 02:02:24,800 That's Jesse fooling with us. 1166 02:02:40,300 --> 02:02:43,500 Go to sleep, Charley. 1167 02:03:16,200 --> 02:03:18,700 Morning. 1168 02:03:21,600 --> 02:03:24,000 Charley. 1169 02:03:53,000 --> 02:03:56,300 Bob, how much did you want to eat? 1170 02:03:59,900 --> 02:04:03,200 I'm feeling sort of peculiar. 1171 02:04:21,500 --> 02:04:24,900 Why is it you're looking so interested? 1172 02:04:25,500 --> 02:04:28,599 You think it's intelligent to go out like that... 1173 02:04:28,600 --> 02:04:31,300 so all creation can see your guns? 1174 02:04:48,100 --> 02:04:50,500 Hi. 1175 02:04:59,900 --> 02:05:03,700 Come on, let's go see what your mama's doing. 1176 02:05:03,900 --> 02:05:06,900 Timmy, get that door, would you? 1177 02:05:10,200 --> 02:05:13,499 - Well, you lost your shoe, sweetheart. - Yeah, I did. 1178 02:05:13,500 --> 02:05:18,600 That's gonna be a problem. They don't sell those one at a time. 1179 02:05:19,200 --> 02:05:22,100 We lost a shoe, Mama. 1180 02:05:22,800 --> 02:05:26,300 Will you put that up for Daddy, would you? 1181 02:05:28,500 --> 02:05:32,100 - What you doing, you lose a shoe? - Yeah. 1182 02:05:48,000 --> 02:05:51,599 It's only meant to go on top, to complement. 1183 02:05:51,600 --> 02:05:54,400 Yeah, I know. Sometimes, I... 1184 02:06:18,100 --> 02:06:21,699 Bob, everything's getting cold! 1185 02:06:21,700 --> 02:06:26,000 - Where's Mary? - She's outside, darling. 1186 02:06:26,100 --> 02:06:28,800 Mary? 1187 02:06:31,600 --> 02:06:35,100 What do you think goes on in that noggin of his? 1188 02:06:37,200 --> 02:06:39,499 Nothing. 1189 02:06:39,500 --> 02:06:43,100 I was talking about his mind, not yours. 1190 02:06:43,200 --> 02:06:45,399 Oh, yeah. 1191 02:06:45,400 --> 02:06:48,000 Oh, I get it. 1192 02:07:42,500 --> 02:07:44,799 Well, hello now. 1193 02:07:44,800 --> 02:07:48,800 "The arrest and confession of Dick Liddil." 1194 02:07:53,100 --> 02:07:56,200 You don't say so. 1195 02:08:09,600 --> 02:08:12,099 That's very strange. 1196 02:08:12,100 --> 02:08:15,199 Says here Dick surrendered three weeks ago. 1197 02:08:15,200 --> 02:08:18,499 You must have been right in the neighborhood. 1198 02:08:18,500 --> 02:08:22,000 Well, apparently, they kept it a secret. 1199 02:08:32,300 --> 02:08:36,300 If I get to Kansas City soon, I'll ask somebody about it. 1200 02:09:16,100 --> 02:09:18,700 You two ready? 1201 02:09:21,500 --> 02:09:25,000 I will be, by noon. 1202 02:09:57,000 --> 02:09:59,899 There is a ship She sails the sea 1203 02:09:59,900 --> 02:10:02,799 She's loaded deep As deep can be 1204 02:10:02,800 --> 02:10:05,599 But not as deep As the love I'm in 1205 02:10:05,600 --> 02:10:10,200 I know not if I sink or swim 1206 02:10:10,300 --> 02:10:12,900 The water is wide 1207 02:10:13,100 --> 02:10:20,099 I can't cross o'er And neither have I wings to fly 1208 02:10:20,100 --> 02:10:24,099 Give me a boat That can carry two 1209 02:10:24,100 --> 02:10:27,099 Both shall row My love and I 1210 02:10:27,100 --> 02:10:30,799 For love is gentle And love is kind 1211 02:10:30,800 --> 02:10:33,999 Sweetest flower When first it's new 1212 02:10:34,000 --> 02:10:37,699 But love grows old And waxes cold 1213 02:10:37,700 --> 02:10:41,099 And fades away Like the morning dew 1214 02:10:41,100 --> 02:10:44,299 There is a ship She sails the sea 1215 02:10:44,300 --> 02:10:47,399 I guess I'll take my guns off... 1216 02:10:47,400 --> 02:10:50,300 for fear the neighbors might spy them. 1217 02:11:22,700 --> 02:11:26,100 Don't that picture look dusty? 1218 02:13:07,300 --> 02:13:11,200 What have...? What have you done? 1219 02:13:12,700 --> 02:13:15,200 Jesse. 1220 02:13:19,900 --> 02:13:21,800 Jesse? 1221 02:13:22,100 --> 02:13:24,899 Jesse? Jesse? 1222 02:13:24,900 --> 02:13:27,700 Jesse! 1223 02:13:27,800 --> 02:13:30,800 No! 1224 02:13:34,100 --> 02:13:36,999 No. Jess... 1225 02:13:37,000 --> 02:13:42,300 Come back. Oh, come back. 1226 02:13:43,500 --> 02:13:48,199 Oh, Jesse! No! 1227 02:13:48,200 --> 02:13:52,299 Oh, Bob. Have you done this?! 1228 02:13:52,300 --> 02:13:55,600 I swear to God I didn't. 1229 02:13:55,700 --> 02:13:58,000 It was an accident, Zee. 1230 02:13:59,300 --> 02:14:03,600 Come on. Pistol went off accidentally. 1231 02:14:48,000 --> 02:14:49,399 Put my name. 1232 02:14:49,400 --> 02:14:52,800 Why, what'd you do? I shot him. 1233 02:14:59,100 --> 02:15:02,000 You might wanna keep that. 1234 02:15:39,100 --> 02:15:42,000 Thank you all very much. 1235 02:15:49,300 --> 02:15:51,999 The resulting prints sold for 2 dollars apiece... 1236 02:15:52,000 --> 02:15:57,500 and were the models for the lithographed covers on a number of magazines. 1237 02:16:02,100 --> 02:16:07,699 Soon a thousand strangers were making spellbound pilgrimages to the cottage... 1238 02:16:07,700 --> 02:16:13,099 or were venerating the iced remains in Seidenfaden's cooling room. 1239 02:16:13,100 --> 02:16:17,799 The man who offered 30,000 dollars for the body of President Garfield's assassin... 1240 02:16:17,800 --> 02:16:21,899 sent a telegram to City Marshal Enos Craig offering 50,000... 1241 02:16:21,900 --> 02:16:24,299 for the body of Jesse Woodson James... 1242 02:16:24,300 --> 02:16:28,000 so that he could go around the country with it... 1243 02:16:29,500 --> 02:16:35,400 or at least sell it to P.T. Barnum for his Greatest Show on Earth. 1244 02:16:38,500 --> 02:16:41,799 Another photograph was taken of the renowned American bandit... 1245 02:16:41,800 --> 02:16:44,599 nestled in his bed of ice. 1246 02:16:44,600 --> 02:16:48,999 And it was this shot that was most available in sundries and apothecaries... 1247 02:16:49,000 --> 02:16:52,899 to be viewed in a stereoscope alongside the sphinx... 1248 02:16:52,900 --> 02:16:57,800 the Taj Mahal, and the catacombs of Rome. 1249 02:17:22,100 --> 02:17:24,199 Hello, here! 1250 02:17:24,200 --> 02:17:26,999 "The arrest and confession of Dick Liddil." 1251 02:17:27,000 --> 02:17:32,299 Young man, I thought you told me you didn't know Dick had surrendered. 1252 02:17:32,300 --> 02:17:37,099 You mean he did? I didn't know. 1253 02:17:37,100 --> 02:17:39,099 But I knew I had not fooled him. 1254 02:17:39,100 --> 02:17:43,899 And he knew, as well as I, in that moment that I intended to bring him to justice. 1255 02:17:43,900 --> 02:17:47,699 But he would not kill me in the presence of his wife and children. 1256 02:17:47,700 --> 02:17:51,800 And so he was smiling to throw me off-guard. 1257 02:17:54,100 --> 02:17:57,700 Well, it's all right, anyway, Bob. 1258 02:17:58,700 --> 02:18:01,699 It was widely felt that Bob possessed some acting talent... 1259 02:18:01,700 --> 02:18:04,199 and Charley, not a jot. 1260 02:18:04,200 --> 02:18:07,899 That picture's awful dusty. 1261 02:18:07,900 --> 02:18:11,199 Charley was only expected not to slouch or mutter... 1262 02:18:11,200 --> 02:18:16,800 and to transport his sicknesses to the alley before letting them go. 1263 02:18:45,300 --> 02:18:47,699 And that's... 1264 02:18:47,700 --> 02:18:51,300 how I killed Jesse James. 1265 02:18:53,900 --> 02:18:57,599 By October of 1883, Bob Ford could be identified correctly... 1266 02:18:57,600 --> 02:19:02,499 by more citizens than could the president of the United States. 1267 02:19:02,500 --> 02:19:07,399 He was as renowned at 20 as Jesse was after 14 years of grand larceny. 1268 02:19:07,400 --> 02:19:10,099 You won't get your hooks into me. 1269 02:19:10,100 --> 02:19:14,999 That's right. That's right. Sit next to your boyfriend. Jezebel. 1270 02:19:15,000 --> 02:19:17,299 Charley was increasingly superstitious... 1271 02:19:17,300 --> 02:19:20,199 increasingly subject to the advice of soothsayers... 1272 02:19:20,200 --> 02:19:24,399 who promised to cure his miseries with pipe smoke and poultices. 1273 02:19:24,400 --> 02:19:28,500 You been spending too much time with Gypsies, Charley. 1274 02:19:33,400 --> 02:19:35,600 Shit. 1275 02:19:39,100 --> 02:19:42,099 The picture's awful dusty. 1276 02:19:42,100 --> 02:19:46,099 Something began to change in Charley's stage portrayal of Jesse. 1277 02:19:46,100 --> 02:19:48,799 His gait seemed more practiced. 1278 02:19:48,800 --> 02:19:52,199 His voice was spookily similar to the man's. 1279 02:19:52,200 --> 02:19:54,799 His newly suggested dialogue was analogous... 1280 02:19:54,800 --> 02:19:58,700 to a script Jesse might have originated. 1281 02:20:00,700 --> 02:20:03,299 He began to look at his younger brother with spite... 1282 02:20:03,300 --> 02:20:06,099 as if he suspected that in some future performance... 1283 02:20:06,100 --> 02:20:11,500 he might present himself to a live cartridge in Robert Ford's gun. 1284 02:20:11,900 --> 02:20:14,099 Murderer! 1285 02:20:14,100 --> 02:20:16,499 Cur! 1286 02:20:16,500 --> 02:20:19,100 Coward! 1287 02:20:21,800 --> 02:20:26,699 You wanna investigate my courage? Do you? 1288 02:20:26,700 --> 02:20:31,400 Find out! Find out! 1289 02:20:35,100 --> 02:20:37,900 Nobody. 1290 02:20:51,600 --> 02:20:54,300 Coward! 1291 02:21:18,600 --> 02:21:24,299 By his own approximation, Bob assassinated Jesse James over 800 times. 1292 02:21:24,300 --> 02:21:28,199 He suspected no one in history had ever so often or so publicly... 1293 02:21:28,200 --> 02:21:32,300 recapitulated an act of betrayal. 1294 02:21:36,600 --> 02:21:39,599 Bob always challenged the allegations of cowardice... 1295 02:21:39,600 --> 02:21:42,799 but Charley seemed to agree with them. 1296 02:21:42,800 --> 02:21:46,699 He spoke of Mrs. Zee James as certain priests might the Madonna... 1297 02:21:46,700 --> 02:21:49,999 and composed long soul-describing letters to her... 1298 02:21:50,000 --> 02:21:53,100 begging her forgiveness... 1299 02:21:53,500 --> 02:21:57,000 none of which he mailed. 1300 02:22:24,000 --> 02:22:30,500 Charley Ford became all that his countrymen wanted an assassin of Jesse James to be. 1301 02:22:33,800 --> 02:22:40,600 Jesse James was a man Who killed many men 1302 02:22:40,900 --> 02:22:45,599 He robbed the Glendale train 1303 02:22:45,600 --> 02:22:51,699 And he stole from the rich And he gave to the poor 1304 02:22:51,700 --> 02:22:57,399 He had a hand And a heart and a brain 1305 02:22:57,400 --> 02:23:03,099 Well, Jesse had a wife To mourn for his life 1306 02:23:03,100 --> 02:23:08,299 Three children They were brave 1307 02:23:08,300 --> 02:23:14,199 But that dirty little coward Who shot Mr. Howard 1308 02:23:14,200 --> 02:23:20,100 Has laid Jesse James in his grave 1309 02:23:20,300 --> 02:23:26,099 It was Robert Ford That dirty little coward 1310 02:23:26,100 --> 02:23:30,599 I wonder how does he feel 1311 02:23:30,600 --> 02:23:36,499 For he ate at Jesse's bread And he slept in Jesse's bed 1312 02:23:36,500 --> 02:23:41,999 And he laid poor Jesse in his grave 1313 02:23:42,000 --> 02:23:47,699 Well, Jesse had a wife To mourn for his life 1314 02:23:47,700 --> 02:23:52,799 Three children They were brave 1315 02:23:52,800 --> 02:23:58,599 But that dirty little coward Who shot Mr. Howard 1316 02:23:58,600 --> 02:24:03,700 Has laid poor Jesse in his grave 1317 02:24:14,300 --> 02:24:17,300 I'm Robert Ford. 1318 02:24:27,100 --> 02:24:31,700 It was two children, not three. 1319 02:24:42,200 --> 02:24:43,500 Hey. 1320 02:24:44,400 --> 02:24:47,699 You get yourself home, son, okay? 1321 02:24:47,700 --> 02:24:52,600 Come on. Get out of here. Get out of my place. 1322 02:25:23,500 --> 02:25:25,899 He thought, at his angriest... 1323 02:25:25,900 --> 02:25:30,500 about visiting the kin of Jesse's slaughtered victims: 1324 02:25:31,600 --> 02:25:35,800 Mrs. William Westfall in Plattsburg... 1325 02:25:37,400 --> 02:25:41,400 the Wymore family in Clay County... 1326 02:25:45,600 --> 02:25:50,800 perhaps even Mrs. Joseph Heywood in Northfield, Minnesota. 1327 02:25:53,000 --> 02:25:56,199 He would go to their homes and give his name as Robert Ford... 1328 02:25:56,200 --> 02:26:00,000 the man who killed Jesse James. 1329 02:26:00,600 --> 02:26:04,500 He imagined they would be grateful to him. 1330 02:26:54,600 --> 02:26:59,799 It was only with Dorothy Evans that Bob spoke revealingly or plainly... 1331 02:26:59,800 --> 02:27:05,100 and it was with her that he spoke of things he didn't know he knew. 1332 02:27:25,900 --> 02:27:30,099 He told her that he had no real memory of the shooting and its aftermath. 1333 02:27:30,100 --> 02:27:34,699 He could remember lifting the gun that Jesse had given him... 1334 02:27:34,700 --> 02:27:38,899 and then it was Good Friday and he was reading about the funeral proceedings... 1335 02:27:38,900 --> 02:27:42,300 as if they'd happened a long time ago. 1336 02:27:43,000 --> 02:27:46,000 Why did you kill him? 1337 02:27:49,500 --> 02:27:52,400 Well, he was gonna kill me. 1338 02:27:56,700 --> 02:28:00,800 So you were scared and that's the only reason? 1339 02:28:02,700 --> 02:28:04,499 Yeah. 1340 02:28:04,500 --> 02:28:07,500 And the reward money. 1341 02:28:12,400 --> 02:28:16,100 Do you want me to change the subject? 1342 02:28:23,400 --> 02:28:26,700 You know what I expected? 1343 02:28:26,800 --> 02:28:29,700 Applause. 1344 02:28:31,400 --> 02:28:36,400 I was only 20 years old then. I couldn't see how it would look to people. 1345 02:28:39,600 --> 02:28:43,200 I was surprised by what happened. 1346 02:28:43,400 --> 02:28:46,200 They didn't applaud. 1347 02:28:48,800 --> 02:28:50,799 He was ashamed of his boasting... 1348 02:28:50,800 --> 02:28:53,999 his pretensions of courage and ruthlessness. 1349 02:28:54,000 --> 02:28:58,600 He was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion... 1350 02:28:59,400 --> 02:29:04,700 his inability to express what he now believed was the case: 1351 02:29:06,400 --> 02:29:10,199 That he truly regretted killing Jesse... 1352 02:29:10,200 --> 02:29:13,699 that he missed the man as much as anybody... 1353 02:29:13,700 --> 02:29:17,700 and wished his murder hadn't been necessary. 1354 02:29:36,300 --> 02:29:38,599 Even as he circulated his saloon... 1355 02:29:38,600 --> 02:29:43,200 he knew that the smiles disappeared when he passed by. 1356 02:29:43,400 --> 02:29:45,399 He received so many menacing letters... 1357 02:29:45,400 --> 02:29:49,800 that he could read them without any reaction except curiosity. 1358 02:29:52,700 --> 02:29:58,400 He kept to his apartment all day, flipping over playing cards... 1359 02:29:59,000 --> 02:30:04,400 looking at his destiny in every king and jack. 1360 02:30:07,700 --> 02:30:12,900 Edward O'Kelly came up from Bachelor at 1 p.m. on the 8th. 1361 02:30:13,500 --> 02:30:17,599 He had no grand scheme, no strategy... 1362 02:30:17,600 --> 02:30:20,099 no agreement with higher authorities... 1363 02:30:20,100 --> 02:30:23,800 nothing beyond a vague longing for glory... 1364 02:30:24,000 --> 02:30:29,100 and a generalized wish for revenge against Robert Ford. 1365 02:30:36,000 --> 02:30:40,200 - How'd it go last night? - Not so bad. 1366 02:30:42,500 --> 02:30:44,800 The other one. 1367 02:30:46,400 --> 02:30:49,399 Edward O'Kelly would be ordered to serve a life sentence... 1368 02:30:49,400 --> 02:30:52,399 in the Colorado Penitentiary for second-degree murder. 1369 02:30:52,400 --> 02:30:55,399 Over 7000 signatures would eventually be gathered... 1370 02:30:55,400 --> 02:30:57,799 on a petition asking for O'Kelly's release... 1371 02:30:57,800 --> 02:31:03,399 and in 1902, Governor James B. Orman would pardon the man. 1372 02:31:03,400 --> 02:31:08,700 You shouldn't be wearing that stickpin again there, Bob. Opals are unlucky. 1373 02:31:09,300 --> 02:31:14,399 My luck's not very good as it is. I don't think an opal's gonna change that much. 1374 02:31:14,400 --> 02:31:16,700 I hear you. 1375 02:31:29,400 --> 02:31:32,200 There would be no eulogies for Bob... 1376 02:31:33,000 --> 02:31:37,799 no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores... 1377 02:31:37,800 --> 02:31:43,000 no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege... 1378 02:31:43,900 --> 02:31:46,999 no biographies would be written about him... 1379 02:31:47,000 --> 02:31:50,500 no children named after him. 1380 02:31:51,200 --> 02:31:56,800 No one would ever pay 25 cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in. 1381 02:32:00,400 --> 02:32:03,100 Hello, Bob. 1382 02:32:03,600 --> 02:32:08,599 The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream... 1383 02:32:08,600 --> 02:32:12,399 but Robert Ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling... 1384 02:32:12,400 --> 02:32:15,099 the light going out of his eyes... 1385 02:32:15,100 --> 02:32:18,700 before he could find the right words.