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American Experience "Jesse James"
Jesse JamesThe story of Jesse James remains one of America's most cherished tales ... and one of its most fictitious. James, so the legend goes, was a western outlaw, though, in fact, he never went west; America's own Robin Hood, though he robbed from the poor as well as the rich; a gunfighter, though his victims were almost always unarmed. Less heroic than brutal, James was a member of a vicious band of Missouri guerrillas during the Civil War. In a life steeped in violence and bloodshed, he met what was perhaps the most fitting end.
Air Date
Monday, 11/13 from 9-10 p.m. ET
Website
pbs.org/wgbh/amex/james/index.html
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