1 00:00:00,327 --> 00:00:04,855 It was a tomcat yowling and what all, and I slipped. 2 00:00:16,810 --> 00:00:19,904 I thought maybe your club foot was gaining on you. 3 00:00:28,956 --> 00:00:30,583 Oh, yeah. 4 00:00:31,358 --> 00:00:35,590 Dick went to Kansas City to be with his wife. He was here for a bit. 5 00:00:55,215 --> 00:00:58,116 Hey, here's a cute story, Jess. 6 00:00:58,285 --> 00:01:01,652 Bobby was what, 11 or 12... 7 00:01:01,822 --> 00:01:04,985 ...and you were by far his most admired personage. 8 00:01:05,492 --> 00:01:06,652 He couldn't get enough. 9 00:01:06,827 --> 00:01:11,025 It was "Jesse this" and "Jesse that" and "Jesse this" from sunrise to sunset. 10 00:01:11,198 --> 00:01:12,324 Fascinating. 11 00:01:12,499 --> 00:01:14,228 No, there's more. This is cute. 12 00:01:14,401 --> 00:01:19,168 We're at supper and Bob asks, "You know what size boot Jesse wears?" 13 00:01:19,339 --> 00:01:23,070 - Charley, Jesse doesn't wanna hear this. - Shush, now, Bob, let me tell it. 14 00:01:23,243 --> 00:01:26,269 Bob says... He says, "You know what size boot Jesse wears?" 15 00:01:26,446 --> 00:01:29,609 He says, "Six and a half." He says, "Ain't that a big enough boot... 16 00:01:29,783 --> 00:01:31,580 ...for a man 5'8"tall?" 17 00:01:31,752 --> 00:01:35,586 I decided to josh him a little, you know, he being my kid brother and everything. 18 00:01:35,756 --> 00:01:38,850 So I said, "He doesn't have toes is why." 19 00:01:39,026 --> 00:01:40,550 That's a really stupid story. 20 00:01:40,727 --> 00:01:45,323 "He was dangling his feet off a culvert and a catfish nibbled his toes off." 21 00:01:45,499 --> 00:01:48,229 Bob taxed himself trying to picture it. 22 00:01:55,108 --> 00:01:57,770 That'd be a good joke if it was funny. 23 00:01:58,612 --> 00:02:01,137 Isn't that a cute story, Jess? 24 00:02:11,024 --> 00:02:13,891 Give me some more conversations, Bob. 25 00:02:18,966 --> 00:02:24,131 I got one. This one's about as crackerjack... It's the one about your... 26 00:02:24,304 --> 00:02:26,204 Let Bob tell it. 27 00:02:27,574 --> 00:02:29,371 All right. 28 00:02:35,916 --> 00:02:37,907 I don't even know what you're talking about. 29 00:02:38,085 --> 00:02:42,078 About how you and Jesse have so much in common. 30 00:02:45,125 --> 00:02:46,786 Go on, Bob. 31 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:48,928 Yeah, come on, Bob. 32 00:02:49,663 --> 00:02:51,927 Tell us a story. 33 00:02:53,867 --> 00:02:58,463 - Nope. No. - Come on, entertain Jesse. He's here. 34 00:03:05,412 --> 00:03:06,936 Come on. 35 00:03:13,820 --> 00:03:17,722 Well, if you'll pardon my saying so, I guess... 36 00:03:17,891 --> 00:03:21,952 ...it is interesting the many ways you and I overlap and whatnot. 37 00:03:23,263 --> 00:03:26,027 I mean, you begin with our daddies. 38 00:03:26,199 --> 00:03:29,168 Your daddy was a pastor at the New Hope Baptist Church... 39 00:03:29,336 --> 00:03:34,069 ...and my daddy was a pastor at the church in Excelsior Springs. 40 00:03:35,509 --> 00:03:39,843 You're the youngest of three James boys, and I'm the youngest of five Ford boys. 41 00:03:41,648 --> 00:03:44,310 Between Charley and me, there's another brother, Wilbur... 42 00:03:44,484 --> 00:03:46,509 ...with six letters in his name. 43 00:03:46,853 --> 00:03:52,450 And between Frank and you, is another brother Robert, also with six letters. 44 00:03:52,659 --> 00:03:56,390 And my Christian name is Robert, of course. 45 00:03:57,731 --> 00:03:59,892 You have blue eyes, I have blue eyes. 46 00:04:00,067 --> 00:04:04,060 You're 5'8"tall, I'm 5'8" tall. 47 00:04:08,809 --> 00:04:14,179 Me, I must have had a list as long as your nightshirt when I was 12, but... 48 00:04:14,348 --> 00:04:17,784 ...I seem to have lost some curiosities over the years. 49 00:04:36,071 --> 00:04:38,266 Ain't he something? 50 00:04:50,852 --> 00:04:55,050 Did I ever tell you the story about that scalawag, George Shepherd? 51 00:04:55,357 --> 00:04:57,257 Shepherd's one of Quantrill's lieutenants. 52 00:04:57,425 --> 00:05:00,121 He give me a story much like Bob's what bring him to mind. 53 00:05:00,595 --> 00:05:03,120 Going on about how much we had in common, and so on... 54 00:05:03,298 --> 00:05:05,823 ...so he could get in the gang. 55 00:05:06,001 --> 00:05:09,129 How could I have known he had a grudge against me? 56 00:05:09,304 --> 00:05:13,798 How could I have known he was lying to get on my good side? 57 00:05:13,975 --> 00:05:18,969 I said, "George, come on aboard. Glad to have you." 58 00:05:19,147 --> 00:05:23,948 George thought he was smart, except he wasn't. 59 00:05:24,886 --> 00:05:28,014 One morning, George rides into camp... 60 00:05:28,189 --> 00:05:30,384 ...and about 20 guns open up on him. 61 00:05:34,195 --> 00:05:38,655 See, old George, he only had one eye. You gotta have two eyes, you wanna get Jesse. 62 00:05:43,505 --> 00:05:46,633 You ought not think of me like you do George Shepherd. 63 00:05:47,976 --> 00:05:50,206 You brought him to mind. 64 00:05:51,146 --> 00:05:53,444 Well, it's not very flattering. 65 00:05:59,421 --> 00:06:02,219 Sure is good eating, Martha. 66 00:06:03,091 --> 00:06:05,321 Well, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. 67 00:06:05,493 --> 00:06:07,654 How come George had a grudge against you? 68 00:06:12,567 --> 00:06:16,663 I said, how come George had a grudge against you? 69 00:06:22,377 --> 00:06:27,110 Well, you see, George had a nephew he wanted me to protect during the war. 70 00:06:27,282 --> 00:06:29,512 This nephew had 5000 dollars on him. 71 00:06:29,684 --> 00:06:34,280 It just so happens he winds up killed and someone swipes that money. 72 00:06:34,456 --> 00:06:38,324 And when George is in prison, someone whispers to him: 73 00:06:38,493 --> 00:06:42,224 "It was Jesse James slit the boy's throat." 74 00:06:46,968 --> 00:06:49,436 It was just mean gossip, was it? 75 00:06:51,239 --> 00:06:54,538 Bob's the expert. Let's put it to him. 76 00:06:59,614 --> 00:07:02,014 Oh, dear, I made him cranky. 77 00:07:02,183 --> 00:07:05,983 I'm not cranky. I just been through this before is all. 78 00:07:06,154 --> 00:07:09,317 Most people get around on making fun of me. They don't ever let up. 79 00:07:09,491 --> 00:07:11,550 Someone's getting awful fresh over there. 80 00:07:11,726 --> 00:07:14,422 Woman, shut your face for once. 81 00:07:21,436 --> 00:07:23,768 Don't want you to skip off to your room and pout... 82 00:07:23,938 --> 00:07:26,463 ...without knowing why I come by for this visit. 83 00:07:27,275 --> 00:07:29,505 Why? So you could tell us how sorry you are... 84 00:07:29,677 --> 00:07:32,237 ...you had to slap our cousin Albert around? 85 00:07:45,860 --> 00:07:47,691 I come by... 86 00:07:47,862 --> 00:07:51,263 ...to ask if one of you two Fords... 87 00:07:51,466 --> 00:07:54,833 ...would care to ride with me in a journey or two. 88 00:07:55,236 --> 00:07:58,603 I guess we both agree it ought to be Charley. 89 00:07:58,773 --> 00:08:01,571 You've been acting sort of testy. 90 00:08:32,540 --> 00:08:34,770 Have you seen Wood Hite lately? 91 00:08:35,276 --> 00:08:38,803 No. Not at all. 92 00:08:46,788 --> 00:08:49,450 I swear that stew had some squirrel meat in it. 93 00:08:49,624 --> 00:08:52,320 - Still arguing with you, is it? - Yeah. 94 00:08:53,094 --> 00:08:55,028 - You're Charles Ford? - Yes, ma'am. 95 00:08:55,196 --> 00:08:57,255 You've seen me once or twice before. 96 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:00,534 I got a letter from George Hite. 97 00:09:01,169 --> 00:09:04,070 He hasn't seen hide nor hair of him. 98 00:09:05,573 --> 00:09:07,768 And you say you haven't seen Wood? 99 00:09:08,510 --> 00:09:11,673 No, I... I can't imagine where he could be. 100 00:09:39,074 --> 00:09:40,098 Yeah? 101 00:09:41,276 --> 00:09:43,437 You finished with your sleeping? 102 00:09:44,946 --> 00:09:47,471 I could use a couple more hours if it's no trouble. 103 00:09:59,127 --> 00:10:00,685 Yeah. 104 00:10:04,332 --> 00:10:08,769 I been holding a discussion with myself over if I ought to tell you this or no. 105 00:10:08,937 --> 00:10:11,599 My good side won out and... 106 00:10:12,808 --> 00:10:15,709 Well, I wanna make a clean breast of things. 107 00:10:16,812 --> 00:10:20,976 Yeah, my mind's a little cobwebby is the only drawback. 108 00:10:21,149 --> 00:10:25,950 I could use a little... A little more sleep. 109 00:10:28,490 --> 00:10:30,515 You know I went to Kentucky? 110 00:10:31,493 --> 00:10:32,926 Yeah. 111 00:10:33,628 --> 00:10:36,062 I come back through Saline County and... 112 00:10:37,465 --> 00:10:39,330 ...I think to myself: 113 00:10:39,868 --> 00:10:44,635 "Why not stop by and see Ed Miller?" 114 00:10:46,808 --> 00:10:48,537 So I do. 115 00:10:52,380 --> 00:10:55,713 Well, things are not to my satisfaction. 116 00:10:57,853 --> 00:11:00,617 Ed's got himself all worked up over something. 117 00:11:02,157 --> 00:11:05,422 I can see that he's lying like a rug. 118 00:11:08,763 --> 00:11:11,857 So I say to myself, "Enough's enough." 119 00:11:12,367 --> 00:11:15,165 And I say to Ed, "Come on, Ed. 120 00:11:16,104 --> 00:11:18,436 Let's go for a ride." 121 00:11:20,242 --> 00:11:23,143 You understand what I'm saying? 122 00:11:24,379 --> 00:11:27,348 Going for a ride is like... 123 00:11:28,416 --> 00:11:31,544 Going for a ride is like giving him what-for? 124 00:11:33,521 --> 00:11:35,250 Exactly. 125 00:11:39,728 --> 00:11:41,195 So... 126 00:11:43,899 --> 00:11:45,764 ...Ed and Jesse... 127 00:11:48,169 --> 00:11:50,433 ...they argue on the road. 128 00:11:54,876 --> 00:11:57,208 Did you ever count the stars? 129 00:12:00,682 --> 00:12:04,618 I can't ever get the same number. They keep changing on me. 130 00:12:06,488 --> 00:12:09,514 I don't even know what a star is exactly. 131 00:12:12,227 --> 00:12:14,422 Well, your body knows. 132 00:12:15,330 --> 00:12:17,798 It's your mind that forgot. 133 00:12:27,575 --> 00:12:30,635 You go on ahead, partner. I'll catch up with you. 134 00:13:10,852 --> 00:13:12,683 It's okay. 135 00:13:35,510 --> 00:13:38,968 It's okay, sweetheart. It's okay. 136 00:13:41,983 --> 00:13:44,451 And when push came to shove... 137 00:13:51,326 --> 00:13:53,726 ...Jesse shot and killed him. 138 00:13:57,065 --> 00:13:58,930 Jesse did. 139 00:14:01,403 --> 00:14:03,132 You got it. 140 00:14:05,173 --> 00:14:06,538 You... 141 00:14:23,124 --> 00:14:25,092 So, you see, your... 142 00:14:25,293 --> 00:14:27,761 Your cousin, he got off easy. 143 00:14:27,929 --> 00:14:29,521 I was just playing with Albert. 144 00:14:31,032 --> 00:14:34,695 Yeah, I made him squeal once or twice myself. 145 00:14:35,003 --> 00:14:38,063 I'm just not as thorough as you are. 146 00:14:49,350 --> 00:14:52,376 You got a tale to swap with me now? 147 00:15:01,162 --> 00:15:03,562 I don't get your meaning. 148 00:15:05,633 --> 00:15:10,935 Seems to me, if you have something to confess in exchange... 149 00:15:11,106 --> 00:15:13,267 ...it'd only be right... 150 00:15:14,175 --> 00:15:17,508 ...that you'd spit it out now. 151 00:15:29,324 --> 00:15:31,451 I can't think of a single thing. 152 00:15:34,362 --> 00:15:37,126 About Wood Hite, for example. 153 00:15:37,298 --> 00:15:42,133 I'm not gonna... I been saying over and over I can't figure out where he's gone. 154 00:15:42,303 --> 00:15:45,363 Now, I'm not gonna change my story just to have something to spit. 155 00:15:45,540 --> 00:15:48,236 - Why was your brother so agitated? - Which? 156 00:15:49,210 --> 00:15:50,302 Bob. 157 00:15:51,679 --> 00:15:54,671 That's just his way. He's antsy. 158 00:15:55,450 --> 00:15:56,883 You know? 159 00:16:13,067 --> 00:16:15,661 You go on back to sleep now. 160 00:16:17,305 --> 00:16:20,433 You got me agitated now, you see? 161 00:16:26,848 --> 00:16:31,046 Yeah, just ain't no peace when old Jesse's around. 162 00:16:31,586 --> 00:16:34,578 You ought to pity my poor wife. 163 00:16:37,258 --> 00:16:39,419 Ed Miller was a good friend of mine. 164 00:16:39,594 --> 00:16:43,030 He introduced me to you at that one poker game. 165 00:16:43,765 --> 00:16:47,792 I'm a little angry with you, if you wanna know the God's honest truth. 166 00:16:50,271 --> 00:16:52,762 You ought to pity me too. 167 00:17:38,319 --> 00:17:42,255 As proof of his confederacy with the James Gang, Bob told the authorities... 168 00:17:42,423 --> 00:17:45,915 ...that Dick Liddil was sleeping over at the rented farmhouse... 169 00:17:46,094 --> 00:17:48,927 ...while his ruined leg mended. 170 00:17:53,935 --> 00:17:57,769 And then, created a map of the Harbison property... 171 00:17:58,940 --> 00:18:04,173 ...leaving out the creek where Wood Hite's remains now moldered. 172 00:18:04,946 --> 00:18:07,141 Right, you boys are cornered! 173 00:18:07,315 --> 00:18:11,843 Come on out peaceably and nobody'll get shot up! 174 00:18:16,991 --> 00:18:18,015 Don't shoot! 175 00:18:22,630 --> 00:18:24,621 Come on out and show yourself! 176 00:18:39,681 --> 00:18:41,205 Hello. 177 00:18:41,549 --> 00:18:43,176 We got him. 178 00:18:43,584 --> 00:18:45,609 Give me that Colt, son. 179 00:18:50,558 --> 00:18:53,118 - All right. - Andrew James Liddil... 180 00:18:53,294 --> 00:18:56,286 ...I have a warrant here for your arrest... 181 00:18:56,464 --> 00:19:00,833 Snowstorms would move over Missouri that Sunday, February 19th... 182 00:19:01,002 --> 00:19:03,994 ...shutting down commerce for more than two days. 183 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:08,370 - Go, go, go. - Are the papers here? 184 00:19:08,543 --> 00:19:12,172 - He wanted to know if the papers are here. - I don't care what he wants. 185 00:19:12,347 --> 00:19:14,212 Yet this wouldn't prevent Robert Ford... 186 00:19:14,382 --> 00:19:16,782 ...from presenting himself to Governor Crittenden... 187 00:19:16,951 --> 00:19:20,045 ...at the Craig Rifles Ball on Wednesday. 188 00:19:20,221 --> 00:19:23,782 I deem it a great privilege on this glorious occasion... 189 00:19:23,958 --> 00:19:25,949 ...to recognize publicly... 190 00:19:26,127 --> 00:19:28,789 ...the intelligent and effective assistance... 191 00:19:28,963 --> 00:19:33,764 ...that Captain Henry Craig has rendered the state of Missouri and myself... 192 00:19:33,935 --> 00:19:37,393 ...in our joint quest to rid Jackson County... 193 00:19:37,805 --> 00:19:39,773 ...of the James band. 194 00:19:39,941 --> 00:19:42,569 The task that Captain Craig has assumed... 195 00:19:42,744 --> 00:19:46,874 ...will require fearless courage, extraordinary vigilance... 196 00:19:47,048 --> 00:19:49,983 ...and an unerring selection of instrumentalities. 197 00:19:51,152 --> 00:19:55,816 Well, I've gotten the signal from my wife that enough is enough. 198 00:19:55,990 --> 00:19:58,356 However, before I sit... 199 00:19:58,526 --> 00:20:01,654 ...I would like to ask you to join me in a toast... 200 00:20:02,096 --> 00:20:05,793 ...to a great son of the state of Missouri... 201 00:20:05,967 --> 00:20:09,801 ...my friend, Henry Craig. - Here, here. 202 00:20:22,483 --> 00:20:24,110 Yes. 203 00:20:25,086 --> 00:20:26,917 Just let my attorney know. 204 00:20:34,562 --> 00:20:37,827 Who is that? Who is it? 205 00:20:38,166 --> 00:20:39,724 Get out of the way now. 206 00:20:49,710 --> 00:20:53,806 You know, you're more goddamn trouble than you're worth, Bob. 207 00:20:53,981 --> 00:20:55,676 I was just gonna say hello. 208 00:20:55,850 --> 00:20:59,081 No, you weren't gonna do that, Bob. That's not why you're down here. 209 00:20:59,253 --> 00:21:04,520 You think it's your goddamn coming-out. You think you're the belle of the ball. 210 00:21:04,692 --> 00:21:08,924 Now you get upstairs and try to keep your identity secret, you silly little bastard. 211 00:21:09,096 --> 00:21:11,963 The governor'll see you in good time. Take him up, boys. 212 00:21:17,472 --> 00:21:19,599 Bob would later be cross-examined repeatedly... 213 00:21:19,774 --> 00:21:23,972 ...about the exact nature of the deal he had made with the authorities. 214 00:21:24,145 --> 00:21:27,080 And he was never consistent in his recollections. 215 00:21:31,252 --> 00:21:35,484 My wife's asleep in the other room, so let's speak as quietly as we can. 216 00:21:36,157 --> 00:21:38,387 So you're Dick Little. 217 00:21:40,261 --> 00:21:41,785 Liddil. 218 00:21:42,530 --> 00:21:44,464 I beg your pardon? 219 00:21:44,765 --> 00:21:46,357 I spell it with two D's. 220 00:21:46,534 --> 00:21:48,900 He's given us a full confession, governor. 221 00:21:49,070 --> 00:21:51,163 Newspapers haven't caught onto it yet. 222 00:21:51,339 --> 00:21:54,866 And you've guaranteed him a conditional pardon... 223 00:21:55,042 --> 00:21:58,910 ...and amnesty for all the robberies he's committed. 224 00:22:00,548 --> 00:22:01,776 You Robert Ford? 225 00:22:05,286 --> 00:22:06,583 How old are you? 226 00:22:08,656 --> 00:22:10,089 Twenty. 227 00:22:10,391 --> 00:22:12,916 You surrender to Sheriff Timberlake as well? 228 00:22:13,094 --> 00:22:16,996 No, no, governor. That's his brother, Charley Ford, he's in the James Gang. 229 00:22:17,164 --> 00:22:19,894 But little Bob here, we got nothing on Bob. 230 00:22:20,067 --> 00:22:22,627 He's just acting in capacity as a... 231 00:22:24,839 --> 00:22:27,000 ...private detective. 232 00:22:28,175 --> 00:22:30,200 Jesse James sent me a telegram last month... 233 00:22:30,378 --> 00:22:33,541 ...saying he'd kill me if he had to wreck a train to do it. 234 00:22:33,714 --> 00:22:36,342 He said once I got in his hands, he'd cut my heart out... 235 00:22:36,517 --> 00:22:39,008 ...and eat it in strips like it was bacon. 236 00:22:39,186 --> 00:22:41,120 I'll wreck his train first. 237 00:22:48,696 --> 00:22:52,860 I'm sorry, Your Excellency. I was thinking about something else. 238 00:22:53,034 --> 00:22:55,366 Jesse James is nothing more than a public outlaw... 239 00:22:55,536 --> 00:22:58,334 ...who made his reputation by stealing whatever he wanted... 240 00:22:58,506 --> 00:23:00,736 ...killing whoever got in his way. 241 00:23:00,908 --> 00:23:04,503 You'll hear some fools say he's getting back at Republicans and Union men... 242 00:23:04,679 --> 00:23:07,443 ...for the wrongs his family suffered during the war. 243 00:23:07,615 --> 00:23:12,348 But his victims have scarcely been selected with reference to their political views. 244 00:23:12,853 --> 00:23:15,549 I'm saying his sins will soon find him out. 245 00:23:15,723 --> 00:23:18,385 I'm saying his cup of iniquity is full. 246 00:23:18,559 --> 00:23:21,255 I'm saying Jesse James is a desperate case... 247 00:23:21,562 --> 00:23:24,463 ...and may require a desperate remedy. 248 00:23:27,802 --> 00:23:30,896 Y'all got the right man for the job. 249 00:23:47,254 --> 00:23:49,518 Come on. Come on, now. 250 00:23:50,091 --> 00:23:51,718 Come on, now. 251 00:24:36,103 --> 00:24:38,663 Have you ever considered suicide? 252 00:24:40,708 --> 00:24:46,044 I can't say that I have. There's always something else I wanted to do. 253 00:24:47,114 --> 00:24:52,984 Or my predicaments changed, or I saw my hardships from a different slant. 254 00:24:53,154 --> 00:24:57,557 You know all what can happen. It never seemed respectable. 255 00:25:04,331 --> 00:25:07,164 I'll tell you one thing that's for certain. 256 00:25:07,334 --> 00:25:11,293 You won't mind dying once you've peeked over the other side. 257 00:25:15,076 --> 00:25:18,102 You'll no more wanna go back to your body than... 258 00:25:18,279 --> 00:25:20,747 ...you'd wanna spoon up your own puke. 259 00:25:27,254 --> 00:25:30,052 Hey, since we're looking to rob banks... 260 00:25:30,224 --> 00:25:34,820 ...I was wondering if we could add another fella to the gang... 261 00:25:34,995 --> 00:25:38,624 ...and sort of see if we couldn't come out of our next job alive. 262 00:25:41,102 --> 00:25:46,096 Bob wanted to know could he ride with us next time we took on a savings bank or... 263 00:25:52,413 --> 00:25:54,881 A savings bank or a... 264 00:25:56,617 --> 00:25:58,346 A railroad. 265 00:26:05,726 --> 00:26:09,025 Bob isn't much more than a boy to most appearances. 266 00:26:09,196 --> 00:26:11,960 But there's about two tons of sand in him. 267 00:26:12,133 --> 00:26:15,364 And he'll stand with a shooter when that's what's called for. 268 00:26:15,536 --> 00:26:19,802 And he's smart too. He's about as intricate as they come. 269 00:26:21,909 --> 00:26:24,639 You forget I already met the kid. 270 00:26:25,946 --> 00:26:28,676 Hell, he surely thinks highly of you. 271 00:26:29,216 --> 00:26:31,980 All of America thinks highly of me. 272 00:26:32,686 --> 00:26:35,917 Still, not like you got two million names to snatch out of a sock... 273 00:26:36,090 --> 00:26:38,251 ...whenever you need a third man. 274 00:26:41,762 --> 00:26:44,788 I can see you trying to wear me down on this. 275 00:26:44,965 --> 00:26:47,160 That's my main intention. 276 00:26:56,243 --> 00:26:58,905 Robberies would be conceived but never carried out... 277 00:26:59,079 --> 00:27:02,640 ...in Nebraska, Colorado and Missouri. 278 00:27:03,284 --> 00:27:04,376 During this time... 279 00:27:04,552 --> 00:27:08,579 ...Henry Craig enjoined Robert Ford to return to Elias' Grocery Store in Richmond... 280 00:27:08,756 --> 00:27:11,816 ...and await instructions from Sheriff James Timberlake. 281 00:27:12,259 --> 00:27:14,523 All right, three cans... 282 00:27:14,695 --> 00:27:18,426 ...peaches. Two cans... 283 00:27:19,700 --> 00:27:22,225 Two cans sifted peas. 284 00:27:22,536 --> 00:27:24,163 One bottle... 285 00:27:26,974 --> 00:27:30,171 ...Mary's Morning Tonic, and a half... 286 00:27:33,247 --> 00:27:35,807 Half a sack of flour. 287 00:27:36,984 --> 00:27:39,043 I'll be right with you. 288 00:27:55,035 --> 00:27:57,367 I haven't seen any sign of him. 289 00:27:58,839 --> 00:28:01,205 Well, do you know where he's living? 290 00:28:02,309 --> 00:28:03,674 No. 291 00:28:04,845 --> 00:28:06,278 No? 292 00:28:09,016 --> 00:28:11,780 Well, I can't guess how he does it... 293 00:28:11,952 --> 00:28:16,252 ...but he is always knowledgeable about what's going on. 294 00:28:16,423 --> 00:28:20,723 He's gonna know I've been here with you. You ought to take that for granted. 295 00:28:23,230 --> 00:28:27,189 And he will kill you if he gets the chance. 296 00:28:30,437 --> 00:28:32,997 Are you willing to risk that? 297 00:28:37,611 --> 00:28:39,340 Yes, I am. 298 00:28:42,416 --> 00:28:44,145 I've been a nobody all my life. 299 00:28:45,085 --> 00:28:46,916 I was the baby. 300 00:28:47,187 --> 00:28:50,623 I was the one they made promises to that they never kept. 301 00:28:51,825 --> 00:28:56,524 And ever since I can remember it, Jesse James has been as big as a tree. 302 00:28:59,967 --> 00:29:02,231 I'm prepared for this, Jim... 303 00:29:03,137 --> 00:29:05,298 ...and I'm gonna accomplish it. 304 00:29:05,539 --> 00:29:07,632 I know I won't get but this one opportunity... 305 00:29:07,808 --> 00:29:10,709 ...and you can bet your life I'm not gonna spoil it. 306 00:29:22,723 --> 00:29:23,781 Well... 307 00:29:24,992 --> 00:29:26,983 ...wait for your chance. 308 00:29:27,494 --> 00:29:30,895 Don't let yourself be found alone with him, and do not... 309 00:29:31,765 --> 00:29:34,165 ...let him get behind you. 310 00:30:02,296 --> 00:30:03,490 You been chosen. 311 00:30:08,469 --> 00:30:10,061 Well, what do you mean? 312 00:30:11,338 --> 00:30:13,829 Well, your brother said that you might wanna join us. 313 00:30:14,008 --> 00:30:17,341 But maybe you like this grocery store more than you said you did. 314 00:30:20,647 --> 00:30:22,706 - So you missed me? - Oh, yeah. 315 00:30:23,384 --> 00:30:26,046 I been crying myself to sleep every night. 316 00:30:35,596 --> 00:30:37,587 Don't let him see us so much as wink. 317 00:30:37,765 --> 00:30:41,599 He's suspicious as a damn coyote, and he don't trust you one iota. 318 00:30:42,302 --> 00:30:44,099 - Well, I guess that makes... - Hey. 319 00:30:44,271 --> 00:30:48,731 He already put away Ed Miller. He said so like it was something piddly he'd done. 320 00:31:29,716 --> 00:31:33,948 If we're ever alone for more than a minute, I'd like a chance to talk to you further. 321 00:32:13,694 --> 00:32:15,924 They gave me ten days. 322 00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:21,324 For what? 323 00:32:23,303 --> 00:32:25,168 For arresting him. 324 00:32:31,245 --> 00:32:32,906 You and me, huh? 325 00:32:36,550 --> 00:32:39,815 It's gonna happen one way or another, Charley. It's gonna happen. 326 00:32:39,987 --> 00:32:42,581 So it might as well be us who get rich on it. 327 00:32:42,756 --> 00:32:46,055 - Bob, he's our friend. - He murdered Ed Miller. 328 00:32:46,693 --> 00:32:49,787 And he's gonna murder Liddil and Cummins if the chance ever comes. 329 00:32:51,231 --> 00:32:55,861 It seems to me Jesse's riding from man to man, saying goodbye to the gang. 330 00:32:57,371 --> 00:32:59,737 So your friendship could put you under the pansies. 331 00:33:01,808 --> 00:33:06,268 I'll grind it fine in my mind, Bob. I can't go any further than that right now. 332 00:33:09,850 --> 00:33:11,283 You'll come around. 333 00:33:12,419 --> 00:33:14,887 You think it's all made up, don't you? 334 00:33:15,055 --> 00:33:18,388 You think it's all yarns and newspaper stories. 335 00:33:26,266 --> 00:33:28,598 He's just a human being. 336 00:33:36,843 --> 00:33:39,971 From now on, you two won't go anywhere without me. 337 00:33:40,747 --> 00:33:45,309 From now on, you'll ask for my permission! From now on, you'll ask to be excused! 338 00:34:41,241 --> 00:34:45,541 Charley, take them horses around the barn. Bob, you go on inside. 339 00:34:46,380 --> 00:34:47,711 - Hello, Mary. - Hi. 340 00:34:47,881 --> 00:34:51,044 Look at this rotten parsnip I found in the compost heap. 341 00:35:01,261 --> 00:35:03,161 You never mentioned Bob would be here. 342 00:35:07,434 --> 00:35:10,426 Maybe he was saving it as a pleasant surprise. 343 00:35:15,042 --> 00:35:17,704 Got two cousins for company now. 344 00:35:27,421 --> 00:35:29,719 How it's gonna be is... 345 00:35:30,090 --> 00:35:34,288 ...we'll leave next Monday afternoon and ride down to Platte City. 346 00:35:37,164 --> 00:35:39,098 How far is that from Kansas City? 347 00:35:40,801 --> 00:35:43,634 Platte City's 30 miles south. 348 00:35:45,272 --> 00:35:49,868 You and me and Charley'll sleep in the woods overnight... 349 00:35:50,377 --> 00:35:54,780 ...and we'll strike the Wells Bank sometime before the court recesses. 350 00:35:59,586 --> 00:36:02,521 What time will that be exactly? 351 00:36:08,161 --> 00:36:10,686 Well, you don't need to know that. 352 00:36:25,712 --> 00:36:28,681 You know, I'm real comfortable with your brother. 353 00:36:28,915 --> 00:36:31,440 Hell, he's ugly as sin, he smells like a skunk... 354 00:36:32,252 --> 00:36:35,688 ...and he's so ignorant he couldn't drive nails in the snow... 355 00:36:35,856 --> 00:36:38,347 ...but he's sort of easy to be around. 356 00:36:38,859 --> 00:36:41,657 I can't say the same for you, Bob. 357 00:36:45,065 --> 00:36:47,431 Well, I'm sorry to hear you say that. 358 00:36:49,302 --> 00:36:53,329 You know how it is when you're with your girlfriend and the moon's out... 359 00:36:53,507 --> 00:36:57,568 ...and you know she wants to be kissed, even though she never said so? 360 00:37:00,981 --> 00:37:02,414 Yeah. 361 00:37:05,152 --> 00:37:08,519 Well, you're giving me signs that grieve my soul... 362 00:37:09,389 --> 00:37:11,516 ...and make me wonder... 363 00:37:11,925 --> 00:37:14,291 ...maybe your mind's been changed about me. 364 00:37:14,628 --> 00:37:18,086 Well, what do you want me to do? Swear my good faith on the Bible? 365 00:37:35,582 --> 00:37:37,516 You two having a spat? 366 00:37:42,789 --> 00:37:45,280 I was getting ready to be angry. 367 00:37:50,764 --> 00:37:53,096 Sit over here closer, kid. 368 00:37:55,335 --> 00:37:56,597 Come on. 369 00:38:07,747 --> 00:38:10,079 Charley, you'll stay with the animals. 370 00:38:10,750 --> 00:38:12,650 Me and the kid... 371 00:38:12,819 --> 00:38:16,778 ...will walk into that bank just before noon. 372 00:38:18,658 --> 00:38:21,286 Bob will move that cashier... 373 00:38:21,828 --> 00:38:25,059 ...away from the shotgun that's under the counter... 374 00:38:25,232 --> 00:38:28,099 ...and I'll creep up behind that cashier... 375 00:38:28,268 --> 00:38:30,600 ...and I'll cock his head back like so. 376 00:38:30,871 --> 00:38:31,895 And I'll say: 377 00:38:32,072 --> 00:38:34,802 "How come an off-scouring like you is still sucking air... 378 00:38:34,975 --> 00:38:37,239 ...when so many of mine are in coffins?" I'll say: 379 00:38:37,410 --> 00:38:40,743 "How did you get to reach 20 without leaking out all over your clothes?" 380 00:38:41,214 --> 00:38:45,082 And if I don't like his attitude, I will slit that phildoodle so deep... 381 00:38:45,385 --> 00:38:48,411 ...he will flop on the floor like a fish. 382 00:38:52,092 --> 00:38:54,458 My God, what just happened? 383 00:39:03,703 --> 00:39:07,070 Boy, I could hear your gears grinding... 384 00:39:07,374 --> 00:39:10,741 ...hear your little motor wondering, "My gosh, what's next? 385 00:39:10,911 --> 00:39:12,276 What's happening to me?" 386 00:39:14,147 --> 00:39:16,012 You were precious to behold, Bob. 387 00:39:16,182 --> 00:39:18,810 You were white as spit in a cotton field. 388 00:39:19,352 --> 00:39:21,820 You got him. You got him. 389 00:39:23,456 --> 00:39:27,517 You wanna know how that feels? Unpleasant. I honestly can't recommend it. 390 00:39:33,033 --> 00:39:35,501 The old Charley looked stricken! 391 00:39:36,169 --> 00:39:38,000 I was. I was. 392 00:39:38,171 --> 00:39:43,165 "This is plumb unexpected," old Charley was thinking."That done ruined my day." 393 00:39:50,951 --> 00:39:52,384 Hell. Hell. 394 00:40:23,350 --> 00:40:27,218 Jesse slept with Bob in the children's room that night. 395 00:40:28,521 --> 00:40:31,115 And Bob remained awake. 396 00:40:33,960 --> 00:40:37,327 He could see that there was a gun on the nightstand. 397 00:40:38,198 --> 00:40:42,191 He could imagine its cold nickel inside his grip... 398 00:40:43,103 --> 00:40:46,595 ...its two-pound weight reached out and aimed. 399 00:41:17,737 --> 00:41:19,830 I need to go to the privy. 400 00:41:21,041 --> 00:41:24,442 You think you do, but you don't. 401 00:41:47,667 --> 00:41:49,828 You wait for grace, now. 402 00:41:50,770 --> 00:41:54,103 - Thank you, Mama. - Thank you, Zee. God, that looks good. 403 00:41:54,274 --> 00:41:55,901 - Thank you, Zee. - You're welcome. 404 00:41:56,076 --> 00:41:59,170 Well, is this fit to eat or will it just do? 405 00:42:02,082 --> 00:42:04,175 Woman's cooking's always been a scandal. 406 00:42:04,350 --> 00:42:06,716 Cut her meat and the whole table moves. 407 00:42:07,654 --> 00:42:09,713 You want a biscuit? You gonna have a biscuit? 408 00:42:09,889 --> 00:42:13,689 Here's some butter. Come on. Come on. 409 00:42:15,628 --> 00:42:16,925 Oh, shoot. 410 00:42:17,097 --> 00:42:20,897 And so it went, Jesse was increasingly cavalier... 411 00:42:21,067 --> 00:42:24,798 ...merry, moody, fey... 412 00:42:24,971 --> 00:42:27,064 ...unpredictable. 413 00:42:28,608 --> 00:42:31,736 He camouflaged his depressions and derangements... 414 00:42:31,911 --> 00:42:35,904 ...with masquerades of extreme cordiality, courtesy... 415 00:42:36,082 --> 00:42:38,846 ...and goodwill towards others. 416 00:42:39,919 --> 00:42:44,185 But even as he jested, or tickled his boy in the ribs... 417 00:42:44,357 --> 00:42:47,986 ...Jesse would look over at Bob with melancholy eyes... 418 00:42:48,161 --> 00:42:52,120 ...as if the two were meshed in an intimate communication. 419 00:42:54,934 --> 00:42:57,562 Bob was certain that the man had unriddled him... 420 00:42:57,737 --> 00:43:00,399 ...had seen through his reasons for coming along... 421 00:43:00,573 --> 00:43:04,566 ...that Jesse could forecast each of Bob's possible moves and inclinations... 422 00:43:04,744 --> 00:43:06,575 ...and was only acting the innocent... 423 00:43:06,746 --> 00:43:11,683 ...in order to lull Bob into stupid tranquility and miscalculation. 424 00:43:33,373 --> 00:43:35,568 How long you been studying me? 425 00:43:37,477 --> 00:43:40,207 You're gonna break a lot of hearts. 426 00:43:48,121 --> 00:43:49,315 How do you mean? 427 00:43:58,565 --> 00:44:00,294 It's a present. 428 00:44:04,971 --> 00:44:06,529 It's heavy. 429 00:44:07,106 --> 00:44:09,233 Well, you gonna look inside? 430 00:44:10,810 --> 00:44:12,607 It's April Fools' Day, you know. 431 00:44:13,179 --> 00:44:15,010 It ain't no joke. 432 00:44:22,522 --> 00:44:24,080 Oh, such extravagance. 433 00:44:25,625 --> 00:44:28,321 Don't that nickel just shine, though? 434 00:44:28,528 --> 00:44:30,086 It's more than I could hope for. 435 00:44:30,263 --> 00:44:33,061 I figured that granddaddy Colt may blow into fragments... 436 00:44:33,233 --> 00:44:35,997 ...next time you try to squeeze the trigger. 437 00:44:36,236 --> 00:44:38,636 Well, you might have something there. 438 00:44:39,138 --> 00:44:41,766 Tom, supper's ready. 439 00:44:42,942 --> 00:44:44,967 I'll be right there, sweetheart. 440 00:44:45,144 --> 00:44:47,442 I might be too excited to eat. 441 00:44:50,717 --> 00:44:53,208 You know what John Newman Edwards once wrote about me? 442 00:44:54,254 --> 00:44:57,087 He said I didn't trust two men in 10,000... 443 00:44:57,257 --> 00:44:59,919 ...and even them I was cautious around. 444 00:45:00,727 --> 00:45:02,718 Government's sort of run me ragged. 445 00:45:04,697 --> 00:45:07,689 I'm going the long way around the barn to say that... 446 00:45:07,867 --> 00:45:11,496 ...I been feeling cornered and just plain ornery as of late... 447 00:45:12,238 --> 00:45:16,902 ...and I'd be pleased if you'd accept that gun as my way of apologizing. 448 00:45:19,279 --> 00:45:22,077 Heaven knows I'd be ornerier if I were in your position. 449 00:45:22,248 --> 00:45:25,342 No. No, I haven't been acting correctly. 450 00:45:27,153 --> 00:45:30,680 Seems I hardly recognize myself when I'm greased. 451 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,251 I go on journeys out of my body... 452 00:45:36,429 --> 00:45:40,525 ...and look at my red hands and my mean face... 453 00:45:41,301 --> 00:45:45,032 ...and I wonder about that man that's gone so wrong. 454 00:45:48,808 --> 00:45:51,834 I've been becoming a problem to myself. 455 00:46:04,490 --> 00:46:05,855 Well... 456 00:46:12,498 --> 00:46:17,128 - I better wash my hands if supper's on. - Yeah, go ahead. 457 00:46:30,483 --> 00:46:33,418 The day before he died was Palm Sunday. 458 00:46:34,454 --> 00:46:37,753 And Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Howard, their two children... 459 00:46:37,924 --> 00:46:39,983 ...and their cousin Charles Johnson... 460 00:46:40,159 --> 00:46:45,324 ...strolled to the Second Presbyterian Church to attend the 10:00 service. 461 00:46:47,734 --> 00:46:50,032 Bob remained at the cottage... 462 00:46:50,203 --> 00:46:53,604 ...and slyly migrated from room to room. 463 00:46:56,209 --> 00:46:58,040 He walked into the master bedroom... 464 00:46:58,211 --> 00:47:01,977 ...and inventoried the clothes on the hangers and hooks. 465 00:47:08,287 --> 00:47:11,620 He sipped from the water glass on the vanity. 466 00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:18,226 He smelled the talcum and lilacs on Jesse's pillowcase. 467 00:47:26,139 --> 00:47:28,334 His fingers skittered over his ribs... 468 00:47:28,508 --> 00:47:32,376 ...to construe the scars where Jesse was twice shot. 469 00:47:36,182 --> 00:47:40,778 He manufactured a middle finger that was missing the top two knuckles. 470 00:47:48,227 --> 00:47:51,162 He imagined himself at 34. 471 00:47:53,166 --> 00:47:56,158 He imagined himself in a coffin. 472 00:47:58,237 --> 00:47:59,966 He considered possibilities... 473 00:48:00,139 --> 00:48:03,438 ...and everything wonderful that could come true. 474 00:48:31,237 --> 00:48:33,171 He's not gonna kill us. 475 00:48:38,411 --> 00:48:40,572 Yeah, he is. 476 00:48:42,882 --> 00:48:45,373 Well, I'll stay awake so he can't. 477 00:48:58,731 --> 00:49:01,165 You're imagining things. 478 00:49:13,412 --> 00:49:15,380 Ain't gonna be no Platte City. 479 00:49:17,116 --> 00:49:19,744 That's Jesse fooling with us. 480 00:49:36,169 --> 00:49:38,399 Go to sleep, Charley. 481 00:50:12,004 --> 00:50:13,596 Morning. 482 00:50:17,410 --> 00:50:18,934 Charley. 483 00:50:48,774 --> 00:50:51,208 Bob, how much did you want to eat? 484 00:50:55,715 --> 00:50:58,149 I'm feeling sort of peculiar. 485 00:51:17,370 --> 00:51:19,838 Why is it you're looking so interested? 486 00:51:21,307 --> 00:51:24,208 You think it's intelligent to go out like that... 487 00:51:24,377 --> 00:51:26,208 ...so all creation can see your guns? 488 00:51:43,963 --> 00:51:45,396 Hi. 489 00:51:55,708 --> 00:51:58,609 Come on, let's go see what your mama's doing. 490 00:51:59,745 --> 00:52:01,872 Timmy, get that door, would you? 491 00:52:06,018 --> 00:52:09,181 - Well, you lost your shoe, sweetheart. - Yeah, I did. 492 00:52:09,355 --> 00:52:13,485 That's gonna be a problem. They don't sell those one at a time. 493 00:52:14,994 --> 00:52:17,053 We lost a shoe, Mama. 494 00:52:18,664 --> 00:52:21,224 Will you put that up for Daddy, would you? 495 00:52:24,303 --> 00:52:27,067 - What you doing, you lose a shoe? - Yeah. 496 00:52:43,789 --> 00:52:47,190 It's only meant to go on top, to complement. 497 00:52:47,460 --> 00:52:49,291 Yeah, I know. Sometimes, I... 498 00:53:13,886 --> 00:53:16,787 Bob, everything's getting cold! 499 00:53:17,490 --> 00:53:20,891 - Where's Mary? - She's outside, darling. 500 00:53:21,894 --> 00:53:23,691 Mary? 501 00:53:27,466 --> 00:53:29,991 What do you think goes on in that noggin of his? 502 00:53:33,005 --> 00:53:34,700 Nothing. 503 00:53:35,274 --> 00:53:38,072 I was talking about his mind, not yours. 504 00:53:39,011 --> 00:53:40,740 Oh, yeah. 505 00:53:41,180 --> 00:53:42,875 Oh, I get it. 506 00:54:38,304 --> 00:54:40,272 Well, hello now. 507 00:54:40,673 --> 00:54:43,699 "The arrest and confession of Dick Liddil." 508 00:54:48,948 --> 00:54:51,109 You don't say so. 509 00:55:05,431 --> 00:55:07,524 That's very strange. 510 00:55:07,967 --> 00:55:10,868 Says here Dick surrendered three weeks ago. 511 00:55:11,036 --> 00:55:13,630 You must have been right in the neighborhood. 512 00:55:14,306 --> 00:55:16,934 Well, apparently, they kept it a secret. 513 00:55:28,153 --> 00:55:31,213 If I get to Kansas City soon, I'll ask somebody about it. 514 00:56:11,897 --> 00:56:13,592 You two ready? 515 00:56:17,303 --> 00:56:19,965 I will be, by noon. 516 00:56:52,871 --> 00:56:55,533 There is a ship She sails the sea 517 00:56:55,708 --> 00:56:58,472 She's loaded deep As deep can be 518 00:56:58,644 --> 00:57:00,874 But not as deep As the love I'm in 519 00:57:01,447 --> 00:57:05,076 I know not if I sink or swim 520 00:57:06,118 --> 00:57:07,813 The water is wide 521 00:57:08,954 --> 00:57:15,518 I can't cross o'er And neither have I wings to fly 522 00:57:15,961 --> 00:57:19,761 Give me a boat That can carry two 523 00:57:19,932 --> 00:57:22,799 Both shall row My love and I 524 00:57:22,968 --> 00:57:26,426 For love is gentle And love is kind 525 00:57:26,605 --> 00:57:29,597 Sweetest flower When first it's new 526 00:57:29,775 --> 00:57:33,370 But love grows old And waxes cold 527 00:57:33,545 --> 00:57:36,776 And fades away Like the morning dew 528 00:57:36,949 --> 00:57:39,975 There is a ship She sails the sea 529 00:57:40,152 --> 00:57:42,916 I guess I'll take my guns off... 530 00:57:43,255 --> 00:57:45,246 ...for fear the neighbors might spy them. 531 00:58:18,557 --> 00:58:20,991 Don't that picture look dusty? 532 01:00:03,095 --> 01:00:06,087 What have...? What have you done? 533 01:00:08,534 --> 01:00:10,161 Jesse. 534 01:00:15,707 --> 01:00:16,731 Jesse? 535 01:00:17,876 --> 01:00:20,003 Jesse? Jesse? 536 01:00:20,746 --> 01:00:22,611 Jesse! 537 01:00:23,615 --> 01:00:25,708 No! 538 01:00:29,888 --> 01:00:32,220 No. Jess... 539 01:00:32,825 --> 01:00:37,228 Come back. Oh, come back. 540 01:00:39,364 --> 01:00:43,528 Oh, Jesse! No! 541 01:00:44,036 --> 01:00:47,938 Oh, Bob. Have you done this?! 542 01:00:48,140 --> 01:00:50,506 I swear to God I didn't. 543 01:00:51,510 --> 01:00:52,943 It was an accident, Zee. 544 01:00:55,147 --> 01:00:58,514 Come on. Pistol went off accidentally. 545 01:01:43,862 --> 01:01:45,056 Put my name. 546 01:01:45,230 --> 01:01:47,698 Why, what'd you do? I shot him. 547 01:01:54,907 --> 01:01:56,932 You might wanna keep that. 548 01:02:34,880 --> 01:02:36,973 Thank you all very much. 549 01:02:45,123 --> 01:02:47,614 The resulting prints sold for 2 dollars apiece... 550 01:02:47,793 --> 01:02:52,389 ...and were the models for the lithographed covers on a number of magazines. 551 01:02:57,936 --> 01:03:03,135 Soon a thousand strangers were making spellbound pilgrimages to the cottage... 552 01:03:03,508 --> 01:03:08,036 ...or were venerating the iced remains in Seidenfaden's cooling room. 553 01:03:08,947 --> 01:03:13,441 The man who offered 30,000 dollars for the body of President Garfield's assassin... 554 01:03:13,618 --> 01:03:17,520 ...sent a telegram to City Marshal Enos Craig offering 50,000... 555 01:03:17,689 --> 01:03:19,987 ...for the body of Jesse Woodson James... 556 01:03:20,158 --> 01:03:22,922 ...so that he could go around the country with it... 557 01:03:25,330 --> 01:03:30,290 ...or at least sell it to P.T. Barnum for his Greatest Show on Earth. 558 01:03:34,373 --> 01:03:37,467 Another photograph was taken of the renowned American bandit... 559 01:03:37,642 --> 01:03:40,236 ...nestled in his bed of ice. 560 01:03:40,412 --> 01:03:44,678 And it was this shot that was most available in sundries and apothecaries... 561 01:03:44,850 --> 01:03:48,513 ...to be viewed in a stereoscope alongside the sphinx... 562 01:03:48,687 --> 01:03:52,680 ...the Taj Mahal, and the catacombs of Rome. 563 01:04:17,883 --> 01:04:19,851 Hello, here! 564 01:04:20,052 --> 01:04:22,646 "The arrest and confession of Dick Liddil." 565 01:04:22,821 --> 01:04:27,952 Young man, I thought you told me you didn't know Dick had surrendered. 566 01:04:28,126 --> 01:04:31,994 You mean he did? I didn't know. 567 01:04:32,898 --> 01:04:34,798 But I knew I had not fooled him. 568 01:04:34,966 --> 01:04:38,800 And he knew, as well as I, in that moment that I intended to bring him to justice. 569 01:04:39,738 --> 01:04:43,299 But he would not kill me in the presence of his wife and children. 570 01:04:43,475 --> 01:04:46,706 And so he was smiling to throw me off-guard. 571 01:04:49,948 --> 01:04:52,610 Well, it's all right, anyway, Bob. 572 01:04:54,486 --> 01:04:57,387 It was widely felt that Bob possessed some acting talent... 573 01:04:57,556 --> 01:04:59,820 ...and Charley, not a jot. 574 01:04:59,991 --> 01:05:02,926 That picture's awful dusty. 575 01:05:03,728 --> 01:05:06,856 Charley was only expected not to slouch or mutter... 576 01:05:07,032 --> 01:05:11,696 ...and to transport his sicknesses to the alley before letting them go. 577 01:05:41,099 --> 01:05:42,964 And that's... 578 01:05:43,535 --> 01:05:46,197 ...how I killed Jesse James. 579 01:05:49,674 --> 01:05:53,201 By October of 1883, Bob Ford could be identified correctly... 580 01:05:53,378 --> 01:05:57,644 ...by more citizens than could the president of the United States. 581 01:05:58,316 --> 01:06:03,049 He was as renowned at 20 as Jesse was after 14 years of grand larceny. 582 01:06:03,221 --> 01:06:05,416 You won't get your hooks into me. 583 01:06:05,957 --> 01:06:10,690 That's right. That's right. Sit next to your boyfriend. Jezebel. 584 01:06:10,862 --> 01:06:12,955 Charley was increasingly superstitious... 585 01:06:13,131 --> 01:06:15,827 ...increasingly subject to the advice of soothsayers... 586 01:06:16,001 --> 01:06:20,028 ...who promised to cure his miseries with pipe smoke and poultices. 587 01:06:20,205 --> 01:06:23,470 You been spending too much time with Gypsies, Charley. 588 01:06:29,181 --> 01:06:30,546 Shit. 589 01:06:34,886 --> 01:06:37,446 The picture's awful dusty. 590 01:06:37,889 --> 01:06:41,723 Something began to change in Charley's stage portrayal of Jesse. 591 01:06:41,893 --> 01:06:44,418 His gait seemed more practiced. 592 01:06:44,596 --> 01:06:47,895 His voice was spookily similar to the man's. 593 01:06:48,066 --> 01:06:50,466 His newly suggested dialogue was analogous... 594 01:06:50,635 --> 01:06:53,661 ...to a script Jesse might have originated. 595 01:06:56,474 --> 01:06:58,908 He began to look at his younger brother with spite... 596 01:06:59,077 --> 01:07:01,705 ...as if he suspected that in some future performance... 597 01:07:01,880 --> 01:07:06,408 ...he might present himself to a live cartridge in Robert Ford's gun. 598 01:07:07,752 --> 01:07:09,583 Murderer! 599 01:07:09,921 --> 01:07:11,650 Cur! 600 01:07:12,290 --> 01:07:14,053 Coward! 601 01:07:17,596 --> 01:07:22,124 You wanna investigate my courage? Do you? 602 01:07:22,534 --> 01:07:26,300 Find out! Find out! 603 01:07:30,942 --> 01:07:32,807 Nobody. 604 01:07:47,392 --> 01:07:49,189 Coward! 605 01:08:14,386 --> 01:08:19,949 By his own approximation, Bob assassinated Jesse James over 800 times. 606 01:08:20,125 --> 01:08:23,891 He suspected no one in history had ever so often or so publicly... 607 01:08:24,062 --> 01:08:27,259 ...recapitulated an act of betrayal. 608 01:08:32,470 --> 01:08:35,234 Bob always challenged the allegations of cowardice... 609 01:08:35,407 --> 01:08:38,342 ...but Charley seemed to agree with them. 610 01:08:38,610 --> 01:08:42,376 He spoke of Mrs. Zee James as certain priests might the Madonna... 611 01:08:42,547 --> 01:08:45,641 ...and composed long soul-describing letters to her... 612 01:08:45,817 --> 01:08:48,012 ...begging her forgiveness... 613 01:08:49,321 --> 01:08:51,915 ...none of which he mailed. 614 01:09:19,784 --> 01:09:25,381 Charley Ford became all that his countrymen wanted an assassin of Jesse James to be. 615 01:09:29,661 --> 01:09:35,531 Jesse James was a man Who killed many men 616 01:09:36,735 --> 01:09:41,172 He robbed the Glendale train 617 01:09:41,406 --> 01:09:47,242 And he stole from the rich And he gave to the poor 618 01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:52,416 He had a hand And a heart and a brain 619 01:09:53,218 --> 01:09:58,713 Well, Jesse had a wife To mourn for his life 620 01:09:58,890 --> 01:10:03,987 Three children They were brave 621 01:10:04,162 --> 01:10:09,759 But that dirty little coward Who shot Mr. Howard 622 01:10:10,001 --> 01:10:15,064 Has laid Jesse James in his grave 623 01:10:16,141 --> 01:10:21,135 It was Robert Ford That dirty little coward 624 01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:26,283 I wonder how does he feel 625 01:10:26,451 --> 01:10:32,185 For he ate at Jesse's bread And he slept in Jesse's bed 626 01:10:32,357 --> 01:10:37,385 And he laid poor Jesse in his grave 627 01:10:37,862 --> 01:10:43,391 Well, Jesse had a wife To mourn for his life 628 01:10:43,568 --> 01:10:48,471 Three children They were brave 629 01:10:48,640 --> 01:10:54,272 But that dirty little coward Who shot Mr. Howard 630 01:10:54,446 --> 01:10:58,610 Has laid poor Jesse in his grave 631 01:11:10,161 --> 01:11:12,186 I'm Robert Ford. 632 01:11:22,907 --> 01:11:26,638 It was two children, not three. 633 01:11:38,022 --> 01:11:39,353 Hey. 634 01:11:40,258 --> 01:11:42,818 You get yourself home, son, okay? 635 01:11:43,528 --> 01:11:47,555 Come on. Get out of here. Get out of my place. 636 01:12:19,330 --> 01:12:21,525 He thought, at his angriest... 637 01:12:21,699 --> 01:12:25,465 ...about visiting the kin of Jesse's slaughtered victims: 638 01:12:27,438 --> 01:12:30,703 Mrs. William Westfall in Plattsburg... 639 01:12:33,211 --> 01:12:36,305 ...the Wymore family in Clay County... 640 01:12:41,452 --> 01:12:45,752 ...perhaps even Mrs. Joseph Heywood in Northfield, Minnesota. 641 01:12:48,826 --> 01:12:51,818 He would go to their homes and give his name as Robert Ford... 642 01:12:51,996 --> 01:12:54,965 ...the man who killed Jesse James. 643 01:12:56,401 --> 01:12:59,461 He imagined they would be grateful to him. 644 01:13:50,421 --> 01:13:55,415 It was only with Dorothy Evans that Bob spoke revealingly or plainly... 645 01:13:55,593 --> 01:14:00,030 ...and it was with her that he spoke of things he didn't know he knew. 646 01:14:21,686 --> 01:14:25,747 He told her that he had no real memory of the shooting and its aftermath. 647 01:14:25,923 --> 01:14:29,791 He could remember lifting the gun that Jesse had given him... 648 01:14:30,528 --> 01:14:34,555 ...and then it was Good Friday and he was reading about the funeral proceedings... 649 01:14:34,732 --> 01:14:37,257 ...as if they'd happened a long time ago. 650 01:14:38,836 --> 01:14:40,963 Why did you kill him? 651 01:14:45,276 --> 01:14:47,301 Well, he was gonna kill me. 652 01:14:52,517 --> 01:14:55,748 So you were scared and that's the only reason? 653 01:14:58,489 --> 01:14:59,888 Yeah. 654 01:15:00,358 --> 01:15:02,417 And the reward money. 655 01:15:08,232 --> 01:15:11,030 Do you want me to change the subject? 656 01:15:19,243 --> 01:15:21,575 You know what I expected? 657 01:15:22,613 --> 01:15:24,604 Applause. 658 01:15:27,185 --> 01:15:31,349 I was only 20 years old then. I couldn't see how it would look to people. 659 01:15:35,460 --> 01:15:38,122 I was surprised by what happened. 660 01:15:39,197 --> 01:15:41,165 They didn't applaud. 661 01:15:44,602 --> 01:15:46,467 He was ashamed of his boasting... 662 01:15:46,637 --> 01:15:49,504 ...his pretensions of courage and ruthlessness. 663 01:15:49,807 --> 01:15:53,573 He was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion... 664 01:15:55,213 --> 01:15:59,616 ...his inability to express what he now believed was the case: 665 01:16:02,186 --> 01:16:05,212 That he truly regretted killing Jesse... 666 01:16:05,990 --> 01:16:08,982 ...that he missed the man as much as anybody... 667 01:16:09,527 --> 01:16:12,655 ...and wished his murder hadn't been necessary. 668 01:16:32,116 --> 01:16:34,209 Even as he circulated his saloon... 669 01:16:34,385 --> 01:16:38,151 ...he knew that the smiles disappeared when he passed by. 670 01:16:39,257 --> 01:16:41,088 He received so many menacing letters... 671 01:16:41,259 --> 01:16:44,695 ...that he could read them without any reaction except curiosity. 672 01:16:48,499 --> 01:16:53,300 He kept to his apartment all day, flipping over playing cards... 673 01:16:54,806 --> 01:16:59,300 ...looking at his destiny in every king and jack. 674 01:17:03,514 --> 01:17:07,814 Edward O'Kelly came up from Bachelor at 1 p.m. on the 8th. 675 01:17:09,287 --> 01:17:13,223 He had no grand scheme, no strategy... 676 01:17:13,391 --> 01:17:15,791 ...no agreement with higher authorities... 677 01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:18,724 ...nothing beyond a vague longing for glory... 678 01:17:19,797 --> 01:17:24,063 ...and a generalized wish for revenge against Robert Ford. 679 01:17:31,843 --> 01:17:35,108 - How'd it go last night? - Not so bad. 680 01:17:38,349 --> 01:17:39,748 The other one. 681 01:17:42,253 --> 01:17:45,017 Edward O'Kelly would be ordered to serve a life sentence... 682 01:17:45,189 --> 01:17:48,090 ...in the Colorado Penitentiary for second-degree murder. 683 01:17:48,259 --> 01:17:51,023 Over 7000 signatures would eventually be gathered... 684 01:17:51,195 --> 01:17:53,459 ...on a petition asking for O'Kelly's release... 685 01:17:53,631 --> 01:17:58,625 ...and in 1902, Governor James B. Orman would pardon the man. 686 01:17:59,237 --> 01:18:03,640 You shouldn't be wearing that stickpin again there, Bob. Opals are unlucky. 687 01:18:05,076 --> 01:18:09,274 My luck's not very good as it is. I don't think an opal's gonna change that much. 688 01:18:10,214 --> 01:18:11,647 I hear you. 689 01:18:25,229 --> 01:18:27,094 There would be no eulogies for Bob... 690 01:18:28,799 --> 01:18:32,895 ...no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores... 691 01:18:33,604 --> 01:18:37,973 ...no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege... 692 01:18:39,710 --> 01:18:42,679 ...no biographies would be written about him... 693 01:18:42,847 --> 01:18:45,407 ...no children named after him. 694 01:18:46,984 --> 01:18:51,717 No one would ever pay 25 cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in. 695 01:18:56,260 --> 01:18:57,989 Hello, Bob. 696 01:18:59,430 --> 01:19:03,628 The shotgun would ignite, and Ella Mae would scream... 697 01:19:04,435 --> 01:19:08,098 ...but Robert Ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling... 698 01:19:08,272 --> 01:19:10,763 ...the light going out of his eyes... 699 01:19:10,942 --> 01:19:13,672 ...before he could find the right words.