In the year 1879, Jesse James robbed a paymaster in Muscle Shoals AL. This placed him on the road which passed by my great grandmothers house. She was sitting on the porch when Jesse and company rode past. In 1948, she relayed this story to my father, who passed the info to me. It was only minutes ago that I found out that Jesse James, was in fact, in Muscle Shoals at the time my great grandma claimed he was. She also described them as wearing very long coats, which in fact, they DID have... as described in the Littlefield MO raid a few years earlier. All I can say is... WOW!! My great grandma actually SAW Jesse James.
Thanks for sharing your story. I love hearing stories like that. I'm from Columbia KY, the James's robbed a bank there, ( don't remember the year) 'The Bank if Columbia '. Every year they have a festival in the square there & have a re- enactment of the bank robbery. My niece's husband always acts in it.
Oh yeah, well I bought a pie off Harry Styles in Holmes Chapel when he worked in a Bakery called Mandeville's before his fame... beat that xD I prefer your story instead of mine xD wanna swap?
I've watched three stories back to back so far. Each one is a quiet masterpeice, filling in background detail to such a degree as to bring these people back to life. The 1870's now seem very little time ago. Thanks for all the effort you put into them.
I just saw your reply, I know it was 5 yrs ago, but I'm kinda looking for the best documentary stories on him, not "remakes" if u can maybe remember the others u said we're really good, that filled in the holes, that would be much appreciated!
Legends of the old west podcast here on RU-vid does a great job telling Jesse and Frank's story in a series of 10 or so videos. That channel's videos go into much more detail. It doesn't have pictures but it paints a better picture
Anything approved of for broadcast over the History Channel must first be "sanitized" to meet the perspectives and objectives of hidden agendas in rewriting history.
@@JerrySkinner1943 Saint Joseph has a rich history, too bad that you did not have a chance to research it more. At one time Saint Jo was the beginning of the west. but the railroad decided to make Kansas City the Hub of the west. That was the end of Jo Town's growth.
I am a North African who loves watching cowboy films. After watching a film about Jesse James, I watched your documentary. It is a great documentary that not only made me combined the film scenes with your narration but made me also think of my great grand parents life who were of Jesse's generation and who were farmers during the French colonisation. Great documentary. Thanks.
@@trawlins396 What's your point? We are one Country now. Both sides lost that war. Visit the grave yard at Fredericksburg. Better yet, visit the graves at Normandy and count the Southern ones.
This video's very interesting because I've watched many videos on Jesse James ad yours is by far has the most accurate information. Thank you I really enjoyed the video.
It's good that these well researched unbiased documentaries will always be here as a learning aid for future generations to come. It makes me wonder why none of the national TV companies have bought the rights to transmit such a series of no gloss, factual and historical events. Thank you Jerry for the time and effort you have put into the making of these excellent documentaries.
Maybe just maybe the term factual is a little strong, most of this history is clearly he said she said and not facts. You can make the determination if you trust factual information from people who were inbreeding with their own blood line. Last time i checked facts had to have pure evidence, not just hear say from inbreeding hillbillies.
@@jeffbahr6813 First off you’re a very angry individual and for no apparent reason lol. Almost everything in life is “he said she said “ there’s really no way to be certain if something is true or not unless you see it with your own eyes, this seems to be especially true for you. The only way you can verify historical events to be factual is by having multiple witnesses with similar stories and you have to decide if you believe them or not.
@@JohnDoe-qd7gh and?? So if I have a "reason" it's ok to do ANYTHING I want?? No. He was a vicious , lazy, callous, thief who had no qualms about sh***ing an UNARMED person. He's nobody to admire. Not at all.
@@JohnDoe-qd7gh those altruistic "reasons" were just the excuse he used to feel morally self righteous. Be serious. There is no REASON on earth that can excuse how vicious he was to INNOCENT ppl in peacetime . Nice try though. Stop idolizing the myth.
In 1973 an elderly friend of mine (he was in his late 80’s) told me about his father having seen Jesse and frank in handcuffs one with his left hand cuffed to the others right hand. They were bringing them in for some time and someone gave them a 5 string banjo. One did the cords and the other did the picking.
Jim played violin.His instrument was repaired some years ago & music of the time which he maybe played,was put on a CD.Which is my most treasured one.Jim was always my fav.I first got to "meet" the James boys thru watching Chris Jones & Allan Case in the TV series The Legend of Jesse James.Since then I have read books & done a lot of research on them & the Younger Clan.They fascinate me.
Just an amazing biography I have never seen them done this well with so many facts and photos to go with them. Thank you sir for keeping history alive.
Jerry, another very well done video. I appreciate you posting. Your videos are always done in very good taste, and I'm sure takes lots of research. Thanks, John
Jesse and Zee were 1st cousins by marriage not blood. I'm born and raised in Illinois not far from the Iowa or Missouri state lines. There was a old lady who told of Jesse and Frank and the rest of the crew coming thru occasionally and would seek shelter out in this old shack by a pond on her families large farm. The newspaper reporter who published Jesse's letters is also the one who arranged and accompanied frank to his meeting with the governor. This is a great video because all the interesting pictures. The old west podcast here on RU-vid did a pretty cool job of covering this story also
No, nice try attempting to cover for this psycho! It was his blood relative and that's a fact!! People celebrating this murderer as if he has accomplished something like the first light bulb...let's tell the truth!!!
@daviddavis3389 you obviously don't know what you're talking about.. so get off mommy's phone and go to the library and try reading rather than running your suck
You do any awesome job on your videos. Thank you for all the time and research you put into them. I love learning more then I already knew. Old pics make it that much more real also. Great job.
Enjoyed your video Jerry. Here in Australia in the 1880s we had a bushranger called Edward 'Ned' Kelly. Like your American Jesse James opinion then and now we're divided on whether he was a hero or a cold blooded killer. Although not a mass killer he did rob the wealthy landowners (mainly British) and were supported by the poor squatters (Irish). Eventually the authorities caught him after an amazing gunfight in which he wore home made armour. Ned was captured and hanged in 1880. If you ever get the chance I believe you'd really enjoy the story and the similarities to Jesse James.
Read about him & later saw a movie made about him. Ned was quite the charature, very flambouyant. Jesse was just a soldier fighting a war with the U.S. govt. & lost.
NO, it is just an opinion ! There are several different opinions when it comes to the James Brothers and why they robbed Trains and Banks ! The Northern Yankees contended that they were nothing but a Gang of criminal murderers and thieves. The Southerners contended That they were holdouts who refused to surrender to the hated Yankees and were just carrying on with the civil war ! The Southern farmer's saw them as people who were attacking the hated Yankee railroads and banks that they believed were robbing them ! Then there are those who contend that they were involved with the Knights of the Golden Circle to regain the political control of several of the Southern and Border States, from the Yankee Carpetbagger Politicians ! WHAT IS THE TRUTH, WHO KNOWS FOR SURE SO JUST PICK AN OPINION OR DON'T ! BECAUSE 140 YEARS AFTER THE FACT THAT THEY DID ROB TRAINS AND BANKS IS MORE IMPORTANT THEN WHY THEY DID !
When I purchased my home I was gifted a lamp post. The story behind it is that his family brought with them and was one of the light posts at the scene of Jesse James's First National Bank Robery. It resides in my back yard still and will be following my family.
Carolvs, i hope you enjoy the newest video. Riding along with Charley Sizemore. Take and do whatever you wont to with it. I enjoyed doing it my friend. Jerry
My Father grew up in St. Louis and told me a story about how his Father as a young boy was taken to Frank James Farm by his parents to visit... Frank only charged 50 cents...... Look it up.
Thank you so much for sharing these real life stories. You do such an incredible job and I genuinely love listening to your voice. You add so much more to the stories just by using your voice. I'm so appreciative that you don't leave anything out. You give extended details, making sure all cracks and holes are covered. I am a fan! Again thank you, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 💖
Mountain Girl ... Anything main stream media presents is automatically lies and bullshit...Everything. Throw your TV out the window and your IQ will raise overnight as you sleep...Everything is a rich mans trick...
I love your documentaries! You are a wonderful story teller! I would love to see you do some documentaries about some battles of the American Civil War!
Something not mentioned here is that the banks foreclosing on local farmers is what started Frank and Jesse on the road to robbing banks. Frank started first and then Jesse joined with him. That's where they get the Robin Hood comparison from. They did give money to people who were losing their farms in the beginning. There is a lot to the back story that is too long to go into here. After the Northfield raid, Jesse hid in a cave in some hills near where I grew up. We used to play in that cave when we were kids.
Also missing is the reason they picked that particular bank in Minnesota. It was believed by the James/Youngers to be owned by the infamous Union Gen. Benjamin "Spoons" Butler; revenge for how he treated Southern ladies during his occupation of New Orleans during the War of Northern Aggression.
greyeaglem I was in that cave as a child. I remember there was a display to represent Frank & Jesse James with a campfire & the arrangement was lit with blue lights that made it very creepy. At least I think it was in the cave ...I was really young.
Pale Rider1861 Jesse and Bob Younger were the architects of the Northfield plan. No other member of the gang wanted to go. Cole Younger tried to talk Bob out of this, but Bob refused to back down. Cole contacted brother Jim in California to come home, saying Bob needs you. Jim Younger wasn't a regular gang member, this may have been his only raid. He and Cole only went out of family loyalty. The plan was reckless and obviously a failure.
You dont know ur own history ? If ur american ? Thats not why they started ro rob banks. That was going on for years. Them starting to rob banks, together with the younger brothers, was after their time with quantrill. They were battle hardend, and they were outlawed because though most of the bushwackers got amnesty, Quantrills men didnt. So they went on with some others and start robbing banks, and trains, to get back at the system and while they were at it, stopped foreclosures, like the time when they payed off that womans house, but they robbed the guy when he left the womans house.
As a boy being raised in Saint Joseph, MO. in the 60s, I would play in the yard with other kids where Jesse was shot. Jesse was a hero to all of us. I also knew a few of the grandchildren of some of William Quantrill Raiders whose grandparents had settled in the area, The grandchildren were old men when I met them. Saint Joseph had sided with the South. Saint Joe was a wide-open town in Jesse's day. growing up there in the 60s it was fun listening to old men and their stories of the good old days. Saint Jo. was the Las Vegas of its day. Also, it seems like everyone was related to Jesse, or so they claimed. :)
@@wildflower815 Ask yourself why.Look what the Yankees did to Clay Co & surrounds.Look what they did to his stepfather,to him,to his mother & kid brother.And how his mother & sister were thrown into jail along with Bill Anderson's sister & other women,& what happened there. And look what the Younger family went thru.And Ewing's heartless order.How would you have reacted?!
Read ‘Jesse James was My Neighbor’, by Homer Croy or ‘Saga of Jesse James’, by Carl W. Breihan. A very important book to read, is ‘Gray Ghosts of the Confederacy,’ by Richard S. Brownlee from the Louisiana State University Press.
A very well done video i have visited the james farm and many other local places that involves the james brothers and this film brought back a lot of good memorys
I love your historical videos.. this one about Jesse James left me wondering what became of Jesse James’ son and daughter. Does he have living descendants today? Thanks for your awesome videos.. please keep them coming
Debra Anchante:They both married.Jesse Edwards became a lawyer if I recall correctly.He also wrote a book "Jesse James My Father"which is worth reading & was in the first silent movie about him,playing his father.I wish I could see that!
Jackster, I have seen that very program you're talking about. Supposedly he did live to be a ripe old age. He went to meetings with the CSA, & ended up with some of the Confederate money also. His name is on the roll call as being there. There have been some Gold Coins found burried in Mason Jars. On the tree truck is cut out JJ connected together. Also, on that show was his Great Great GrandSon that looks just like the portrait of him, They comb his hair & put on an outfit similar to his . He knew he was going to be killed & set the whole thing up to look like he did. He had heard about the Ford guy & the governor's money, he just paid him more. The "dead body" on display was not Jessie James but, another guy that put in his place. Check for that show to come back on History Channel, & you will see.
Jackster Jackster there has also been a very interesting book written by his grandson claiming that he lived to be old and belonged to the Confederate underground cause all of his life. That DNA test though....
I am going to make a reply to myself! There was another show about a guy that was searching for the Mason Jars, Jessie had buried underneath trees or rock walls with his JJ carved. The coins are dated way back before the Ward Between the States - nothing civil about it. As he needed the money he would go did it up, & show up at the CSA. My GrandFather Bird Cole was alive about that time & I am trying to figure out if he is related to Zeldra Cole. I am on Ancestery.com & I am now a memeber of the Daughters of the Confederacy! My nephew is the one that noticed a portrait of Jessie & thought he favored our GrandFather. Still hoping to find out! Do we up the good work, there are Southerns alive out there, & we still say, "Givum Hell!"
Yeah...Elvis still alive too, ..rents a appartment with the still living Marilyn Monroe...in Philly..btw I was in highschool with Jesse C. James, ...hes still alive too!
My great grandmother lived down the street from Jesse James in St. Joseph, Mo. She knew him as Mr. Howard . She said that he liked to plant flowers and she seen him in the yard a lot.
