What do you think, was Jesse James an old west Robin Hood, or just a villain?

“Walter, just cause you killed Jesse James don’t make you Jesse James” -Mike (Breaking Bad)

Brad Pitt really captured the psychotic troubled nature of the outlaw Jesse James

I love this channel,however the background music has to go!

OMG I'm glad you told me he started out as a baby. I'd of been sat watching it thinking how did he become an adult. I'm so glad you cleared it up.

saying "Hello Bob" before shooting someone sounds just like something you did back then...

Its hard when you feel sympathy for bad people. But in war no ones the good guy.

Just finished reading Jesse James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War by T.J Stiles, and I honestly couldn’t recommend it enough. If you are even slightly interested in Jesse James, The U.S Civil War, Reconstruction etc, then you should totally read it. Brilliant biography of a man shrouded in myth. The Civil War shaped and created Jesse. From the moment he was dragged through the family land by militiamen as a fifteen year old and he witnessed his step-father being hanged; Jesse’s bitterness and hatred of the Union was cemented. There is no Jesse James without the political element.

My family on my Dad's side were neighbors of the James family in Missouri. My family moved to Campbellsville, Ky about the same time that they moved off. My great, great grandmother was around 6'2" and could shoot a crow out of the sky with a pistol at great range according to my Dad who remembers her doing this when he was a kid. At around 80 years old she beat the shit out of a goat with her cane for butting my Dad and his brother around the yard. Poor bastard never came out of the barn till he died. The bank hold up in Kentucky happened in Columbia, KY. That robbery happened a month after my family moved to Campbellsville. It's long been speculated that "Granny" may have helped them at times, not confirmed. My Dad's brother swears she did, him being passed away can't debate it with him. Granny killed a man at 13 years of age with a shotgun while they were trying rape/rob her mother. Life was hard back then and made the people hard as well. The Pinkerton agency were some of the shittiest convicts with badges ever created. The people that hired them tried getting meaner people than the outlaws.

Damn I had no idea that Pinkerton actually exists I thought it was something they made up in rdr2

Broken family, no dad, imagine how many Jesse James are out there now.

It's the shot in the back that's the bone of contention, historically.

¿why such cheerful, modern music for this film?

He must be the inspiration behind Team Rocket.

Turns out I am a decendent of Jessie James via Emmitt Vestal Sr aka Texas Slim.... sounds like James got a bad rap then just kept on going for revenge... we can't demonize these men. Im reading Emmits Book... it takes you back in time... these men did what they needed to do to survive.

When I read half of the comments, I wonder : “Is there someone here who’s NOT related to Jesse James ?” 😋

Honestly, I love the documentary BUT I can't stand the background music. WHY background music? WHAT possible function does it serve except to distract, annoy, and grate on the nerves? AND, for people who suffer form tinnitus or hearing loss it makes it so hard to hear the words.

This guy sounds like a great bad guy for Red Dead Redemption.

One of the best I've seen. Thank you for your accuracy. Bob and Charlie are my second uncles. Hollywood never seems to get it right. Look up follow your past a lion TV of New York special that aired on the Travel Channel. For more on the James and Fords.

Watch the movie ( alpha dog.) It's about the second most famous Jessie James Hollywood. I went to school with him in junior high. Messed up story but they only tell half if that in the movie... Thanks for the video... I never new this story.

Now I finally understand America's obsession with this guy he was one bad ass.

Half the people in the comments: I’m ReLaTeD tO hIm

He may not have been Robin Hood, but that doesn't make the hardships he faced any less sympathetic.

I live where his stomping grounds were. I once had a look at a picture of Jesse on a mule. The picture was taken in front of a late friends house. To leave Clay county was only about ten miles . The picture of Jesse was from the late 1890s How true was the picture. My friends grand father was a minister. My late friends ( his grandfathers) house is still there.

Jesse James is one of my distance relatives. It's nice to be able to learn more about him.

I enjoyed the movie with Pitt. I really liked the part where the narrator was saying Ford imagined visiting the victims families who’d been killed by James. I honestly think he should have.

Went to the Jessie James bank measure after court on liberty square. Pretty impressed. Crazy that I live around all this history

Jesse or his family never had to leave Clay County or Kearney even after his “atrocities”. Later after marrying Zerelda he moved. I live about a mile from his Kearney home.

Brad Pitt played Jesse James pretty good

Psalms 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

This is so cool! I’ve been getting more into my family history and I learned that he was my great great great uncle connected on my dads side

Jesse James home is in now in St. Joseph MO behind the Patee House Museum

Wow! His Mother was a REAL looker!

Wow, If that is his real story... someone should make a movie!

He reputedly told Ford, after you shoot me in the back, I want Tyrone Power to portray me in a 20th Century Fox movie. Throw in Henry Fonda for good measure.

The Robin Hood question always makes me chuckle, he was as far from that as you can get. He robbed, stole and murdered his entire adult life, likely turned insane by the actions of the union soldiers when he was a young man. He systematically went through his entire friendship circle and shot them.

can imagine the chaos if billy the kid was in the James gang?? A pitty those guys never crossed paths.

In those old photos people allways have scary eyes

Loved that film about Jesse & Robert

This is only 3-4 generations ago. His grandchildren died in the early 90s. That's insane.......

Long live Jesse James

Hell! Back then he was more popular than Elvis! (at least in the South)

Yeah........ I'm gonna be looking for that Rob Lowe movie!

I like the background music

Love the apologies for James crimes. PTSD excuses his murders? LMAO!

Can you imagine the team they would have made if Billy the kid accepted Jesses offer?

I live in Clay County, Missouri, and only a few miles from Kearney, MO, Jesse's hometown. One of my distant cousins, Ballentine Munkirs, was friends with Frank and Jesse in the 1870s. Ballentine's family farm was only a half mile away from the James farm and Ballentine was a Bushwhacker during the Civil War. When Jesse and Frank robbed the Clay County Savings Bank in Liberty, MO (their first robbery), the sheriff arrested Ballentine. He thought Ballentine was a part of the gang. He wasn't; he was innocent. After the arrest Ballentine stayed clear of Frank and Jesse.

Drop the background music.

I live in the town of the bank he was finally stopped at, we hold a “Jesse James day” every year where actors play the cops and actors play James gang and a shootout occurs. It’s honestly a amazing experience

I'm from southwest Missouri. The border war region known as the "burnt district" per Ewings "general order #11". Frank James actually sold shoes in my home town in the 1880s-1890s, after the "James gang" was finished. Somewhere around 400 "Bushwackers" held control over most of the southern half of Missouri throughout the war, despite some 50,000 U.S. troops dedicated to run them out. Jesse James grew up during that. He had immunity from the law because the people here seen his bank and train robbing as a continuation of the war. Robbing and killing federals, northern business owners, pinkertons, and their hired guns only earned the loyalty of the local population. Mostly because it was something they took great pleasure in doing themselves when the opportunity arose.

Jesse James is my great grandfather, I'm the outlaw chairman. I'm from braxton county West Virginia. My grandmother is Colombian. Jimmy Skidmore and his brothers Mark Skidmore, Timmy Skidmore, Richard Skidmore and they're sister Connie Skidmore are all from West Virginia and grand children of Jesse James.

I always think this about Jesse James; I bet he knew the best fishing spots, and the croppies and bulegills at that time were HUGE

At the end of the day Jessi James and his gang were nothing but ruthless thieves and murderers. I never knew he shot unarmed men, namely bank clerks, before until l saw this. But, like most outlaws history tends to portray them as some kind of romantic heroes of the people through books and films, rather than the cruel, heartless people they really were

Jesse james is my distant cousin

Just found out I’m related to Jesse James. I’m trying to learn about more now

The music absolutely drives me crazy I didn’t get past two minutes

I live in the town Jesse James was shot in and it's still a tourist trap lol. It is interesting to view the home and the bullet hole where he was killed. The home is super tiny though. Maybe four rooms. Room size around 12ft X 12ft at most. Ford had to be close when he pulled the trigger.

Everyone needs to know he did much more then just this, just didn’t get caught so no one lnew

*There's far more to the story* of the James Brothers, their family, and families of the era, and particularly in the area of Missouri, Kansas, Northern Arkansas, Western Kentucky, and Nebraska. It also was affecting all of the Industrial States and West to California. This story had the true individuals that were at the core of most all 8f the tragic history around the Civil War, and the post war ramp up of the aggressions against the Native Peoples. The initiator of these conflicts were 3 divisions of extreme wealth: 1) *The elite Owners of the Business and Industries that were point focused on the known wealth potentials in natural resources, Metals/Minerals, the Railroad Industry, and the expansion West.* 2) The *Southern extreme elite,* and their ownership of the enslaved free labor, this peaking at an average of 1200 - 1400, owners 9f Cotton, Tobacco, and Sugar Plantations, "the 1% elite Plantations of the South then being the wealthiest people in the world. 3) *Their elite counterparts, the International Bankers and Financiers of Britain whom desired the control and profits of the USA Banking, Stock Market, and Financing of Loans, in a fast paced growing nation. These were and remain the Family that financed all wars in/for the Western Hemisphere since the time of Napoleon and Wellington, the same that later were awarded the ownership of the "Federal Reserve Bank Corporation")* These efforts were obvious to those whom were in the path of their expansion: the Native Peoples; the landowners affected by forced sales and/or removal from their homes/land; the smaller businesses that got consumed by the Elite Industrialists and their Monopolies; those whom watched the growth of profits by the Plantation Owners, and those Americans whom were "Educated, Alert, Business Minded". ... and 8n the same manner as today, the News Medias we're largely privately owned and used for the agendas of the elite, to invite the naive Public towards preoccupied chaos, while they carried out their own aggressive acts for profits, for feeding the Ego Mind's Greed. The James Brothers, Dalton's, and others got caught up in these elite aggressions, and while many of the local folks understood the scenarios, the mass Public believed the drama stories of a more criminal outlaw produced story. Likely they were w/o choice but to become outlaws, once they began to retaliate, but the Public deserves to finally get the greater clarity on the era and subject. Beth Bartlett Sociologist/Behavioralist Historian PS: *"History"* vs Based on Historical Events. There's no go-to Written History Book, that I'm aware of, to read the more accurate facts. Makes one wonder, Why? But with vast research and studies, this is the greater Facts I have discovered and observed through the Records.

And to think, the english voice over for Pokemon named it's two main villains after this guy.

its poetic justice that this fiend who was known for shooting his victims in the back was himself killed in the same fashion by someone he knew !!!!!

This reminds me of an episode of The Brady Bunch where Bobby was idolizing Jesse James. His parents let him stay up and watch a movie on television about the outlaw thinking it will set him straight. Only to find out all the violence was cut out of it. Bobby - "Boy, it's nice he's willing to give that woman a ride home." (The previous scene would have shown James killing the woman's husband.) Bobby gets a reality check when a man tells Bobby that his father was killed by James... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l91laNt6rM-bXZ8.html

I had a wanted poster for him a few years back but i lost it

Jessie James, why was I thinking of Billy the kid.. haha

But the lumbee gang ran by Henry Barry Lowry was more badass made up of Indians and some African Americans, they were more wanted than Jesse James gang and had a bigger bounty on their heads , they mostly stuck to the swamp lands to pick off their enemies and to escape , that's who u need to do your next video on.

"That dirty little coward That shot Mr. Howard And laid poor Jesse in his grave"

7 ad's on a 13 minute video is taking the piss

My grandma did a ancestry thing online and it turns out I’m related to this guy 😂

There are several tourist traps in Missouri based on Jesse James, including a very good cave.

Just found out today that he is my great great uncle so decided to come learn abt him

Teenage boys are impressionable.. Looks like the union army created monster

Any fan of Louis L'Amour Westerns knows he was a villain. L'Amour did extensive research, including his vast collection of contemporary diaries. James's nickname was "Dingus," which had a bad connotation, even among outlaws.

Who did the music, maybe someone wants to have a word, otherwise brilliant 🙋‍♀️👍

He didn't have a long life. I suppose he lived long enough to learn you don't mortally wound a man before ordering him to open a safe...

Found out I'm related to jesse james so I thought I would learn more about him

I was named after this man bruh seems like a badass

When you are related to him and watching this for a school Project.

The thumbnail is a picture of a woman.

Cool story, seems like the movie(which never get it right).

When’s John marston and Arthur Morgan going to be mentioned?

Tragic is rolling a joint out of used joint papers

Bro you can’t all be related to Jesse James

In those times it was justice in termoil lawlessness in every camp town or ranch family dedication forced the hands of avengers who made the tables turn to their satisfaction noboby wins

Too many ads.

We know you’re here from Pokémon don’t even lie

James was not only a murderer, but a rebel traitor. The people who mythologized him are the same people who promote the Lost Cause.

Are there any movie stars not in this movie? RIP Carradine and Paxton and any others I missed.

Life was cheap and often short in those lawless days. It must have been terrible living in those times.

Who knows what he was? History is written and rewritten constantly by people who were not there. Just like your video, you were not there, yet we are to believe you this far into the future? No, I’m more inclined to believe the exact opposite, simply because you said it.

Picture in thumbnail looks like the son of david bowie and kevin bacon

Hello Bob!

Five feet was good distance.....

Jesse was never killed. He survived to the present where he married Sandra Bullock and became extremely wealthy by making cheap motorcycles.

I- I’m related to Jesse James. It’s a great conversation starter 💀😭

I thought I heard in this video that the Fords had fought for the South in the Civil War. I understand that Bob was 20 in 1882, so that cannot be so.

I don’t support what this man did but I recently found out that this guy is in my family tree.

The James boys are my cousins and I don't lie..ever!

If I had a nickel for every fool on here claiming that they're related to Jesse James, I'd be rich. I guess technically, I'm related to Jesse too because if you go all the way back in history to the first humans we all descend from them. So actually I'm related to Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, the Queen of England, Obama, Bush...well hell I'm related to every human on the planet and so are you.

Correction. Everybody KNEW about Jesse James BEFORE the movies came to life.

How would I find the picture James sent to the newspaper that was redacted?