jesse james

[marianll]

does anybody know how jesse james was assassinated and who killed him? please answer thanks.

[dot.hawkes]

he was shot in the back thru an open window by the coward Robert Ford who had infiltrated the james gang over a number of years and had befriended the family. Jesse was at home with his wife and fanily. You should read the book jesse james and The coward Robert Ford , it has recently been made into a film with Brad Pitt, the book is excellent, my Daqd bought it in the US in 1998 and I have it here now,

[Clanad]

Dot covered the basics... Jesse James was living in St. Jospeh, Missouri at the time. The event occurred on April 3, 1882 and at the time he was 34 years old. He was living under an alias at the time. Neighbors knew him as Thomas Howard.
As with other infamous figures, stories began to circulate that it was not Jesse James that had been assasinated and the body in a grave at Kearney, Missouri wasn't his. However, in 1995 forensic scientist James Starrs exhumed the outlaw's body at Kearney, MO, for DNA tests. The results showed a 99.7% certainty that it was Jesse James. Artifacts from the grave are now on display including the coffin handles, a small tie pin Jesse James was wearing the day he was killed; a bullet removed from his right lung area; and a casting of his skull, showing the bullet hole behind his right ear. (Source: City of St. Joseph History).
James was not to be pitied nor eulogized... he and his brother and friends had been vicious guerrillas killing many civilians in cold blood during the U.S. Civil War.

[jno]

he was also a nasty racist. I believe the film copes with this unfortunate tendency by not having a lot of black people in it.