Jesse James Killed: The Outlaw Era Ends
Robert Ford shoots Jesse James in the back while the outlaw sits in his St. Joseph home, ending the career of America's most notorious bank robber. This betrayal instantly transforms Ford from a wanted man into a pariah; he spends the rest of his short life haunted by public scorn and dies just four years later from an unrelated gunshot wound.
April 3, 1882
144 years ago
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