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Should Jesse James 9$ Pictured A HeroChi The Screen?rrtii1- Whether making Jesse James a hig hero on the movie picture screen is Just the right thing or* hot, question open for argument.Is \t ah educational aid to thp youth of tjje land to make Jesse,, an Ozark Bobjpn Hood when in life? ho was a Guerrilla of the Civil War vfctio robbed and killed at will and who after the war carrfed on the same trade as a oank robber and desperado until shot down by one of his pals in crime?True Jesse was hounded after the war, like the Youngers and other Guerrillas Us they had fought on the wrong side.Is it necessary to picture Mip as a noble Jedtfe of fine family asr^fed in the plmwood Quarterly of Farm-ington, 'Mo., ‘‘worshipped b£ womanhood, scoiiyage of drink, swearing and other such major vibes. If .;h§ worked up a string of murders, rob^ 4 bed banks-whoiesair and a n£w/technique to train banditry, those were manly peccadillos.”Its a hard job getting a hallo around the head of Jesse James after reading his life history of crime. He may have thought he had good reasons for joining Quantrell's Guerrillas, as his mothei and stepfather had been illtreated by Union soldiers, but we hardly think it gave him the license to continue to rob and kill after the war was -over.XT ___ tit -J! 11.
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Saint Charles Daily Cosmos Monitor
Saint Charles, Missouri, US
Tue, Dec 20, 1938
Page 4
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