He robbed and terrorized
The Newark Star-Ledger declares Assassination of Jesse James Blu-ray, an epic film that’s part literary treatise, part mournful ballad, and completely a portrait of our world, as seen in a distant mirror.
To those he robbed and terrorized, and to the families of those he admittedly killed, he may have been just a criminal, but in the sensational newspaper articles and dime novels chronicling the James Gang throughout the 1870s, Jesse James was the object of awe and admiration. He was a Robin Hood, they suggested, targeting railroad owners and banks that exploited poor farmers.
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