JESSE JAMES: A TRUE AMERICAN TERRORIST
JESSE JAMES: A TRUE AMERICAN TERRORIST
Jesse James was an American outlaw, gang leader, bank and train robber from the state of Missori and the most famous member of the James-Younger Gang. Jesse and his older brotherFrank James were Confederate guerrillas during the Civil War. They were accused of participating in atrocities committed against Union Soilders. After the war, as members of one gang or another, they robbed banks and murdered bank employees or bystanders. They also waylaid stagecoaches and trains. Despite popular portrayals of James as a kind of Robin Hood, robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, there is no evidence that he and his gang used their robbery gains for anyone but themselves. he James brothers were most active with their gang from about 1866 to 1876, when their attempted robbery of a bank in Northfield, resulted in the capture or deaths of several members. They continued in crime for several years, recruiting new members, but were under increasing pressure from law enforcement.
At the end of the Civil War, Missouri was in shambles. The conflict split the population into three bitterly opposed factions: anti-slavery Unionists, identified with the Republican Party the segregationist conservative Unionists, identified with the Democratic party; and pro-slavery, ex-Confederate secessionists
The Civil War ripped Missouri society apart and shaped the life of Jesse James. After a series of campaigns and battles between conventional armies in 1861
Jesse James is a bad mother (shut your mouth)
On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was killed by Robert Ford, who was a member of the gang living in the James house and who was hoping to collect a state reward on James’ head.
The survivors of Clement’s gang continued to conduct bank robberies over the next two years, though their numbers dwindled through arrest, gunfights, and lynching. They once robbed a bank in Richmond, Missouri, in which they killed the Mayor and two others.
