The Brief, Violent Life of Billy The Kid | PBS A…
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The Brief, Violent Life of Billy The Kid | PBS
A fascinating look at the boy behind the myth, BILLY THE KID puts a human face on the legend who, in just a few short years, transformed himself from a skinny orphan boy to the most feared man in the West to an enduring icon.
On April 28, 1881, twenty-one-year-old Henry McCarty, a.k.a. Billy the Kid, just days from being hanged for murder, outfoxed his jailers and electrified the nation with the latest in a long line of miraculous escapes. An outlaw with a deadly reputation, the young man was finally gunned down by the ambitious sheriff Pat Garrett just a few weeks later. The felling of one of the most notorious criminals of the age made front-page news and marked the end of Henry but it was the beginning of one of the West’s most enduring legends.
Demonized by the lawman that killed him, the Kid was soon mythologized by a never-ending stream of dime store novels and big-screen dramas, portrayed by everyone from Paul Newman to Roy Rogers to Emilio Estevez but, in all the tellings, Billy the Kid’s real story has been obscured.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7acAcG99tY
#timeline #history #pbs
A fascinating look at the boy behind the myth, BILLY THE KID puts a human face on the legend who, in just a few short years, transformed himself from a skinny orphan boy to the most feared man in the West to an enduring icon.
On April 28, 1881, twenty-one-year-old Henry McCarty, a.k.a. Billy the Kid, just days from being hanged for murder, outfoxed his jailers and electrified the nation with the latest in a long line of miraculous escapes. An outlaw with a deadly reputation, the young man was finally gunned down by the ambitious sheriff Pat Garrett just a few weeks later. The felling of one of the most notorious criminals of the age made front-page news and marked the end of Henry but it was the beginning of one of the West’s most enduring legends.
Demonized by the lawman that killed him, the Kid was soon mythologized by a never-ending stream of dime store novels and big-screen dramas, portrayed by everyone from Paul Newman to Roy Rogers to Emilio Estevez but, in all the tellings, Billy the Kid’s real story has been obscured.
Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7acAcG99tY
#timeline #history #pbs
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