American Experience, Jesse James
PBS Western Reserve (WNEO 45.1 / WEAO 49.1):
Tuesday, Oct. 13, at 9 PM
Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 2 AM
Sunday, Oct. 18, at 7 PM
Fusion (WNEO 45.2 / WEAO 49.2):
Monday, Oct. 19, at 8 PM
The story of Jesse James remains one of America's most cherished tales ... and one of its most fictitious. James, so the legend goes, was a western outlaw, though, he never went west; America's Robin Hood, though he robbed from the poor as well as the rich; a gunfighter, though his victims were almost always unarmed. Less heroic than brutal, James was a member of a vicious band of Missouri guerrillas during the Civil War. With a life steeped in violence and bloodshed, he met what was perhaps the most fitting end.
