It was a tomcat yowling and what all, and I slipped.
I thought maybe your club foot was gaining on you.
Oh, yeah.
Dick went to kansas city to be with his wife. he was here for a bit.
Hey, here's a cute story, jess.
Bobby was what, 11 or 12...
...and you were by far his most admired personage.
He couldn't get enough.
It was "jesse this" and "jesse that" and "jesse this" from sunrise to sunset.
Fascinating.
No, there's more. this is cute.
We're at supper and bob asks, "you know what size boot jesse wears?"
- charley, jesse doesn't wanna hear this. - shush, now, bob, let me tell it.
Bob says... he says, "you know what size boot jesse wears?"
He says, "six and a half." he says, "ain't that a big enough boot...
...for a man 5'8"tall?"
I decided to josh him a little, you know, he being my kid brother and everything.
So I said, "he doesn't have toes is why."
That's a really stupid story.
"he was dangling his feet off a culvert and a catfish nibbled his toes off."
Bob taxed himself trying to picture it.
That'd be a good joke if it was funny.
Isn't that a cute story, jess?
Give me some more conversations, bob.
I got one. this one's about as crackerjack... it's the one about your...
Let bob tell it.
All right.
I don't even know what you're talking about.
About how you and jesse have so much in common.
Go on, bob.
Yeah, come on, bob.
Tell us a story.
- nope. no. - come on, entertain jesse. he's here.
Come on.
Well, if you'll pardon my saying so, I guess...
...it is interesting the many ways you and I overlap and whatnot.
I mean, you begin with our daddies.
Your daddy was a pastor at the new hope baptist church...
...and my daddy was a pastor at the church in excelsior springs.
You're the youngest of three james boys, and I'm the youngest of five ford boys.
Between charley and me, there's another brother, wilbur...
...with six letters in his name.
And between frank and you, is another brother robert, also with six letters.
And my christian name is robert, of course.
You have blue eyes, I have blue eyes.
You're 5'8"tall, I'm 5'8" tall.
Me, I must have had a list as long as your nightshirt when I was 12, but...
...i seem to have lost some curiosities over the years.
Ain't he something?
Did I ever tell you the story about that scalawag, george shepherd?
Shepherd's one of quantrill's lieutenants.
He give me a story much like bob's what bring him to mind.
Going on about how much we had in common, and so on...
...so he could get in the gang.
How could I have known he had a grudge against me?
How could I have known he was lying to get on my good side?
I said, "george, come on aboard. glad to have you."
George thought he was smart, except he wasn't.
One morning, george rides into camp...
...and about 20 guns open up on him.
See, old george, he only had one eye. you gotta have two eyes, you wanna get jesse.
You ought not think of me like you do george shepherd.
You brought him to mind.
Well, it's not very flattering.
Sure is good eating, martha.
Well, I'm so glad you enjoyed it.
How come george had a grudge against you?
I said, how come george had a grudge against you?
Well, you see, george had a nephew he wanted me to protect during the war.
This nephew had 5000 dollars on him.
It just so happens he winds up killed and someone swipes that money.
And when george is in prison,
"it was Jesse James slit the boy's throat."
It was just mean gossip, was it?
Bob's the expert. let's put it to him.
Oh, dear, I made him cranky.
I'm not cranky. I just been through this before is all.
Most people get around on making fun of me. they don't ever let up.
Someone's getting awful fresh over there.
Woman, shut your face for once.
Don't want you to skip off to your room and pout...
...without knowing why I come by for this visit.
Why? so you could tell us how sorry you are...
...you had to slap our cousin albert around?
I come by...
...to ask if one of you two fords...
...would care to ride with me in a journey or two.
I guess we both agree it ought to be charley.
You've been acting sort of testy.
Have you seen wood hite lately?
No. not at all.
I swear that stew had some squirrel meat in it.
- still arguing with you, is it? - yeah.
- you're charles ford? - yes, ma'am.
You've seen me once or twice before.
I got a letter from george hite.
He hasn't seen hide nor hair of him.
And you say you haven't seen wood?
No, l... I can't imagine where he could be.
Yeah?
You finished with your sleeping?
I could use a couple more hours if it's no trouble.
Yeah.
I been holding a discussion with myself over if I ought to tell you this or no.
My good side won out and...
Well, I wanna make a clean breast of things.
Yeah, my mind's a little cobwebby is the only drawback.
I could use a little... a little more sleep.
You know I went to kentucky?
Yeah.
I come back through saline county and...
"why not stop by and see ed miller?"
So I do.
Well, things are not to my satisfaction.
Ed's got himself all worked up over something.
I can see that he's lying like a rug.
So I say to myself, "enough's enough."
And I say to ed, "come on, ed.
Let's go for a ride."
You understand what I'm saying?
Going for a ride is like...
Going for a ride is like giving him what-for?
Exactly.
So...
...ed and jesse...
...they argue on the road.
Did you ever count the stars?
I can't ever get the same number. they keep changing on me.
I don't even know what a star is exactly.
Well, your body knows.
It's your mind that forgot.
You go on ahead, partner. I'll catch up with you.
It's okay.
It's okay, sweetheart. it's okay.
And when push came to shove...
...jesse shot and killed him.
Jesse did.
You got it.
You...
So, you see, your...
Your cousin, he got off easy.
I was just playing with albert.
Yeah, I made him squeal once or twice myself.
I'm just not as thorough as you are.
You got a tale to swap with me now?
I don't get your meaning.
Seems to me, if you have something to confess in exchange...
...it'd only be right...
...that you'd spit it out now.
I can't think of a single thing.
About wood hite, for example.
I'm not gonna... I been saying over and over I can't figure out where he's gone.
Now, I'm not gonna change my story just to have something to spit.
- why was your brother so agitated? - which?
Bob.
That's just his way. he's antsy.
You know?
You go on back to sleep now.
You got me agitated now, you see?
Yeah, just ain't no peace when old jesse's around.
You ought to pity my poor wife.
Ed miller was a good friend of mine.
He introduced me to you at that one poker game.
I'm a little angry with you, if you wanna know the god's honest truth.
You ought to pity me too.
As proof of his confederacy with the james gang, bob told the authorities...
...that dick liddil was sleeping over at the rented farmhouse...
...while his ruined leg mended.
And then, created a map of the harbison property...
...leaving out the creek where wood hite's remains now moldered.
Right, you boys are cornered!
Come on out peaceably and nobody'll get shot up!
Don't shoot!
Come on out and show yourself!
Hello.
We got him.
Give me that colt, son.
- all right. - andrew james liddil...
...i have a warrant here for your arrest...
Snowstorms would move over missouri that sunday, february 19th...
...shutting down commerce for more than two days.
- go, go, go. - are the papers here?
- he wanted to know if the papers are here. - I don't care what he wants.
Yet this wouldn't prevent robert ford...
...from presenting himself to governor crittenden...
...at the craig rifles ball on wednesday.
I deem it a great privilege on this glorious occasion...
...to recognize publicly...
...the intelligent and effective assistance...
...that captain henry craig has rendered the state of missouri and myself...
...in our joint quest to rid jackson county...
...of the james band.
The task that captain craig has assumed...
...will require fearless courage, extraordinary vigilance...
...and an unerring selection of instrumentalities.
Well, I've gotten the signal from my wife that enough is enough.
However, before I sit...
...i would like to ask you to join me in a toast...
...to a great son of the state of missouri...
...my friend, henry craig. - here, here.
Yes.
Just let my attorney know.
Who is that? who is it?
Get out of the way now.
You know, you're more goddamn trouble than you're worth, bob.
I was just gonna say hello.
No, you weren't gonna do that, bob. that's not why you're down here.
You think it's your goddamn coming-out. you think you're the belle of the ball.
Now you get upstairs and try to keep your identity secret, you silly little bastard.
The governor'll see you in good time. take him up, boys.
Bob would later be cross-examined repeatedly...
...about the exact nature of the deal he had made with the authorities.
And he was never consistent in his recollections.
My wife's asleep in the other room, so let's speak as quietly as we can.
So you're dick little.
Liddil.
I beg your pardon?
I spell it with two d's.
He's given us a full confession, governor.
Newspapers haven't caught onto it yet.
And you've guaranteed him a conditional pardon...
...and amnesty for all the robberies he's committed.
You robert ford?
How old are you?
You surrender to sheriff timberlake as well?
No, no, governor. that's his brother, charley ford, he's in the james gang.
But little bob here, we got nothing on bob.
He's just acting in capacity as a...
...private detective.
Jesse james sent me a telegram last month...
...saying he'd kill me if he had to wreck a train to do it.
He said once I got in his hands, he'd cut my heart out...
...and eat it in strips like it was bacon.
I'll wreck his train first.
I'm sorry, your excellency. I was thinking about something else.
Jesse james is nothing more than a public outlaw...
...who made his reputation by stealing whatever he wanted...
...killing whoever got in his way.
You'll hear some fools say he's getting back at republicans and union men...
...for the wrongs his family suffered during the war.
But his victims have scarcely been selected with reference to their political views.
I'm saying his sins will soon find him out.
I'm saying his cup of iniquity is full.
I'm saying jesse james is a desperate case...
...and may require a desperate remedy.
Y'all got the right man for the job.
Come on. come on, now.
Come on, now.
Have you ever considered suicide?
I can't say that I have. there's always something else I wanted to do.
Or my predicaments changed, or I saw my hardships from a different slant.
You know all what can happen. it never seemed respectable.
I'll tell you one thing that's for certain.
You won't mind dying once you've peeked over the other side.
You'll no more wanna go back to your body than...
...you'd wanna spoon up your own puke.
Hey, since we're looking to rob banks...
...i was wondering if we could add another fella to the gang...
...and sort of see if we couldn't come out of our next job alive.
Bob wanted to know could he ride with us next time we took on a savings bank or...
A savings bank or a...
A railroad.
Bob isn't much more than a boy to most appearances.
But there's about two tons of sand in him.
And he'll stand with a shooter when that's what's called for.
And he's smart too. he's about as intricate as they come.
You forget I already met the kid.
Hell, he surely thinks highly of you.
All of america thinks highly of me.
Still, not like you got two million names to snatch out of a sock...
...whenever you need a third man.
I can see you trying to wear me down on this.
That's my main intention.
Robberies would be conceived but never carried out...
...in nebraska, colorado and missouri.
During this time...
...henry craig enjoined robert ford to return to elias' grocery store in richmond...
...and await instructions from sheriff james timberlake.
All right, three cans...
...peaches. two cans...
Two cans sifted peas.
One bottle...
...mary's morning tonic, and a half...
Half a sack of flour.
I'll be right with you.
I haven't seen any sign of him.
Well, do you know where he's living?
No.
No?
Well, I can't guess how he does it...
...but he is always knowledgeable about what's going on.
He's gonna know I've been here with you. you ought to take that for granted.
And he will kill you if he gets the chance.
Are you willing to risk that?
Yes, I am.
I've been a nobody all my life.
I was the baby.
I was the one they made promises to that they never kept.
And ever since I can remember it, jesse james has been as big as a tree.
I'm prepared for this, jim...
...and I'm gonna accomplish it.
I know I won't get but this one opportunity...
...and you can bet your life I'm not gonna spoil it.
Well...
...wait for your chance.
Don't let yourself be found alone with him, and do not...
...let him get behind you.
You been chosen.
Well, what do you mean?
Well, your brother said that you might wanna join us.
But maybe you like this grocery store more than you said you did.
- so you missed me? - oh, yeah.
I been crying myself to sleep every night.
Don't let him see us so much as wink.
He's suspicious as a damn coyote, and he don't trust you one iota.
- well, I guess that makes... - hey.
He already put away ed miller. he said so like it was something piddly he'd done.
If we're ever alone for more than a minute, I'd like a chance to talk to you further.
They gave me ten days.
For what?
For arresting him.
You and me, huh?
It's gonna happen one way or another, charley. it's gonna happen.
So it might as well be us who get rich on it.
- bob, he's our friend. - he murdered ed miller.
And he's gonna murder liddil and cummins if the chance ever comes.
It seems to me jesse's riding from man to man, saying goodbye to the gang.
So your friendship could put you under the pansies.
I'll grind it fine in my mind, bob. I can't go any further than that right now.
You'll come around.
You think it's all made up, don't you?
You think it's all yarns and newspaper stories.
He's just a human being.
From now on, you two won't go anywhere without me.
From now on, you'll ask for my permission! from now on, you'll ask to be excused!
Charley, take them horses around the barn. bob, you go on inside.
- hello, mary. - hi.
Look at this rotten parsnip I found in the compost heap.
You never mentioned bob would be here.
Maybe he was saving it as a pleasant surprise.
Got two cousins for company now.
How it's gonna be is...
...we'll leave next monday afternoon and ride down to platte city.
How far is that from kansas city?
Platte city's 30 miles south.
You and me and charley'll sleep in the woods overnight...
...and we'll strike the wells bank sometime before the court recesses.
What time will that be exactly?
Well, you don't need to know that.
You know, I'm real comfortable with your brother.
Hell, he's ugly as sin, he smells like a skunk...
...and he's so ignorant he couldn't drive nails in the snow...
...but he's sort of easy to be around.
I can't say the same for you, bob.
Well, I'm sorry to hear you say that.
You know how it is when you're with your girlfriend and the moon's out...
...and you know she wants to be kissed, even though she never said so?
Yeah.
Well, you're giving me signs that grieve my soul...
...and make me wonder...
...maybe your mind's been changed about me.
Well, what do you want me to do? swear my good faith on the bible?
You two having a spat?
I was getting ready to be angry.
Sit over here closer, kid.
Come on.
Charley, you'll stay with the animals.
Me and the kid...
...will walk into that bank just before noon.
Bob will move that cashier...
...away from the shotgun that's under the counter...
...and I'll creep up behind that cashier...
...and I'll cock his head back like so.
"how come an off-scouring creation like you is still sucking air...
so many of mine are in coffins
"how did you get to reach 20 without leaking out all over your clothes?"
And if I don't like his attitude, I will slit that phildoodle so deep...
...he will flop on the floor like a fish.
My god, what just happened?
Boy, I could hear your gears grinding...
...hear your little motor wondering, "my gosh, what's next?
What's happening to me?"
You were precious to behold, bob.
You were white as spit in a cotton field.
You got him. you got him.
You wanna know how that feels? unpleasant. I honestly can't recommend it.
The old charley looked stricken!
I was. I was.
"this is plumb unexpected," old charley was thinking. "that done ruined my day."
Hell. hell.
Jesse slept with bob in the children's room that night.
And bob remained awake.
He could see that there was a gun on the nightstand.
He could imagine its cold nickel inside his grip...
...its two-pound weight reached out and aimed.
I need to go to the privy.
You think you do, but you don't.
You wait for grace, now.
-thank you, mama. -thank you, zee. god, that looks good.
-thank you, zee. -you're welcome.
Well, is this fit to eat or will it just do?
Woman's cooking's always been a scandal.
Cut her meat and the whole table moves.
You want a biscuit? you gonna have a biscuit?
Here's some butter. come on. come on.
Oh, shoot.
And so it went, jesse was increasingly cavalier...
...merry, moody, fey...
...unpredictable.
He camouflaged his depressions and derangements...
...with masquerades of extreme cordiality, courtesy...
...and goodwill towards others.
But even as he jested, or tickled his boy in the ribs...
...jesse would look over at bob with melancholy eyes...
...as if the two were meshed in an intimate communication.
Bob was certain that the man had unriddled him...
...had seen through his reasons for coming along...
...that jesse could forecast each of bob's possible moves and inclinations...
...and was only acting the innocent...
...in order to lull bob into stupid tranquility and miscalculation.
How long you been studying me?
You're gonna break a lot of hearts.
How do you mean?
It's a present.
It's heavy.
Well, you gonna look inside?
It's april fools' day, you know.
It ain't no joke.
Oh, such extravagance.
Don't that nickel just shine, though?
It's more than I could hope for.
I figured that granddaddy colt may blow into fragments...
...next time you try to squeeze the trigger.
Well, you might have something there.
Tom, supper's ready.
I'll be right there, sweetheart.
I might be too excited to eat.
You know what john newman edwards once wrote about me?
He said I didn't trust two men in 10,000...
...and even them I was cautious around.
Government's sort of run me ragged.
I'm going the long way around the barn to say that...
...i been feeling cornered and just plain ornery as of late...
...and I'd be pleased if you'd accept that gun as my way of apologizing.
Heaven knows I'd be ornerier if I were in your position.
No. no, I haven't been acting correctly.
Seems I hardly recognize myself when I'm greased
I go on journeys out of my body...
...and look at my red hands and my mean face...
...and I wonder about that man that's gone so wrong.
I've been becoming a problem to myself.
Well...
- I better wash my hands if supper's on. - yeah, go ahead.
The day before he died was palm sunday.
And mr. and mrs. thomas howard, their two children...
...and their cousin charles johnson...
...strolled to the second presbyterian church to attend a 10:00 service.
Bob remained at the cottage...
...and slyly migrated from room to room.
He walked into the master bedroom...
...and inventoried the clothes on the hangers and hooks.
He sipped from the water glass on the vanity.
He smelled the talcum and lilacs on jesse's pillowcase.
His fingers skittered over his ribs...
...to construe the scars where jesse was twice shot.
He manufactured a middle finger that was missing the top two knuckles.
He imagined himself at 34.
He imagined himself in a coffin.
He considered possibilities...
...and everything wonderful that could come true.
He's not gonna kill us.
Yeah, he is.
Well, I'll stay awake so he can't.
You're imagining things.
Ain't gonna be no platte city.
That's jesse fooling with us.
Go to sleep, charley.
Morning.
Charley.
Bob, how much did you want to eat?
I'm feeling sort of peculiar.
Why is it you're looking so interested?
You think it's intelligent to go out like that...
...so all creation can see your guns?
Hi.
Come on, let's go see what your mama's doing.
Timmy, get that door, would you?
- well, you lost your shoe, sweetheart. - yeah, I did.
That's gonna be a problem. they don't sell those one at a time.
We lost a shoe, mama.
Will you put that up for daddy, would you?
- what you doing, you lose a shoe? - yeah.
The arrest and confession of dick liddol
It's only meant to go on top, to complement.
Yeah, I know. sometimes, l...
Bob, everything's getting cold!
- where's mary? - she's outside, darling.
Mary?
What do you think goes on in that noggin of his?
Nothing.
I was talking about his mind, not yours.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, I get it.
Well, hello now.
"the arrest and confession of dick liddil."
You don't say so.
That's very strange.
Says here dick surrendered three weeks ago.
You must have been right in the neighborhood.
Well, apparently, they kept it a secret.
If I get to kansas city soon, I'll ask somebody about it.
You two ready?
I will be, by noon.
There is a ship she sails the sea
She's loaded deep as deep can be
But not as deep as the love I'm in
I know not if I sink or swim
The water is wide
I can't cross o'er and neither have I wings to fly
Give me a boat that can carry two
Both shall row my love and i
For love is gentle and love is kind
Sweetest flower when first it's new
But love grows old and waxes cold
And fades away like the morning dew
There is a ship she sails the sea
I guess I'll take my guns off...
...for fear the neighbors might spy them.
Don't that picture look dusty?
What have...? what have you done?
Jesse.
Jesse?
Jesse? jesse?
Jesse!
No!
No. jess...
Come back. oh, come back.
Oh, jesse! no!
Oh, bob. have you done this?!
I swear to god I didn't.
It was an accident, zee.
Come on. pistol went off accidentally.
Put my name.
Why, what'd you do? I shot him.
You might wanna keep that.
Thank you all very much.
The resulting prints sold for 2 dollars a piece...
...and were the models for the lithographed covers on a number of magazines.
Soon a thousand strangers were making spellbound pilgrimages to the cottage...
...or were venerating the iced remains in seidenfaden's cooling room.
The man who offered 30,000 dollars for the body of president garfield's assassin...
...sent a telegram to city marshal enos craig offering 50,000...
...for the body of jesse woodson james...
...so that he could go around the country with it...
...or at least sell it to p.t. barnum for his greatest show on earth.
Another photograph was taken of the renowned american bandit...
...nestled in his bed of ice.
And it was this shot that was most available in sundries and apothecaries...
...to be viewed in a stereoscope alongside the sphinx...
...the taj mahal, and the catacombs of rome.
Hello, here!
"the arrest and confession of dick liddil."
Young man, I thought you told me you didn't know dick had surrendered.
You mean he did? I didn't know.
But I knew I had not fooled him.
And he knew, as well as i, in that moment that I intended to bring him to justice.
But he would not kill me in the presence of his wife and children.
And so he was smiling to throw me off-guard.
Well, it's all right, anyway, bob.
It was widely felt that bob possessed some acting talent...
...and charley, not a jot.
That picture's awful dusty.
Charley was only expected not to slouch or mutter...
...and to transport his sicknesses to the alley before letting them go.
And that's...
...how I killed jesse james.
By october of 1883, bob ford could be identified correctly...
...by more citizens than could the president of the united states.
He was as renowned at 20 as jesse was after 14 years of grand larceny.
You won't get your hooks into me.
That's right. that's right. sit next to your boyfriend. jezebel.
Charley was increasingly superstitious...
...increasingly subject to the advice of soothsayers...
...who promised to cure his miseries with pipe smoke and poultices.
You been spending too much time with gypsies, charley.
Shit.
The picture's awful dusty.
Something began to change in charley's stage portrayal of jesse.
His gait seemed more practiced.
His voice was spookily similar to the man's.
His newly suggested dialogue was analogous...
...to a script jesse might have originated.
He began to look at his younger brother with spite...
...as if he suspected that in some future performance...
...he might present himself to a live cartridge in robert ford's gun.
Murderer!
Cur!
Coward!
You wanna investigate my courage? do you?
Find out! find out!
Nobody.
Coward!
By his own approximation, bob assassinated jesse james over 800 times.
He suspected no one in history had ever so often or so publicly...
...recapitulated an act of betrayal.
Bob always challenged the allegations of cowardice...
...but charley seemed to agree with them.
He spoke of mrs. zee james as certain priests might the madonna...
...and composed long soul-describing letters to her...
...begging her forgiveness...
...none of which he mailed.
Charley ford became all that his countrymen wanted an assassin of jesse james to be.
Jesse james was a man who killed many men
He robbed the glendale train
And he stole from the rich and he gave to the poor
He had a hand and a heart and a brain
Well, jesse had a wife to mourn for his life
Three children they were brave
But that dirty little coward who shot mr. howard
Has laid jesse james in his grave
It was robert ford that dirty little coward
I wonder how does he feel
For he ate at jesse's bread and he slept in jesse's bed
And he laid poor jesse in his grave
Well, jesse had a wife to mourn for his life
Three children they were brave
But that dirty little coward who shot mr. howard
Has laid poor jesse in his grave
I'm robert ford.
It was two children, not three.
Hey.
You get yourself home, son, okay?
Come on. get out of here. get out of my place.
He thought, at his angriest...
...about visiting the kin of Jesse 's slaughtered victims
Mrs. william westfall in plattsburg...
...the wymore family in clay county...
...perhaps even mrs. joseph heywood in northfield, minnesota.
He would go to their homes and give his name as robert ford...
...the man who killed jesse james.
He imagined they would be grateful to him.
It was only with dorothy evans that bob spoke revealingly or plainly...
...and it was with her that he spoke of things he didn't know he knew.
He told her that he had no real memory of the shooting and its aftermath.
He could remember lifting the gun that jesse had given him...
...and then it was good friday and he was reading about the funeral proceedings...
...as if they'd happened a long time ago.
Why did you kill him?
Well, he was gonna kill me.
So you were scared and that's the only reason?
Yeah.
And the reward money.
Do you want me to change the subject?
You know what I expected?
Applause.
I was only 20 years old then. I couldn't see how it would look to people.
I was surprised by what happened.
They didn't applaud.
He was ashamed of his boasting...
...his pretensions of courage and ruthlessness.
He was sorry about his cold-bloodedness, his dispassion...
...his inability to express what he now believed was the case:
That he truly regretted killing jesse...
...that he missed the man as much as anybody...
...and wished his murder hadn't been necessary.
Even as he circulated his saloon...
...he knew that the smiles disappeared when he passed by.
He received so many menacing letters...
...that he could read them without any reaction except curiosity.
He kept to his apartment all day, flipping over playing cards...
...looking at his destiny in every king and jack.
Edward o'kelly came up from bachelor at 1 p.m. on the 8th.
He had no grand scheme, no strategy...
...no agreement with higher authorities...
...nothing beyond a vague longing for glory...
...and a generalized wish for revenge against robert ford.
- how'd it go last night? - not so bad.
The other one.
Edward o'kelly would be ordered to serve a life sentence...
...in the colorado penitentiary for second-degree murder.
Over 7000 signatures would eventually be gathered...
...on a petition asking for o'kelly's release...
...and in 1902, governor james b. orman would pardon the man.
You shouldn't be wearing that stickpin again there, bob. opals are unlucky.
My luck's not very good as it is. I don't think an opal's gonna change that much.
I hear you.
There would be no eulogies for bob...
...no photographs of his body would be sold in sundries stores...
...no people would crowd the streets in the rain to see his funeral cortege...
...no biographies would be written about him...
...no children named after him.
No one would ever pay 25 cents to stand in the rooms he grew up in.
Hello, bob.
The shotgun would ignite, and ella mae would scream...
...but robert ford would only lay on the floor and look at the ceiling...
...the light going out of his eyes...
...before he could find the right words.