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Is Bill Richardson is considering pardoning Billy the Kid?
After 129 years, pardon beckons for Billy the Kid!
A campaign to rehabilitate the famed outlaw is set to succeed. But the descendants of the sheriff who killed him are not happy
He was a feared gunslinger and a conniving outlaw who was steeped in the blood of many men, yet the paradox is that he remains a favourite folk hero of the American West.
Now, 129 years after his death, Billy the Kid may be about to receive a pardon from none other than the Governor of New Mexico, the territory where his final exploits were played out.
Generations raised on westerns have shared a fascination for the Kid, who was – possibly – gunned down by sheriff Pat Garrett in July 1881 after he had shot his way out of a local jail, killing two deputies.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...d-2040018.html
Billy the Kid should be pardoned at once! He was the victim of a media smear campaign and lies by Pat Garrett!
“I don’t blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don’t know if any one would believe anything good of me anyway.”
~ Billy the Kid's comment to a Las Vegas Gazette reporter (December, 1880)
Fact vs. Myth
Separating the truth from the legend
Myth: At the age twelve, Billy the Kid killed his first man who had insulted his mother. After the killing, he bid his mother farewell and ran away.
Myth: As a young boy, Billy the Kid was given a Barlow knife as a gift and he used it to decapitate a neighbor's kitten.
Myth: Billy the Kid was short, chubby and ugly.
Myth: Billy the Kid was left-handed.
Myth: Billy the Kid had a hair-trigger temper, which could explode with the slightest provocation.
Myth: Billy the Kid was illiterate and had no schooling.
Myth: Billy the Kid was a large scale rustler.
Myth: There were wanted posters on Billy the Kid.
Myth: Billy the Kid shot a man for snoring too loud at a hotel.
Myth: At one time Billy the Kid rode with Jesse James.
Myth: Billy the Kid would drink to the extreme and go on drunken rages.
Myth: The most popular one of all: “Billy the Kid killed 21 men, one for each of year of his life.”
http://www.aboutbillythekid.com/fact_vs_myth.htm
Is Bill Richardson is considering pardoning Billy the Kid?
How gov- ed!
the criminal up next, actually up now, for white-washing revisionism and rehabilitation: dubya
The Dems are planning to run against the Repugs as no different from dubya, because dubya's and the Repug's (deficits, wars, deregulation, etc) is still piled high and stinkin bad.
Obama is weak on crime
Free the Kid!!!
Billy the Kid’s lawyers want their client dug up
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4441143/
Young Guns 1 and 2. Some of the best films ever.
Yes, there were several tales about the dispute of his fate. I heard quite a bit when I was stationed at Ft. We-Got-Cha in Arizona. I grew to believe that Billy the Kid was not killed then.
Americans love outlaws of the past and locking people up today. Go figure.
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