Word: jessee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The outlaws in this movie are born of history but made of myth. Jesse James is crazy, a killer by blood and pleasure. Cole Younger, equally deadly, is shrewder, less skittish. Both are bandits who become political heroes, leaders of a gang of irregulars who ride through Missouri warring against...
The movie's action springs from an 1876 vote by the Missouri house of representatives to give full amnesty to Cole, Jesse and their assorted brothers and buddies. The house speaker, bribed by the railroad, decides that the entire motion is out of order. This sits fine with Jesse...
Just when anticipation is keenest (Has the President fallen gravely ill? Has Brezhnev delivered a nuclear ultimatum? Has Agnew staged a coup d'etat?), Nixon emerges with a fistful of notes and a gleam in his eye. To an astonished public, he announces a bold, new, precedent-shattering program...
Jesse L. Jackson, L.H.D., civil rights activist.
Malcolm's new ideas were to profoundly influence young black leaders in America. The documentary includes clips from speeches by Stokely Carmichael, H. "Rap" Brown, and Jesse Jackson that illustrate Malcolm's influence on their thinking. "No one has fought for civil rights." Malcolm says in the film. "They have...