Historical fact. The second young guns was based off of the fact that a man (around 1910) came up to a judge and said "I'm Billy the Kid." They laughed at him until he told things that only Billy the Kid would have known. A man interviewed him, decided he was the real deal, and wrote an article to be published. They laughed the article out of the newspaper. To this day, we still don't know. It's generally accepted that he died. But let's think about it. A best friend of his, from the past, shot him. Everyone idolized him. And faking your own death was easy back then, everyone was doing it. I'm not saying the old man was really him, but I am saying that discounting him would be foolish. Just some food for thought. The old man confessed because he was too old to care what happened to him and said he wanted a clean conscience so he could at least look St. Peter in the eye. Neato! --matt
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Date: 2008-01-12 12:05 am (UTC)Neato!
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