America's own Robin Hood, robbing from the poor as well as the rich, keeping it all for himself...

Jesse James, so the legend goes, was a Western outlaw, though he never went west; and a gunfighter whose victims,in reality, were almost always unarmed. Less heroic than brutal, James was in fact a product, from first to last, of the American Civil War; a Confederate partisan of expansive ambition, unbending politics and surprising cunning, who gladly helped invent his own valiant legend. In a life steeped in prolific violence and bloodshed, he met what was perhaps the most fitting end; like so many of his own victims, James himself was an unarmed man, shot in the back.  JESSE JAMES: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE...7pm