"International Bank Robbery Day" falls tomorrow... So what is its true story?

Who is the "righteous thief"?

 The "International Bank Robbery Day" is considered one of the strangest occasions that are commemorated in the world, which falls on February 13 of each year, and was named after the legendary American thief Jesse James.

And James, is the first bank thief in the world, as he succeeded on February 13, 1866 in the robbery of a bank for the first time in the history of the world.

And the story of the American Jesse James, or the legendary thief as he is called, is one of the most prominent and strangest stories because it contains two parts, one positive and the other negative, and it monitors the journey of a person transformed by circumstances from a good citizen to another outlaw.

The life of this thief was an inspiration to filmmakers in the United States, and many works that monitored his life came out, so that his legend remains passed down through generations, despite his death nearly two centuries ago.

American cinema has turned James' crimes into works of art, the most recent of which was a movie entitled "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford", which was produced in 2007, and is adapted from the novel "Ron Hansen" of the same name and tells the story of his life.

James was born in the US state of "Missouri" on September 5, 1847, among 4 brothers, and his mother remarried after the death of his father several times, including Doctor Robin Samuel, who fought Jesse unofficially in the American Civil War between the South and North with the "Bloody Bill Anderson" gang. "Southern.

It seems that that war set for James' life a different path that he never imagined. After the end of the war, the fighting groups in which the man fought surrendered, and the warriors coming from the north treated the former southern conscripts harshly and violently, as they were prevented from complete amnesty and specialized professions and were placed In prisons for various reasons and with flimsy pretexts.

The post-war conditions increased the anger and stalking towards the warriors from the American North, but Jesse's injury to a gunshot from the northerners under the guise of the armistice drove him crazy and became resentful of all his life and the society in which he lived, and this incident transformed his life.

And Jesse decided to turn to the world of crime, and began his criminal life with a robbery that was considered unique at the time and represented his transport and strange audacity in the world of crime after the robbery and robbery of the Bank of America on February 13, 1866.

James was declared an outlaw in 1866, and he was hunted for 16 years until his death.

James founded his gang in 1867 and they robbed banks, trains, murders and robberies, and attacked mail vans, shops and people, claiming pride that they did not steal a friend, a priest or a widow, so he was called a "righteous thief with his family."

James continued his criminal hegemony, causing panic among all, prompting Missouri Governor Thomas Crittenden to announce a reward of $30,000 for anyone who caught James, dead or alive.

At the same time, James offered a $50,000 reward for anyone who killed Governor Thomas, but James was betrayed by a member of his gang, Robert Ford, in order to obtain the prize.

Despite his criminality, he remained a legend that everyone talked about for a long time, and the American actor Brad Pitt portrayed the character of Jesse James in the movie (The Assassination of Jesse James) in 2007.

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