Billy the Kid FULL SPECIAL | American Experience | PBS America

[@darthcheeseburger]

"That was William Bonney who died. Billy the Kid rides on forever". Amazingly put.

[@feniksphoenix8026]

"I swear I'm gonna live forever, tell my maker he can wait... I'm riding somewhere south from heaven, heading back to Santa Fe..."

[@richieboy1997]

Ever since I played Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2 I've been watching a lot of documentaries and movies based in the wild western days 😂

[@jorelclemente8343]

Yea me too! ❤

[@matthewgordonpettipas6773]

I first played Red Dead 1 as a kid and while I had some interest in the Old West before then, the game really sparked my fascination with the time period, both the American West and its Canadian counterpart (which, while less bloody to a certain extent, is still as interesting in my opinion). Louis L'Amour's novels, while doing some romanticizing, are good reads if you're a reader and want solid westerns to dig into.

[@pepe_da_prawn]

The media hasn't changed much then. Still going after the good guys.

[@toffanful]

Still bought and paid for lying trash and a waste of paper.

[@niallireland2940]

The kid did in a few short years what people can’t do in a life time , he became immortal ! You’d find it hard for anyone not to know the name billy the kid

[@tyktac8048]

"Hello Bob'" Billy did not suffer bullies, you got what you gave. Karma.

[@jamesforresternewone4423]

Awesome documentary please share more with love from Australia

[@AyranGonzales]

This is an amazing documentary, thx for this

[@GermanDelavega-hy5tc]

I love he life whit mexican and speak spañol wow billy el niño was great ..

[@qudintruckers6741]

HELLO BOB! That is superb line for death of Ollinger

[@alexdavies7394]

The best documentary on Billy the Kid! It was informative and the presentation was impeccable.

[@darlenejenckel1880]

I think Billy the kid is a legend❤

[@CrueMagnon]

I love the documentary of the finding of a second tin type picture with Billy and the regulators. The journey the finder takes to authenticate the picture is quite fascinating. Narrated by Kevin Costner. Definitely worth a watch.

[@megfinn2336]

Everybody loves Billy !

[@callumdale5820]

Red dead redemption 2 is why im here 😂

[@Litepaw]

What an absolute masterpiece that game was

[@donrvb6425]

Wow. Great documentary video. Thanks.

[@JJmoony]

Thank you this is awesome I keep watching it!

[@anthovision7048]

Excellent, thanks.

[@avaranabraham8507]

He is my hero

[@Indian_Outlaw417]

Outlaws never die..We just understand when we've worn out our welcome and we ride to a new town 🤘

[@itspeekaboo]

Thank you

[@shyjames83]

New must-have book been released, available on Amazon...Billy the Kid: El Bandido Simpático

[@Chaabi.DZ.]

What lovely documentary on the kid ..well done

[@gezzarandom]

Ironic that Billy The Kid who was of Irish descent sided with Englishman John Tunstall in his feud with the Irish. Obviously his biggest mistake was not getting out of the country after his escape.

[@2serveand2protect]

That's one thing that bugged me too, when I first heard this story! He was born from an Irish mother, that escaped the Great Famine in (as far as I remember) the the slum-part of New York. Yet - it was an Englishman, who helped him and gave him some dignity probably for the first time in his life. Knowing the Irish and knowing the HATRED that resides within the Irish population against the English it would have natural for him to join the Irish "beef-lords"...and yet!... Apparently the Mescaleros and even local Mexican themselves loved him and gave him support, when he was on the run. That's a true story worth a thousand movies.

[@2serveand2protect]

PS. Well - THERE YOU GO! - spelled out in the documentary itself! Sorry! I wrote my post, before watching it.

[@moedem]

He sided with good over evil

[@Litepaw]

I don't think he cared about all that. People are way too hung up on the past instead of looking in the future. All he saw was a man who treated him fairly in a place where everyone treated him like shit.

[@gottmituns813]

Eternal

[@HG-bs3en]

When it really was the land of the free

[@rosefarrell2440]

Hello Bob,Bye Bob😅😅 love the kid ❤

[@Cartman-Official]

I used to hang out with Billy alot may he rest in peace. Ride on Billy

[@woolylobster805]

Wouldn't you fight for you're mates if you had no one else left in you're life and I wouldn't even sit there and say Billy the kid was a bad guy hells nah bruh he was just doing what the law wasn't doing simple as that

[@CosmicDice115]

Has anyone heard of ned kelly?

[@dudeybagz]

Who hasn’t?

[@DannyBHE]

The Australian outlaw.

[@jakeevins3231]

True story but the end isn’t true. Pat said he killed Billy so Billy could live a new life. Way in the 1900’s a old man gave himself in and said that he was Billy the kid. Changed his name to Brushy Bill. Died in 1950 at the age of 71.

[@gasNmudtv]

He was born in 1859 so 91 years old

[@beardedloon77]

Olly p (brushy bill) Roberts was a fraud that couldn't even speak Spanish, billy was fluent in Spanish.

[@sammclaughlin515]

Brushy Bill was not Billy the Kid. Billy was shot and killed at Pete Maxwell’s house by Garrett.

[@benitograciano7191]

Em português, por favor...

[@hallson2917]

Billy the Kid rides on forever

[@charlieni645]

"But you have to separate from the fact that he was a cop killer." Me: Your point?

[@Litepaw]

That at the end of the day the man was a criminal and a murderer. And yes we get it, you like to larp as some kind of revolutionary anarchist superhero 😂 everyone has their power fantasies I guess.

[@marsazorean62]

These historians talking like they were there and then. They just love mythologizing.

[@marcusmcsharry60]

Poor Billy the Kid!!🔫🐎🔫🐎

[@FluffyMango-]

If I had a 16 year old sister and a 21 year old started dating her I don't think I'd be thrilled either tbh.

[@OhCanadathebest]

Nothing wrong with it back then anyways that’s how old your mom was

[@niallireland2940]

Probably one of the reason relationships don’t last now a days ! Woman mature quicker than men so it’s not a big deal she’s not a child anymore , now going under 16 is different and say if it was a 30 year old and a 16 year old that’s wrong but 21 come on

[@BBeowulf]

@@OhCanadathebest it’s still normal everywhere except America, even Europe

[@user-tj7nb9fu9t]

@@BBeowulf no its not normal.writting from Europe

[@BBeowulf]

@@user-tj7nb9fu9t yeah it is… age of consent is 16 or lower everywhere around Europe. It happens all the time.

[@moonmoonbirdcpt]

burgerland is basically what is elephant graveyard to elephants that is to any righteous and justice, from the beginning to now.

[@MarkizDeCarabas]

This document is good,I like it. Very well made. But it looks strange to me how people glorify a murderer.

[@marktaylor171]

It's difficult to pass judgment not knowing what the circumstances surrounding a man's life. If you grew up in a time and place where it was kill or be killed. Yes you could choose to not kill and you would be killed and most likely your loved ones also. Then you could choose to live meaning you'd have made the choice to kill. It's not just about you either you might choose to live so that you may kill so thay your loved ones wouldn't half to be faced with that choice. Know this when ever you kill someone, if it's self defense or cold blooded murder there will always be someone standing by to point their finger and call you a murder. Something else to think about to complacent this decision you think is made so lightly. To this day many innocent men and women are accused and charged for murders they did not commit.

[@chiefcuningcoyote4906]

@@marktaylor171 it’s like the show the walking dead, someone makes the decision to kill to protect and then a few turn around and think you’re the bad guy when if you hadn’t killed they wouldn’t be alive

[@beardedloon77]

Because if you actually pay attention to his story billy never committed an unjustified murder, every killing was legally justified either as self defense or in the course of carrying out his duty as a deputy.

[@bayokoebi9351]

He fought against corruption why tagged him outlaw

[@EyeOfTheCat2002]

He fought against the law.....its in the name OUT-LAW. The reasons are irrelevant fighting the law is what made you am outlaw back then.

[@EyeOfTheCat2002]

He didn't just fight corruption tho by intention. He robbed the innocent and started gang wars. That's not a hero.

[@frex3341]

This is the reality of America

[@ajrochester9364]

What’s crazy about this there was a photo that came out with Pat garrett with few men and one of those men is billy the kid. Billy never saw who killed him but turns out it was one of his friends or “ drinking friends” I read about that killed him. Dammit Pat

[@beardedloon77]

There's only one authenticated picture of the kid and that is dedrick tintype.

[@connormurphy7684]

Nothing mysterious about Garrets death,there was a trial and the lad got off on it due to circumstance and witness statements!😂

[@lalruatzauvachhakchhuak6383]

I think it's 1874 not 1847

[@SevenBrandys]

The governor just looking for publicity, never about righting a wrong.

[@youknow95]

Pete Maxwell got him killed. Its a shame that someone like that got him killed for not approving his relationship with his sister.

[@acuteangle5237]

Billy much better than most of democrates

[@nagacocktail2309]

KILLING BAD PEOPLE AND BAD COPS... I MEAN ARE ALL THE COPS *GOOD COPS*... AND ARE ALL THE PEOPLE *GOOD PEOPLE*...???

[@Guitarninjaruy]

Pat garrett will always be known as the one who shot someone in the back, may pat rot in hell 🙏

[@Litepaw]

I wonder what they mean by emphasizing "the _house"_ so much. That house only contains people on a whole another _level_ of evil.

[@mikewatson8521]

And supposedly Garrett shot billy BARLOW and hurriedly buried the body and passed it off as killing the kid but i reckon we,ll never know

[@hadynwills3677]

Nothing has changed with the meda now and way back then look after the rich too hell with the pheasants .

[@pegasus6724]

Billy was not Irish Billy was not a cop killer Billy was moral Billy killed bent cops A bent cop can't be a cop Billy does not kill moral people Billy knows it's wrong to kill cops if they are moral Billy had his own gun factories Billy lived with natives Billy married a native Billy never had children Billy killed over a million people . Billy used psychics to find bad people who harm others and killed them and gave the money to poor families Billy helped lots of people Billy was a good man ,an angel

[@annaemilia2505]

he was killed cold blooded without having any chance.....and also wsa cheated by a promise that was not kept......

[@lennarthagen3638]

Thats rich.

[@Jack_Hunt]

dont worry he never died. Brushy Bill Roberts was Billy.

[@EyeOfTheCat2002]

​@Jack_Hunt He would have be over 90 years old very unlikely back then

[@marsazorean62]

Don't tell me he was good looking or handsome or glamorous. What a stupid comment from that gov Billy Richardson. .

[@matthewgordonpettipas6773]

The Anglo influence. That diminishes the different cultures of Europeans that settled the West. For example Billy the Kid was Irish by ethnicity. He was vastly different than John Tunstall or someone of, say, Ukrainian or German background. Just calling it 'Anglo' is such a cheapening of the rich diversity within European cultures and ethnic groups.

[@killme4375]

I'm pretty sure they mean Anglo in the sense of the whole British isle, which are pretty similar. Also the fact that the USA broke from Britain

[@Mountainshark]

It means English speakers.

[@LoneCloudHopper]

"There is no difference really between fame and infamy." To the morally feeble perhaps. I'd much rather be famous than infamous.

[@gullybull5568]

This is DUMB. and FICTIONAL.

[@ShaneLavigne-ke2rh]

I don't think he died buy pat i don't think he was dumb

[@1952teapot]

Just another cold blooded murder!

[@Coach_Vedo]

Omg....such a bad storytelling from these "writters" I thought that here will talk historians and such...not self-proclaimed writters.

[@moedem]

Pete maxwell was a snitch

[@hanssolos3699]

is billy in onlyfans?

[@serious-cyrusnoelan8127]

Hahahah

[@waynemcauliffe2362]

Irish

[@kidmohair8151]

'murikan mythology...the noble outlaw...robin hood of ye olde western-e plain-es... it must be of great use to the powers that be to keep fostering this stuff...it's lost on me. like the nobility of the lost cause of the antebellum south

[@cricketbatguitar]

Why the fuck did you bother watching it then?

[@Jack_Hunt]

Probably a lot is lost on you. LOL

[@Ziggy-ym1zl]

You say he was a cop killer like that's a bad thing

[@bille77]

"Good looking"?!? 😂😂 no, bro.

[@chiefcuningcoyote4906]

The photo of him was taken when he was in the middle of being on the run in the mountains with food scarce that’s why he doesn’t look his best there and looks anorexic

[@MrAdrianOldfield]

Fred Nolan knows nothing at all he’s a fake

[@chiefcuningcoyote4906]

How so?

[@Ziggy-ym1zl]

You say he was a cop killer like that's a bad thing