"He Said He Was Billy the Kid" | Mr. Morrison's 1952 Speech | Old Lincoln Days - Lincoln, NM

Transcript of Mr. Morrison's 1952 speech given during the Old Lincoln Days gathering. Narrated by author Daniel A. Edwards.
Get the book Billy the Kid: An Autobiography The Story of Brushy Bill Roberts on Amazon.com here: a.co/d/6A0dvUh
Join this channel to get access to perks:
/ @aliasbillythekid
Exclusive content available to paid members! New research, behind the scenes sneak peaks, and more!

[@jlf8570]

I can imagine the grumbles in the crowd as he gave his speech! Thank you for posting this.

[@ccrider3435]

I think you deserve to stand on the shoulders of giants Mr. Edwards. I am certain Mr. Morrison would be honored and relieved that you value the historical record as much as he did!

[@aliasbillythekid]

Very very kind. Thank you

[@cincyfanjunglecity9871]

There’s one thing for sure. Billy the Kid is still very much alive in our minds.

[@robstanton9215]

I continue to be impressed by the calm manner in which you and Brett Hall present the evidence that debunks all credibility of the status quo historians. Much of our history is written to suit those writing it. The truth is in the evidence not the wishful thinking. Thank you again for terrific content!!!

[@aliasbillythekid]

Thank you. I have had many intelligent conversations with actual historians that were interested in the evidence. Many of them had never heard the real story of Brushy articulated or they had been turmed off by attention seekers. Now the opposite is happening. The attention seekers are on the pther side and they are pushing people to us. When those people get here they see the difference. The study of history isnt a "gotcha" exercise. Its an examination of evidence and consideration of possibilities. We explore possibilities and make determinations based o. the evidence. Not that hard when one's heart is in the right place.

[@robstanton9215]

So very true

[@insertnamehere313]

Yes..history is written by the victors.

[@aliasbillythekid]

@@insertnamehere313 I have never worked with Brett Hall. Who told you that if you don't mind?

[@insertnamehere313]

@@aliasbillythekid I seen it in someone's comment on another channel..sorry I may have taken it wrong.

[@TheSlave57]

I’m enjoying this adventure so much, keep up the good work!

[@daveclemons1225]

Wow!! Sure would have liked to been there to listen to that speech. Great video Dan!! Lots of information as always!! Keep up the great work!!

[@e.f.3207]

Fantastic! Quality stuff, again!

[@TheRoswellKid]

Ohhh, What a Special Treat, Daniel😮🥇💯‼️ Will V Morrison's Genteel Sincerity shines directly thru his offense-free delivery of Brashy Bill's private confidings, alongside Morrison's own honest reactions & subsequent proceedings, all in the spirit of Truth & Justice. William V Morrison's valid presumpions of Bill Roberts' voluntary admissions were forthright & engaging to any logical anyone who would've been within earshot of such extraordinary confessions. Morrison did what ANY of us would've done upon hearing & seeing such proof of identity: Pursue the Validation of the man who was carrying such storied scars & telling such extraordinary stories😮🥇‼️

[@TheReapersFear4]

This was a real treat, thanks Bill and thanks Dan

[@johnnybratcher9226]

Thank you 👍

[@richardreinle7322]

Thank you for sharing , i enjoyed that .

[@leonardnorris3949]

It's very interesting. Several people will argue about this till the end of time.

[@americaiswicked]

Even his right eyebrow is slanted more down than his left, just like the tin-type of Billy. His hat is always sloped to the left in all photos pushing against his ear making his left ear seem bigger than his right. As a private investigator, there is no doubt this man with all his stories, scars and look comparison is in fact William H. Bonnie.

[@nickg9340]

Thanks For another great video dan. Where are you finding all these little morrison goodies? Food for thought Someone should kick start a Billy the kid book similar to "From the Vault" Where it compiles every news article picture, government manuscript that is currently available and goes into detail about them. It would be really nice to have high resolution photographs in a nice hard leather bound book with the stories behind them.

[@aliasbillythekid]

I've stated elsewhere that Miss Morrison helped me. I'm not at liberty to disclose where but I have posted a video of us together. I kept it secret until she unfortunately passed away a year or so ago. Wonderful woman, like her dad.

[@jamesfindley4081]

Brushy Bill looks just like an aged version of Billy. The eyes, ears, forehead, shoulders and stance. It's gotta be him.

[@americaiswicked]

Even his right eyebrow is slanted more down than his left, just like the tin-type of Billy.

[@johnscanlon2598]

Is it even proven what billy looked like for sure ? I know there’s the tin photo but read that is heavily distorted , if that’s the case who knows what he even looked like ?

[@getoffenit7827]

I dont know how many books ive read or how many youtube channels ive watched...but this is the only time where anybody gave background on Morrison beyond a few snarky sentences. Not in my expeirience has anyone put into context..the inner workings of what happened between Brushy,Morrisey,Governor of New Mexico concerning the Pardon/Evidence and behavior of the governor. You have done an immense amount of research and work and its very revealing about those who keep the narrative going and blocking anyone else trying to find the truth

[@DBCOOPER982]

Always a fan of billy everyone wants to be the kid but unfortunately there's only one billy the kid and that's Henry macCarty

[@nikdrown]

Brushy had the same looking hands and sloped shoulders

[@STONESGAM]

He stole his deceased cousins identity allegedly. It was much easier to do back then.

[@tiki3609]

Have you compared his actual life history up to and after all this? I think there may be a lot of discrimination there that doesn't match up.

[@aliasbillythekid]

For Brushy Bill or you mean what Morrison said in the speech?

[@bradpolegato4545]

You should do the rest of regulators that survived this is good work

[@Magoo.Rivero]

I am not a believer that brushy bill was Billy the kid. Having said that I am really enjoying your videos and the points you are making. Thank you for the content!

[@aliasbillythekid]

Thank you. I appreciate it!

[@eddieboulrice6791]

I've tryed to join your club a ton of times and it won't work for one reason or another it said I had no money or the new pass word I put in is wrong .I don't know what I'm doing wrong here I would like to join but it won't work .

[@aliasbillythekid]

Sorry you are having trouble. Ive heard you have to join from a laptop or desktop but it may be something else. Appreciate you trying!

[@eddieboulrice6791]

I'm using my phone I don't have laptop .then I guess I won't be able to see all that stuff OH WELL .

[@aliasbillythekid]

Sorry Eddie. KZbin issue. :0(

[@outragousbob4367]

I don’t know if we will ever know for certain, but when I look at the photos of Brushy, I do not see a ninety year old man. You have to remember, Billy lived in a time where life on the frontier was harsh. Constantly out in the elements, no sun screen, no sun glasses etc. I do not believe I’ve seen a modern 90 year old who would have had all of the aforementioned conveniences look half as good as brushy. Also, common sense tells me that the likelihood of brushy’s pictures being such a high percentage match to the tin type, would be near impossible. Because during the picture taking of a tin type the subject must remain perfectly still during the exposure. If they didn’t the image would be distorted. I’ve read that people who knew Billy didn’t think the tin type was a good representation. That makes sense because I’ve also read that Billy was reported to be a handsome Ladd. The tin type makes him look goofy and rather homely. So Brushy’s pictures match a terrible representation of what Billy really looked like? Tin type experts also believe Billy did move during the exposure creating an abnormally long jaw line. I won’t say I’m 100% certain Brushy isn’t the Kid but based on everything I’ve read on both sides, I’m at 90% he was not the Kid. Remember, it takes a boy to live and a man to pretend he was there. - Lumineers.

[@aliasbillythekid]

"tin type experts"....ok. There are always these anonymous "experts". You can do some basic research on the Getty Museum website or the Eastman Kodak Museum website and see that exposure times by the late 1870s and early 1880s were dramatically reduced.

[@greggwhitehouse1653]

I would love to listen to brushy bill Roberts tapes and hear all the things he said about his life fantastic dan keep it up mate

[@redwatch1100]

1:17 - That's Wyatt Earp isn't it?

[@lastboyscout629]

If Bill Roberts was Billy the Kid, who were William H. Bonney and/or Henry McCarty? Did Mr. Roberts use those alias? Thank you.

[@aliasbillythekid]

@@lastboyscout629 Yes.His aunt Katherine McCarty married William Antrim so he was known as Henry McCarty when he lived with them. (Henry was his middle name he used to avoid confusion with Mr Antrim). After he left he was given the alias William Bonney by Belle Starr to use as an outlaw name. There was no Katherine Bonney.

[@PeacefulOne1975]

Only part that makes no sense out of all the sense Garrett didn't kill the Kid that day is how would brushy go close to 30 years without reading or writing nit letters to his friends family especially as all the escapedes there after supposed death as a soldier they read message write. After all Spanish he knew no way would he forget being in Spanish areas hearing it often. To me that part throws much shade on his whole story unfortunate to say. But I love what your doing didn't get to read any of books associated with brushy or yours I'm in Phillipines not Easy to get them. But I believe in what your doing appreciate it and it's always for me when the bad slash good guy gets away, too many bullets in story killing Billy and Billy would never ever walked into a situation he couldn't get out of. Whoever it was sure was amateur. Thank you again sorry so Long comment

[@aliasbillythekid]

I don't think he forgot Spanish at all. He spoke to his wife in Spanish, with Mr. Morrison in Spanish, and to Severo Gallegos in Spanish.

[@connormurphy7684]

How come nobody ever mentions Brushy confessed on tape it was fabricated with his lawyer at the helm!😂😂

[@aliasbillythekid]

Because that never happened.

[@antwerpen60]

I'm shore Brushy Bill wasn't Billy for he had a different bone structure of chin and cheeks. Bone structure doesn't change with age and as they didn't have fotoshop neither by 'mistakes' in a picture. So if the guy in the most famous picture is Billy it cannot be Brushy and v.v.

[@aliasbillythekid]

NYPD expert facial recognitiom analyst Detective Furia said they look like identical twins. The perceived differemce in chins is due to his mouth being open in the tintype photo.

[@antwerpen60]

@@aliasbillythekid Mmm, I've been drawing and painting from nature a lot, including models and I trust my own observation in this case.

[@russavsukraine1957]

Brush Bill does not look 91 .. he would be the youngest looking 91 year old I have ever seen (especially for someone who had a hard life). In his speech .. Morrison said Brushy stopped reading and writing for 30 years .. how do you do that? You just forget how? Did he not write checks or read anything at all? Why would Garret assume he would stay out of the area and not prove him wrong that he (Billy) was dead .. if that were the case then why didn't he pass off someone else as Billy during his other raids where he killed at least 2 regulators thinking it was Billy? He told the story just like historians and books .. what has he said that was different other than where he was born and how was not killed by Garret? Why are there no pictures of his wounds? How did the guy who is supposed to be Jesse Evans keep in touch and know where Brushy was? What proof was there of the guy that said he was Jesse Evans to Morrison? Why is there no video of Brushy Bill saying these things to Morrison? There was certainly video back then in 1949 and 1950. The first report to the Governor could have been rejected for a number of reasons .. what was the reason given and where is the proof of that? Why would Brush be afraid of seeing police officers in a court room to the point he "forgets everything"? I can understand the traumatic effect to a certain degree but how could you forget everything because of that? Wouldn't it bring back more memories? If he was happy then why or where is there a picture with Brushy having a smile? How could someone with the life like Billy the Kid have really been "happy" with all that he would have to live with? Who was the guy that Brush said Garret killed in his place? Did anyone verify if he was reported living after than night or not? Why hasn't his family come forward and said anything. Why would he say he was born in Buffalo Gap TX if historians say it could have only been in NY, Indiana or Colorado? Did Brushy talk about his stepfather McCarty and where his mother met him? Did he talk about having a brother named Joe and how old he was?

[@aliasbillythekid]

So respectfully there is a lot wrong with some of the premises you base your questions on although I don't have a problem with the questions necessarily. First, in some of the photos at the Governor's mansion Brushy looked every bit of 90 and there are innumerable examples of people looking younger than they are so I'm not sure the point of that comment other than sharing your opinion which is fine. As for video, you are talking 1949 and 1950 and I would correct you on that. Video was not widely available at all for the average person. Morrison used reel to reel tape which was pretty sophisticated for an average person at the time. People in that era still had the old victrola record players in their homes from 20 years prior just like many people have Ipods, cassette tapes, and Cds in their homes today. The idea that Brushy "forgot everything" is flawed. I have a whole video on what happened at the Governor's mansion with another one coming. As for the person killed, it wasn't like today. People went west, north, overseas, etc. and were never heard from again. Even in the 1970s my mom had a brother in his 20s that disappeared. Its not like you know where to look. We don't know if his family missed him or not or searched for him or not. Its as though those things have to be answered for the story to be true and they don't. Colonel Albert Fountain and his son disappeared and he was a prominent citizen. Jesse James' father disappeared and nobody knows where he went either. An understanding of life in 1881 will resolve a lot of these types of questions.

[@russavsukraine1957]

@@aliasbillythekid Thanks for your insight. These are good points you make and look forward to your next video. Not getting to the bottom of something kind of bugs me and having all questions answered is the way to get to get closer to what really happened. I still need more convincing for things to make more sense logically as to what happened. I am sure you have heard of Jim Miller .. claimed to be Billy and looks more like him and people that know him say he was .. a similar story line as with Brush Bill in ways.

[@aliasbillythekid]

@@russavsukraine1957 Appreciate your comments and questions. Im not always right either but I will keep doing my best to get to the bottom of everything.

[@keithroedel4598]

Brushy bill was not Billy the kid

[@aliasbillythekid]

You are welcome to keep saying it but unfortunately the evidence is not on your side.