Murder on the Southern Pacific: full documentary

100 years ago, one of the last of the Wild West train holdups happened in the mountains of Southern Oregon.
It’s been called “The Last Great American Train Robbery,” memorialized in movies, songs, and even comic books. But everything about that name is wrong. It wasn’t the last train robbery, and it certainly wasn’t ‘great.’ Four men died, and three brothers spent years on the run.
Nonetheless, the events of October 11, 1923, would be remembered even without the embellishments. Federal agents launched the era’s most extensive investigation that ultimately helped establish the field of modern-day criminal forensics.
“Oregon Experience” explores this legendary event and the enduring mysteries in the case.
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[@robynw6307]

Just because they got old doesn't mean they are any less guilty. One manslaughter, and three cold blooded murders. A sentence is a sentence, and commuting it isn't right.

[@scotmclean5124]

My grandmother, at the time, was a teenaged apprentice seamstress. She tailored the suits the brothers wore at their trial. My grandfather, also a teenager, hiked up into the Siskiyous with his buddies looking for the fugitives. 🙂

[@irishfuk3219]

I live in southern Oregon, that's not true. They would freeze to death.

[@Dannyedelman4231]

Locomotive 3626 worked for Southern Pacific until 1929 when they sold it to the Texas and New Orleans railroad where it was scrapped in the 50s SP 975 is a sister locomotive

[@fozzybear7255]

"pre-safety net"?? "If you didn't work, you didn't eat"

[@snchilders]

My dad was born (1914) and raised in Ashland and remembered all the hoopla about this.

[@gregmaggielipscomb9246]

What about the victims, who compensated them ? Who commuted their lifelong sentences?

[@mikemhoon]

Why would they walk across the mountain instead of just walking through the tunnel to get to the north side?

[@mawi1172]

A story of a family of geniuses.

[@brucepeek3923]

Thats not a flintlock pistol, it is a caplock- something far diffferent.

[@rodgermorris8307]

The detonator they used to blow up the train was stolen from a construction site in Oregon City, Oregon and was in the possession of the federal government office in Portland Oregon until 1982 when it was then turned over to the Smithsonian Postal Museum!

[@timvandiepen8373]

Awesome

[@alanh1406]

27 minutes in, what happened to the descendants of the damn victims??

[@helenhunter4540]

"The dogmas and the preaching" of the I.W.W.? "He felt that the world owed him a living."

[@TheOldTeddy]

the shot of Fatty Arbuckel (

[@jparker59able]

Please explain to me why any of these men deserved being allowed freedom?

[@thekitcat9453]

👍

[@fozzybear7255]

Obviously this was just a tragic accident. They were good boys b4 this happened. Just didn't have the knowledge to get the proper amount of explosives in relation to what they were blowing up. Could easily blame the manufacturer for not labeling their product properly. And also Republicans for not getting affordable Internet out to the low income communities.

[@marvwatkins7029]

Not a bad doc. But that silhouette of someone holding a flintlock pistol was historically inaccurate, silly, careless, and unprofessional.

[@paullough4946]

So...Union inspired, Fantasy fueled Sociopathic violence...sounds like a modern day Police Department.