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Jesse james had not experienced up to that point. [ gunfire ] >> go, go, go! >> come on! [ gunfire ] [ screaming ] >> for god's sakes, get out there. jesse, come on! come on, jesse! >> the bank robbery is an absolute disaster. it was an ambush but it was an ambush of their own mate. >> come on, jesse!
Equal parts personal and political. >> the james brothers grow up in civil war missouri, a state divided on the issue of slavery. their mother is a fanatical supporter of confederacy and she goes on to define them as adults. >> there's yankee scum around every corner. just lock them right in the eye. >> she was very influential in jesse's development. he ends up being rewarded for violence and for all of these things that go hand in hand with war. >> with these guns, you're going to teach them brutality. >> the james brothers mount up with the bushwhackers, a unit led by bloody bill anderson. ...
>> jesse james is haunted by his violent past. the effects of war, crime and acts of terror tear away at his sanity. his paranoia casts a dark cloud over the ford brothers who unknown to jesse had been plotting to kill him for a 10,000 dollar reward. >> charles lee and bob are looking for an opportunity. jesse's wife had made breakfast and they see jesse do something he has never done before. ♪
Logical. if there, in fact, is no difference between hogs and negros. >> despite lincoln's effort, the kansas, nebraska, act is passed, the decision that expands slavery. this settles nothing and ignites a firestorm and divides kansas and nebraska and battle lines are drawn in jesse's hometown. they face off against abolitionists called jayhawkers. >> these were men on both sides of the union rebels divide fighting at a local level using brutal tactics. >> on the james' family farm, zerelda is busy shaping the next generation of bushwhackers and sees it as her duty to fight for the confederacy...
His down toward spiral. >> whoa, whoa, whoa. thirsty? >> no, no thank you, son. >> i ain't your son. >> now, drink. drink it. >> frank. >> jesse is carrying on a war and it no longer has a place in this changed america. believe it or n-- they are not