SANDY KOZEL
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004)
On October 6, 1866, the brothers John and Simeon Reno staged the
first train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from
an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana.
Of course, trains had been robbed before the Reno brothers’ holdup
but, these previous crimes had all been burglaries of stationary
trains sitting in depots or freight yards.
The Reno brothers’ contribution to criminal history was to stop a
moving train in a sparsely populated region where they could carry
out their crime without risking interference from the law or curious bystanders.
On September 23, 1875, Billy the Kid was arrested for the first time
after stealing a basket of laundry. He later broke out of jail and
roamed the American West, eventually earning a reputation as
an outlaw and murderer and a rap sheet that allegedly included
21 murders.
Jesse Woodson James (September 5, 1847 – April 3, 1882)
Seen by some as a vicious murderer and by others as a gallant
Robin Hood, the famous outlaw Jesse Woodson James was
born on September 5, 1847, in Clay County, Missouri.
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie
(July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967)
Folk singer Woody Guthrie died of complications
of Huntington’s disease.