Favorite Share 
Zoom Discuss
Jesse James' Guns James family photo
Added
by

Jesse James' Guns

Jesse James' guns, one of which is being held by Vice President John Nance Garner, pointing at Senator Harry Truman of Missouri (who will later be President Harry Truman).

Senator Truman owned the guns. He bought them from the wife of a doctor in Southern Missouri. The doctor had treated Frank James, brother of Jesse and one of the James Gang, and Frank gave them to the doctor as payment. Frank said that Jesse had left the guns to him after being killed by the Pinkerton men.

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress, Harris and Ewing ... show more

Write a comment
Photo taken at Washington DC, District of Columbia USA on

John Nance Garner

Mini-biography
Born: Nov 22, 1868
Died: unknown
Also in this photo: John Nance Garner at 70 years old  ·  Harry S. Truman at 54 years old