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Today in True Crime

November 7, 1908: Butch and Sundance

Today in True Crime

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Education, True Crime, History

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente Canton, Bolivia on this day in 1908. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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Today is November 7th, 2019.

0:34.0

On this day in 1908, in the small town of San Bicente,

0:39.0

Bolivia, a posse of cavalry officers exchanged fire with two American bandits.

0:46.6

This is believed to be the last stand of notorious desperados, Robert Leroy Parker, and Harry Longabah, also known as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance

0:58.9

Kid. Welcome to today in True Crime, a parcast original.

1:10.0

Today we're discussing the last stand of the American West's most well-known outlaws,

1:15.1

Butch Cassidy, founder of the Wild Bunch, a loose collection of outlaw gangs,

1:20.5

and the Sundance kid, a talented gunslinger and associate of Cassidies.

1:26.0

Due to the violent nature of today's crimes,

1:29.0

listener discretion is advised.

1:31.0

Extreme caution is advised for listeners under 13.

1:35.5

Let's go back to the early morning of November 7th, a little after 2 a.m. when the night's

1:41.6

peace was shattered by a cacophony of gunfire.

1:47.0

The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder.

1:57.0

Captain Houston Houston P. Konta had not expected a battle that evening.

2:02.0

He figured the bandits would turn tail and run, or give up as soon

2:06.8

as they saw they were surrounded. Instead, they had dug in and opened fire from an Adobe building. The sudden They had

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