One of the most famous executions in history was that given to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance

Kid in Bolivia in 1908, made so in large part due to the 1969 movie.

But some say it was just a Hollywood invention, and that the two outlaws did not, in fact,

meet their end high in the Andes Mountains.

Today, we're going to look at exactly what did happen in that small mining camp of San Vicente,

and whether or not we can actually conclusively tie it to the two infamous men.

Finding Butch in Sundance is today unskeptoid.

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I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Finding Butch in Sundance.

It was the most popular movie of 1969, winning an Academy Award for its screenplay by William Goldman.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid told a fictionalized version of the final years of the lives

of the two infamous Western outlaws, who are popularly, but not universally, believed

to have died in a shootout in South America.

Finally, cornered in a small room in San Vicente, Bolivia, the movie versions of Butch in Sundance

faced an entire regiment of Bolivian soldiers.

Goldman's screenplay describes their fanciful ending best, though slightly different from

what ended up on screen.

Close up the Captain.

Over and over is a gestures forward toward the tiny room where Butch in Sundance are.

Captain says, Attake, Attake, Attake!

Cut to one group of men, vaulting the wall, moving forward and quickly.

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