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Mysterious Circumstances

The Real Billy the Kid AKA Brushy Bill Roberts - Interview w/ Author Brett L. Hall

Mysterious Circumstances

Age Of Radio + Bleav

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

History reports that Billy the Kid was killed in 1881. In 1950, a mysterious man known as Brushy Bill Roberts, confessed that he was the real Billy the Kid and petitioned the governor of New Mexico for a pardon for crimes committed under that name. This episode is with the author named Brett L. Hall, who wrote a research documentary book of William "Brushy Bill" Roberts' claim. It documents Roberts' story and investigates it word for word. This book is the story of Brushy Bill Roberts, and you're going to interested in what he has to say.
You can pick up his book anywhere! https://www.amazon.ae/Real-Billy-Brushy-Bill-Roberts/dp/1257177133
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1:21.0

Sure. My name is Brett Hall. I'm the author of the book The

1:24.7

Real Billy the Kid aka Brushy Bill Roberts. I've also served on the board of

1:29.0

directors and as the archivist of the Billy the Kid Museum of Canton, Texas.

1:34.0

That is outstanding, man.

1:35.0

So my big question, definitely first right out the gate,

1:39.0

is what inspired you to go down this road?

1:43.0

Basically, it was like most people through young guns too.

1:47.0

That's where I first really became associated with Brushy Bill Roberts.

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