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Now
Available! The TRUTH About Jesse James by Betty
Dorsett Duke
 Betty
Dorsett Duke’s provocative new book, The Truth About
Jesse James, makes a convincing case that Jesse James
pulled off one of the biggest
hoaxes in American history by getting away with his
own murder. Despite 1996 DNA results highly touted as
proving with a high degree of certainty that Jesse James
died and is buried in Kearney, Missouri just as history
reports, the author presents findings from her investigation
of the 1995 exhumation and subsequent DNA testing showing
why they are tainted and proved absolutely nothing.
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Jesse James Couldn't Have Been AKA
Thomas Howard if this is true:
Written
verbatim from The Letter Box, Golden West magazine, July 1968:
“Dear Editor,
I read your magazines Golden West, and The West, and I like your
magazines and the stories of the Old West you publish. I have one
question that perhaps some of your readers might be able to answer
for me. I have lived at St. Joseph, Missouri, for several years now,
and being interested in the story that Jesse James was killed here
at St. Joseph, Missouri I was looking through the set of St. Joseph,
Missouri, City Directories dating back to the year 1880, and I
happened to come across the name and address of Thomas Howard in the
1882 St. Joseph City Directory; I then recalled that some books I
had read about Jesse James had contained the statement that Jesse
James was using the alias “Thomas Howard” in St. Joseph, Missouri
when he was reported in the April, 1882 newspapers to have been
killed in St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3, 1882.
What puzzled me was that as I looked through other old St. Joseph,
Missouri, City Directories I found that Thomas Howard’s name and
address are listed in the St. Joseph, Missouri, City Directories for
the years 1882 up to the year 1900. I looked further in the old
directories and found that Thomas Howard is listed in the City
Directories up to the year 1930. Now, my question is this, if Jesse
James was killed in St. Joseph, Missouri, by Robert Ford, on April
the 3rd, 1882, then how is it that Thomas Howard is listed as a
living resident of St. Joseph, Missouri from 1882 up to 1930? Maybe
one reader of your magazines could throw some light on this matter
for me. I am interested in the old West, and this matter has made me
curious, as you might imagine.
Yours truly,
Mr. James Reid
Rt. #3
St. Joseph, Missouri”
Hoctor Contra James
(Click to View)
Mr. Emmett C. Hoctor conceived the
excellent plan to exhume the reported grave of Jesse James in
Kearney, Missouri for DNA testing in order to prove, or disprove,
the age-old rumor that Bob Ford did not shoot him dead on April 3,
1882 and is not buried where history reports. He chose Prof. James
E. Starrs to head the 1995 exhumation project, but now regrets his
decision because of Prof. Starrs' unscientific and unprofessional
handling of his "baby".
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Welcome from Betty
Dorsett Duke, great-granddaughter of the man known in Texas as James
Lafayette Courtney:
Thank
you for visiting.
I am a great-granddaughter of the man who lived over seventy (70) years of
his life using the name of James
Lafayette Courtney. I believe my great-grandfather's true identity
was
Jesse James--the most famous outlaw in American history.
My main objectives in
writing my book and in sponsoring this site are as follows:
1. To establish my
great-grandfather's true identity and tell his story.
2. To correct the historically accepted version of the life and death of
Jesse James.
After eight years of
intensive research, I have unearthed strong circumstantial evidence
indicating that Jesse James and James Courtney were one and the same.
However, some are understandably
skeptical of my claim because of the 1995 exhumation, and subsequent DNA
testing of the purported grave of Jesse James in Kearney, Missouri.
Exhumation project leader, Professor James E. Starrs, touts that those DNA
results proved with a 99.7 degree of certainty that Jesse James lies at
rest in that questioned grave. But my investigation of Starrs' findings
has yielded a much different conclusion---the 1995 exhumation and
subsequent DNA testing proved absolutely nothing because of the following
reasons:
1. The questionable origin of the teeth and hair used for
DNA testing, and
2. The questionable genealogy of the DNA reference source.
Join me to
see what I have discovered in my research and decide for yourself.
"When stemm and tryst James L. Courtney is
my heist."
-James L. Courtney/Jesse James
I believe this entry from his diary is just
one indication that Grandpa stole the name James L. Courtney. Stemm:
a line of descendants from a particular ancestor. Tryst: a
prearranged meeting place. Heist: a robbery.
Distribution or re-publication of any content
contained in this web site is prohibited without the written consent of
Betty Dorsett Duke.
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