Non-musical history for today: 1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford killed Jesse James. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer a-hole. But, Ford was no angel, either. He had been part of the James-Younger Gang and secretly colluded with the Missouri Governor, Thomas Crittenden, to capture James and bring him in. Ford panicked, thinking that James was onto him, and when James got on a chair to clean a dusty painting, Ford shot James in the back of the head. Ford wired Gov. Crittenden to collect the reward. He and his brother were then charged with first-degree murder. They were arrested, charged, tried, and convicted to hang in a single day, but Crittenden pardoned them and said he knew they were going to kill James instead of bringing him in. That led to a scandal since it showed a chief executive could have been involved in the conspiracy to murder. Too interesting, I’d say.

Music history, album anniversaries, birthdays, and deaths for April 3.

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