Robert Ford
American outlaw
Died when: 30 years 129 days (364 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Robert Newton Ford (January 31, 1862 – June 8, 1892) was an American outlaw best known for his assassination of Jesse James on April 3, 1882.He and his brother Charley, both members of the James–Younger Gang under James’s leadership, went on to perform paid re-enactments of the killing at publicity events.
Ford would spend his later years operating multiple saloons and dance halls in the West.Ten years after James's assassination, Ford was himself the victim of a fatal shot to the neck by Edward Capehart O'Kelley in Creede, Colorado, dying at only 30 years old.
While initially buried in Creede, his remains were later exhumed and reinterred in his hometown of Richmond, Missouri.
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