I remember the Paul Newman/Robert Redford movie, where the characters die in a hail of bullets form the Bolivian Army. A few years ago, I saw a documentary on NOVA, where a forensic pathologist spent a pileofmoney digging up graves in Bolivia…don’t remeber if they found any bones that could be identified.
Anyway, some people claim that the famous death scene in Bolivia was a myth.Butch returned to the USA, and died in NYC around 1930!
Anybody know what current opinion ison this?
And, if you were a bank robber, why on earth would you go to Bolivia? Seems like the pickings in that fly-blown hell hole would be pretty sparse!
Would’t talented bank robbers do better in a somewhat more prosperous country? :eek:
IIRC, some of Butch’s family claimed, many years later, that he wasnt killed in South America, but actually came back and lived in the U.S.
Kinda meaningless, alas, without objective evidence…
(“Pearl Harbor never happened; all the photos were faked and the wreckage placed there deliberately.” Hm…)
Trinopus
Are there ANY reliable records in Bolivia, documenting the deaths of the two bank robbers?
I understand Butch Cassidy was quite well known in his day-he was something of a folk hero, even when he was alive.
Anybody have a refernce work on the Sundance kid?
Well in my country, Argentina, it is said that they lived a while in the Patagonia. Surely if you search in the net, you´ll find many sites about this theory.
They didn’t die in a hail of bullets at all. At the second they would have, local time froze, and remains frozen to this day, immortalized forever. You can clearly see this if you watch the film more closely.