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William Moses Roberts Jr. (August 16, 1936 – October 7, 2017) [1] [2] was an American songwriter and musician credited with composing the 1960s rock music standard "Hey Joe." [ 3 ] Biography
Brushy Bill Roberts (August 26, 1879 [1] – December 27, 1950; claimed date of birth December 31, 1859) also known as William Henry Roberts, [2] Ollie Partridge William Roberts, Ollie N. Roberts, or Ollie L. Roberts, was an American man who attracted attention in the late 1940s and the 1950s by claiming to be Western outlaw William H. Bonney, (who actually died in 1881).
After firing continuously at the outhouse, Dick Brewer (Charlie Sheen) dares Billy the Kid (Emilio Estevez) to see if Roberts is still alive. Billy emerges and is greeted with a hail of gunfire. Roberts then kills Brewer with a shot through the chest. The rest of the Regulators again open fire at the outhouse and then flee.
By December 1880, Charlie Bowdre was ready to quit riding with Billy the Kid and surrender for the murder of Buckshot Roberts, but he still joined the rest of the gang on a mission to ambush Pat Garrett in Fort Sumner. A gun battle ensued, but Bowdre and most of the Kid's gang members escaped alive.
Mabry dismissed Roberts' claims, and Roberts died shortly afterward. [108] Nevertheless, Hico, Texas, Roberts' town of residence, capitalized on his claim by opening a Billy the Kid museum. [109] John Miller, an Arizona man, also claimed he was Bonney. This was unsupported by his family until 1938, some time after his death.
Billy Miller's family shed new light on his cause of death.. According to his grief-stricken mother, Patricia Miller, the soap opera star died by suicide. “He fought a long, hard, valiant battle ...
The cause of Harold Kent Roberts’ death is still pending on the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office website. The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Friday that ...
The film is told by Brushy Bill Roberts, a man who in 1950 appeared claiming to be the real Billy the Kid. While the film takes some creative license, it does show some of the main events leading up to Billy's documented death, including his talks with Governor Lew Wallace , his capture by friend-turned-foe Sheriff Pat Garrett, his trial and ...