Preacher with a Past

Name: Preacher with a Past
Genre: Western
Released: 1962-02-01
Duration: 30 min
Rating: 8.2
Cast: Neville Brand, Richard Devon, Jean Gillespie

Episode aired Feb 1, 1962
TV-PGTV-PG
30min

S10.E18

Notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin has ended his murderous ways and attempts to start his new life as a minister. No one in town suspects his past, than a member of his old gang arrives and... Read allNotorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin has ended his murderous ways and attempts to start his new life as a minister. No one in town suspects his past, than a member of his old gang arrives and threatens to expose him unless he's paid off.Notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin has ended his murderous ways and attempts to start his new life as a minister. No one in town suspects his past, than a member of his old gang arrives and threatens to expose him unless he's paid off.

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John Wesley "Wes" Hardin (1853-1895) was arrested in 1877, and sentenced to 25 years in Huntsville (TX) Prison for murder. In his autobiography, Wes claimed to have killed 42 men, but only 27 can be proven; he did kill a man for snoring, but it may have been accidental. While incarcerated, he taught Sunday School and studied law; his first wife Jane died while was in prison. He was paroled in 1894, and passed the Texas State bar. The following year, he married a 15-year-old girl, and then abandoned her when he moved to El Paso to open a law practice. El Paso Constable John Selman (1839-1896) shot Wes in the head while he was shooting dice in a bar; there is a dispute whether he was shot from behind or in front. It was later said that if it was in the front, it was good shooting; if it was from the back, it was good judgment.