Small room. Don't know if I could shoot a friend in the back of the head in a room that size. Or any size, come to think of it. Underneath the needlepoint is a hole in the wall that legend holds is the bullet hole from the fatal shot. It was picked at by tourists over the years until it was this gaping opening and then they sealed it off with a clear framed plastic shield. Here's a closer look.
Like so much about this whole thing, though, it's not quite real. The doctor attending claims the bullet never left Jesse's head, so the hole is fake. But then again, the house was at another location, a few blocks away at the time of the shooting and has been moved four times since. Also, the wallpaper, furnishings -- just about everything, has been replaced and is not original. Essentially, you stand in a room that once was somewhere else and looked completely different and pretend it's not. Weird.
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Death photos of Jesse James taken very soon after he was killed show a bloody spot over the left eyebrow. This is not the exit hole of a bullet, which would have been much larger than the wound shown in the picture ...
This is where the force of the bullet slammed Jesse's head into the wall, leaving a spot of Blood on the wallpaper.
James's two previous bullet wounds and partially missing middle finger.. Known old bullet wounds from the Civil War.. served to positively identify the body... The bullet which killed Jesse James was still his head at the time he was buried!
I believe Mrs. James packed up and moved out of the house the next day. Leaving the owner of the house to charge admission. And also to sell splintered wood pieces from the so-called bullet Hole, which he had probably placed there the night before!
And another thing. If there had been a bullet lodged in the wall. Wouldn't someone have wanted to dig out the famous bullet that killed Jesse James? It would have brought a pretty good price at that time!
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