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The real Al Jennings (1864-1961) ran away from home at the age of eight and, according to a January 1954 news item in Los Angeles Daily News, while Jennings was working as a cowboy, he learned the law by reading Blackstone's Commentaries. The same article indicates that "Margo St. Claire" was a fictitious character, as Jennings met his wife ...
Jul 21, 2008 · The Al Jennings Gang rode into Minco and out the other side without stopping. O n October 1, 1897, after having been a bandit for 46 days without a single success, Al Jennings, The Notorious Oklahoma Bank and Train Robber, the man who Robbed More Trains Than Jesse James and Killed More Men Than Billy The Kid, finally managed to steal something.
The justice system’s failures enraged him and encouraged him to resist it. During the summer and fall of 1897 the desperados, often referred to as the “Jennings Gang,” composed of Frank and Al Jennings, Little Dick West, and Morris and Pat O’Malley, robbed trains, general stores and a post office, with little monetary success.
Aug 14, 1995 · If Al Jennings had been as tall as his tales, ... ” radio serial had libeled him by falsely accusing him of trying to persuade a 17-year-old boy to join his outlaw gang. Worse, the program’s ...
Folk Figure. Al Jennings wore many hats during his long and colorful life: cowboy, lawyer, gunslinger, train robber, jailbird, evangelist, politician, author, and finally Hollywood-hyphenate. But he was most successful at creating his own myth. The fastest gun on the range, as he often proclaimed himself, was an even...
The Jennings Gang (c. 1897) was a gang of outlaws in the closing days of the Old West, notable in that one member was a former Wild Bunch gang member, Richard "Little Dick" West, and the leader of the gang, Al Jennings, ran for Oklahoma Governor in 1914.
Al Jennings of Oklahoma is directed by Ray Nazaro and adapted to screenplay by George Bricker from the book co-written by Al Jennings and Will Irwin. It stars Dan Duryea, Gale Storm, Dick Foran, Gloria Henry, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams and Raymond Greenleaf. Music is by Mischa Bakaleinikoff and cinematography by W. Howard Greene.
