The James family reveals the true secrets about the life with the outlaws. 

After 3 generations of keeping the family secrets about Jesse and Frank, the truth comes out.  In a statement this week, Mr. James,  a descendant of the James family, said The family has heard and read about all the lies and myths about the James boys all of our lives.  Now we want to set the record straight with the facts.

He said most all of the books and movies have been based around the family information that lived in Kearney, MO and what the newspapers had to say about Jesse and Frank. Meanwhile, everyone has over looked the other part of James family that helped them throughout the years, knowing about every move the boys made and what the boys did to stay alive.

"Mr. James" said that a movie will soon be under way that will take you back in history and show just how many people were involved with helping the boys and why.  He also said the James family kept the stories to themselves in order to protect the still-living families at the time. Now that most of family members have passed away, the real truth about Jesse and Frank can be told.   We want to put to rest the most misunderstood pack of lies and myths about the boys that the family has had to live with throughout our lives, he added.

The movie will take you back to about the 1780s and show how the family grew to become a very well respected family in the community.  It goes on to tell how the family first came to Missouri and the hardships they faced over the years. The movie reveals the secrets of what the James family and other related families encountered with the railroad land grabbers, and how the family was divided due to the hard times of the Civil war. It reveals the secrets of why Jesse, Frank and the boys started their lives as outlaws, and about the robberies that occurred in Missouri and throughout the states. The movie also reveals many of the friends that helped hide the boys and why they where never caught.  It tells about secret fights among the family, how they were so against telling lies to cover up the boys actions, but had to stick together to keep the boys as safe as they could.  The movie reveals the truth about the so-called death of Jesse and how it was all planned. It tells the truth about Jesse and Zee, and what went on in their relationship. The movie also tells about Frank, and why he was pardoned by the Governor of the State of Missouri.

"Mr. James" said There is so much to tell about the family and what really happened, we have had a hard time deciding what to include or leave out of the movie. We want to tell the truth and only the truth about the boys. They lived a very active life and were always on the move and we just had to take some things out.  He stated that there are going to be genealogy and historical researchers out there that are going to want to prove the movie wrong.  But until they have walked in the real James shoes, and lived with the stories from the family, their only hope of proving me wrong is to be born a true James and to have lived with the knowledge of the area as I have for over 50 years, he added.

More about the movie and family information will be released in the upcoming weeks.