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Show Badness! Jesse James (?) Reported Deed In '82 on Sept. 30 Broadcast Daring desperado Jesse Ja year's most clever hoax rode Story" over NBC Thursday, Sept. 30. American's legendary badman, written off in history books as shot by a member of his own gang in 1SS2, is alive and known as Col. Frank Dalton, law-abiding Texas citizen, according to investigations by Lindsey Whit-ten Whit-ten and Frank Hall, reporters for the Lawton, Okla., Constitution. Consti-tution. Colonel Dalton's claim that he is the famous bandit of-fact and mes or the perpetrator of the again in person on "The Big fable has been upheld by Jesse James' great granson, a reputable reput-able electrical engineer" in a southern state. The'ancic'nt colonel, colo-nel, possesor of a map written in the James' code, was able to answer questions based on facts known only to James' immediate immedi-ate family. Newsmen Hall and Whitten will share the $500 Pall Mall outstanding journalism award for tracking down what is either a genuine "big story" or a fab ulous "run-around." '. |