WEBVTT F ALL, BILLY THE KID.TODD: BORN IN 1859, AS WILLIAMH. BONNEY, BILLY THE KIDACTUALLY GREW UP IN NEW YORKCITY.HIS FAMILY MOVED TO NEW MEXICOWHEN HE WAS A TEENAGER AND BILLYWORKED AS A RANCHHAND IN LINCOLNCOUNTY.HIS BOSS WAS KILLED BY A RIVALCATTLE GANG AND HE BECAME AVIGILANTE LEADER OF THESO-CALLED REGULATORSBILLY THE KID WAS CAUGHT AFTERTWO YEARS ON THE RUN, SENTENCEDTO THE GALLOWS, BUT TWO WEEKSBEFORE HIS EXECUTION, HE TOOK GUN FROM ONE OF THE JAIL GUARDS,SHOT HIM, AND ESCAPED AGAIN.HE WAS SHOT DEAD BY LINCOLNCOUNTY SHERIFF PAT GARRETT INFORT SUMNER.BEFORE HE DIED AT THE AGE OF 21,HE HAS SAID TO HAVE KILLED 27PEOPLE.TODAY, THE NEW MEXICO HISTORYMUSEUM HOUSES LETTERS SENT FROMTHE KID TO GOVERNOR LEW WALLACE,ASKING FOR A PARDON CRIMES HECOMMITTED DURING THE LINCOLNCOUNTY WAR IN EXCANGE FOREXCHANGE FOR INFORMATION ON AMURDER.THE PARDON WAS NEVER GRANTED ANDIN 2010, FORMER GOVERNOR BILLRICHARDSON REVIEWED THE CASE.>> ACCORDINGLY I HAVE DECIDEDNOT TO PARDON BILLY THE KID,BECAUSE OF A LACK OFCONCLUSIVENESS AND ALSO THEHISTORICAL AMBIGUITY AS TO WGOVERNOR WALLACE RENEGED ON HISPARDON.TODD: THERE'S ALSO CONTROVERSYOVER WHERE HE IS BURIED EVENWHEN BILLY THE KID DIED.A MAN FROM TEXAS WHO DIED 1950.2 WAS BILLY THE KID --WHO DIED IN 1950 CLAIMS HE WASBILLY THE KID AND WAS INHIDINGFOR DECADES.BUT A JUDGE REFUSED TO COMPAREHIS DNA TO THAT OF BILLY THEKID'S MOTHER CATHERINE ANTRIM,, BURIED IN SILVER CITY.