John McCall ;, known as "Crooked Nose" or "Broken Nose Jack", was the murderer of Old West legend Wild Bill Hickok.
16 Facts About Jack McCall
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Jack McCall was executed for the murder on March 1,1877.
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Jack McCall was most likely born in the early 1850s in Jefferson County, Kentucky.
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Jack McCall was raised in Kentucky with three sisters and eventually drifted west to become a buffalo hunter.
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Jack McCall proceeded to lose several hands, and was out of money.
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Jack McCall proceeded to move down the bar, and stopped a few steps behind Hickok, as if to look at the hand he had been dealt.
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Jack McCall shot Hickok in the back of the head with a single-action.
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Jack McCall ran out the back door of the saloon and tried to make his escape on a horse, but the saddle was loose, causing Jack McCall to fall off.
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On trial the next day in McDaniel's Theater, Jack McCall claimed his actions were in retribution for Hickok having previously killed his brother in Abilene, Kansas.
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Jack McCall stated that he had been heavily intoxicated at the time of the murder and did not remember any details of the event.
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Jack McCall requested a new trial, as well as claimed that his name was not really Jack McCall, and that he had changed it when he left home as a child.
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At 10:15 am on March 1,1877, Jack McCall was hanged in a public execution in Yankton, at age 24.
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Jack McCall was buried in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Yankton County, South Dakota, a cemetery which was moved in 1881.
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When Jack McCall's body was exhumed, it was found to have the noose still around its neck.
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Jack McCall was the first person to be executed by federal officials in the Dakota Territory.
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The killing of Hickok and the capture of Jack McCall is reenacted every summer evening at the Masonic Temple in Deadwood.