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ieoeja

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19. 11 people murdered over 25 years in a 3-day miniseries.

Reply to proud2BlibKansan (Reply #3)

Thu May 31, 2012, 11:01 AM

May 2012

1 tried and executed by Kentucky authorities at the end of the feud. 7 tried and given life sentences.

I didn't see it. But if it was entertaining, then it sure as heck couldn't have been all that accurate.

Actually, an accurate documentary would be entertaining, but in a documentary way: the wealth and political connections of the Hatfields, the threat of war between WV and KY, the USSC ruling that the trials could go forward despite illegal extradition as KY finally gave up on WV doing anything about the Hatfields and sent a posse across the river to round them up which finally ended the feud.

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How the ‘Hatfields and McCoys’ Feud Ruined the Image of Rural America [View all] proud2BlibKansan May 2012 OP

Just another sorry-ass consolidated media promotion-fest... NYC_SKP May 2012 #1

I thought it was well done proud2BlibKansan May 2012 #3

11 people murdered over 25 years in a 3-day miniseries. ieoeja May 2012 #19

I didn't watch the miniseries SoutherDem May 2012 #2

Hatfileds were from WV. McCoys were in KY. proud2BlibKansan May 2012 #4

I don't know if you knew what I meant SoutherDem May 2012 #7

I grew up in Southeastern Missouri...barefoot in walmart with Overalls, check snooper2 May 2012 #21

I wish I had six hours to follow something like this.... but... NYC_SKP May 2012 #5

Didn't watch it, but historically there were a couple of interesting relationships. ieoeja May 2012 #20

Jonce did not marry her sister, he married her cousin. ScreamingMeemie Jun 2012 #24

She's right, they tried to make it into a Hollywood western tularetom May 2012 #6

I really liked it and thought it was very entertaining... DLine May 2012 #8

I liked it but I saw no attempt to capture any real regions language or accents FairyDust May 2012 #9

And it seems the 'Romeo and Juliet' theme has been done before. trof May 2012 #10

Actually, the Hatfields and McCoys did intermarry. Brigid May 2012 #15

Got her pregnant. Killed her relative. Captured. She helped prison break. Married her younger sister ieoeja May 2012 #22

married her cousin, rather than her sister fishwax May 2012 #23

I flipped through on the way to something else, and when I saw Roseanne McCoy gkhouston May 2012 #11

I watched it with West VA Encyclopedia open on my netbook - lynne May 2012 #12

It was filmed in Romania. Brigid May 2012 #16

Why does that kind of make sense to me? Romania...hmm. CTyankee Jun 2012 #26

Hell you couldn't see the story for all the commercials. Hubert Flottz May 2012 #13

I taped it and zapped through commercials. proud2BlibKansan May 2012 #14

I couldn't figure out if... Hubert Flottz May 2012 #17

As a story with a moral that a bloodfeud is The Second Stone May 2012 #18

Where the hell were Grampa, Luke, Little Luke, Pepino, and Hassie? Tom Ripley Jun 2012 #25