Before YouTube plays a video it often plays commercials. One commercial I saw was a "featurette" for the latest Martin Scorsese film, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The film concerns a criminal conspiracy in the 19020's. Whites would marry into Osage Indian families to get shares of property owned by the Osage. The properties in question contained oil fields and were worth a lot of money. The Osage owners of the valuable properties would then be murdered. The land then belonged to the white people.
It was a series of terrible crimes. Those responsible were caught and punished. Hopefully they will burn in hell for their crimes.
This is the featurette:
In the featurette, Scorsese said that the story was never brought to national attention. If that is true, then what is this?
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| New York Daily News, Sunday, December 19, 1926 |
If a newspaper in New York devotes an entire page to a story, I think it is safe to assume that the story was brought to national attention.
In 1959, James Stewart played a senior FBI agent named Chip Hardesty. In the film, Hardesty is speaking to a class at the FBI academy. Having been with the agency before since before J. Edgar Hoover took the helm, he had many stories to tell. Those stories, all true, were the subject of the film although, in reality, they involved different agents.
Here is a trailer for that film. Play close attention to what is mentioned at 1:05 into the video.
Let's see now, the story was in, at least, one New York newspaper. It was one of the segments in a movie in 1959. Yeah, I guess it was never brought to national attention.
The story of Killers of the Flower Moon deserves to be told. Hopefully Scorsese does a good job with it. I just wish Hollywood would not insult my intelligence while they lectured me from their high-horse.
Interesting post Matt, thank you.
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