Johnny Cash is John Brown!

For a glorious three minutes Johnny Cash ignites the screen as abolitionist John Brown. Never has the misguided fanatic been so passionately portrayed and brought to real-life. All scenes of Kristie Ally have been removed.

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[MisterGage77]

how was brown a "misguided maniac"? he hated the evil institution of slavery and wanted it stopped. he was killed for his beliefs

[KityKatKali]

John Brown was my great, great, great Grandfather also! Are we related??? I am serious ? email me if you are too. that would be awsome to find more relatives.. lol.

[timmarshall63]

@IggyHazard I really am not going to get into a running dialogue on this, so feel free to have the last word. Tactical guerrilla warfare is not the same thing as civilians taking the law into their own hands.  Comparing military tactics to vigilantes is ludicrous. Killing innocent people for your cause is terrorism, just like jihad today. He was nothing but a terrorist. Like I said, supporting Brown is the same as supporting guys like Roeder because you don't agree with abortion.

[IggyHazard]

@timmarshall63 Like I said, vengeance begets vengeance. Anyway, if John Brown was NOT a Spartacus-like figure, then why did he try so hard to arm slaves in preparation for an uprising? Both sides engaged in unsanctioned guerrilla warfare (which our Founders learned from the Natives) against each other before and during the Civil War. Ideology aside, guerrilla warfare is tactically effective.

All forms of institutionalized oppression must be exterminated with a clenched fist.

[timmarshall63]

@IggyHazard Bloody Bill Anderson met his fate near Richmond. Quantrill met his fate in KY. John Brown was no Kansan. Lane had no problem completely destroying Osceola, including anti-slavery members, had nothing to do with stopping slavery. Brown pulled people out of their homes and hacked them to death. Hardly noble for the cause. Killed a freed black man. Quantrill and Anderson aren't considered martyrs for their cause either, like Brown. Coldblooded killer, period.

[IggyHazard]

@timmarshall63 And who of Missouri's Border Ruffians were held accountable for the innocent blood they spilt on Kansas soil? Those Ruffians drew first blood, and did so in defense of a barbaric institution, so Kansans rose up with rifles and clenched fists. Some Jayhawkers would later become hypocrites in the prophesied war when they donned the trademark red gaiters that earned them the name "Redlegs." The Redlegs practiced the same hooliganism as the Ruffians.

Vengeance begets vengeance.

[IggyHazard]

I'm a descendant of Robert E. Lee (who was against slavery, I might add) who was reponsible for the capture of John Brown (along with J.E.B. Stuart), but I admire the convictions of both men -- John Brown moreso. A revolutionary Puritan who sought to literally purify the nation. Also remember that the bushwackers struck before the jayhawkers.

Notice how Johnny Cash even has that squinting left eye. Only thing he lacks is the wild bushy hair like in the famous portrait. Excellent performance.

[jnlabrk6]

@KityKatKali You ggggrandfather was a Great American. He makes me proud to be an American. I just learned the song John Brown's Body....but I can't finish it because it brings tears to my eyes.

[straypome]

John Brown was reckless and unorganized and did have his own alterior and personal motives in doing the things he did, but all in all his actions set the tone for what later became the civil war...I'm not a big fan of war but if that didn't happen america wouldn't be the way it is today because abolitionist before him were being to passive while pro-slavery activists broke every law possible to push their own wicked agendas..I fux wit John Brown, peace to the deceased

[kemetkush]

john brown was a badass white-man....funny how black-history never teach black-children about whites who fight and died for black freedom.

[timmarshall63]

Incorrect. The reason Brown went to HF was to steal weapons to begin an uprising that would eventually lead to a new 'state' & had gone as far as drafting a constitution. The pro-slavery deaths at Pottawatomie was nothing but retaliation for the 1856 sacking of Lawrence - revenge killing. Some killed in cold blood were fugitive slave catchers,a visitor, a postmaster, not slave owners. Supporting Brown is like supporting Scott Roeder because you don't agree with abortion. Believe what you want.