Clint Eastwood - The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) | "We all died a little in that damn war"

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  • @apuuvah
    When it comes to westerns, Josey is right up there on the list.
  • ‘Howdy’ Chief Dan George should have won Best Supporting Actor for this movie.
  • @OregonPC
    “There’s an old saying , don’t piss down my back and tell me it’s raining “.
  • @Paul1958R
    Eastwood's film 'The Outlaw Josey Wales' is based on a book written by Forrest Carter in 1972 The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales. Forrest Carter was not his real name. His real name was Asa Earl Carter: Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 – June 7, 1979) was a 1950s segregationist political activist, Ku Klux Klan organizer, and later Western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a white supremacist ticket. Years later, under the pseudonym of supposedly Cherokee writer Forrest Carter, he wrote The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales (1972), a Western novel that led to a 1976 film - The Oulaw Josey Wales - featuring Clint Eastwood that was adopted into the National Film Registry, and The Education of Little Tree (1976), a best-selling, award-winning book which was marketed as a memoir but which turned out to be fiction. In 1976, following the success of The Rebel Outlaw and its film adaptation The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976), The New York Times revealed Forrest Carter was actually Asa Carter. His background became national news again in 1991 after his purported memoir, The Education of Little Tree (1976), was re-issued in paperback, topped the Times paperback best-seller lists (both non-fiction and fiction), and won the American Booksellers Book of the Year (ABBY) award. In the memoir Carter claimed to be Cherokee and/or of Cherokee descent but this has been shown to be a complete fabrication. Prior to his literary career as "Forrest", Carter was politically active for years in Alabama as an opponent of the civil rights movement. In the mid 1950s, he had a syndicated segregationist radio show, and worked as a speech writer for segregationist Governor George Wallace of Alabama. He also founded the North Alabama Citizens Council (NACC), an independent offshoot of the White Citizens' Council movement formed by Carter when the White Citizens' Council tried to moderate Carter's antisemitism. He also formed the militant and violent Ku Klux Klan group known as the Original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy, and started a monthly publication titled The Southerner which spread white supremacist and anti-communist rhetoric. Read: Asa Earl Carter at Wikipedia Read: Unmasking the Klansman: The Double Life of Asa and Forrest Carter (2023) Watch: The Reconstruction of Asa Carter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xZ_5kPli7A Watch: The Story Behind the Story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zllGEMSQgyc
  • I never liked this movie nor Clint this was a rebel klan movie .....foh
  • I never liked this movie nor Clint this was a rebel klan movie .....foh