Judged by the only surviving picture of the outlaw Henry McCarty, aka Billy the Kid, it was always thought he was left-handed. Paul Newman played him left-handed in the 1958 film The Left-Handed Gun (though Kris Kristofferson played him right-handed in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid in 1973). Then someone realised the photo was a negative, so they turned it round the right way and discovered he was right-handed. Then someone decided he was probably ambidextrous. So, you can be left and right and right and wrong at the same time, and have it both ways.
Monday, June 07, 2010
Billy the Kid: right or wrong?
Judged by the only surviving picture of the outlaw Henry McCarty, aka Billy the Kid, it was always thought he was left-handed. Paul Newman played him left-handed in the 1958 film The Left-Handed Gun (though Kris Kristofferson played him right-handed in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid in 1973). Then someone realised the photo was a negative, so they turned it round the right way and discovered he was right-handed. Then someone decided he was probably ambidextrous. So, you can be left and right and right and wrong at the same time, and have it both ways.
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