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INCORPORATED: ‘Lake View College Of Coumerce BROADWAY AT MARKET ALTON, ILL. September 21, 1958 Honerable J. Edgar Hoover, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D. C. - Vv ye Sir: It may not be withing’ the fje1d of your authority to investigate, but I am cal your attention to the filming of a picture atfMineville, Miasouri, thet is to re-enact the outlaw career of Jesse-games, and it is to be call "Jesse James." im Ge “S \ This picture may be wholly "within the law" but I do ) *. believe it is going to be a "splendid" lesson in out i ~ lawry that our young people do not need. ‘a 5 . is —® Too many of the Pictures of today portray lessons to the “Qe young, that tend to start them on the "trigger figure 3 S ne Silver Screen has sugh great possibilities for good, ~ that it is a pit#y ‘that.very opposite is so often shown. We have too many outlaws, even with every agency for good \ working to make the world better. Why show a picture of S {ime? No doubt the evil of such a life will be presented n the picture--but too many of the young will never get that part of the picture. They will see the glamour and. dash--the easy money--the escape--and try to get by where "The James Gang" got caught. 1 What can be done about itl Producters may say that the Public demands it}!! L ot 7 Lb b2- 26 47/— /¢ FEGcHAL bubone CF levesT