John Boessenecker

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299 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 20 Jul

John Boessenecker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Then Joaquin leaps bareback onto a horse, takes off down the creek bed.
He leaps the horse off this 15-foot embankment, races down the middle of the creek bed.
Several of the rangers pursue him on horseback.
They fire.
One of the bullets nicks the horse.
The horse stumbles.
Joaquin is thrown to the ground.
He leaps back onto the horse.
The terrified animal continues down the creek bed.
The rangers fire again.
Joaquin is wounded.
Finally, one of the rangers fires a final time.
The bullet tears through Joaquin's body, rips him off the top of the horse.
As the rangers run up
He tells him in Spanish, don't shoot anymore.
I'm dead.
And that was the final words of Joaquin Murrieta.
It's a fascinating story.
This is just a tiny tidbit of the whole story, obviously, and what we can go into today.
But what happens is even more remarkable is the Rangers then cut off Joaquin's head.
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