Robert Evans

But again, the timelines he give us just doesn't work with the things that we know that he was doing, like participating in the first tour of Britain's cycle race in 1951.

If he's injured when he claims he was, and it was as bad as he claims he was, it can't have...

happened the way he said it did because of the other things we know that he was doing so i i don't know was he actually hurt in a mining accident did it was it a minor injury or did he just stop going to work one day and later lied about having been badly injured in order to like because that's a better story than i just kind of abandoned mining um

He said in 2008 that he'd been hurt after working for seven years as a Bevan boy.

And that's impossible.

We know that's impossible because in 1948, he was in a movie.

He's like an extra in a film.

And that movie still exists.

So you can see that he's physically healthy.

He's visibly very fit in the movie.

Like we know he wasn't in like traction from a spinal injury then.

Yeah.

During an interview in the 1980s, Jimmy gave yet another different story and claimed that a chest cold got him out of the pits in 1948.

I think that's a lot likelier, right?

Just that like, oh, I just kind of had the flu and stopped coming into work and started doing other shit.

That's a lot more believable to me.

There are some people who suspect Jimmy lied entirely about being a Bevan boy.

I think that's unlikely, but he definitely didn't do the job as long as he claimed.

We know this because by the late 40s, after the war is over, he becomes an athlete.

He gets into really good shape.