Liberty

The Clay County Savings Association in Liberty, Missouri was the scene of the first daylight bank robbery which is believed to have been conducted on... February 13, 1866 by former Confederate guerrilas, possibly led by Arch Clement]. The robbers escaped with $60,000, and killed a student from William Jewell College They eventually morphed into what became known as "the James-Younger Gang" According to the accounts of the day: The bank offered a $5,000 reward for recovery of the money. Articles implicated both former Confederate guerrillas and Kansas Redlegs of the crime, snow the next day covered their tracks. The Association eventually settled with creditors for 60 cents on the dollar. The building is located at 104 East Franklin Street, a block northeast of the Clay County Courthouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
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Craig Stevens was an American motion picture and television actor. Born Gail Shikles, Jr., in Liberty, Missouri, his father was a high school... teacher. Stevens studied dentistry at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, from which he received a bachelor's degree in 1936. Acting with the university's drama club prompted him to halt his studies and instead to audition in the Hollywood film industry. Adopting the stage name Craig Stevens, he debuted in a small role in 1939 and thereafter played mainly secondary parts. On June 18, 1944, at the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn, he married Canadian actress Alexis Smith, to whom he was wed for almost fifty years until her death in 1993. Stevens died from cancer at the age of eighty-one in Los Angeles, California. The Stevenses were childless. On October 29, 1954, Stevens guest starred on the 1953-1955 ABC sitcom with a variety show theme, The Ray Bolger Show. Ray Bolger portrayed Raymond Wallace, a song-and-dance man who was repeatedly barely on time for his performances. Stevens portrayed a novelist interest in Ray's girlfriend, Susan, played by Marjie Millar.
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Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. Missouri is the 21st most extensive and the 18th most populous of the 50 United States. Missouri comprises 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis. The four largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield, and Columbia. Missouri's capital is Jefferson City. The land that... is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of the Territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821. Missouri mirrors the demographic, economic and political makeup of the nation with a mix of urban and rural culture. It has long been considered a political bellwether state. With the exceptions of 1956 and 2008, Missouri's results in U.S. presidential elections have accurately predicted the next President of the United States in every election since 1904. It has both Midwestern and Southern cultural influences, reflecting its history as a border state.
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