After Billy is bitten by the snake - and (spoiler alert) lives - he comes back to pass along the message he received in the vision following the bite. Billy talks of reaching through the ‘thin veil’ that separates the material world from the spirit world. What Tom didn’t know when he created and scripted ‘Billy Jack’ were the incredible…
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Ghost Dance in The Pit
Delores Taylor & Andy Vidovich watch ‘Ghost Dance’
Unbeknown to Tom as he wrote 'Billy Jack', there was a significant amount of Ghost Religion perspective interwoven into the story. Tom later learned of the Ghost Religion and its creator, Wovoka (Jack Wilson, also known as Jack Willy... Willy Jack... think about it for a moment...), a Northern Paiute religious leader. (A 'militarized' version ...
