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This Day in Legal History: The O.K. Corral
On October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, in the Arizona Territory, City Marshal Virgil Earp, his brothers Wyatt and Morgan, and Doc Holliday confronted a group of cowboys, including Ike and Billy Clanton and Tom and Frank McLaury, near the O.K. Corral. The gunfight lasted about thirty seconds. Billy Clanton and both McLaurys were killed. Virgil, Morgan, and Holliday were wounded.
The legend tends to end there, but the legal story is just as interesting. Days later, Ike Clanton filed murder charges against the Earps and Holliday. Wyatt and Doc were arrested…
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