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Speaker 1: On November 8th, 1959, CBS radio broadcast Gunsmoke, episode 396, Cavalcade.
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Speaker 1: This broadcast was a repeat of a Gunsmoke first heard
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Speaker 1: January 31st, 1953, written by Les Crutchfield and directed by
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Speaker 1: Norman MacDonald. William Conrad is Marshal Matt Dillon, with Parley
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Speaker 1: Bear as Chester Proudfoot and Howard McNear as Doc Adams.
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Speaker 1: In Dodge City, Deputy Sheriff Ed Hunter arrives from Richmond, Virginia,
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Speaker 1: with murder warrants for John Allison and Calvin Moore. The
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Speaker 1: names on those warrants and an old portrait photograph turn
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Speaker 1: the matter into a personal inquiry for Dillon, with Doc
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Speaker 1: Adams involved. Lawrence Dobkin plays Hunter, Norman McDonald also produced,
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Speaker 1: and Rex Corey provided the music. Here is the original broadcast.
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Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on west, there's
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Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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Speaker 2: and that's with a U.S. Marshal and the smell of
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Speaker 2: gun smoke.
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Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The story of the violent that
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Speaker 2: moved west with young America. And the story of a man.
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Speaker 4: Who moved with it. I'm that man.
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Speaker 3: Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look
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Speaker 3: for and the last.
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Speaker 4: They want to meet. It's a chancy job.
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Speaker 5: And it makes a man watchful.
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Speaker 6: And a little lonely.
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Speaker 7: The End.
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Speaker 8: More coffee, Marshal?
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Speaker 5: Uh, yes, ma'am, I guess so.
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Speaker 7: How about you, Chester?
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Speaker 6: Yes, sir, I believe I will.
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Speaker 3: Why don't you just leave the coffee pot right here
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Speaker 3: on the table.
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Speaker 6: Miss Kelly? Sure thing, Marshal.
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Speaker 8: I got some fresh eggs this morning, if you're interested.
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Speaker 8: They were just brought in.
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Speaker 9: Fresh eggs?
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Speaker 6: Oh, good.
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Speaker 3: Why don't you cook us up about a half a.
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Speaker 4: Dozen, huh?
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Speaker 8: Have them for you right away.
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Speaker 7: All right.
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Speaker 6: Fresh eggs.
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Speaker 10: I swear if.
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Speaker 7: Delmonico's ain't getting me about as fancy as some of
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Speaker 7: them Kansas City restaurants.
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Speaker 6: That's civilization, Chester. Progress.
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Speaker 3: You know, another five years and Dodge City will be tamed, curried,
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Speaker 3: and bridled.
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Speaker 11: Well, seein's believin', Mr.
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Speaker 3: Delmonico.
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Speaker 6: You'll see it. We'll both see it. As if we
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Speaker 6: live that long. I beg your pardon, gentlemen. Uh, yeah.
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Speaker 4: You the marshal here?
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 4: Well, I'm sorry to bother you at your breakfast, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: My name is Hunter.
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Speaker 6: Ed Hunter.
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Speaker 12: I'm a deputy sheriff from Richmond, Virginia. Came in on
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Speaker 12: the train this morning. I see.
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Speaker 7: Won't you pull up a chair, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Hunter?
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Speaker 4: Oh, thanks.
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Speaker 12: This is my first trip to the frontier. I find
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Speaker 12: it a rather remarkable experience.
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Speaker 3: I imagine. Oh, that's my assistant, Chester Proudfoot.
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Speaker 6: How are you, sir?
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Speaker 3: How are you?
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Speaker 6: Would you like to have some coffee?
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Speaker 4: Thank you. No, no.
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Speaker 12: Marshal, I've come out here to arrest two men who
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Speaker 12: are wanted in Virginia.
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Speaker 4: Here are the warrants and the orders of extradition. I
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Speaker 4: stopped off in Topeka for them.
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Speaker 6: John Allison. Calvin Moore. Both wanted for murder, huh? Do
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Speaker 6: you know these men, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Hunter?
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Speaker 4: No, sir, I don't.
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Speaker 6: Names aren't familiar to me.
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Speaker 5: I never heard of them.
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Speaker 12: Well, I have some information that might help. Not much
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Speaker 12: on Allison, I'm afraid. He shot and killed a bank
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Speaker 12: teller in Greenbrier last spring. He's about 30 years old,
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Speaker 12: dark hair and mustache, medium build, excellent horseman, confirmed gambler.
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Speaker 6: Fine.
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Speaker 3: That narrows it down to about two-thirds of the men
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Speaker 3: in Dodge City. Possibly I'd do a bit better in
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Speaker 3: regard to the other man, Calvin Moore.
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Speaker 12: He came down to Richmond from the north. He was
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Speaker 12: about 33 at the time. He ambushed and shot young
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Speaker 12: Roger Beauregard and left town. Now, that was 19 years ago.
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Speaker 12: Beauregard family been trying to trace him ever since.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm afraid that I haven't.
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Speaker 4: I have a picture of this Moa. Photograph.
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Speaker 7: Oh?
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Because he's much younger than this. What is it, Marshal?
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Speaker 4: Something familiar about the picture?
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Speaker 6: 19 years.
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Speaker 4: Hmm. He'd be somewhere past 50 now.
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Speaker 3: You sure these men are here in Dodge, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Hunter?
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Speaker 4: Reasonably so.
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Speaker 12: Is there something about the photograph?
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Speaker 3: Why, it was too blurry to tell much about it.
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Speaker 5: And besides, he'd be 19 years older now.
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's true.
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Speaker 3: Tell you what, Mr. Hunter, why don't you leave me
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Speaker 3: this picture and the descriptions, and I'll check around town
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Speaker 3: and keep in touch with you.
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Speaker 4: All right, thank you, sir. And I wonder, could you
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Speaker 4: suggest a good hotel?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, why don't you try the Dodge House? It's a
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Speaker 3: corner of Railroad Avenue at the east end of the plaza.
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Speaker 4: Tell Mr. Dobie I sent you.
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Speaker 12: Thank you again, Marshal.
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Speaker 4: I'm grateful for any help you can give me in
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Speaker 4: this matter.
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Speaker 3: Sure.
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Speaker 4: So long. You want to see the photograph, Chester?
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Speaker 9: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: Well, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Dillon, that's... Yeah. What are you going to do?
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Speaker 4: I don't know, Chester. He's my friend.
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Speaker 6: But now the law says he's a murderer. And I'm
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Speaker 6: part of the law.
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Speaker 7: Well, maybe it ain't him, Mr.
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Speaker 12: Dillon.
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Speaker 4: No, it's him, all right, Chester.
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Speaker 6: You saw it the same as I did. It's dark.
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Speaker 4: Work, work, work, work.
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Speaker 7: This is the first chance I've had this week to
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Speaker 7: clean a few instruments properly. Ah, gunshot wounds. Mad Adelaide's
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Speaker 7: on the only doctor in the United States who makes
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Speaker 7: three-fourths of his living off a gunshot wound.
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Speaker 6: That's a rough country, Doc. Maybe, uh, you ought to
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Speaker 6: have stayed back east, huh?
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Speaker 7: Broken bones and babies and gunshot wounds. I wouldn't know
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Speaker 7: a first thing about a good civilized case of gout anymore.
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Speaker 6: What part of the east did you come from, Doc?
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Speaker 7: I went to medical school in Boston. I studied consumption
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Speaker 7: and colic, liver complaints. Never had a case of liver
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Speaker 7: complaint in all the time I've been out here.
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Speaker 3: No, I guess that kind of thing is more common
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Speaker 3: down south around Richmond, Virginia, for instance.
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Speaker 7: Matt, stop beating around the bush. You've got something on
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Speaker 7: your mind and it's bothering you.
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Speaker 6: All right, Doc.
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Speaker 3: A deputy sheriff from Virginia came in on the morning train.
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Speaker 3: He's got a warrant for murder against a man named
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Speaker 3: Calvin Moore. And a photograph of Moore taken 19 years ago.
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Speaker 6: Would you like to take a look at it?
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Speaker 7: I don't think so, Matt. Are you Calvin Moore? It
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Speaker 7: wasn't murder, Matt. They said it was murder, of course.
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Speaker 6: Would you like to tell me about it?
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Speaker 7: Not much to tell, Matt. I'd been in practice in
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Speaker 7: Richmond about a year.
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Speaker 6: There was a girl. Oh, she was a beautiful girl
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Speaker 6: with spirit.
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Speaker 7: And fire and that soft radiance that only southern girls
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Speaker 7: seem to have. Oh, me, that was so long ago.
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Speaker 6: I'd better solve myself, Doc.
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Speaker 7: Well, Jim Beauregard and I were both courting this girl.
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Speaker 7: He was a typical Virginia gentleman, hot-headed, used to having
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Speaker 7: his own way. He started threatening me, warning me. And
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Speaker 7: I laughed it off. Well, then one day I was
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Speaker 7: coming back from a case, and I ran into Jim
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Speaker 7: on a country road. He had a pair of dueling pistols,
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Speaker 7: and he challenged me.
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Speaker 6: That's not a crime, Doc. Self-defense. It's not a crime here, anyway.
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Speaker 7: I tried to talk him out of it, but he
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Speaker 7: was crazy mad. He shoved one of the pistols in
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Speaker 7: my hand and pulled back on his horse and leveled
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Speaker 7: his gun. I had no choice. We both fired. He missed.
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Speaker 6: And I didn't.
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Speaker 7: Self-defense, yes, but there were no witnesses. And I was
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Speaker 7: an outsider, a Yankee.
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Speaker 6: So you ran for it, is that it?
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Speaker 7: I ran for it.
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Speaker 6: St.
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Speaker 7: Louis, Virginia City, the Panhandle, Abilene, Dodge.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. The girl, Doc. What happened to the girl?
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Speaker 7: I waited for her in St.
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Speaker 8: Louis. Yeah.
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Speaker 7: We were married there. Two months later, she.
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Speaker 7: She died of typhoid fever. I can't go back there, Matt.
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Speaker 7: I've got no defense. It'd mean prison. I'd rot in prison.
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Speaker 7: I won't go back, Matt.
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Speaker 12: Hunter is here after two prisoners, Doc.
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Speaker 3: I got no right to my own rules. Go after
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Speaker 3: one man and keep the other one covered. I've always
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Speaker 3: figured the only kind of law that would work out
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Speaker 3: here is an honest law.
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Speaker 6: What are you going to do? I don't know, Doc.
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Speaker 8: I don't know. You're late, Matt. I figured you weren't
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Speaker 8: going to stop in tonight.
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Speaker 6: Uh, Chester, Ron, Kitty?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, over there by the faro table. Matt, what about
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Speaker 8: this Virginian who's been hanging around for the last two days?
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Speaker 7: Oh, Hunter? Uh-huh.
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Speaker 6: There's a deputy sheriff. He's got a couple of warrants
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Speaker 6: to serve. Why?
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Speaker 8: Oh, he's been asking questions. Some of the boys are
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Speaker 8: a little skittish.
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Speaker 7: Hey, you free now, Miss Kitty, or are you busy?
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Speaker 8: What's it look like?
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Speaker 6: I figured maybe he's just killing time. Howdy, Marshal. Bunko.
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Speaker 6: Bulk your drink, kid. It's over on the bar.
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Speaker 8: All right.
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Speaker 6: Thanks.
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Speaker 8: Matt, I'll be off in a couple of hours.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. Maybe.
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Speaker 6: I understand you got a rival lawman in town, Marshal.
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Speaker 3: There's a deputy here from Virginia, if that's what you mean.
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Speaker 6: I always figured you was the law here. Is he short,
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Speaker 6: Miss Down?
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Speaker 7: Why should you say the word?
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Speaker 6: We'll run him out. I ever ask you for help, Bunko?
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Speaker 8: Well, no, but.
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Speaker 6: The man's short, and Sarge, I'll run him out. No offense, Marshal.
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Speaker 6: You keep your own cinch.
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Speaker 3: Tight, and don't worry about anybody else. I'll see you, Bunko.
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Speaker 7: I swear, Mr. Dillon, I ain't ever seen nobody with
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Speaker 7: such bad luck in my whole life. You are a
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Speaker 7: thorough and sick to stud.
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Speaker 6: Who, Chester? Jethro Keener.
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Speaker 7: He just lost three whole weeks' pay. And Bunko Benson,
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Speaker 7: sitting right there beside him, mind you, picked up $ 230.
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Speaker 3: So that's why he's feeling big.
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Speaker 6: Let's take a walk, Jethro.
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Speaker 11: I swear, three.
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Speaker 8: Weeks' pay.
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Speaker 10: I've never seen such luck.
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Speaker 6: What about Doc?
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Speaker 11: Oh, he turned in a couple hours ago. That's when
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Speaker 11: I come on over here.
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Speaker 6: How's he acting?
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Speaker 11: Oh, about as usual. One thing he is doing, though,
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Speaker 11: that he ain't never done before. He's totally done.
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Speaker 3: Evening, Marshal.
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 7: Hello, Mr. Hunter.
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Speaker 12: Since you didn't come to see me, Mr. Dillon, I've
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Speaker 12: come to you. Wondering what progress you've made.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm so checking. Any results at all, Marshal? I
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Speaker 6: haven't got much to go on, you know.
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Speaker 3: Calvin Moore was a doctor by profession. He might still
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Speaker 3: be practicing.
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Speaker 12: I suggest we investigate local doctors.
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Speaker 6: Well, that wouldn't take long. We've only got one. Doc Adams.
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Speaker 12: How old a man is he?
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Speaker 6: Early 50s, I imagine. But he doesn't show much resemblance to.
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Speaker 12: That photograph you gave me. Maybe you're too used to
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Speaker 12: him to notice the resemblance.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, maybe. I'd like to look him over myself, Marshal.
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Speaker 6: He's pretty busy. Out on calls most of the time.
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Speaker 12: But not all of the time.
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Speaker 6: No, not all the time, Cooks. All right, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Hunter.
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Speaker 5: I'll bring him.
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Speaker 6: Around.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's funny, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Dillon.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you should have answered by now. We're wasting our time, Chester.
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Speaker 11: He might have got called out on a case.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know.
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Speaker 3: That was across the plaza down toward the Dodge House.
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Speaker 3: Come on, Chester.
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Speaker 7: Somebody sure is stirring up smoke.
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Speaker 3: That's across the street ahead to the railroad yard.
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Speaker 6: Is that you, Marshal? Yeah. What happened, Mr. Hunter?
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Speaker 12: Somebody tried to kill me. I started into the hotel
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Speaker 12: and they fired from the dock right here.
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Speaker 6: I fired back, but he got away. You got a
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Speaker 6: look at him? No, I just saw the flashes.
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Speaker 3: That's an easy time to get killed then, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Hunter. So it seems.
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Speaker 12: About that doctor, Marshal, you didn't bring him around.
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Speaker 6: He's out on a call.
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Speaker 12: But I think I want to meet him more than
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Speaker 12: ever now.
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Speaker 8: You will.
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Speaker 7: You will.
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Speaker 6: What time is it, Chester?
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Speaker 7: It's quarter after two. I sure do hope we won't
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Speaker 7: have to spend the whole night waiting in here. I
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Speaker 7: don't see how Doc puts up with.
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Speaker 11: The smell of all this medicine and stuff. A poor
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Speaker 11: man can get used to anything except dying.
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Speaker 7: Mr. Dillon, you reckon it could have been Doc that
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Speaker 7: fired them shots?
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Speaker 6: Chester.
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Speaker 4: Somebody coming.
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Speaker 6: Come in.
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Speaker 7: Doc, I.
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Speaker 6: Marshal. Come on in, Paco. Well, I... What's the matter
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Speaker 6: with your arms? Oh, I got thrown into a barbed
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Speaker 6: wire fence. Here, let's have a look at it, huh? No,
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Speaker 6: it's all right. It's a gunshot wound.
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Speaker 7: Hold it, both of you.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 3: Is that the same gun you tried to kill Hunter with, Bunko?
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Speaker 12: Stay where you are, Marshal.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, about 30 years old, dark hair, mustache, medium build,
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Speaker 3: excellent horseman, confirmed gambler. Wanted for murder, John Allison, alias
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Speaker 3: Bunko Benson. All right, Bunko.
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Speaker 6: He's not taking me back here. Stay where you are, Dillon.
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Speaker 6: Don't be a fool, Punko, and I'll put away that gun.
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Speaker 7: Stay back, I'm warning you.
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Speaker 6: Punko, look!
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Speaker 10: What?
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Speaker 7: That worked pretty slick, didn't it, Mr. Dillon?
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Speaker 6: Thanks, Chester. All right, let's get him down to the
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Speaker 6: jail and you can go find Doc. We're going to
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Speaker 6: need him. Hola, amigo.
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Speaker 9: You want to know about stereophonographs? Listen to my last
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Speaker 9: bullfight on ordinary stereo.
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Speaker 7: Ole!
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Speaker 9: But now, Columbia Stereo One. Ah, there is a corrida
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Speaker 9: de toros.
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Speaker 6: Real life-like.
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Speaker 11: Magnifica.
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Speaker 9: There is such a big difference in stereophonographs. With most,
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Speaker 9: all you get is a couple of speakers shooting in
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Speaker 9: different directions. But with Columbia.
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Speaker 9: Ah, hombre, you get fantastic stereo projection. What it does
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Speaker 9: is to send circles of sound sweeping through every inch
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Speaker 9: of a room. You are surrounded with live sound, live feeling,
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Speaker 9: live passion.
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Speaker 11: Ole, ole!
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Speaker 7: Ah, they cheered me.
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Speaker 9: Ask your Columbia phonograph dealer to demonstrate stereo one by Columbia.
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Speaker 9: Prices start as low as $ 39.
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Speaker 6: 95 for portables, $ 129.
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Speaker 9: 95 for consoles. Hey, Picador, who let that bull.
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Speaker 4: Out?
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Speaker 10: Just hold still now, Bunko. One more second. Have a
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Speaker 10: hold of that bullet and then we'll... Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah. Add that one to your collection, Matt.
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Speaker 6: I'll make Hunter a present of it.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't bad shooting to be firing in the dark
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Speaker 3: at a gun flash.
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Speaker 6: Never give me back to Virginia.
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Speaker 7: Now, hold still, Bunker. I expect a man to tie
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Speaker 7: a bandage. How'd you know that he'd come to my office, Matt?
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Speaker 6: Didn't, Doc. We were waiting for you.
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Speaker 11: Oh, I see.
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Speaker 9: There.
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Speaker 7: That ought to stop the bleeding. Don't loosen it up now,
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Speaker 7: and you'll live to hang yet.
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Speaker 6: Don't worry about my hanging, Doc. I'll outlive you.
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Speaker 7: Well, in view of the circumstances, I'd say odds are
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Speaker 7: about even. Well, Matt, shall we adjourn to the front office?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, come on. Okay, like so, Chester.
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Speaker 5: Yes, I will.
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Speaker 7: I turned in at ten o'clock tonight, Matt. I got
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Speaker 7: one hour's sleep. They called me over to Mrs. Behan.
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Speaker 7: They thought her baby was on the way.
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Speaker 10: False alarm, of course.
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Speaker 7: Usually is the first time. Then I got back and
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Speaker 7: came straight over here.
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Speaker 3: Doc, you were wearing a gun earlier today.
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Speaker 6: What did you do with it?
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Speaker 7: I put it back in the drawer where it belonged.
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Speaker 7: I realized I was acting like a fool. Was that
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Speaker 7: why you were waiting in my office? Somebody tried to
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Speaker 7: kill Hunter, and you thought it was me?
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Speaker 3: I've tried to think of some way out of this.
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Speaker 6: A way out for both of us, Doctor.
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Speaker 3: But I got one man under arrest back there now.
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Speaker 3: I can't rightly set myself up as a judge and
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Speaker 3: free the other man I'd even hoped you'd cut and
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Speaker 3: run for it. You'd get away if you did because
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Speaker 3: Hunter doesn't know the country.
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Speaker 7: No, no. I'm too old to run, Matt.
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Speaker 10: What are you going to do?
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Speaker 6: I'm a lawman, Doc. Right or wrong.
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Speaker 7: Whether or not I guess I'm under arrest.
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Speaker 6: No, I didn't say that. Doc Adams. Oh, there you are.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, what's the trouble?
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Speaker 3: There's a fellow in the railroad yard who was asleep
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Speaker 3: on the track. Drunk, I guess. And they went to
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Speaker 3: switching cars.
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Speaker 6: You better come, Doc. He's awful bad. He's sitting near
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Speaker 6: the loading fence down this way, I guess.
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Speaker 11: Yes, there's some lights over there and people standing around.
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Speaker 7: Marshall, is that you?
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Oh, Hunter, I thought you went to bed hours ago.
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Speaker 12: I'm a light sleeper, Mr.
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Speaker 6: Dillon.
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Speaker 12: I heard there's an accident over in the yard.
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Speaker 3: I'll just walk along with you.
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Speaker 6: Give me a chance to meet your local doctor.
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Speaker 12: Well, I guess you can meet him right now if
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Speaker 12: you want to.
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Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Doc, this is Ed Hunter. Talk at him.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 6: How do you do, sir?
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Speaker 8: Mr.
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Speaker 6: Hunter? I got one of your prisoners locked up, Mr.
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Speaker 5: Hunter.
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Speaker 6: John Allison, known here as Bunko Benson. Good. He's the
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Speaker 6: man who tried to kill you tonight. One down, then.
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Speaker 6: Just one to go.
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Speaker 12: Calvin Moore.
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Speaker 6: Dr.
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Speaker 12: Calvin Moore.
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Speaker 6: All right, move back, will you, please? Will you let
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Speaker 6: us through here, please? Here, Doc.
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Speaker 7: I'm right here, Pat.
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Speaker 3: All right, stand back, will you?
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Speaker 12: Give Doc a chance.
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Speaker 6: Will you stand back, please?
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Speaker 4: Please.
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Speaker 7: Barrett is right. We'll do what we can.
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Speaker 12: That man was hurt, Mark. So who is he?
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Speaker 6: He's a drifter. He's been around Dodge a couple of years.
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Speaker 6: Calls himself Texas Joe. No friends or family. Nobody knows
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Speaker 6: where he came from. It's a usual story.
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Speaker 7: I told him to get you.
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Speaker 6: Be all right.
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Speaker 7: You guys here.
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Speaker 3: He certainly has to work under primitive conditions, Doc.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Chester, will you get those lanterns going and give Doc
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Speaker 3: some more light? Yeah, he's the only real doctor on
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Speaker 3: the side of Abilene.
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Speaker 8: Is there anything I could do to help, Mr. Dillon?
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Speaker 6: I guess not, Miss Kelly. Thanks anyway.
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Speaker 8: Poor old Tex. He stopped in at the restaurant not
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Speaker 8: more than four hours ago and I fixed him a meal.
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Speaker 6: You never know.
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Speaker 8: Well, Doc can pull him through if anybody can.
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Speaker 6: Sure he can.
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Speaker 7: Now, put one of those linens on the other side, Justice.
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Speaker 11: Okay, Doc.
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Speaker 12: You seem to put a lot of faith in your
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Speaker 12: Doc there.
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Speaker 6: I got reason to, Mr.
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Speaker 7: Hunter. Yeah, Matt, could you give me a hand here?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, Doc.
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Speaker 7: Lift his head up a little bit there, will you, Matt? Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Not much chance, Matt. All I can do is make
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Speaker 7: him comfortable.
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Speaker 6: Now, don't try to talk now, Tex. You're going to
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Speaker 6: be all right.
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Speaker 3: You.
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Speaker 6: You've been decent to me, Marshal.
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Speaker 7: You treated me square. You and Doc, only friends I got.
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Speaker 4: Sure, Tex.
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Speaker 7: I got one more favor to ask. Could someone read
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Speaker 7: me some scripture?
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Speaker 6: Well, Tex, I... I just don't recall anything.
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Speaker 8: Well, I do.
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Speaker 3: Mrs.
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Speaker 7: Covey, I doubt if he can hear you. I... I.
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Speaker 6: I can hear. Please.
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Speaker 8: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He
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Speaker 8: maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth
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Speaker 8: me beside the still waters. He restores my soul.
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Speaker 7: I think that's enough, Mrs. Covey. Mr. Adams.
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Speaker 8: Oh, no.
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Speaker 7: Well, you can't win them all, I guess.
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Speaker 6: No, I can't win them all. Well, I guess... Dr.
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Speaker 12: Adams, as only physician here, I suppose you also function
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Speaker 12: as coroner.
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Speaker 6: That's right. And this man here, he'll be buried under the.
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Speaker 12: Name of Texas Joe.
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Speaker 7: Don't worry about it. Boot Hill is full of men
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Speaker 7: buried under.
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Speaker 10: Nicknames in this country.
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Speaker 7: Doc.
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Speaker 8: Doc, I just came from.
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Speaker 8: Doc, I've been setting up with Mrs.
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Speaker 7: Behan.
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Speaker 8: You left too soon.
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Speaker 7: She needs you over there right away.
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Speaker 6: Well, then it wasn't a fault of mine.
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Speaker 7: All right, Kitty, I'll be there as quick as I can. Well,
24:42
Speaker 7: as soon as... Well, uh.
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Speaker 3: Kitty, you go on back over and do what you
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Speaker 3: can for her.
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Speaker 6: Doc will be along.
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Speaker 8: All right, Matt, but you better hurry.
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Speaker 5: Well, Mr.
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Speaker 4: Hunter.
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Speaker 3: Well, gentlemen, this seems to have been my lucky night.
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Speaker 3: Both my fugitives located within an hour.
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Speaker 6: Of each other.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I guess there's nothing I can do to touch you.
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Speaker 3: One safe in jail and one of them dead. Oh,
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Speaker 3: didn't you notice the resemblance, Marshal? Texas Joe here. Obviously,
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Speaker 3: the man in the photograph. I saw it immediately.
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Speaker 12: Well, I hope you'll take all necessary steps to see
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Speaker 12: that he's buried under his real name, Calvin Moore, and
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Speaker 12: his death, of course.
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Speaker 6: Close the case.
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Speaker 12: I've been leaving for Virginia with my other prisoner tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: Leave?
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Speaker 11: Mr.
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Speaker 7: Hunter.
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Speaker 3: Doctor, I'd say this is no time to stand around
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Speaker 3: here talking. You have a patient waiting.
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Speaker 6: This, uh... This town seems to depend on you.
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Speaker 8: Matt?
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Speaker 12: Well, Doc, you've got work to do.
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Speaker 6: You just make sure it's a boy, huh?
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Speaker 7: Well, I'll... I'll do my darndest, Matt. Good night, gentlemen.
26:21
Speaker 6: Gunsmoke Gunsmoke.
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Speaker 2: Produced and directed in Hollywood by Norman McDonald, stars William
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Speaker 2: Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S.
26:49
Speaker 4: Marshal.
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Speaker 2: The story was specially written for Gunsmoke by Les Crutchfield,
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Speaker 2: with editorial supervision by John Messon. Featured in the cast
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Speaker 2: were Lawrence Dobkin, Harry Bartell, Ralph Moody, and Virginia Christine.
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Speaker 2: Harley Bear as Chester, Howard McNair as Doc, and Georgia
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Speaker 2: Hawkins as Kitty. This is George Walsh inviting you to
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