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Gunsmoke - "The Man Who Would Be Marshal" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: William Conrad leads the Gunsmoke Company as Marshall Matt Dillon,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: with Parley Bear, Georgia Ellis, and Howard mcneer at his
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  Speaker 1: side in Dodge City. On March eighteenth, nineteen fifty six,
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  Speaker 1: CBS Radio presented episode two hundred and six, The Man
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  Speaker 1: Who Would Be Marshall, written by John Meston and produced
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  Speaker 1: and directed by Norman McDonell. Former Army Major Emmett Egan
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  Speaker 1: arrives with money, military experience, and an interest in taking
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  Speaker 1: Dylan's job. Matt agrees to let him observe frontier law
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: enforcement for a week as Egan joins Dylan, Chester, Kitty
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  Speaker 1: and Doc in the everyday business of Dodge City. And
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  Speaker 1: now our story begins.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dot City and in the territory on West. There
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  Speaker 2: is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with a US Marshall and the Smell of
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  Speaker 2: gun Smoke. Gun Smoke starring William Conrad, The trans drug
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  Speaker 2: story of the violence that moved west with Young America
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  Speaker 2: and the story of a.
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  Speaker 3: Man who moved with I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United
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  Speaker 3: States Marshall, the first man they look for and the
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  Speaker 3: last they want to meet. It's a chancy job and
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  Speaker 3: it makes a man watchful and a little lonely.
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  Speaker 4: This is the Marshall's office.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he is. You're a Marshall, Dylan.
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  Speaker 4: I am. My name is Egan, Marshall, Emmitt Egan. I'm
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  Speaker 4: glad and I am there's Chester Bradford.
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  Speaker 6: How do you do well?
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  Speaker 4: The purpose of my visit may surprise you, Marshall. But
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  Speaker 4: if that doesn't mean trouble, it's sure will. I've just
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  Speaker 4: deposited fifty thousand dollars in the bank here. That's a
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  Speaker 4: lot of money, Egan, and it's taken me ever since
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  Speaker 4: the war to earn it.
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  Speaker 5: I've been up in Chicago, Marshall, running cattle auctions for
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  Speaker 5: a man named Swift.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm through with that now.
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  Speaker 5: I'm gonna try something new, Marshall. I don't intend any insults,
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  Speaker 5: but if you need me, name your price.
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  Speaker 4: I'm afraid I don't follow you. Igan. I want your
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  Speaker 4: job what I want to be Marshall here, all right?
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  Speaker 4: Say it, Oligan. I'm serious, Marshall. No tricks to this.
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  Speaker 5: I've been to Washington and the War Departments endorsed my application,
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  Speaker 5: but they tell me they're no openings, so I came
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  Speaker 5: to Dodge.
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  Speaker 4: I thought, if I can somehow persuade you to quit,
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  Speaker 4: maybe they'll put me on here. I think you are serious,
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  Speaker 4: Oh I am, but simple enough.
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  Speaker 5: I'm tired of the kind of work I was doing
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  Speaker 5: and I want to try this something exciting.
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  Speaker 4: Ah. I see, what would you advise me to do, Marshall,
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  Speaker 4: Go back to Chicago? Yeah, A lots safer there. Do
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  Speaker 4: you think I'm not qualified to be alone? Man? Ill
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  Speaker 4: you were and a gun.
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  Speaker 5: I'm accustomed to authority, Marshall. I was a major under
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  Speaker 5: General McClellan. But my first bullet chickahamany in sixty two.
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  Speaker 3: I see, is this your first trip to the frontier,
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  Speaker 3: mister Egan.
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  Speaker 4: It's my first in sixty seven.
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  Speaker 3: And I still advise you to go back to Chicago.
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  Speaker 4: No, Marshall, All right, mister Reagan, you want this job
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  Speaker 4: so bad you can have it. As far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 3: There's very little money in it, and absolutely no thanks.
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  Speaker 3: I've been a live target for every drunken bomb and
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  Speaker 3: glory hunter in Kansas.
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  Speaker 4: About long enough? You mean it, Marshall? Yeah, but on
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  Speaker 4: one condition. Yeah, but you hang around for a week.
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  Speaker 4: See what it's like, and if you still want it?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I want it all right? All right, then we'll
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  Speaker 3: start right now.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ready. What do we do first? You are, said
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  Speaker 4: esa mine? Yes, sir, I guess so all right? Then
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  Speaker 4: follow me, gracious right?
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  Speaker 6: Don't you sit down and rest a spell? Mystery again?
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  Speaker 7: Oh thanks, I'm gonna wear his help out walking out
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  Speaker 7: down in that way.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you gotta match, sister, shut right?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, thanks?
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  Speaker 6: M h DoD sure ain't very lively, the not very
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  Speaker 6: I only had me a knife. I could do a little.
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  Speaker 4: What oh what happened here? Knife?
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  Speaker 9: I said, Well, it was about wore out, so I
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  Speaker 9: traded it to a small kid, I know her a flipper.
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  Speaker 4: Why did you get yourself another one?
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  Speaker 6: Mister Dylon? I am so mean poor I just couldn't
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  Speaker 6: stand it.
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  Speaker 9: Out way all yeah, I forgot Hey, look there, somebody
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  Speaker 9: had an haready to be in town.
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 9: Where who that fella coming up the streets riding that
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  Speaker 9: slid back to old Wood? May see he looks like
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  Speaker 9: a farmer. You can call a man whose wife holds
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  Speaker 9: a ten yard patch immediate potato as a farmer, and
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  Speaker 9: then he's one.
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  Speaker 4: All right, you said he shouldn't be in town. He
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  Speaker 4: can't be very dangerous. He's dangerous to hisself. Oh what
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  Speaker 4: do you mean why he gets.
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  Speaker 9: A dog on drunk every time he comes in here again?
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  Speaker 6: Hard to climb back up on.
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  Speaker 4: That home there.
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  Speaker 9: When he does, he usually falls off summer before he
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  Speaker 9: gets home and lays out there on the prairie all
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  Speaker 9: lie like a dead man.
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  Speaker 6: If you're wonder he ain't been at by something.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, Marshall, we've been hanging around this poach for three hours.
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  Speaker 4: I'm beginning to feel like a bum myself. That's part
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  Speaker 4: of the job, Hegan, keeping an eye on things.
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  Speaker 5: We call it keeping an eye on things. You and
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  Speaker 5: Chester both are fighting a stay awake?
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  Speaker 4: Are you calling in quit Segan? Oh, no, of course not.
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  Speaker 4: And let's go get a cup of coffee. Huh.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be dark so we can start making the rounds.
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  Speaker 4: What's the name of this place, Marshall. It's called a
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  Speaker 4: long branch. Oh here, I'm somebody yet And I Kenny,
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  Speaker 4: how long you have been sitting here? Not longer, Kenny,
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  Speaker 4: this is emit, Egan. How do you do mischiffy? I
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  Speaker 4: sit on? I hear you may be on Marshall in
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  Speaker 4: the world Manchester within.
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  Speaker 7: A while ago.
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  Speaker 5: So isn't it Well, it isn't exactly settled yet, miss kitty, But.
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  Speaker 6: You want the job?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? Why? Well, let's say I was bored with what
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  Speaker 4: I was doing. Sure, that's happened to a lot of X.
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  Speaker 6: So I can't stand peace.
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  Speaker 4: Time, and me in particular. I guess why don't you
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  Speaker 4: re enlist?
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  Speaker 6: The cavalry keeps busy out here?
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  Speaker 5: I tried that, miss Kitty. He did back in sixty seven.
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  Speaker 4: Sixty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Chyanne and Sioux were real active.
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  Speaker 4: That year, weren't they. Yes they were, but not where
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  Speaker 4: the cavalry was. I haven't are you a General Hancock?
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  Speaker 4: That's right, marshall. We took to the field for four months.
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  Speaker 4: We marched and countermarched all over this country, and then
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  Speaker 4: we returned to Fort Harker. Well what was wrong with that?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 5: We did was burned one at the village, killed two
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  Speaker 5: young Chian braves, both of whom we later found out
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  Speaker 5: were friendly.
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  Speaker 4: To eleven hundred men to.
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  Speaker 6: Do that I'm doing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, what is it? Just?
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  Speaker 9: I don't know stroll, but I hear there's some kind
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  Speaker 9: of trouble on a moss screaming.
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  Speaker 4: It's about time something happened around here. Yeah, I don't
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  Speaker 4: forget Egan. When it does, somebody usually does.
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  Speaker 3: Lots of trouble here, man, where's Master may Chester?
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  Speaker 6: He hear, mister John, They say, Leonard Fibbs. There is
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  Speaker 6: the one who knows by it.
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  Speaker 4: Fibbs a little sadbuster. Yes, hey, Pibbs, come here. What's
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  Speaker 4: going on here?
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  Speaker 7: Pibbs inside? Marshall, back there in the stall? What's back there?
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  Speaker 10: Bad?
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  Speaker 7: Marshall, real bad. Don't nobody go in there, real bad?
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  Speaker 7: What is those in the not even you, Marshall, not
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  Speaker 7: nobody leave him alone.
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  Speaker 6: I'm warning here. Oh, he ain't got good sense, mister Dillon,
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  Speaker 6: or you stop hitting. It's real bad in there.
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  Speaker 3: It's something's got him scared to have to that. I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna go take a look.
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  Speaker 4: You stay here at Chester. I'm going with you, Marshall
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  Speaker 4: lucky and I don't know what's in there.
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  Speaker 3: It could be a crazy man with a gun looking
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  Speaker 3: at the blood.
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  Speaker 4: It could be anything.
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  Speaker 5: Action is what I came here for, Marshall, And you
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  Speaker 5: said I could hang around.
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  Speaker 4: All right, but you get out of the way if
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  Speaker 4: there's any shooting. I'm not entirely a novice with a
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  Speaker 4: gun Marshall.
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  Speaker 3: Now, but you're not a professionally that stad least ten
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  Speaker 3: paces behind me?
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  Speaker 8: Right you see anything?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's Marshall, Dylan. What's that here? Come on?
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  Speaker 5: Speak up?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he's hiding waiting for you and they can't see
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  Speaker 3: me any better, and I can see him.
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  Speaker 4: You're taking an awful chance.
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  Speaker 8: Motional.
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  Speaker 4: You stay where you are. But now what's this? H Chester?
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  Speaker 4: Bring a ladder? All right? Agan? What is it, Marshall?
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  Speaker 4: Not that we have to kill? What do you mean
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  Speaker 4: they can't see when Chester brings the light he's coming.
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  Speaker 4: Where have you found? It's doing all the ladder over here? Chester?
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  Speaker 6: Oh my goodness, somebody's gone and hung man?
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  Speaker 4: So that's it, poor devil? Was this a lynching? Marshal?
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  Speaker 3: Now again that's old Tom Sanders. He's been drunk for
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  Speaker 3: twenty years. I guess he finally decided to break their habits.
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  Speaker 3: And you won't get any action out of this. They
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  Speaker 3: got to spend early a week and have excitement for you.
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  Speaker 5: I must admit, Marshall. It's not quite what I've expected. Somehow,
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  Speaker 5: the idea Marshall was always.
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  Speaker 4: Busy doing things. You mean, gunfighting, I've told you. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think gunfighting is necessary.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I remember, any.
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  Speaker 5: Man accustomed to command should be able to control these
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  Speaker 5: Dodge City ruffians without much trouble.
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  Speaker 3: I only draw my gun as the last resort. Again, besides,
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  Speaker 3: you haven't seen any of these men in action yet.
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  Speaker 4: I still want the job, Marshall. Yeah, I know. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: come on and doc.
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  Speaker 10: See Matt, you better go over the tech astray.
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  Speaker 4: You know those fellas Gear and Bozeman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, they've got that poor.
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  Speaker 9: Little Leonard Fibbs at the bar there, and they're trying
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  Speaker 9: to make him pay for their drinks.
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  Speaker 4: He's broke, of course, so they're beating him up. They're
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  Speaker 4: doing it real slowly, bit by bit. I try. It
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  Speaker 4: just makes you sick to watch it. All right now,
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  Speaker 4: wait Marshall, yeah, what let me handle this luck Egan
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  Speaker 4: Garon Bozeman. Maybe a couple of bullets, but that doesn't
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  Speaker 4: mean they're not dangerous. They are.
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  Speaker 5: Are you afraid I might be able to handle them?
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  Speaker 4: Marshall?
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  Speaker 3: Well, okay, go ahead there, take my badge.
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  Speaker 4: Tell them you're a deputy. Thank you, Marshall. You gotta
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  Speaker 4: learn one way or the other. Come on, Chester, I
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  Speaker 4: knew you wouldn't need mister Reagan all alone, nobody.
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  Speaker 3: I look for us coming on the back door, and
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  Speaker 3: let's move a little closer.
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  Speaker 4: He's facing out.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Oh, look at poor little fist him all.
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  Speaker 8: What makes you think you can do this to a man?
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  Speaker 4: Is there no law where you come from? We come from?
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  Speaker 4: Die mister deputy. Where do you come from? Are you
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  Speaker 4: Bozman or Gear? I'm Bozeman, mister deputy. I'm the one
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  Speaker 4: who generally does the talking, but we both do the fighting.
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  Speaker 4: You're out of order, Bozeman? What's that? I said? You're
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  Speaker 4: out of order? I will not tolerate your insolence. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not sure, mister deputy. Are you saying you don't like it?
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  Speaker 8: That's a uh?
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  Speaker 4: If you and Gear will turn and face the bar, well,
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  Speaker 4: I take your guns.
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  Speaker 10: You're the most dogging, foolish man I ever saw, mister
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  Speaker 10: deputy do as I said?
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  Speaker 4: Why? Because you're weren't a badge? That's reason enough, mister deputy.
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  Speaker 4: That may be reason enough that no shooting. I'm ordering
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  Speaker 4: you to face the bar. I guess there's no use
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  Speaker 4: talking to you, mister deputy. I'll take them along. Get
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  Speaker 4: He'm all right?
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  Speaker 2: That's enough.
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  Speaker 4: I don't go ahead, Bozeman, try it again. I'll wait, Marshall,
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  Speaker 4: he knew he couldn't handle the gun. You know I can.
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  Speaker 4: Is that it your gun against two of us? Quite talking?
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  Speaker 4: Don't try all right?
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  Speaker 3: Undose?
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  Speaker 4: My deputy told you face the bar? Sure, sure, Chester?
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  Speaker 6: You want me to walk him up, mister Jollan.
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  Speaker 4: Here the gons Chester, I'll be at ducks.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he can save bus money here from hanging.
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  Speaker 4: It's gotten a light out.
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  Speaker 10: Doc generally does this time of morning.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm not generally sitting up waiting for a
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  Speaker 4: man to die. He isn't gonna die, man, And I
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  Speaker 4: saw what that bullet did to him. You feel guilty, don't.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't shrew, Doc, I guess he wouldn't. Doc. What well?
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  Speaker 10: He's conscious? Oh, how do you feel?
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  Speaker 4: Egan? Pretty fair? Doc, I've been lying here listening to
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  Speaker 4: you talk.
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  Speaker 10: Well, you mean you've been conscious for some time?
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  Speaker 4: Half hour? Maybe I wanted to get my head clear.
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  Speaker 10: A few weeks in bed and it'll be clear now.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I was lucky. If that bullet had gone
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  Speaker 4: one means to.
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  Speaker 5: The left, you'd have died on the floor, Hegan, You
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  Speaker 5: were lucky, all right. God protects fools and drunkards, isn't it, Marshall. Dylan, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I heard you saying you felt guilty about this.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't your fault and I should have known what
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  Speaker 4: had happened.
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  Speaker 5: But I heard you telling Doc how it happened. You
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  Speaker 5: faced them the same way I did. They didn't shoot you.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little different with me, Egan. Oh, this is
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  Speaker 4: my profession. I don't handle enough men to be professional. Hegan.
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  Speaker 4: Why do you think Bozeman did what.
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  Speaker 5: I told him to do because he knew you'd shoot
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: If he didn't, he.
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  Speaker 4: Not only knew I'd shoot, and knew I'd kill him.
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  Speaker 3: You know, as I can handle a gun pretty well
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  Speaker 3: in that part of the profession. I don't teach in
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  Speaker 3: the army. It takes years and years to learn.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 5: I can't complain anymore about there not being enough action,
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  Speaker 5: can I?
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  Speaker 4: Marshall? Hey, you'r week's up today? Egan? Do you want
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: the job? Marshall? You ever been in California? Not for
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  Speaker 4: some time?
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  Speaker 5: I hear things are pretty active out there. I'll write
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  Speaker 5: to you and tell you all about it.
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  Speaker 2: Gunn Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonnell, stars William
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  Speaker 2: Conrad as Matt Dylan US Marshall. Our story was specially
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  Speaker 2: written for Gun Smoke by John Meston, with music composed
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  Speaker 2: and conducted by Rex Cory, sound patterns by Tom Hanley
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  Speaker 2: and Bill Jane. Featured in the cast were John Dayner,
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  Speaker 2: James Musser and Harry Bartel, Barley Bear Is Chester, Howard
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  Speaker 2: mcneer is doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kiddie.
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  Speaker 1: That was Gun Smoke episode two hundred and six. The
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  Speaker 1: man who would be Marshall. Good Night,