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  Speaker 1: From CBS on March 18th, 1956, Gunsmoke presents episode 206,
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  Speaker 1: The Man Who Would Be Marshal. In Dodge City, former
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  Speaker 1: military man Emmett Egan, played by John Diener, arrives convinced
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  Speaker 1: that money and command experience equip him to take Marshal
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  Speaker 1: Matt Dillon's place. William Conrad is Dillon, who gives Egan
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  Speaker 1: a week to observe what frontier law enforcement demands of
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  Speaker 1: the man who wears the badge. Parley Bear is Chester,
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  Speaker 1: with Georgia Ellis as Kitty and Howard McNear as Doc Adams.
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  Speaker 1: John Meston wrote this broadcast, directed and produced by Norman McDonald.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the stage is Dodge City. And now,
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  Speaker 1: we return to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke. Brought to you by Chesterfield. Chesterfield packs more pleasure
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  Speaker 2: because it's more perfectly packed, thanks to Accuray. They satisfy
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  Speaker 2: the most. Around Dodge City and in the Territory on West,
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  Speaker 2: there's 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. Gunsmoke, starring William Conrad. The transcribed story of
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  Speaker 2: the violence that moved west with young America.
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  Speaker 3: And the story of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man.
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  Speaker 4: Matt Dillon, United States Marshal. The first man they look
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  Speaker 4: for and the last they want to meet. It's a
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  Speaker 4: chancy job. And it makes a man watchful. And a
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  Speaker 4: little lonely.
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  Speaker 5: Is this the Marshal's office?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come in, stranger. You're Marshal Dillon? I am. My
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  Speaker 3: name's Egan, Marshal. Emmett Egan. I'm glad to know you.
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  Speaker 3: It's just a proud foot. How do you do?
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  Speaker 6: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: The purpose of my visit may surprise you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Well, if it doesn't mean trouble, it sure will.
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  Speaker 3: I've just deposited $ 50, 000 in the bank here. Huh? That's
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  Speaker 3: a lot of money, Egan. It's taken me ever since
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  Speaker 3: the war to earn it. I've been up in Chicago, Marshal,
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  Speaker 3: running cattle auctions for a man named Swift, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: through with that now.
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: I want to try something new. Marshal, I don't intend
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  Speaker 3: any insult. But if you need money, name your price.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid I don't follow you, Egan. I want your job. What?
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  Speaker 3: I want to be Marshal here. All right, say it out, Egan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm serious, Marshal. No tricks to this. I've been to Washington,
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  Speaker 3: and the War Department's endorsed my application, but they tell
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  Speaker 3: me there are no openings, so I came to Dodge.
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  Speaker 3: I thought if I can somehow persuade you to quit,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they'll put me on here. I think you are serious.
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  Speaker 7: I am.
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  Speaker 3: It's simple enough. I'm tired of the kind of work
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  Speaker 3: I was doing, and I want to try this. Something exciting. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: I see. What would you advise me to do, Marshal?
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  Speaker 3: Go back to Chicago. You're a lot safer there. You
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  Speaker 3: think I'm not qualified to be a lawman?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you're wearing a gun.
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  Speaker 3: I'm accustomed to authority, Marshal. I was a major under
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  Speaker 3: General McClellan. Took my first bullet in the Chickahominy in 62.
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  Speaker 3: I see. Is this your first trip to the frontier, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Egan?
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  Speaker 3: It's my first since 67. Uh-huh. And I still advise
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  Speaker 3: you to go back to Chicago. No, Marshal. All right, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Regan, you want this job so bad, you can have
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  Speaker 4: it as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 3: No, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Dillon.
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  Speaker 3: There's very little.
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  Speaker 4: Money in it and absolutely no thanks. I've been a
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  Speaker 4: live target for every drunken bum and glory hunter in
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  Speaker 4: Kansas about long enough.
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  Speaker 3: You mean it, Marshal? Yeah. But on one condition. Yes?
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  Speaker 3: That you hang around for a week. See what it's like.
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  Speaker 3: And then if you still want it... Oh, I want
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  Speaker 3: it all right. All right, then we'll start right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready. What do we do first? You all set, Chester? Mine?
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir, I guess so.
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  Speaker 3: All right, then follow me. All right.
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  Speaker 2: That whistling man, Bobby Haggard, really started something. Tonight, the
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  Speaker 2: Calypso Boys join in.
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  Speaker 3: Ready, amigos? Let's go.
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  Speaker 7: Packs more pleasure.
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  Speaker 6: Packs more pleasure. Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more
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  Speaker 6: perfectly packed.
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  Speaker 2: The more perfectly packed your cigarette, the more taste and
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  Speaker 2: mildness are released for you. Chesterfield, made by exclusive Accuray,
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  Speaker 2: has an open, easy draw that unlocks all.
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  Speaker 3: The pleasure of fine tobaccos.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Accuray ensures an even distribution of tobacco from one
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  Speaker 2: end of.
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  Speaker 3: Your Chesterfield to the other.
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  Speaker 2: Chesterfield is firm and pleasing to the lips, mild yet
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  Speaker 2: deeply satisfying.
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  Speaker 6: Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
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  Speaker 2: To the touch, to the taste, Chesterfield packs more pleasure
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  Speaker 2: because it's more perfectly packed. Why, Chesterfield, mild yet they
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  Speaker 2: satisfy the most.
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  Speaker 3: THE END.
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  Speaker 10: My gracious, why don't you sit down and rest a spell, Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Regan?
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  Speaker 2: No, thanks.
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  Speaker 10: He's going to wear himself out walking up and down
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  Speaker 10: that way.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You got a match, sister.
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  Speaker 10: Here, Red.
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  Speaker 7: Here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thanks.
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  Speaker 11: Your dog sure ain't very lively today, is it?
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  Speaker 3: No, not very.
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  Speaker 10: If I only had me a knife, I could do
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  Speaker 10: a little whittling.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what happened to your knife, Chester?
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  Speaker 11: Well, it was about wore out, so I traded it
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  Speaker 11: to a small kid I know for a flipper.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you get yourself another one? Mr.
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  Speaker 10: Dillon, I am so mean, poor, I just couldn't stand
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  Speaker 10: the outlay of you and I.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, yeah, I forgot. Hey, look there.
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  Speaker 10: Somebody hadn't ought to be in town.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, where? Who?
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  Speaker 11: That fella coming up the street, riding that sleigh back
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  Speaker 11: to old Broodmare, see him?
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  Speaker 3: He looks like a farmer.
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  Speaker 11: If you call a man whose wife holds a ten-yard
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  Speaker 11: patch of mealy potatoes a farmer, then he's one.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 3: You said he shouldn't be in town. He can't be
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  Speaker 3: very dangerous.
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  Speaker 10: He's dangerous to himself.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 11: Why, he gets the doggone drunk every time he comes
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  Speaker 11: in here. He can't hardly climb back up on.
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  Speaker 3: That old mare.
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  Speaker 11: And when he does, he usually falls off somewheres before
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  Speaker 11: he gets home and lays out there on the prairie
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  Speaker 11: all night like a dead man.
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  Speaker 10: It's a pure wonder he ain't been hit by something.
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  Speaker 3: Marshal, we've been hanging around this porch for three hours.
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  Speaker 3: I'm beginning to feel like a bum myself. Now, that's
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  Speaker 3: part of the job, Egan.
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  Speaker 4: Keeping an eye on things, we call it.
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  Speaker 3: Keeping an eye on things? You and Chester both are
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  Speaker 3: fighting to stay awake. Are you calling it quits, Egan?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 3: Of course not.
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  Speaker 4: Then let's go get a cup of coffee, huh? It'll
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  Speaker 4: be dark soon and we can start making the rounds.
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  Speaker 9: What's the name of this place, Marshal?
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  Speaker 3: It's called the Long Branch.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, here comes somebody you ought to know.
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  Speaker 3: Evening, Max. Oh, Kitty. How long you been sitting here?
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  Speaker 3: Not long. Ah, Kitty, this is Emmett Egan. How do
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  Speaker 3: you do, Miss Kitty?
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  Speaker 6: Mr.
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  Speaker 2: Egan?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, sit down. Uh-huh. I, uh, I hear you may
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  Speaker 3: be our new marshal. What? Now, how in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Chester was in a while ago.
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  Speaker 3: It's true, isn't it? Well, it isn't exactly settled yet,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Kitty. But you want the job. Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Well, let's say I was... bored with what I was doing. Sure.
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  Speaker 3: That's happened to a lot of ex-soldiers.
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  Speaker 11: They can't stand peacetime.
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  Speaker 3: Me in particular, I guess. Why don't you reenlist?
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  Speaker 2: The cavalry keeps busy out here.
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  Speaker 3: I tried that, Miss Kitty.
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  Speaker 8: You did?
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  Speaker 3: Back in 67. 67? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Cheyenne and the Sioux were real active that year, weren't they?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they were, but not where the cavalry was. Wait
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  Speaker 3: a minute. Were you with General Hancock? That's right, Marshal.
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  Speaker 3: We took to the field for four months. We marched
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  Speaker 3: and counter-marched all over this country, and then we returned
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  Speaker 3: to Fort Harker. Well, what was wrong with that? Well,
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  Speaker 3: all we did was burn one empty village, kill two
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  Speaker 3: young Cheyenne braves, both of whom we later found out
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  Speaker 3: were friendly. It took 1,100 men to do that.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Mr. Dillon. Yeah, what is it, Chester?
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  Speaker 11: I don't know for sure, but I hear there's some
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  Speaker 11: kind of trouble down at Moss Dreaming Stadium.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's about time something happened around here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Now, don't forget, Egan, when it does, somebody usually dies.
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  Speaker 3: What's the trouble here, men? I... Where's Moss Grimmick, Chester?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, he ain't here, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon.
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  Speaker 10: They say Leonard Fibbs there is the one who knows by.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Fibbs, the little sodbuster? Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Fibbs, come here.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on here, Fibbs? Inside, Marshal. Back there in
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  Speaker 3: the stall. Oh, what's back there? Bad, Marshal, real bad.
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  Speaker 10: Don't nobody go in there.
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  Speaker 3: It's real bad. What is? Who's in there, Fibbs?
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  Speaker 7: Not even you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 10: Not nobody. Leave him alone. I'm warning you. Oh, he
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  Speaker 10: ain't got good sense, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon.
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  Speaker 10: No, you stop him. It's real bad in there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, something's got him scared half to death. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to go take a look. You stay here, Chester.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going with you, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Egan, I don't know what's in there. It could
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  Speaker 4: be a crazy man with a gun looking for blood.
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  Speaker 3: It could be anything. Action is what I came here for, Marshal,
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  Speaker 3: and you said I could hang around.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 3: But you get out of the way if there's any shooting.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not entirely a novice with a gun, Marshal.
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  Speaker 4: No, but you're not a professional, either. Now, stay at
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  Speaker 4: least ten paces behind me.
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  Speaker 3: Right. You see anything? No. It's Marshal Dillon. Who's in here?
• 12:43
  Speaker 3: Come on, speak up. Maybe he's hiding, waiting for you.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he can't see me any better than I can
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  Speaker 4: see him.
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  Speaker 3: You're taking an awful chance, Marshal. You stay where you are, Egan. What?
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  Speaker 3: What's this? Chester, bring a lantern. All right, Egan. What
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  Speaker 3: is it, Marshal? Now, then we have to kill. What
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  Speaker 3: do you mean? You'll see when Chester brings the light. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: he's coming.
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  Speaker 10: What have you found, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Dillon? Hold the lantern over here, Chester.
• 13:29
  Speaker 10: Oh, my goodness. Somebody's gone and hung a man.
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  Speaker 4: So that's it. Poor devil. Was this a lynching, Marshal? No, again,
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  Speaker 4: that's old Tom Sanders. He's been drunk for 20 years.
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: I guess he finally decided to break their habits. You
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  Speaker 4: won't get any action out of this. Well, Lincoln, it's
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: been nearly a week.
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  Speaker 3: Enough excitement for you? I must admit, Marshal, it's not
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: quite what I'd expected. Somehow I had the idea Marshal
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: was always busy... Doing things.
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  Speaker 10: You mean gunfighting?
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: I've told you I don't think gunfighting is necessary. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I remember. Any man accustomed to command should be able
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  Speaker 3: to control these Dodge City ruffians without much trouble.
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  Speaker 4: I only draw my gun as a last resort, Egan.
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  Speaker 4: And besides, you haven't seen any of these men in
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: action yet.
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  Speaker 3: I still want the job, Marshal. Yeah, I know.
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, Matt.
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, come on in, Doc.
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: Say, Matt, you'd better get over the Texas trail.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 14:47
  Speaker 7: You know those fellas, Gere and Bozeman?
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know them.
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  Speaker 11: Well, they've got that poor little Leonard Fibbs at the
• 14:52
  Speaker 11: bar there, and they're trying to make him pay for
• 14:54
  Speaker 11: their drinks.
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  Speaker 7: He's broke, of course, so they're beating him up. They're
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  Speaker 7: doing it real slowly, bit by bit. I tell you,
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  Speaker 7: it just makes you sick to watch.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Doc. Wait, Marshal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what?
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  Speaker 3: Let me handle this.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Egan, Gere and Bozeman may be a couple of bullies.
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  Speaker 3: But that doesn't mean they're not dangerous. They are. Are
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  Speaker 3: you afraid I might be able to handle them, Marshal? Well... Okay,
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  Speaker 3: go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Here, take my badge.
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  Speaker 3: Tell them you're a deputy. Thank you, Marshal. You gotta
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: learn one way or the other.
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  Speaker 6: THE END.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Where are you listening to Gunsmoke? In your favorite easy chair?
• 15:48
  Speaker 7: Or....
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: Out driving?
• 15:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, there you are.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: In the kitchen.
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: Say, you want to make whatever you're doing more enjoyable?
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: Have a Chesterfield.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Enjoy Chesterfield's better taste and mildness. You see, Chesterfield packs
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: more pleasure because it's more perfectly packed. A more perfectly
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: packed cigarette gives you an open, easy draw that unlocks
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: all the better taste and mildness of fine tobaccos. And Chesterfield,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: made by exclusive Accuray, is more perfectly packed, with an
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: even distribution of tobacco from one end of your Chesterfield
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: to the other. Firm and pleasing to the lips, mild
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: yet deeply satisfying. Remember, to the touch, to the taste.
• 16:38
  Speaker 6: Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: By Chesterfield.
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: Mild, yet they satisfy the most. Chesterfield.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, Chester.
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: I knew you wouldn't leave Mr. Egan all alone.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Nobody will look for us coming in the back door.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Hey, let's move a little closer.
• 17:38
  Speaker 10: Eden's facing him, Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Nelson.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Oh, look at poor little Finsley.
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: Got him all bloody out.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: What makes you think you can do this to a man?
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Is there no law where you come from? We come
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: from Dodge, Mr. Deputy. Where do you come from? Are
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: you Bozeman or Gere? I'm Bozeman, Mr. Deputy. I'm the
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  Speaker 3: one who generally does the talking, but we both do
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  Speaker 3: the fighting. You're out of order, Bozeman. What's that? I
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: said you're out of order. I will not tolerate your insolence.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not sure, Mr.
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  Speaker 3: Deputy.
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  Speaker 7: Are you saying you don't like us?
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  Speaker 3: That's enough. You and Gere will turn and face the
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  Speaker 3: bar while I take your guns.
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  Speaker 7: You're the most doggone foolish man.
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  Speaker 3: I ever saw, Mr. Deputy. Do as I say.
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  Speaker 7: Why? Because you're wearing a badge?
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: That's reason enough? Now, Mr. Deputy, that may be reason
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  Speaker 3: enough for you.
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  Speaker 7: There'll be no shooting.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ordering you to face the bar. I guess there's
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: no use talking to you, Mr. Deputy. I'll take him
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: along here. He's... he's... Hold it, Bozeman! Captain!
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Captain!
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: All right, that's enough.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Now, go ahead, Bozeman. Try it again. No, wait, Marshal.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: You knew he couldn't handle a gun. You know I can.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: Is that it? Your gun against two of us? Quit talking, Bozeman.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: Don't try it again. All right, then do as my
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: deputy told you. Face the bar. Sure. Sure, Marshal. Chester.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: Yes, sir.
• 19:14
  Speaker 10: You want me to lock him up, Mr.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: Dillon?
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Here are the guns, Chester. I'll be at Doc's.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: Maybe he can save Bozeman here from hanging.
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  Speaker 9: The End.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's getting light out, Doc.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: It generally does this time of morning.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I'm not generally sitting up waiting for a
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: man to die.
• 19:44
  Speaker 7: He isn't going to die, Matt.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: I saw what that bullet did to him. You feel guilty.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: don't you, Matt?
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: Wouldn't you, Doc?
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: Yes, I guess I would. Doc?
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: What?
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: Well, he's conscious. Well, how do you feel, Egan?
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Pretty fair, Doc. I've been lying here listening to you talk.
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: Oh, you mean you've been conscious for some time?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Half hour, maybe. I wanted to get my head clear.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: A few weeks in bed and it'll be clear enough.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: I guess I was lucky.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: If that bullet had gone one inch to the left,
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: you'd have died on the floor, Egan. You were lucky,
• 20:35
  Speaker 7: all right.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: God protects fools and drunkards, isn't it? Marshal Dillon. Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: I heard you saying you felt guilty about this. It
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: wasn't your fault. Well, I should have known what had happened.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: But I heard you telling Doc how it happened. You
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: faced them the same way I did. They didn't shoot you.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: It's a little different with me, Egan.
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: How?
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: This is my profession. I'll handle enough men to be professional.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Egan, why do you think Bozeman did what I told
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: him to do?
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: Because he knew you'd shoot if he didn't. He not
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: only knew I'd shoot, he knew I'd kill him.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: He knows I can handle a gun pretty well. In
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: that part of the profession, they don't teach in the army.
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: Takes years and years to learn.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I can't complain anymore about there not being enough action,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: can I, Marshal? Yeah, your week's up today, Egan.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Do you want the job?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Marshal, you ever been in California? Not for some time.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I hear things are pretty active out there. I'll write
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: you and tell you all about it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: THE END.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: In a moment, our star, William Conrad.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Chesterfield, made by exclusive Accuray, packs more pleasure because it's
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: more perfectly packed. unlocks all the pleasure of fine tobacco.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: Chesterfield packs more pleasure because Chesterfield's more perfectly packed.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Firm and pleasing to the lips, Chesterfield, mild, yet they
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: satisfy the most. You know, there were a lot of
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: ways for death to come to a man on the frontier,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: all of them hard.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: But next week, a man meets death the hardest way.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Of all, at the end of a rope. But that
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: was the West. Good night.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William Conrad
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: as Matt Dillon, U.S.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Marshal.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Our story was specially written for Gunsmoke by John Meston,
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: with music composed and conducted by Rex Corey. Sound patterns
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: by Tom Hanley and Bill James.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Featured in the cast were.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: John Daner, James Nusser, and Harry Bartell. Parley Bear is Chester,
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Howard McNear is Doc, and Georgia Ellis is Kitty. Smokers,
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: this is it. L and M filters. So good to
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: your taste, so quick on the draw.
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: Make today your big red letter day, your L and
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: M red letter day. Superior taste and filter, it's the
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: miracle tip. Make today your big red letter day, change
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: to L and M today.
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: L and M, mmm, so good to your taste.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: So quick on the draw. Relax with L & M.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: So good to your taste, so quick on the draw.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: on Gunsmoke.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: This has been Gunsmoke in The Man Who Would Be Marshal.
• 25:43
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