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Gunsmoke — What the Whiskey Drummer Heard [episode 325], Broadcast 6/29/1958 (Western Radio Drama) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:10
  Speaker 1: Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: And that's where the US Marshall and the Smell of
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: Guns Smoke Gun Moves spoil starring William Conrad. The story
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: of the violence that moved lest for the young America
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: and the story of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: It's a chancy job and it makes a man watchful
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  Speaker 1: and a little lonely.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Dunn, would you mind as we stop at the
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: Long Bank here for a minute?
• 1:20
  Speaker 1: I study earlier in the day? Is Manchester? Oh, I
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: don't want no drink?
• 1:25
  Speaker 2: Barking told me some money for me. I want a
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: little last night and I didn't want to put it
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: back into the game.
• 1:30
  Speaker 1: Do you want to get a no so you can
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  Speaker 1: put it back tonight? Is that yes? Sam?
• 1:35
  Speaker 2: Fraid?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Sam? Come for your money?
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  Speaker 3: Chester?
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  Speaker 4: Oh there, Marshall, Goillon.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Sam? Well here you are Chester? Here, you buy
• 1:54
  Speaker 1: yourself a drink? Sure we'll see you're not Chester. You're
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: uh excuse me?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I heard the bartender call you, Marshall. Dylon Ah, Sir,
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  Speaker 6: I got something to tell you, Marshall.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go ahead. It's important. Okay, you're going to die, Marshall.
• 2:22
  Speaker 6: Who are you, mister Wilburt Hawkins. I'm a whiskey drummer.
• 2:28
  Speaker 6: First time I've been to Dodge, though I worked around
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  Speaker 6: Saint Louis till they sent me out here. I liked
• 2:33
  Speaker 6: it better in Saint Louis. Lots of important people there.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 6: You're going to die, Marshall. I heard them saying so.
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: I heard who's saying so.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know their names. It was dark and they
• 2:48
  Speaker 6: weren't there very long. I didn't dare say anything, or
• 2:52
  Speaker 6: they didn't known I was listening. And of course I
• 2:55
  Speaker 6: never heard of you till just now.
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  Speaker 1: That is.
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  Speaker 6: You ain't a making much sense, mister, Oh, it makes
• 3:02
  Speaker 6: sense all right.
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  Speaker 1: You see.
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  Speaker 6: I rode the train out here from Saint Louian one night.
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  Speaker 6: I was all wrapped up trying to sleep, and these
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  Speaker 6: two men came by and stood there in the aisle,
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  Speaker 6: and one gave the other three hundred dollars. He said
• 3:15
  Speaker 6: it was to kill Marshall divon, but he didn't say where,
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  Speaker 6: so of course I didn't know it will just now?
• 3:21
  Speaker 6: Is that all you know about it?
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  Speaker 1: That's all, Marshall.
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  Speaker 6: I've done my duty Now I'll be going good bye.
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  Speaker 2: Oh ever more, what do you make of that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know Chester?
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  Speaker 2: He acts it crazy like I don't know whether to
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  Speaker 2: belied him or not.
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  Speaker 1: And I suppose we'll find out. So enough.
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  Speaker 2: Is, there's sound asleep already, and it ain't only just
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: got darker.
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  Speaker 1: All he's got nothing else to do with Tom Smith
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  Speaker 1: gets here? Was that who you're holding him for? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I thought I told you that Chester?
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  Speaker 2: Well, but Tom's mis cheff a tescos.
• 4:14
  Speaker 1: Ain't Yeah, why Well?
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  Speaker 2: I thought this follows one in.
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  Speaker 1: A no Chester. They never heard of him in Apoline.
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: That's why I wired Tom Well, I'm going out back
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: for him inn at Chester. I think I left my
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  Speaker 1: new bridle on the hitching rail. Aren't here.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: I'm better to get your chase swept up a little
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  Speaker 2: bit that it's.
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  Speaker 5: A good idea.
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  Speaker 1: Stay there, Chester, stay where you are. You've been shot.
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  Speaker 1: I was just trying to play foss on Chester. I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to get him to come up where I could
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  Speaker 1: see him. Thought he's gone. Now you're scared. My way
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  Speaker 1: ran down the alley there. You'll be lost in the crowd.
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  Speaker 1: But no thought I got sire, it doesn't matter. Probably
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  Speaker 1: thinks I'm dead, So I'll just go on playing tussle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's going up the darts office. I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you there. Now. I don't know if you're one of
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  Speaker 1: them Civil War bucks or not, but the United States
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: Post Office put out a series of mighty interest in
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  Speaker 1: postage stamps when the centennial of that big shoot rolled
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  Speaker 1: around a few years back. I'll show it to you now,
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  Speaker 1: like this one in my album here, he issued May fifth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen hundred and sixty four, recalling the fracice they fought
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  Speaker 1: near Fredericksburg, Virginia. It's called the bat or the Wilderness. Now,
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: now that was a real roferint all right, because that's
• 6:05
  Speaker 1: where General US Grant and one hundred and fifteen thousand
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  Speaker 1: Union troops ran head on in the General Robert E.
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  Speaker 1: Lee and seventy five thousand Confederates. Oh you couldn't hardly
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  Speaker 1: see one another, for the thick trees and the brush
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  Speaker 1: all around, and the cavalry and the artillery wasn't much
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  Speaker 1: good to either side. Buck. They kept at it for
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  Speaker 1: two days in that wilderness, with a lot of good
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  Speaker 1: men down before it was over. But that was to
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  Speaker 1: start the Grant's drive on the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: which ended the war about a year later. It was
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  Speaker 1: a bitter and bloody war all the way, but it
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  Speaker 1: made this one country again, and that is what really counts.
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  Speaker 6: What did you say that whiskey Drummer's name is man.
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  Speaker 1: Wilbert Hawkins, Doc, but you never heard of him. This
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  Speaker 1: is his first time in Dodge, you know, Doc.
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  Speaker 2: He kind of acts like maybe he got hit by
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  Speaker 2: lightning some worse seem When he's standing still, he gives
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  Speaker 2: you the feeling.
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  Speaker 1: He try to walk in sideway, He kindly ooches.
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  Speaker 2: Along like a crab.
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  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't, but I sure think twice before asking
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  Speaker 1: you to explain, Yester, what is it that you have
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  Speaker 1: in mind to do now? Matt? Nothing? Nothing? Yeah. Trust
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  Speaker 1: is gonna do the work for a while, and I'm
• 7:33
  Speaker 1: just gonna sit up here in your office and wait,
• 7:35
  Speaker 1: wait for what I do. When Chusters spreads the word around,
• 7:38
  Speaker 1: and I'm dad that whoever wants me that way, he's
• 7:41
  Speaker 1: gonna make his play. He'll come out of the open
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  Speaker 1: and do whatever he's got planned. Man, I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 1: him a little surprise.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think what's going after a wonderful I didn't
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  Speaker 2: out Why didn't I think?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, God Chester, I'm kind of anxious to meet this man,
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  Speaker 1: him and his gunman.
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  Speaker 2: That's sure. I'm a one thing. Ain't the boy's like
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  Speaker 2: to to run wild on the hear you ain't around
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  Speaker 2: keep the lid.
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  Speaker 1: On things, and they might. They would have to take
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  Speaker 1: a chance. I'll get started, you know. I'm at just
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  Speaker 1: as rightful ones. There's a lot of men and dodge
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  Speaker 1: who are just waiting for an excuse like this. Well,
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  Speaker 1: if it gets too bad, doctor, I'll just have to
• 8:25
  Speaker 1: come to life again. What time is it getting to
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: be darker? And let me see near the midnight night day?
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: How long are you going to wait up something happens again?
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: Just to let me know. Really, town seems cried enough
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: so far.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe nothing's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't try to kill me just for the fun
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  Speaker 1: of it. No, just not yep, answered Doc.
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  Speaker 5: After I get to the back room.
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a patient help beholding my gun out it anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Coming, I'm coming?
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, kitty, what are you doing here this time
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  Speaker 1: of night?
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  Speaker 7: And m I tell you he asked me, and of.
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  Speaker 1: Course come in, Come in, kiddy, Well.
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  Speaker 7: Where's the corpse?
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  Speaker 1: But what the body?
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  Speaker 7: I expected to find them all laid out?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, oh, you mean mass You don't seem too upset
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  Speaker 1: about that corpse.
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  Speaker 7: Kitty, Oh, I'm not all that talk didn't fool me.
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  Speaker 7: That just didn't make sense. Chester running around telling everybody
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  Speaker 7: you'd been killed. Oh I know Chester too well, you
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  Speaker 7: were Daddy wouldn't be acting like that, but most everybody
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  Speaker 7: else believes it.
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  Speaker 1: Mats. Oh that's good.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what you're up to, but I figured
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  Speaker 7: someone's been trying to.
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  Speaker 1: Kill him, right, yeah, ambush kidding. That's not the way
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  Speaker 1: he's telling it, Not the way who's telling I.
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  Speaker 7: Never saw him before. But there's a man standing at
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  Speaker 7: the bar, the long branch, bragging about out drawing you.
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  Speaker 1: You mean he's admitting that he killed me.
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  Speaker 7: I kind of thought you'd like to know.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's your met This is what you've been waiting for.
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  Speaker 1: Anybody with him, kidny, No.
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  Speaker 7: He's alone, as far as I know, anyway, you better
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  Speaker 7: come to life again, Matt. There's going to be trouble
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  Speaker 7: if you don't.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe yeh.
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  Speaker 1: Better not waiting any longer. I'd like to take that
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  Speaker 1: gunman's employer along with him, though you.
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  Speaker 2: Can find out who it is.
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  Speaker 1: Mat this beat it out of him. You better come
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  Speaker 1: with me, kiddy, so you can point the man out
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  Speaker 1: and you can take cover in case he wants to fight.
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  Speaker 1: Any man who's called enough to shoot you in the
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  Speaker 1: dark isn't going to fish on him. Maybe not dark,
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  Speaker 1: but you never know.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, there he is, Mass talk fell in the black hat.
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  Speaker 1: You're kind of drunk, okay, Kiddy. You wait outside. You
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  Speaker 1: see how he's going to Behave all right, Mass, good luck.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Marshall Dylan. Mister, who are you? I'm Joe Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you was dead, Marshall. I understand you've been
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  Speaker 1: bragging about shooting me. Just talk, Marshall. I didn't mean
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  Speaker 1: nothing by it. I was just talking out of dangerous talk.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Don't you think everybody said you were dead? But I
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: was waiting for you to come out of your hole. Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like getting ambushed, Marshall. I never even seen
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  Speaker 1: you before.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't them.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't face the bar Rogers. While I take your gun,
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: turrun sure. I ain't gonna try nothing the old man, Marshall.
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  Speaker 1: I'll actually can turn around again. You can't risk the
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  Speaker 1: man just for talk of jails. Right across the street, Rogers,
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  Speaker 1: you lead the way. It was just talk. I tell
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  Speaker 1: you can't prove up yet. God, I swear I didn't
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  Speaker 1: try to kill you, Marshall. Just straight ahead, Rogers. And
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: when we get there, you're gonna do some more talking.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: I want to know who hired you. No, but it
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: hired me. I ain't even got a job, mister Dan.
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: What are you doing on here?
• 12:33
  Speaker 7: Who's though?
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: His name's Rogers Jester. He's been bragging about shooting Ley.
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: I was just having a little fun. I ain't no gunling.
• 12:40
  Speaker 1: It doesn't take much of a gunman to try to
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: ambush a man Rogers. But I didn't do it, Marshall.
• 12:45
  Speaker 1: I heard them talking about it, and I don't know
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: why I started saying, I gardment, mister Jone, But mister done, I.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: Was on the way up the docs.
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: I was coming to tell you something.
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  Speaker 5: Well, well, i've been over the lady Gay.
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: I swear I just don't underst just say it out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a fellow over there, and he's making his
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  Speaker 2: brags about shooting you too.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: What that's right? He's saying he out Roger and killed you.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: Of course he's a little wrong.
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, of course he is. So it was Rogers here,
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  Speaker 1: less scared name of Silver. Sure, I've been drinking Marsians.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have talked like that if i'd been plumb silver. Here,
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  Speaker 1: here's your gun. Rogers. You're telling me loose like you say,
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  Speaker 1: you're just a big talker. But what about the fellow
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: over the lady game? I don't even want to see
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: him Chester. He'll shut up faster than on one of
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  Speaker 1: he hears. I'm still around, all right, Rogers? You going
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: back to the bar unless the men in there laughing
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: right out of town? Yes, sir, I'm sure. Sorry I've
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: done him, Marshall, I get gone, Sure, I'm gone. I
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: don't know what's the matter with the Chester not figuring this.
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: I might have known there'd be at least a couple
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: of drunks wanting the reputation of having killed me.
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, sure, and now we're right back where we're starting from.
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Ay, maybe that whiskey drama, were lying too, You're forgotten.
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: I got shot at Chester and there's a man somewhere
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: and dogs still away while they kill me. Hometowns in
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: America have a lot in common and yet to eat
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: one of a kind. Take for example, De morn Ioway
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: all through the state capitol. It's progress that's happening here
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: in the home of better homes and gardens and Look magazine.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: Never mind that the Seventh Street bridge is usually in repair.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: The new express waves and the airport on Floor Drive
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: place Des Moines only minutes or a few hours from
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: all America. This means more leisure time for golf at Waconda,
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: horseback riding along the wood Seat River trails on the
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: south side, or boating and beaching at Gray's Lake near
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: the new Holiday Inns. If your culture conscience, the Des
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: Moines Art Center in Greenwood Park has works by Gauya
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: and Rodin, and soon the new Zoo will be open
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: at Old Fort des Moines. The college crowd from Drake
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: University digs the Italian food.
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: At Babes Downtown.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Others without the Pizza palette prefer Johnny and Key or Rockies.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: But if your hometown is des Moines.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: You already know this. We only wanted to remind you
• 15:42
  Speaker 5: it's still there.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Uh, why don't you come in the backway?
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: Chester, My I almost forgot to give you this telegraph
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: films and chef Tom Smith.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: I wasn't say, well, I couldn't read it that close.
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  Speaker 2: But he's coming for his prisoner.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: He'll be here on the stage today the way I today.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: And let me see that.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: Uh that must have got delayed somewhere along the line. Yeah,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Thomas you today, that's right. And the telegraphs.
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: You just can't count on these new things contracting anymore.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: What time is it, Chester, No, reckon, that's stage. I'll
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: be here right now. Let's go see there is must
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: have pulled in just minutes.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: A little passengers milling around like a bunch of kids. Yeah,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: look you ain't that Thomas men?
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's him.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: Know who's that other fella?
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: He lives tiny for me.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: That's Robert Hawkins, a little whiskey drummer. Yes, well, I've
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: been wondering where he's been. But I'll hello Tom. Well,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: all right, Matt hello Chester.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Fine, Well, I'm sure glad that trip's over. Next time
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: I'll become worse, but.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Have the stage is easier when you're taking a prisoner
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: back there. I hope you still got him. You hate
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: to make this trip for nothing. How he's here anytime
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you want it. See where Wilburt Hawkins going? Look at here.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Ain't even gonna say hello.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: You know that little fellow?
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know?
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: He told me he's staying at the dodge house. Strangers
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: talking man everyone. He means low time maybe, but he
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: tells some mighty crazy stories.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Now what he mean? Well, he said he.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: Heard a couple of minutes in the bar talking about me.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: He didn't know what I meant until I introduced myself
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: on the stage and he recognized my name, and then
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: he well.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: What are you looking like that? Go ahead, Tom, go ahead?
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Well what the Hawkins here? Boy?
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: You said this one fellow was going to give the
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: other fellow three hundred dollars to shoot me.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: He got the darnness thing? It sure is. I don't know, Matt.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of men who'd like to kill me,
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: but I don't believe they'd be standing around talking about
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: it that way. I kind of think he made it.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: All on now. He didn't make it up, Tom, not quite.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: You know something about this.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: You mean someone is out to shoot me? Yeah, like,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you about it on the way where the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: dodge house. All right?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: You wait here.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Chestera just in case he gets past us.
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: Huh.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: He ain't gonna get pans to us. But when I
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: can't figure man, that's why Hawkins, it'd want to kill
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: you and me. It doesn't make much sense time here.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: It is stop small than Matt Dullon.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: Hawkins.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: We want to talk to you. Come out, up and up, Hawkins,
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: get out of the way. Town. You tried to kill us. Luck,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I can kick the door open with one foot. You
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: cover me? Huh, right, you kill him? I tried not to,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Hawkins and hit I had to shoot Hawkins. Why did
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: you want to kill us? Smith? Me? A lot of
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: people want to I hear them scene.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Nobody said anything.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: You made all that up? Howkins? You took a shot
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: at me last week? Didn't you? Didn't you? I can't
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: kill anybody now? Why did you want to? Hawkins? Tell
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: me I killed the other men? Important me. I told
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: him about it first and I killed him. And why Hawkins?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I had to. I had to do.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: He's dead. Not what was he talking about I don't
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  Speaker 1: have time, but it doesn't matter much. I don't understand it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I never saw him before yesterday. Hawkins was a murderer
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: tom the kind of doesn't need any particular reason. Nobody'll
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: ever know why he did what he did, and he
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: was just crazy. If you like him, you sure it
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  Speaker 1: was crazy.
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  Speaker 5: You think he's done a lot of killing and probably it's.
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  Speaker 1: The most dangerous kind of manner is time. The murderer
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: was no reason at all, innocent, looking a little whiskey drummer.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Regardless of what some people may have said about the
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  Speaker 1: political character of Elijah Cuddlestone, none could dispute his honest
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: concern for his people. Here's how he put it. I says,
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  Speaker 1: I first started yata. I say, since politics became my life,
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  Speaker 1: my platform, I mean, the base for my platform has
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  Speaker 1: been and I say this in all truthfulness, the base
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: underlying my platform has always been what is good for
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  Speaker 1: my people. Well, he was, of course, not referring to
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: his party's platform, but rather to his own platform, his
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: personal set of principles. In French, plat means flat, so
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: a platform is really a platform. Platform in our political
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: vocabulary means a statement of principles and policies adopted generally
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: by a party convention as a basis for the party's support.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: The term has been used since the eighteen hundreds. Political planks,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: of course, are used to build a political platform and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: refer to the party's stand on various public questions.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Guns smoke. We're used and directed by Norman McDonald. Stars
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: William Conrad as Matt Villon. Us Marshall featured in the
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: cast for Barley Bear as Chester, Howard McGhee as Doc,
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  Speaker 3: and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. George Walls speaking. Join us
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