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Gunsmoke - "Til Death Do Us" (Old Time Radio, 1956) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: October twenty first, nineteen fifty six, brought CBS Radio's two
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  Speaker 1: hundred thirty seven episode of Gun Smoke Till Death Do Us.
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  Speaker 1: In Dodge, farmer Jezra Cobb and his wife are fired
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  Speaker 1: upon from the shadows, and Cobb tells Marshal Matt Dillon
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  Speaker 1: he has no enemies. Dylan soon finds that Cobb's reputation
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  Speaker 1: as a miserly isolated and unpleasant man has left him
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  Speaker 1: far from well liked. The inquiry leads into tensions surrounding
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  Speaker 1: the Cobbs life. William Conrad stars as Dylan, with Parley Bear,
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  Speaker 1: Georgia Ellis, Howard mcneer, Virginia Gregg, Ralph Moody, Don Diamond,
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  Speaker 1: and John Denner. Les Crutchfield wrote the script, produced by
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  Speaker 1: Norman McDonnell. For a late night visit to Dodge. Here
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  Speaker 1: is gun Smoke Till Death Do Us? Now back to
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  Speaker 1: the golden age of radio.
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  Speaker 2: Around Dodge City and in the territory on West. There's
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  Speaker 2: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's with the US Marshall and the Smell of
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  Speaker 2: gun Smoke. Gun Smoke starring William Conrad, transgrod story of
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  Speaker 2: the violence that moved west with young America, and the
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  Speaker 2: story of a man who moved with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshall, the first
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  Speaker 3: man they look for and the last they want to meet.
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  Speaker 3: It's a chance, a job, and it makes a man
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  Speaker 3: watchful and a little lonely.
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  Speaker 4: That's a nice clear evening, mister Jans.
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  Speaker 5: That'll be cold before morning.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe old Doking too far wrong?
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  Speaker 5: Oh what about it?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 4: He claims winters coming earlier this year. He claims we'll
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  Speaker 4: have snow for the end of the month.
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  Speaker 5: He just passing along Indian Talk Chester.
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  Speaker 3: They're all, oh, all.
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  Speaker 5: Right you jesh, miss Cobby.
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  Speaker 4: Evening, ma'am. D the pyramidsy doings.
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  Speaker 6: That ain't the most dilapidated, old buddy I ever seen
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  Speaker 6: any worse.
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  Speaker 3: Jezure believes in getting full value other things make him
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  Speaker 3: do as he calls us. And it's got something to eat?
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  Speaker 6: Well, now, eating something I get full value out of?
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  Speaker 5: I know.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, let's sit over there by the windows.
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  Speaker 4: That team of Jesus could do with some eating. The
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  Speaker 4: way their bones is sticking.
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  Speaker 3: Out, Jezure figures fat on our horses a sign that
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  Speaker 3: grains being wasted Marshall.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, you must figure the same thing about women.
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  Speaker 4: Ms Cobbs Bones was sticking out something too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he probably works her half to death, has to
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  Speaker 3: to run a farm out size without any hire to help.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I sure do. Keep to theirselves.
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  Speaker 3: People just don't take the Jesure much. He's got a
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  Speaker 3: pretty cold way about him that it's hard to say
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  Speaker 3: what she's like.
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  Speaker 6: That poor lady don't even open her mouth lest he
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  Speaker 6: tells you. She can't plain, mouse.
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  Speaker 7: That's what you do. What are you figure to eat?
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  Speaker 3: Gents?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: What you got?
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  Speaker 3: There's to be mild greens. Well I guess that's what
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  Speaker 3: we'll eat.
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  Speaker 7: Just all right, I'll bring it right up.
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  Speaker 4: Boil breen, boiled Jimps need.
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  Speaker 8: More in the Yeah, come on, let me throw, please,
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  Speaker 8: let me throw.
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  Speaker 7: Hang on to that horse, Madapuci.
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  Speaker 5: That's trouble, Marshall.
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  Speaker 9: You allow this town to become a stink of iniquity?
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  Speaker 9: Why Suffolk? How's that the town of painted jugital scoundrels
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  Speaker 9: and murdering assassins.
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  Speaker 4: The name should be changed.
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  Speaker 10: To sodomer Camuro You all right, Meska, somebody tried to
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  Speaker 10: kill less Marshall.
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  Speaker 4: They were standing right over there, in the shadow.
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  Speaker 9: Nerve you kind of remember a woman's please, marshall, last silence.
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  Speaker 7: Sorry, you got.
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  Speaker 5: To look at him.
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  Speaker 9: We did not cowards struck in the darkness. It was
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  Speaker 9: only a miracle we escaped.
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  Speaker 5: Any of the rest of you.
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  Speaker 3: See who fired those shots.
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  Speaker 9: You're the law here, Michael. I demand an accountant of
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  Speaker 9: this outraging assault.
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  Speaker 3: Jesualy, you know anybody who might think they got a
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  Speaker 3: reason to kill you.
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  Speaker 9: I never had an enemy in my.
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  Speaker 5: Life, and it looks like you got one now, A.
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  Speaker 7: Little figure that's a fool. Suddenly have me that pill
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  Speaker 7: mold with you.
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  Speaker 3: That is what you mean?
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  Speaker 7: That that's it, Thank you, thank you. They're gonna make
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  Speaker 7: this prescription look real authentic.
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  Speaker 3: Oh what do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: These are fooling pills?
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  Speaker 11: Got nothing in them but sugar and some chalking, a
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  Speaker 11: little gum araby to bind them.
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  Speaker 5: So that's the kind of medicine folks get from me.
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  Speaker 7: Oh no, it's the kind of missus Pruddling gets. As
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  Speaker 7: long as she figures they help her it was necessary.
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  Speaker 11: At least they don't do any harm, nothing wrong with
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  Speaker 11: her anyhow, except in her mind.
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  Speaker 7: Let that sit a while dry. And oh, so you
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  Speaker 7: found out yet.
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  Speaker 11: Who fired those shots at old Jesura come not dork,
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  Speaker 11: not a hint. That's a funny thing, man, I don't
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  Speaker 11: think I know a soullen Dodgs that like Old.
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  Speaker 3: Jez Yeah, not dog. Nobody really hates it either. They
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  Speaker 3: just stay clear of him as far as they can.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's just it.
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  Speaker 11: He just isn't the kind of a man to rouse
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  Speaker 11: up strong feelings in anybody, good or bad.
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  Speaker 3: They must aroused some. And whoever tried to kill him
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  Speaker 3: or kill her, I don't even know for sure which
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  Speaker 3: one they were after him or his wife.
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  Speaker 11: You're busy, Doc, Well come run in, Kitty, Hello, kitty, Matt.
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  Speaker 7: What are you doing here? Well, he's hiding from Jesuit Cobb.
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  Speaker 3: What I don't mind, Doc, I'll step outside, Kitty.
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  Speaker 12: Oh no, no, don't go mad. I just want to
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  Speaker 12: get something for a headache, doc, or to.
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  Speaker 7: Dip yourself some water. There.
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  Speaker 11: Here are some pills I just made up, Kiddy Doc
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  Speaker 11: for me that came straight from Boston.
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  Speaker 12: I think take care of this headache.
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  Speaker 7: There, miracle pills. That's exactly what they are.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, you swallow a couple of Thanks God, I personally
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  Speaker 11: guarantee those to stop the world's worst headache in one minute.
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  Speaker 3: Fly. Yeah, they've done wonders for his problem.
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  Speaker 7: This is problem. Pay no attention to him, Kennedy. He's
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  Speaker 7: all upset over that shooting.
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  Speaker 12: Well, I can name a few people who aren't upset over.
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  Speaker 5: Oh which people?
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  Speaker 12: Some of the girls at the Long Branch. He drops
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  Speaker 12: in about three times a.
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  Speaker 5: Year, Jezrah cap at the Long Branch.
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  Speaker 12: Old self righteous Jezra, And every time it means trouble.
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  Speaker 7: He always drinks too much.
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  Speaker 12: He bothers everybody, bothers them ah by trying to reform him.
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  Speaker 7: And if the girls who always get the worst of it, now,
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  Speaker 7: who'd have thought?
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  Speaker 12: He calls them painted Jezebels says, he means the cure
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  Speaker 12: them of their transgressions. Of course, the only cure he
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  Speaker 12: seems to know is to grab a cane and beat
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  Speaker 12: the daylights out of any of the me and get
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  Speaker 12: his hands on.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't know jes was that bad.
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  Speaker 12: You ask some of the girls, Matt Daisy or Billy Bell, Doc,
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  Speaker 12: could I have some of those pillows to take with me? Look, Kitty,
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  Speaker 12: Doc was just we're real good, Doc, My headaches all gone.
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  Speaker 5: What you said to say?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 13: Nothing, kidding nothing.
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  Speaker 9: Forty eight hours, Marshal, and you've accomplished nothing.
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  Speaker 7: I demand legal action.
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  Speaker 5: You haven't helped things. Any boy lying to the Jesuit.
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  Speaker 7: Dying to you.
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  Speaker 3: You told me you never had an enemy in your life,
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  Speaker 3: but two or three young ladies are with the long branch.
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  Speaker 3: Disagree with you, daint old girl, maybes soon. I sure
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  Speaker 3: hate to have him looking at me over a set
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  Speaker 3: of gunsights.
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  Speaker 9: Abandoned, painting their faces, the voting in public to the
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  Speaker 9: devil's music, and.
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  Speaker 5: Stay away if you don't like it. Before you got
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  Speaker 5: a bullet your back.
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  Speaker 9: Wasn't a woman who fired them shots?
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  Speaker 3: A woman wouldn't have to fire him, Jess, get a
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  Speaker 3: man to do it for it?
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  Speaker 9: Then why don't you kill them girls?
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  Speaker 5: To kill me?
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  Speaker 3: I don't have any proof of anybody plotting anything.
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  Speaker 9: You're in league with the adversary, Marshall. You're aiding and
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  Speaker 9: a betting a fortu.
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  Speaker 3: Let me tell you something, jays ryel Aiden to bet
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  Speaker 3: anybody's right to live his own life according to his
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  Speaker 3: own lights, as long as he's without the law. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: what is it?
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  Speaker 4: Could I see you many?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure? Yeah? What's the matter of Chester?
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  Speaker 6: W It's miss Kitty, she wants over the long branch
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  Speaker 6: right away.
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  Speaker 3: What for?
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  Speaker 6: We see there's a fellow there that's been drinking real heavy,
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  Speaker 6: mister Dylan talking too much. Oh and Miss Kitty heard
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  Speaker 6: him say he'd been offered three hundred dollars to kill
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  Speaker 6: old Jezus.
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  Speaker 5: M that's the way man A right, Kenny, come on Chester.
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  Speaker 7: He's playing poker over here.
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  Speaker 4: With a house dealer and a couple.
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  Speaker 5: Of cowboys there before.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, just during the last week. He's a drifter.
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  Speaker 12: I guess it was by the name of Puggy Rado there.
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  Speaker 12: That's him, Matt on the first side of the table.
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  Speaker 7: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 3: He looks like a saddle bum and he was.
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  Speaker 12: Making up real braggy for a while. Fastest gun in Texas,
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  Speaker 12: that kind of talk. But I guess he knew he'd
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  Speaker 12: gone too far when he said that about Jesuit com.
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  Speaker 7: He shut up tight right after.
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  Speaker 3: All, Right, kiddy, I'll try to get him away from
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  Speaker 3: that table.
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  Speaker 12: Wait, man, I think he's coming over here.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I reckon, you're the Marshall, that's right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I reckon.
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  Speaker 5: She heard what I said.
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  Speaker 3: I sent for you.
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  Speaker 7: That's just what I figured you to know me call it, Marshall, You.
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  Speaker 14: Make one move toward that gun and I'll put a
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  Speaker 14: bullet right in your back.
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  Speaker 7: You cut your hands off me.
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  Speaker 5: Take easy, Kitty.
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  Speaker 7: You tell her, Marshall, tell her me and her leave.
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  Speaker 14: And now if anybody lays a hand on the gun,
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  Speaker 14: there's going to be a pretty corpse on the floor.
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  Speaker 15: Told you to let.
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  Speaker 8: Drop that gun right over.
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  Speaker 5: You.
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  Speaker 7: Are right, Kitty, I'm all right, thanks, Matt.
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  Speaker 3: I had to kill him then there was no time
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  Speaker 3: for anything else, Marshall.
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  Speaker 7: Was that the man?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that way, doesn't He was claiming somebody had
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  Speaker 3: offered him three hundred dollars to kill you.
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  Speaker 7: Well, that's the fellow. Who oh what?
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  Speaker 3: Chester?
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  Speaker 9: Well, he stopped in it my place last week digging
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  Speaker 9: a handout.
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  Speaker 4: Did did you say three hundred dollars?
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  Speaker 5: That's right? Mm hmmm, uh yeah, Hi.
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  Speaker 9: I got to be getting on home, Marshall. That doctor
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  Speaker 9: Tender got a lot of things to tad Well for
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  Speaker 9: ever more?
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  Speaker 4: What come over him? For a sudden?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, Chester, but I think I can guess.
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  Speaker 5: Mm hmm, come on.
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  Speaker 16: Chester, kind of quiet, mister young Maybe je ain't home
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  Speaker 16: in there's a light on in my house.
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  Speaker 4: At your real proud barn. You wanted to be with
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  Speaker 4: such a poor built house, ain't it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Sure? Is uh good evening.
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  Speaker 5: Miss Copping, I do, Musha Chester, your.
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  Speaker 3: Husband got home at Miss Common.
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  Speaker 10: He's out there in the barn, won't you command and
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  Speaker 10: set a spell?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? Well, thank you. As a matter of fact, Miss Cobb,
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  Speaker 3: but you're the one we wrote out here to see.
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  Speaker 10: That's right kind of you, Musha. Now you you two
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  Speaker 10: set you down there at the table just this minute.
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  Speaker 10: Took a wild plumb pie.
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  Speaker 15: The other.
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  Speaker 5: Well, no, no thanks.
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  Speaker 10: I don't often get to feed collars.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't gonna deprive me of the chance. Maybe we
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  Speaker 4: could just taste it a little dive.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Jelling, All Rightester, I always had the impression that
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  Speaker 3: you were opposed to visitors, Miss con Oh.
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  Speaker 15: I love to have folks come, Jesure, ain't never been
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  Speaker 15: one to encourage it. Ah see, righteous misturn their faces
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  Speaker 15: from the world, for the world.
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  Speaker 4: Is the cradle of sin. That's what Jezu always said.
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  Speaker 10: They are piping hot.
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  Speaker 4: Gracious, that smells good.
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  Speaker 10: We'll eat hardy, there's plenty more, and it'll just go
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  Speaker 10: to waste. Jesuer's never cared too much for plum pie.
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  Speaker 5: How long of you and Chazure are been married.
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  Speaker 10: Twenty seven years, Marshall, twenty seven years, and.
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  Speaker 3: Over those years must come how many times did he
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  Speaker 3: beat you?
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  Speaker 10: Hundreds of times? For my transgressions? He told me he
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  Speaker 10: used to read me from the good book that her
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  Speaker 10: husband's got a right to do that. I had never
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  Speaker 10: learned to read myself, But last month I asked Reverend
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  Speaker 10: Blouse and he said there wasn't nothing like that in
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  Speaker 10: a good book.
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  Speaker 3: Well, maybe Chazure has got his own version.
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  Speaker 10: He lied to me, that's what he'd done. And if
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  Speaker 10: he'd lie about that, then well, I reckon you know,
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  Speaker 10: don't you?
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  Speaker 3: Monshall, Yes, ma'am about you offering money to that drifter
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  Speaker 3: who rode through here last week, that.
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  Speaker 5: You hired him to kill Jesuit. Yes, ma'am, I guessed
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  Speaker 5: jes I did too.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I figured he did the way he acted in time.
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  Speaker 10: He come home and told me about you having to
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  Speaker 10: shoot the man, and he asked me for our savings,
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  Speaker 10: and I got it for him. He sat down here
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  Speaker 10: and counted it, and when he's seen it was the
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  Speaker 10: same as that fella had been talking about. Three hundred
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  Speaker 10: dollars then he knowed for sure.
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  Speaker 3: What did he say?
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  Speaker 10: Nothing much? He just sit here a while, smiling at me,
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  Speaker 10: kind of in that cold way of his, his glory smile,
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  Speaker 10: I always called it.
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  Speaker 4: And then he got up and went out to the barn.
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  Speaker 4: And of course I.
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  Speaker 10: Knowed what he was going for. What do you mean
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  Speaker 10: he was aiming to fetch a hickory steve? He always
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  Speaker 10: keeps some out there to man fences.
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  Speaker 4: I don't calare what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: Man like that ought to be well, I think, ma'am,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I better go have a little talk with Yes, won't.
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  Speaker 10: Be no use, Marshall. This won't be no use. Listen
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  Speaker 10: to me, Marshall. You're wasting your time. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 10: tell you. When he went to fetch that steve, I
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  Speaker 10: knowed what he was aiming to do, and I followed
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  Speaker 10: him out to the barn. Yes, I stood a real close, Marshall,
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  Speaker 10: so I wouldn't miss. And I pulled the trigger four times.
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  Speaker 10: I put the gun there in the cupboard. I figured
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  Speaker 10: you'd be won it, Jesual, ain't never gonna beat me
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  Speaker 10: no more, you said ratten.
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  Speaker 4: Back in show Back.
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  Speaker 2: Gun Smoke, produced and directed by Norman McDonald, stars William
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  Speaker 2: Conrad as Matt Dylan Us Marshall. The script was specially
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  Speaker 2: written for Gun Smoke by Less Crutchfield, with editorial supervision
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  Speaker 2: by John Meston. The music was composed and conducted by
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  Speaker 2: Rex Corey, sound patterns by Ray Kemper and Bill James.
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  Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were Virginia Greg, Ralph Moody, Don
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  Speaker 2: Diamond and John Dayner, Harley Bear Is Chester, Howard mcneer
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  Speaker 2: is doc, and Georgia Ellis is kidding.
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  Speaker 1: That concludes our time in Dodge with gun Smoke till death.
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