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Gunsmoke — Ben Thompson (act 1) [episode 2], Broadcast 5/3/1952 (Western Radio Drama) · Gunsmoke | Old Time Radio

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Around Dodge City and in the territory on West, there's
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: And that's where the US marshal and the smell of
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: gun smoke.
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: Guns smoke.
• 0:41
  Speaker 1: The story of the violence that moved west with young America,
• 0:45
  Speaker 1: the story of a man who.
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: Moved with it.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: Matt Dillon, United States Marshall.
• 1:00
  Speaker 4: You need any more cartridges, mister Dylon, No, I got
• 1:03
  Speaker 4: the greener loaded unloaded.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: I don't wanna shotgun, yes, sir? Do you want me
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: to come with you? You wanna come? No, sir, I
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: guess not, but I will better stay here than Chester.
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: This make me a coward, mister Dylon. How do you
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: feel like a coward? Lasted? You're scared me, sir, but
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: you were willing to come anyway. Figure it out for yourself.
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: Good luck, mister Dylon. Yeah.
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: If uh I'm not back, don't forget those reports have
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: to be mailed tomorrow. I won't forget, uh, mister Dillon.
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you ever get scared? Sure? Better keep yourself busy?
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: Why should.
• 2:00
  Speaker 5: And I walk along?
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: Not at all?
• 2:02
  Speaker 5: Doc, Yeah, kind of anxious to get a look at
• 2:04
  Speaker 5: this new corpse of mine. Lassiters sure, don us a
• 2:08
  Speaker 5: favorite picking dodge to die in. This will put us
• 2:12
  Speaker 5: in the history books, for sure. You're a little premature, unshure, Doc,
• 2:15
  Speaker 5: not a bit, oh maybe a little four sated day.
• 2:19
  Speaker 5: You know. They say the lassiter's packing eighteen slugs in
• 2:23
  Speaker 5: eighteen slugs, My goodness, sure has been a lot of gunfights.
• 2:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so they say, yes.
• 2:30
  Speaker 5: He's got the biggest gun rap in this whole section
• 2:33
  Speaker 5: outside of maybe Ben Thompson or Wes Harden and you.
• 2:38
  Speaker 1: Of course he's waiting at the eleph for again, said Doc,
• 2:41
  Speaker 1: you better not walk in with me, don't you worry.
• 2:45
  Speaker 5: I'm not sticking my snoop into no shooting, no sir read.
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: Hey Marshall, Yeah, what is it?
• 2:54
  Speaker 5: You are going to win, aren't you. I sure hate
• 2:58
  Speaker 5: to work on the bodies of my friend. Makes it
• 3:01
  Speaker 5: do that?
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  Speaker 2: I'm personal. I'll do what I can.
• 3:05
  Speaker 5: You watch him close, an't you let.
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: Him pull a hide on? Hello Lester, I Matt, it's
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: been a long time.
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, drink with me, why not, Harry, two whiskeys, Alry.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: Get up from behind the bar.
• 3:28
  Speaker 4: Sure's luster, sure.
• 3:32
  Speaker 1: Oh don't spill it, leave it on the bar, Harry.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: We'll pour our own, yes, sir, Yes, here's sir, as
• 3:41
  Speaker 1: your shoulder lessen aches a little bad weather, still carrying
• 3:46
  Speaker 1: your lead matte here. Yeah, yeah, you should have killed me, Matt.
• 3:55
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was a long time ago, Madam.
• 4:00
  Speaker 2: I want you to know. I bear no grudge, but
• 4:03
  Speaker 2: it has to be.
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  Speaker 1: I know we're gunfighters, you and me, both the same,
• 4:08
  Speaker 1: they're not the same.
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  Speaker 2: What's in our blood.
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  Speaker 5: That's why, Matt, that's why I have to brace you.
• 4:16
  Speaker 1: I got to know for sure there's no grudge less
• 4:21
  Speaker 1: your health and yours, straight up, straight up.
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: You call it.
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: No?
• 4:55
  Speaker 5: Oh, it was beautiful matter, simply beautiful. Why yes?
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: And it was close to it for a moment.
• 5:02
  Speaker 5: I wasn't your marshall, you're nick you're hit just.
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: To scratch, it'll be all right.
• 5:08
  Speaker 1: But he let it go, go and get Lassiteri's all
• 5:12
  Speaker 1: yours who will, of course, And you'll be happy to
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: know he's got twenty slugs in him now. I couldn't
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: tell anyone, but the bitterness, I said, my stomach made
• 5:28
  Speaker 1: me sick as I remembered Less as a friend, not
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: dead by my gun.
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: Then I got over it. I always got over it.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: The Frontier code was a harsh one. I knew my
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: job was one and had to be done. If the
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: whist was to ever see peace, as long as killers
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: like Lassiter withd I'd carry a gun and use it.
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: It was the way it had to be. Sometimes a
• 5:58
  Speaker 1: man's dying was the end of it. Sometimes the beginning
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: is something worse.
• 6:08
  Speaker 6: Marshall Matt Dylon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what can I do for you? Miss Die?
• 6:15
  Speaker 1: Miss I don't know if it's missus missus Lassiter.
• 6:21
  Speaker 6: Oh, you see, you've done quite a bit for me already.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Dylan, you made.
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  Speaker 6: Me a whittle.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: Sit down, Missus Lessiter. Here, let me get you some water.
• 6:35
  Speaker 1: I uh, I didn't know Lester was married.
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: Would it have mattered? No, I guess not.
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: Just like all the wrist of a killer lusting for
• 6:48
  Speaker 3: blood like a wild animals, you hide it behind the bat.
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: My husband was in town less than two hours, but
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: you couldn't wait, could you.
• 6:57
  Speaker 6: You saw your.
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: Chance to get a little bigger reputation. Not Dylan famous gunfighter,
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: not Dylan murderer.
• 7:06
  Speaker 2: It was your husband that sent the challenge. Missus Lassier.
• 7:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry for what happened, and if I can help
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  Speaker 1: you in any way, I only.
• 7:16
  Speaker 6: Came to tell you that you haven't heard the end
• 7:18
  Speaker 6: of the Lassiter name. I'm gonna see that you're stripped
• 7:22
  Speaker 6: of that big reputation and you're gonna die.
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: Missus lassider. Is there anything I could say that you
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: could listen to?
• 7:32
  Speaker 6: Nothing?
• 7:34
  Speaker 2: And good day, madam, till we meet again, Marshall