1 00:00:00,560 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from how 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Stuff Works dot com. Hello and welcome to the podcast. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: I'm Katie Lambert, joined today by Sarah Dowdy. How are you, Sarah, 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:21,120 Speaker 1: I'm good, Katie. I'm excited about this gun fight. Well, 5 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:23,000 Speaker 1: and thank you to the listener who sent us in 6 00:00:23,040 --> 00:00:26,319 Speaker 1: the request. John in South Saint Paul, Minnesota said he 7 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: could not wait to hear all about the gunfight at 8 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:34,280 Speaker 1: the Okay Corral. So we're gonna do a little with 9 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:38,480 Speaker 1: busting and um go through the shootout. Yeah. So our 10 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:42,920 Speaker 1: story takes place in Tombstone, Arizona, which was a boom 11 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 1: town in the eighteen eighties and probably if it wasn't 12 00:00:46,479 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 1: for this gunfight, it would be a ghost town today. 13 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:54,160 Speaker 1: But um in the in eighteen seventy nine, prospector finds 14 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: silver um and he's warned by a passing soldier that 15 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: the only thing you're going to find in those hills 16 00:01:01,040 --> 00:01:06,560 Speaker 1: as your own tombstone. And he showed him, didn't he. 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,880 Speaker 1: The town grew from one hundred people to seven thousand 18 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,200 Speaker 1: people in two years because of all the silver mining, 19 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:14,840 Speaker 1: and it was quite the place for a lot of 20 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:19,240 Speaker 1: rough and lawless horse wrestlers, bandits. They had a big 21 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 1: red light district, lots of saloons and bars. And there 22 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 1: are two key parties in Tombstone in eighteen eighteen eighty one, 23 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,679 Speaker 1: the Earps and the cowboys. And you've probably heard of 24 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:35,959 Speaker 1: the Herbs because of Whyatt Earp, but it wasn't just him. 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,680 Speaker 1: He had some brothers. Why It worked a security at 26 00:01:38,680 --> 00:01:41,400 Speaker 1: a saloon. James was a car dealer in a bartender 27 00:01:41,480 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: and his brother's Virgil and Morgan, guarded stage coaches. And 28 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 1: Virgil was also a deputy U s Marshal while Wyatt 29 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,960 Speaker 1: was a deputy sheriff. And the cowboys, on the other hand, 30 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: were pretty lawless, not the heroes of movies that we 31 00:01:55,960 --> 00:01:59,720 Speaker 1: don't think they were hill racing. We've got Clanton and 32 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:04,440 Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, who are especially notorious, and we have Tom 33 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:08,120 Speaker 1: and Frank mclowery, two sets of brothers who liked hanging 34 00:02:08,120 --> 00:02:12,000 Speaker 1: out with horse wrestler. So the trouble starts in a 35 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: summer of eighteen eighty when Virgil Earp goes to his 36 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,800 Speaker 1: brother's Wyatt and Morgan and says that there were men 37 00:02:17,840 --> 00:02:21,000 Speaker 1: who stole six mules from an army outpost. So they 38 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 1: go on the lookout and they find the horses at 39 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:26,440 Speaker 1: the mcclowery ranch and the brands have been changed so 40 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,400 Speaker 1: they no longer look like they belonged to the army. 41 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: And Frank mcclawery is having none of it and tells him, 42 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:34,120 Speaker 1: you know, he's just a deputy u s Marshal and 43 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: get off my properties your concern and not accepting the 44 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:43,919 Speaker 1: legal positions. So a little bit of trouble starts there, Yeah, 45 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:48,360 Speaker 1: and troubles bruin on another front, with Wyatt Earp going 46 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 1: up against Johnny Bean, who is kind of a cowboy 47 00:02:52,040 --> 00:02:56,520 Speaker 1: type more than the law abiding type, over a woman 48 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:02,359 Speaker 1: Josephine Marcus, and over the sheriff position, right, and Josephine 49 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,320 Speaker 1: first picked Johnny, but she ended up married to Wyatt 50 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:08,080 Speaker 1: for about fifty years. That wasn't until later, but both 51 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:10,760 Speaker 1: men wanted to be appointed sheriff of the state, because 52 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:13,639 Speaker 1: that's how that worked, and whyatt ended up dropping out 53 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 1: of the race because he could tell the governor was 54 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:18,480 Speaker 1: leaning much more towards Johnny, and Johnny told him that 55 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:21,280 Speaker 1: he would give him a lesser appointment, so he thought, okay, 56 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 1: you know, I'll drop out, and that didn't work out. 57 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:26,440 Speaker 1: So these guys have been gripped in a professional and 58 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: romantic competition. So there's a lot of resentment from the start. Yes, 59 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 1: So in March of one the Tombstone Benson's stage coach 60 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: is held up and twenty six thousand dollars of stolen, 61 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:44,160 Speaker 1: and the driver and the passenger are both killed, and 62 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:48,080 Speaker 1: Virgil Earp ends up leading a posse to hunt down 63 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: the people who robbed it, and he brings in his 64 00:03:50,640 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: brothers of course, Wyatt and Morgan, along with Doc Holiday, 65 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,280 Speaker 1: who I'm sure everyone has heard of him. I didn't 66 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 1: know this, but he used to be a dent which 67 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: and he was how related to Margaret Mitchell, which I 68 00:04:05,240 --> 00:04:10,440 Speaker 1: found out when I was touring the Hop from Georgia. Anyways, 69 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:15,160 Speaker 1: Doc holidays in Virgil Earp's posse. Um Sheriff Being also 70 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 1: leads a posse. The Earth Group finds a guy who 71 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:21,920 Speaker 1: confesses to this stagecoach hold up, though, and they turn 72 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,200 Speaker 1: him over to the sheriff. He ends up escaping. There's 73 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: some question as to whether his jail cell is even locked, 74 00:04:28,839 --> 00:04:32,200 Speaker 1: did be in just let him escape and why it. Obviously, 75 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:37,080 Speaker 1: no fan of Being suspects that he might have been 76 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 1: in on it right, and his past doesn't even Yeah, 77 00:04:40,360 --> 00:04:43,360 Speaker 1: they don't even get their reward, so they're they're pretty 78 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:47,000 Speaker 1: piste off at this point. So according to the story, 79 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,120 Speaker 1: whyatt Earp makes a deal with Ike Clanton of the 80 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:53,160 Speaker 1: infamous Clintons that we mentioned earlier, and he says that 81 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,880 Speaker 1: if Ike will give him information about who did the robbery, 82 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Speaker 1: then why it will make sure that he gets the 83 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:04,160 Speaker 1: reward from well spargoward. And these are two guys who 84 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:08,120 Speaker 1: would want to have no professional association with each other, 85 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,479 Speaker 1: you wouldn't They neither would want their name linked to 86 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:15,719 Speaker 1: the other. One is the semi law abiding man, the 87 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:19,240 Speaker 1: other's the cowboy U. So this deal is very under 88 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: the table. Well, and whyatt thought that way he could 89 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: make the arrest and he would look good, you know, 90 00:05:24,160 --> 00:05:29,000 Speaker 1: unlike Johnny Bean and Clanton just wanted the money and 91 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,200 Speaker 1: or to set up a trap for why the part 92 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:36,200 Speaker 1: still unshore. Unfortunately, the actual robbers of the stagecoach are 93 00:05:36,279 --> 00:05:39,040 Speaker 1: killed in a gunfight in New Mexico, so the deal 94 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: isn't even there's no point. So in October of eight one, 95 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:48,920 Speaker 1: Clanton and Doc Holiday, which remember on opposite sides of 96 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 1: this particular conflict, are both at the Alhambra Saloon. And 97 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,120 Speaker 1: historians don't know whether Clanton planned this meeting because he 98 00:05:57,160 --> 00:05:59,240 Speaker 1: wanted reassurance that why it wasn't going to turn him in, 99 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: or if Whyatt set it up to scare Ike into 100 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,840 Speaker 1: behaving because Doc Holiday was not the kind of man 101 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,679 Speaker 1: you wanted to mess with. But either way, the meeting 102 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:12,599 Speaker 1: does not go well and the two start trading insults 103 00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:16,159 Speaker 1: and they end up both getting kicked out by security 104 00:06:16,680 --> 00:06:21,719 Speaker 1: um interestingly enough, Morgan Earp Uh and the confrontation kind 105 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: of carries on through the night though, even though they're 106 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:27,920 Speaker 1: no longer in the saloon, Right and Ike ends up 107 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,720 Speaker 1: in an all night poker game at another saloon with 108 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,840 Speaker 1: Johnny b. N, Virgil Earp, and Tomic Lowry, which it 109 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:36,120 Speaker 1: is quite the motley crew because again they're all in 110 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 1: opposite sides, and it just keeps going, the trading of 111 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 1: insults and death threats. Even right Ike is. Ike is 112 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: saying some pretty nasty stuff about the Earth's all around 113 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,880 Speaker 1: town and the next morning he's still talking about Doc 114 00:06:50,920 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: Holiday and the Earps and they find out and they're 115 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: not pleased now and they actually end up arresting him 116 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 1: up for illegally carrying a firearm in public, which seems 117 00:07:02,880 --> 00:07:05,080 Speaker 1: like kind of a low blow because they were all 118 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: doing that and they just wanted a pretense. Yeah, definitely, 119 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:14,080 Speaker 1: um and Wider joins into the party to taunt Ike 120 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:18,000 Speaker 1: and just this he calls him a damn dirty calfie. 121 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,000 Speaker 1: So the whole thing is escalating out of control, and 122 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 1: even why it runs into Tom mclowery, one of the 123 00:07:24,120 --> 00:07:27,920 Speaker 1: other cowboys when he's leaving the courtroom and wax him 124 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 1: over the head with his gun. So you know, the 125 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:34,160 Speaker 1: lawmen are not doing their part to to bring the 126 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: turn the fire down on this fight that's brewing well, 127 00:07:37,880 --> 00:07:40,720 Speaker 1: and news is traveling fast. So Billy Clinton and Frank 128 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: mcclowry here about everything that's going on, and they decide 129 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: they're having none of it, and they buy a bunch 130 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:49,160 Speaker 1: of bullets and set up a meeting and a vacant 131 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:52,240 Speaker 1: lot on Fremont Street, which isn't actually at the Okay 132 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 1: Corral to discuss their plans. And when Sheriff Ban finds 133 00:07:56,480 --> 00:07:59,480 Speaker 1: out about this, he knows that this is not going 134 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:03,520 Speaker 1: to end well, so he heads off to Fremont Street 135 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:06,800 Speaker 1: to meet them and tries to get Frank mclowry's gun. 136 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:11,040 Speaker 1: Frank won't let the sheriff disarm him until the Earths 137 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 1: are disarmed, which that's a I don't know, it's a 138 00:08:15,400 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 1: hotheaded response. Yes, it's not really very acceptable. Um, but 139 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,760 Speaker 1: Ike is padded down, he doesn't have a weapon. Tom 140 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: says he's unarmed. Billy is just like I'm heading out 141 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,240 Speaker 1: of town and the sheriff doesn't even bother to check him. 142 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,640 Speaker 1: At this point, the Earth's and doc Holiday are on 143 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:38,040 Speaker 1: their way and the sheriff tells them not to go 144 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: or they'll be killed. But he also tells them that 145 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: he's disarmed the men, which makes no sense. It is 146 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: really weird because he didn't well and it's too totally 147 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:50,320 Speaker 1: contradictory statements. So this is where it all begins. And 148 00:08:50,320 --> 00:08:53,320 Speaker 1: there are two versions of events that were given at 149 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:55,280 Speaker 1: the trial. So Katie and are going to have a 150 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,920 Speaker 1: show down here. I will be playing the part of 151 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: why at Earth and I will be like Lanton. So 152 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,560 Speaker 1: Wyatt Earp says that the mcclowry's and the Clinton and 153 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,560 Speaker 1: the Clantons are still upset about these stolen mules, and 154 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:10,080 Speaker 1: they've been making threats for months, and he makes this 155 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:12,760 Speaker 1: deal with I Clanton over stage coach killings, which we 156 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: had mentioned, and on October twenty six, Doc Holiday and 157 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 1: I Clanton got into that fight and they were separated 158 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,760 Speaker 1: by the RBS. And then he says that I continued 159 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:24,440 Speaker 1: to threaten him throughout the night, and the next morning 160 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,680 Speaker 1: all the brothers here that he's still threatening them, so 161 00:09:27,760 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 1: they arrest him and bring him to court. Tom mcclowry 162 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 1: starts threatening them, so why it hits him on the 163 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:34,760 Speaker 1: head and walks away. So he says this was a 164 00:09:34,800 --> 00:09:38,400 Speaker 1: provoked attack, and he meets up with his brothers and 165 00:09:38,480 --> 00:09:41,120 Speaker 1: Doc Holiday and here's what. The mcclowry's and Clantons are 166 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,760 Speaker 1: armed and they've gone to the Okay Corral. So at 167 00:09:43,760 --> 00:09:47,120 Speaker 1: this point the brothers are thinking about arming themselves, but 168 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 1: Virgil asks for help disarming them, so instead he's trying 169 00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:56,440 Speaker 1: to paint their intentions as going into the with purely 170 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:01,480 Speaker 1: innocent attentions and let's disarm these dangerous, violen men. So 171 00:10:01,520 --> 00:10:03,960 Speaker 1: they walk in that direction and the sheriff walks up 172 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,200 Speaker 1: to the earps and says, hey, the men have been disarmed. 173 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 1: You know, there's no danger here. And when they see 174 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: the men in the lot Frank mclowry and Billy Clanton 175 00:10:13,280 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: have visible guns, so you know, being wyatt EARP, I 176 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:22,000 Speaker 1: am a bit alarmed, and I decided to get ready 177 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: to take out mine. Virgil asked the men to surrender 178 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:27,000 Speaker 1: and throw up their hands, and he says, I have 179 00:10:27,080 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 1: come to disarm you, but Billy and Frank go for 180 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 1: their guns. So I as what EERP draw and fire 181 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,640 Speaker 1: at Frank. But the first shots are my shot and 182 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 1: Billy Clanton's shot, so we're both at the same time. 183 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:42,480 Speaker 1: I didn't provoke them, they didn't provoke me. We both 184 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: shot at each other, and after several shots, I Clanton 185 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 1: runs up grabs my arm. I push him off and 186 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,640 Speaker 1: never fire at him, because again I've been told he's unarmed, 187 00:10:52,679 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 1: So I'm just acting in self defense here. This is 188 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,000 Speaker 1: not my fault. And I thought that Tom mcclowry was armed, 189 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,120 Speaker 1: we all did he and though he wasn't, and Doc 190 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,720 Speaker 1: Holiday killed him, So maybe Doc shouldn't have done that, 191 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,679 Speaker 1: But again I was acting in self defense. Just how 192 00:11:06,679 --> 00:11:10,079 Speaker 1: it went down right? Right? All right? Well, as like Clinton, 193 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:14,040 Speaker 1: I have a different version of events. Uh. For one thing, 194 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:17,320 Speaker 1: back of the saloon, Doc Holiday started all the trouble 195 00:11:17,559 --> 00:11:21,040 Speaker 1: it wasn't me provoking him, It was all on Doc 196 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:25,840 Speaker 1: and Morgan RP. Instead of being this neutral party who 197 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,439 Speaker 1: throws both of us out, he joins in to to curse, 198 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 1: curse me out and threatens me all right. The next 199 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:37,640 Speaker 1: day the Earps arrest me like Clinton, take me to 200 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:41,720 Speaker 1: court on false charges of threatening a gunfight, and Morgan 201 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 1: and Virgil continue to taunt me and threaten me and Um. 202 00:11:46,400 --> 00:11:48,880 Speaker 1: Later I see the Earps and Holiday coming down the street, 203 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: with being meeting them, telling them not to go down there, 204 00:11:53,040 --> 00:11:55,920 Speaker 1: but with all my brothers and my cowboys by now. 205 00:11:57,080 --> 00:12:00,120 Speaker 1: And when the Earps and Holiday come up they pull 206 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: out their guns. Virgil or curses us and says, you've 207 00:12:05,200 --> 00:12:07,000 Speaker 1: been looking for a fight and you can have it. 208 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 1: Those are fighting words, aren't they. Um? And the Earth's 209 00:12:12,640 --> 00:12:15,959 Speaker 1: order us to throw up our hands, and Billy Clinton 210 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,440 Speaker 1: does I do. Tom mcclowry throws open his coat, says 211 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 1: he's disarmed, and then the shooting starts. We have our 212 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:26,320 Speaker 1: hands up in the air where all defenseless, and the 213 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:31,800 Speaker 1: Earth's Holiday are shooting at us, and Doc Holiday fires 214 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,360 Speaker 1: the first shot at Tom mcclowry. Morgan shoots at Billy Clinton, 215 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 1: while he's holding up his hands wide up shoots at me, 216 00:12:40,360 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: and then I grab him and push him and finally 217 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: escaped to flies photo gallery with bullets whizzing around my head. 218 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,520 Speaker 1: And Billy Clinton is shooting a little bit as he 219 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:54,320 Speaker 1: lays on the ground. So when all has said and done, 220 00:12:54,520 --> 00:12:58,400 Speaker 1: this gunfight has lasted only thirty seconds. And at the end, 221 00:12:58,840 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: Frank mclawry is dead, Tom mcclowry is dead, Billy Clanton 222 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 1: is dying, and Doc Holiday, Virgil Earp, and Morgan erb 223 00:13:06,320 --> 00:13:10,440 Speaker 1: are all wounded. And Sheriff Ban tries to arrest Wyatt, 224 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: and Doc Wyatt says no, he thought the guys were unarmed, 225 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: because the sheriff had told him after all, and the 226 00:13:18,559 --> 00:13:23,000 Speaker 1: citizens on the scene stood stood with what And the 227 00:13:23,040 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 1: newspapers have a field day with this. Hundreds of people 228 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,680 Speaker 1: show up to the funerals and thousands come to watch 229 00:13:28,720 --> 00:13:31,400 Speaker 1: the procession, which in a city of seven thousand is 230 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:34,520 Speaker 1: saying a lot. And Doc Holiday was generally thought of 231 00:13:34,640 --> 00:13:37,640 Speaker 1: as a hothead, and people thought he shouldn't be involved 232 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:40,720 Speaker 1: in upholding a law, period, So why was he even there? 233 00:13:41,360 --> 00:13:45,960 Speaker 1: And by October twenty nine, Clan Inspired filed first green 234 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:49,960 Speaker 1: murder charges, so we have a preliminary hearing with the 235 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 1: Justice of the Peace, Well Spicer, And it should have 236 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:55,640 Speaker 1: been a short little thing, you know, a preliminary hearing 237 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: is just a prelude to a real trial. But it 238 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:01,040 Speaker 1: ended up lasting longer than a month because the herbs 239 00:14:01,040 --> 00:14:04,080 Speaker 1: that he might be sympathetic to them, more sympathetic than 240 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: a random jury would be. And this trial is crazy. 241 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,800 Speaker 1: It's just all these different testimonies, all the different feuds 242 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:14,640 Speaker 1: going on. It makes everything really suspect. So we'll just 243 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 1: give some highlights. Basically, the prosecution was trying to prove 244 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:20,360 Speaker 1: that their men had been shot before they ever even 245 00:14:20,360 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: had a chance to get their guns while they had 246 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:25,320 Speaker 1: their hands in the year right. Probably the most important 247 00:14:25,360 --> 00:14:30,280 Speaker 1: testimony for the prosecution was was Sheriff Bean, who said 248 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:33,840 Speaker 1: that he asked for Frank mcglory's gun repeatedly, but he 249 00:14:33,920 --> 00:14:37,560 Speaker 1: was interrupted by the arrival of the earths. And as 250 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: far as the defense goes, they took a trickier attack. 251 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 1: Why it got to give a narrative instead of being 252 00:14:43,760 --> 00:14:47,360 Speaker 1: examined and cross examined, a little quirk of Arizona law. 253 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:51,080 Speaker 1: So he went up there and and gave his testimony 254 00:14:51,080 --> 00:14:52,920 Speaker 1: and said he was acting in self defense as a 255 00:14:52,960 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: man of the law. And Virgil was actually examined while 256 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 1: he was in bed and recovery because he was still wounded, 257 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:02,560 Speaker 1: and said that he tried to calm down Ike the 258 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,240 Speaker 1: night before the morning of the shootout, a bunch of 259 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: people had told him that Ike and the crew were 260 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:09,840 Speaker 1: after him and wanted to kill him and his brothers. 261 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:12,840 Speaker 1: And he also said that they would have left the 262 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: Clantons and mcclowry's alone if they had stayed in the corral. 263 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,080 Speaker 1: So we have all these different witnesses giving different accounts, 264 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:23,360 Speaker 1: but in the end, Judge Spicer rules that there would 265 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: be no criminal trial. He says that the Earths were 266 00:15:26,880 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: profoundly unwise the way they went about disarming the cowboys, 267 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: but nothing criminal happened, And he also mentioned that the 268 00:15:35,040 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 1: Clantons mcclowery should have given up their guns because for them, 269 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,600 Speaker 1: they don't like this verdict the Clantons and mcclowry's. So 270 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:49,520 Speaker 1: then takes place what's called the Cowboy revenge, And the 271 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 1: first is an assassination attempt in a stage coach of 272 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: the mayor who had been sympathetic to the Earth's and 273 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: he jumps out to escape his own demise is the 274 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:04,280 Speaker 1: wild West, folks, right, um. The second thing is Virgil 275 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,000 Speaker 1: is ambushed when he's walking home from a saloon. One 276 00:16:08,040 --> 00:16:10,840 Speaker 1: of the men who ambush is him was Ike because 277 00:16:10,960 --> 00:16:13,560 Speaker 1: his hat was found on the scene, so it's an 278 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 1: important tip don't leave your hat an assassination attempt. And 279 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 1: Virgil isn't killed, but his arm is shot so full 280 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: of buck shot that it's left practically a mobile. And 281 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,040 Speaker 1: then Morgan is shot through a window during a game 282 00:16:30,080 --> 00:16:33,280 Speaker 1: of pool and dies and his last words are, I 283 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:36,800 Speaker 1: have played my last game of Pool's pretty deep. I 284 00:16:36,880 --> 00:16:40,480 Speaker 1: think there's some good last words. So in response to this, 285 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,120 Speaker 1: why Earp starts his famous and then dead a ride. 286 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 1: He kills Frank Stillwell, who was a suspect in Morgan's murder. 287 00:16:48,400 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: He kills Indian Charlie and Curly Brocius, another suspect. And 288 00:16:53,440 --> 00:16:56,360 Speaker 1: after you've just gone and killed three people who were 289 00:16:56,400 --> 00:16:59,280 Speaker 1: never rested or anything in any way, there are a 290 00:16:59,280 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: bunch of warrant out for wide Ears arrest. So he 291 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:05,240 Speaker 1: runs off to New Mexico and then to Colorado with 292 00:17:05,359 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: Doc Holiday and Arizona wanted him extradited, but the State 293 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,239 Speaker 1: of Colorado refused this request and why it goes on 294 00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 1: to live a nice long life, doesn't he He does. 295 00:17:15,560 --> 00:17:20,080 Speaker 1: He married and Ms Josephine from earlier and um. He 296 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: has a varied career. He referees heavyweight boxing matches. He 297 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:30,560 Speaker 1: minds for gold, sells real estate, raised racehorses, ran saloons. 298 00:17:30,600 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 1: He even appeared on the sets of early Hollywood westerns, 299 00:17:34,840 --> 00:17:37,480 Speaker 1: which is fitting considering there have been so many TV 300 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:40,240 Speaker 1: shows and movies about him, although many of them seemed 301 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: to portray him in a much more golden light than 302 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:46,960 Speaker 1: perhaps we have. Yeah, like, maybe they just read his 303 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:52,240 Speaker 1: testimony and not so much. 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