WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:22.000 Around Dodge City and in the territory on west there is just one way to handle the killers and the spoilers and that's with the U.S. Marshal and the smell of gun smoke. 00:30.000 --> 00:49.000 Gun Smoke starring William Conrad, the story of the violence that moved west with young America and the story of a man who moved with it. 00:49.000 --> 01:15.000 I'm that man, Matt Dillon, United States Marshal, the first man they look for and the last they want to meet. It's a chancey job and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely. 01:15.000 --> 01:20.000 You want some more pie, Kitty? You might as well since Doc's paying for it. 01:20.000 --> 01:22.000 No thanks, Matt. I've had plenty. 01:22.000 --> 01:28.000 What happened to make you such a big spender, Doc? Some forgotten relative leave you something in his will? 01:28.000 --> 01:30.000 Might as well. 01:30.000 --> 01:31.000 What do you mean, Doc? 01:31.000 --> 01:38.000 Well, you remember that cowboy got himself shot up in a long branch brawl that was a year or two ago? 01:38.000 --> 01:39.000 It's been more than one of them. 01:39.000 --> 01:44.000 I know that, but Kitty might remember this. She helped stop the bleeding until I got there. 01:44.000 --> 01:47.000 Oh, I remember, Doc. You didn't even have enough money to buy a beer. 01:47.000 --> 01:49.000 And we figured he never would have. 01:49.000 --> 01:50.000 What happened to him? 01:50.000 --> 02:03.000 Well, sir, I had a letter from him this morning. He's had some kind of a payoff in California. And he sent me a twenty dollar gold piece to pay me for what he called my medical services. 02:03.000 --> 02:06.000 Oh, that's fine, Doc. I'm glad he made out. 02:06.000 --> 02:07.000 Yes, men like him don't often do it. 02:07.000 --> 02:09.000 And you don't often get paid either. 02:09.000 --> 02:11.000 Well, you never know in my business. 02:11.000 --> 02:13.000 Mr. Dillon? Mr. Dillon? 02:13.000 --> 02:14.000 It's Chester, man, at the door. 02:14.000 --> 02:16.000 And you too, Doc. Hurry up. 02:16.000 --> 02:18.000 He means it, Doc. Excuse us. 02:18.000 --> 02:20.000 He's gone back outside. 02:20.000 --> 02:22.000 Somebody must be hurt. 02:22.000 --> 02:24.000 I didn't hear any shooting. 02:24.000 --> 02:26.000 There are other ways to get hurt, Doc. 02:26.000 --> 02:28.000 Well, we're here for the stage, Mr. Dillon. 02:28.000 --> 02:30.000 Oh. 02:30.000 --> 02:33.000 That man has been hurt, Mac. 02:33.000 --> 02:35.000 That's the shotgun messenger, Doc. 02:35.000 --> 02:37.000 Somebody must have held up the stage. 02:37.000 --> 02:39.000 Mike got shot, Mr. Dillon. He's hurt pretty bad. 02:39.000 --> 02:40.000 Let me take a look. 02:40.000 --> 02:41.000 What happened, Chester? 02:41.000 --> 02:43.000 Well, I don't know. For sure. 02:43.000 --> 02:45.000 I didn't see the stage come in just now, and Mike was driving. 02:45.000 --> 02:46.000 Mike was driving? 02:46.000 --> 02:48.000 Yes, sir. So I knew something was wrong. 02:48.000 --> 02:50.000 Then I could see he was hurt, too. 02:50.000 --> 02:52.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 02:52.000 --> 02:54.000 Yeah, Doc. 02:54.000 --> 02:57.000 He's trying to say something. 02:57.000 --> 02:59.000 Make it fast, man. I got to get him up in my office. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.000 Mike. 03:01.000 --> 03:03.000 It's Marshall Dillon. 03:03.000 --> 03:05.000 What happened? 03:05.000 --> 03:07.000 Held up. 03:07.000 --> 03:09.000 Driver. Killed. 03:09.000 --> 03:11.000 Were there any passengers? 03:11.000 --> 03:13.000 No, no. 03:13.000 --> 03:15.000 Currency. Shipment. 03:15.000 --> 03:17.000 Twenty thousand. 03:17.000 --> 03:19.000 What had happened, Mike? 03:19.000 --> 03:21.000 He's going out, Mac. 03:21.000 --> 03:23.000 Mike. Mike. 03:23.000 --> 03:25.000 Please try. Tell me what had happened. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 How many men? 03:27.000 --> 03:29.000 North. 03:29.000 --> 03:31.000 Hat Creek. 03:31.000 --> 03:33.000 Two men. 03:33.000 --> 03:35.000 Who? 03:35.000 --> 03:37.000 That's all, Mac. He's unconscious. 03:37.000 --> 03:41.000 I'll find a couple of men to help you, Doc. 03:41.000 --> 03:43.000 Chester, go get our horses. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 Yes, sir. 03:45.000 --> 03:47.000 And hurry. 03:57.000 --> 03:59.000 They were along here right now, Mr. Jones. 03:59.000 --> 04:01.000 That crack shoe throws up real fine. 04:01.000 --> 04:03.000 Yeah, they've been riding hard, too. 04:03.000 --> 04:05.000 But they must have slowed down or stopped for a while somewhere. 04:05.000 --> 04:07.000 I hope they didn't get no more sleep last night than we did. 04:07.000 --> 04:09.000 What's the matter, Chester? You getting old? 04:09.000 --> 04:11.000 I know, sir, it ain't that, but my gracious, two hours sleep. 04:11.000 --> 04:13.000 It just don't seem worth bothering about, that's all. 04:13.000 --> 04:15.000 Well, I hope our friends bothered a little without sleep. 04:15.000 --> 04:17.000 Now, if I was carrying $20,000 in bills, I wouldn't never stop. 04:17.000 --> 04:19.000 Yeah. 04:19.000 --> 04:21.000 You'd have to be riding a pretty unusual horse. 04:21.000 --> 04:23.000 Well, yes, I guess you're right. 04:23.000 --> 04:25.000 Wait a minute. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 It looks like they did stop, after all. 04:27.000 --> 04:29.000 What? 04:29.000 --> 04:31.000 They built a fire over there. 04:31.000 --> 04:33.000 What? 04:33.000 --> 04:35.000 They built a fire over there. 04:39.000 --> 04:41.000 Yeah, it was them, aren't they? 04:41.000 --> 04:43.000 Yeah, same tracks. 04:43.000 --> 04:45.000 I think we picked up a little time on them, Chester. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 Come on, let's pick up some more. 04:59.000 --> 05:01.000 The shoveling started at the little town of St. Louis. 05:01.000 --> 05:07.000 The shoveling started at the little town of Rome in New York State back in 1817. 05:07.000 --> 05:18.000 And on July 4th, 1967, the post office released a special Sesquicentennial stamp there in honor of the big ditch they dug, 05:18.000 --> 05:24.000 which it says on the stamp in my album here was the Erie Canal. 05:24.000 --> 05:30.000 Now, in case you don't know, that canal went all the way from Buffalo on Lake Erie to the Hudson River, 05:30.000 --> 05:37.000 connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean, the biggest waterway ever built in the United States at the time, 05:37.000 --> 05:46.000 and it was done mostly by the Irish just over from the old country, who did their digging with spits and mussels. 05:46.000 --> 05:55.000 Made lots of money for years on tolls, and the traffic and freight and people through the canal was mainly responsible for building up the Midwest 05:55.000 --> 05:58.000 and keeping business in the East busy doing it. 05:58.000 --> 06:05.000 Well, of course the Erie Canal ain't what she used to be, because the railroads do most of the job now, 06:05.000 --> 06:11.000 but the big ditch is still there, and so is all the history that went through it. 06:11.000 --> 06:28.000 I swear, I'm sure the only them men are riding like they'd have stuck to the saddle. They're near dark again. 06:28.000 --> 06:31.000 They'll have to stop someplace along here pretty soon, huh? 06:31.000 --> 06:32.000 I don't know. 06:32.000 --> 06:38.000 Hold up, Chester. Those tracks are heading down to those bushes along the creek there. 06:38.000 --> 06:39.000 Let's go easy. 06:39.000 --> 06:41.000 Yes, sir. 06:45.000 --> 06:46.000 Mr. Jones? 06:46.000 --> 06:47.000 Yeah. 06:47.000 --> 06:51.000 Off yonder, above the stream there, there's a shack. 06:51.000 --> 06:52.000 Oh, yeah, I see it. 06:52.000 --> 06:55.000 You think there might maybe a hit out in it? 06:55.000 --> 06:58.000 Maybe, but I'm not going to ride straight up to find out. 06:58.000 --> 07:00.000 We'll leave the horses here. 07:00.000 --> 07:02.000 Yes, sir. 07:02.000 --> 07:08.000 We'll circle around back. Just keep low. 07:15.000 --> 07:18.000 There's two horses tied up there. 07:18.000 --> 07:20.000 Mr. Dillon, out of the aisle. 07:20.000 --> 07:22.000 Yeah. All right, hold it, children. 07:22.000 --> 07:24.000 They're heading for the horses. 07:26.000 --> 07:27.000 You got him. 07:27.000 --> 07:29.000 Yeah, but the other one's getting away. 07:29.000 --> 07:30.000 He's out of range. 07:30.000 --> 07:33.000 Chester, you go bring the horses up. I'll see about the man I shot. 07:33.000 --> 07:34.000 Ain't you going after the other one? 07:34.000 --> 07:36.000 He's got a pretty good head start and it's near dark. 07:36.000 --> 07:38.000 I'm not going after him blind. Morning's soon enough. 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 All right. 07:54.000 --> 07:56.000 You get my brother. 07:56.000 --> 08:00.000 You get wrecked. 08:00.000 --> 08:02.000 Not yet. You hurt bad. 08:02.000 --> 08:04.000 Yeah. Yeah, I sure ain't. 08:04.000 --> 08:05.000 Chester. 08:05.000 --> 08:06.000 Yes, sir. 08:06.000 --> 08:08.000 Tie up those horses and come here. 08:08.000 --> 08:10.000 We'll carry him into the shack. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 Be right there. 08:17.000 --> 08:18.000 Mr. Dillon? 08:18.000 --> 08:19.000 Yeah. 08:19.000 --> 08:20.000 He's fell his horse. 08:20.000 --> 08:21.000 Well, what about it? 08:21.000 --> 08:22.000 Well, his legs broke. 08:22.000 --> 08:24.000 Must have stumbled and he's trying to get away. 08:24.000 --> 08:25.000 You reckon I better shoot him? 08:25.000 --> 08:28.000 All right, you can do it as soon as we get this man out of the shack. 08:28.000 --> 08:30.000 All right, sir. 08:30.000 --> 08:32.000 Easy. Easy. 08:41.000 --> 08:44.000 All right, open the door, Chester. I'll keep hold of him. 08:45.000 --> 08:47.000 My head's locked. 08:47.000 --> 08:49.000 You suppose somebody lives in this forsaken place? 08:49.000 --> 08:52.000 Well, we'll find out. Go ahead and knock. 08:52.000 --> 08:54.000 Anybody in there? 08:55.000 --> 08:57.000 Open up! 08:57.000 --> 08:59.000 Anybody in there? 09:01.000 --> 09:05.000 There's no need for any more noise at my door. 09:05.000 --> 09:09.000 Just finished telling you men you can't stay in my house. 09:09.000 --> 09:11.000 You don't need that shotgun, ma'am. 09:11.000 --> 09:12.000 We don't mean any harm. 09:12.000 --> 09:15.000 I intend to defend my home, sir. 09:15.000 --> 09:19.000 No rough men are going to tramp around amongst my fine things. 09:19.000 --> 09:23.000 If you open the door a little wider, ma'am, you'll see we're not the same men. 09:23.000 --> 09:25.000 I don't open my home to any strangers. 09:25.000 --> 09:29.000 I'm Marshal Dillon from Dodge City and we got a badly injured man here. 09:29.000 --> 09:31.000 A United States Marshal? 09:31.000 --> 09:32.000 That's right, ma'am. 09:32.000 --> 09:35.000 Well, then I guess I'll have to let you in. 09:35.000 --> 09:39.000 But I don't hold with your Yankee government. I want that clear. 09:39.000 --> 09:42.000 All right, ma'am. Fine. Come on, Chester. 09:43.000 --> 09:45.000 Now, you just show us where you want us to put him. 09:45.000 --> 09:47.000 He hurt bad. 09:47.000 --> 09:49.000 I've had enough. 09:49.000 --> 09:53.000 Well, I suppose even a rough man has a right to die in a bed. 09:53.000 --> 09:56.000 But mind you, be careful of my things. 09:56.000 --> 09:58.000 All right, ma'am. We'll mind. 09:58.000 --> 10:00.000 Now, come on. 10:16.000 --> 10:20.000 I'll take care of Miller's horse, Mr. Dillon. Run the saddle. 10:20.000 --> 10:22.000 All right, good. 10:22.000 --> 10:26.000 Say, anything's a little strange in there? 10:26.000 --> 10:27.000 A little. 10:27.000 --> 10:30.000 Oh, that talk about not hurting her fine things. 10:30.000 --> 10:33.000 There ain't nothing there that's worth carting away except maybe that old pine. 10:33.000 --> 10:34.000 Yeah, I know. 10:34.000 --> 10:37.000 Everything else is all cracked and broke. 10:37.000 --> 10:40.000 Most ladies wouldn't give that stuff house room. 10:40.000 --> 10:44.000 You gentlemen would care to join me. I fixed a small supper. 10:44.000 --> 10:47.000 Well, that's very nice of you, ma'am. 10:47.000 --> 10:49.000 I just say it's nice. 10:49.000 --> 10:52.000 Mr. Hanford. He's my husband. 10:52.000 --> 10:57.000 Mr. Hanford always said I could spot a gentleman right away. 10:57.000 --> 11:03.000 I could see you two were gentlemen as soon as we exchanged pleasantries there in the entryway. 11:03.000 --> 11:04.000 Oh, thank you, ma'am. 11:04.000 --> 11:06.000 Mr. Proudfoot. 11:06.000 --> 11:08.000 Ma'am? 11:08.000 --> 11:12.000 Please take your hat off my cherrywood pyana. 11:12.000 --> 11:14.000 Well, ma'am, ma'am, it can't hurt nothing. 11:14.000 --> 11:21.000 I do not allow anything to mar the finish of my beautiful cherrywood pyana. 11:21.000 --> 11:22.000 Yes, ma'am. 11:22.000 --> 11:24.000 Thank you. 11:24.000 --> 11:26.000 Here's your plate. Please sit down. 11:26.000 --> 11:27.000 Thank you. 11:27.000 --> 11:31.000 I don't imagine your wounded friend will be able to partake. 11:31.000 --> 11:35.000 No, Miss Hanford, he's not likely to come to for some time. 11:35.000 --> 11:36.000 As if he ever does. 11:36.000 --> 11:39.000 I can't imagine how he got his wound. 11:39.000 --> 11:42.000 I had seen him just a few minutes before you gentlemen. 11:42.000 --> 11:47.000 Miss Hanford, ma'am, didn't you hear the shooting right outside your door? 11:47.000 --> 11:52.000 I have trained myself not to see and hear the ugly things of life. 11:52.000 --> 11:55.000 I just live here alone among my friends. 11:55.000 --> 11:58.000 But you said that you have a husband. 11:58.000 --> 12:09.000 My husband has been gone for two, three, four years now, Marsha. 12:09.000 --> 12:11.000 Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, ma'am. 12:11.000 --> 12:20.000 Mr. Hanford will never be content to live a quiet life, he thought he could when first we came here directly after the war. 12:20.000 --> 12:25.000 I had in mind he'd build me a new plantation. 12:25.000 --> 12:32.000 But, Marsha, just between you and me, Mr. Hanford didn't appreciate my lovely things. 12:32.000 --> 12:37.000 And one day, well, one day he just moved on west. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 Oh, that's too bad, ma'am. 12:39.000 --> 12:42.000 I do not need your pity, sir, I'm content. 12:42.000 --> 12:44.000 Well, sure, of course. 12:44.000 --> 12:48.000 I'd be obliged if you gentlemen would sleep out there on the veranda. 12:48.000 --> 12:53.000 Oh, that's all right, Chester, we'll sleep on the veranda. 12:53.000 --> 12:55.000 I am going to have to keep an eye on Miller, though, ma'am. 12:55.000 --> 12:57.000 I will watch over him, Marsha. 12:57.000 --> 12:59.000 Well, no, that's not your job, Miss Hanford. 12:59.000 --> 13:01.000 I'm mistress of this house, Marsha Dillon. 13:01.000 --> 13:03.000 I will watch over him. 13:03.000 --> 13:06.000 I will call you if there's any change. 13:06.000 --> 13:09.000 As a matter of fact, I'll look to him right now. 13:09.000 --> 13:12.000 Well, all right, ma'am. 13:15.000 --> 13:17.000 Mr. Dillon? 13:17.000 --> 13:19.000 Yeah, Chester. 13:19.000 --> 13:22.000 Mr. Dillon, is that slanty old porch of Randall? 13:22.000 --> 13:24.000 Well, it is to her. 13:24.000 --> 13:45.000 My, if she don't be all. 13:54.000 --> 13:59.000 Hometowns in America have a lot in common, and yet they're each one of a kind. 13:59.000 --> 14:02.000 Take, for example, Voltaire's Alaska. 14:02.000 --> 14:07.000 Since the earthquake on Good Friday in 64, folks have been building all over again. 14:07.000 --> 14:12.000 Folks like Max Wells, whose hardware store reared up and moved back two feet. 14:12.000 --> 14:20.000 In those awful hours, fuel tanks exploded, there were scattered fires, and the entire dock disappeared. 14:20.000 --> 14:23.000 Men drove to 35-mile roadhouse for help. 14:23.000 --> 14:25.000 But that was then. 14:25.000 --> 14:30.000 Now, Valdez is moving to solid ground five miles around the bay. 14:30.000 --> 14:34.000 New houses are up, the city hall and the freight dock are in, 14:34.000 --> 14:39.000 and children are buzzing over to the new Groton Harrison Elementary School. 14:39.000 --> 14:42.000 Valdez is pretty much well again. 14:42.000 --> 14:47.000 Tourists come to this ice-free harbor and visit Valdez and Columbia glaciers, 14:47.000 --> 14:51.000 over which early adventurers climbed to the goldfield. 14:51.000 --> 14:55.000 But if your hometown is Valdez, you already know this. 14:55.000 --> 14:59.000 We only wanted to remind you, it's still there. 14:59.000 --> 15:06.000 Music 15:06.000 --> 15:17.000 Music 15:17.000 --> 15:23.000 You can't get it right, Clarence. You know, every time I dig a grave, the ground seems harder than the last time. 15:23.000 --> 15:28.000 A grave digging isn't supposed to be easy, Chester. It's too permanent. 15:28.000 --> 15:34.000 Funny how many men die at daybreak, isn't it? I mean, when everything else is starting up and all. 15:34.000 --> 15:37.000 Well, I guess when you have to die, it's as good a time as any. 15:37.000 --> 15:40.000 Where do you reckon his brother is by now? 15:40.000 --> 15:45.000 Rack, I don't know. I wish you were going to have a long ride to catch up with him. 15:45.000 --> 15:51.000 Sure ain't one to hurry up a man about his dying, but I sure would have been glad to have been shut at this place for now. 15:51.000 --> 15:55.000 What's the matter, Chester? Don't you enjoy southern hospitality? 15:55.000 --> 15:59.000 Mr. Dullum, I have to walk around in that old shack on my hip toes. 15:59.000 --> 16:02.000 She's after me every minute about not hurting her things. 16:02.000 --> 16:06.000 Gracious goodness, I couldn't hurt them old things if I tried. 16:06.000 --> 16:10.000 Well, we can be leaving soon, Chester. We've done about all we can do, right? 16:10.000 --> 16:12.000 Get out! 16:12.000 --> 16:16.000 Mr. Dullum, in them bushes. Yeah, my guns are in the house. Come on! 16:23.000 --> 16:27.000 I believe it's customary. Will you get out of the way, please? I want my gun over there. 16:27.000 --> 16:29.000 What do you think that crazy fool's thinking of? 16:29.000 --> 16:32.000 I don't know, Chester, but he must have a good reason for sticking around. 16:32.000 --> 16:36.000 His brother? No, I don't think he'd take on these odds when he was pretty sure his brother was done for. 16:36.000 --> 16:39.000 I think he's got another reason. Where's the saddle that came off Miller's horse? 16:39.000 --> 16:44.000 Over there in the corner? Be careful with your heavy footsteps! 16:44.000 --> 16:46.000 Yeah, let's see now. 16:50.000 --> 16:53.000 Yeah, that's it. No wonder he stuck around. 16:53.000 --> 16:57.000 All that money makes up into a right, pretty little package, don't it? 16:57.000 --> 17:01.000 Mr. Dillon, I don't understand this sudden rudeness on your part. 17:01.000 --> 17:05.000 I'm sorry, ma'am, but I'm not too polite when I'm being shot at, and you stay away from those wonders. 17:05.000 --> 17:10.000 Thank you not giving me orders in my own house. Chester, let's push the piano in front of that window over there. 17:10.000 --> 17:13.000 We're like sitting ducks this way. You will not touch my cherry with fire. 17:13.000 --> 17:15.000 All right, come on, Chester. Of course. 17:15.000 --> 17:18.000 Oh, don't harm it! Oh, don't harm it! 17:21.000 --> 17:26.000 All right, now watch the front. You take the side. I don't think you'll wait long. 17:26.000 --> 17:29.000 How long must I endure this? How long? 17:29.000 --> 17:33.000 As long as that outlaw's out there, Miss Hanford. He's not going to let us out of here alive. 17:33.000 --> 17:38.000 You're going to stay here tramping around among my nice things until he goes away. 17:38.000 --> 17:42.000 I'm afraid so, ma'am. Well, then I'll just order him off my land. 17:42.000 --> 17:44.000 Miss Hanford, come back here! 17:44.000 --> 17:46.000 See here, sir! Miss Hanford! 17:46.000 --> 17:51.000 You're trespassing! I want you to ride on my land! 17:52.000 --> 17:55.000 He's shorter! Yeah. 17:55.000 --> 17:57.000 There he is, running for the creek. 17:58.000 --> 18:01.000 He's down. You got him. Yeah. 18:01.000 --> 18:03.000 You go make sure, will you, Chester? Yes, sir. 18:03.000 --> 18:05.000 I'll see to Miss Hanford. 18:09.000 --> 18:13.000 Miss Hanford. Miss Hanford. 18:13.000 --> 18:17.000 Oh, sure, dear, then. You arrived? 18:17.000 --> 18:22.000 I'm sorry, ma'am. He was no gentleman, was he, Mawson? 18:22.000 --> 18:25.000 Trespassing on a lady's property. 18:25.000 --> 18:27.000 No, ma'am, he wasn't. 18:27.000 --> 18:29.000 He's dead, Mr. Dillon. 18:30.000 --> 18:32.000 How's Miss Hanford? 18:32.000 --> 18:34.000 Not good. Not good at all. 18:35.000 --> 18:39.000 Miss Hanford, we're going to take you into your house. 18:39.000 --> 18:44.000 No, not just yet, Marshal. Don't move me. 18:44.000 --> 18:48.000 Let me die here on the brander. 18:48.000 --> 18:50.000 You'd be more comfortable if we... 18:50.000 --> 18:54.000 Please, Marshal. I won't delay you long. 18:54.000 --> 18:57.000 I won't delay you long. 18:57.000 --> 18:59.000 Well, is there anything we can do? 18:59.000 --> 19:03.000 I mean, is there any way to make you feel better? 19:03.000 --> 19:07.000 If you would just see... 19:07.000 --> 19:19.000 If you would just see that somebody takes care of my lovely Chester Hanford. 19:20.000 --> 19:22.000 Is she gone? 19:22.000 --> 19:28.000 Yeah. Well, I can carry her inside. 19:39.000 --> 19:41.000 Mr. Dillon? 19:41.000 --> 19:42.000 Yeah. 19:42.000 --> 19:46.000 She really believed Rack Miller to listen to her and go away, didn't she? 19:46.000 --> 19:50.000 Yeah. And he was no gentleman. 19:50.000 --> 19:55.000 Well, it's just a shame, that's what it is. 19:55.000 --> 19:58.000 Miss Piana sure must play pretty. 19:58.000 --> 20:03.000 The way she loved it, took care of it so good. 20:03.000 --> 20:05.000 What are you doing? 20:05.000 --> 20:10.000 Oh, I just thought I'd hit me a note or two. She wouldn't care, would she? 20:10.000 --> 20:13.000 No, I guess she wouldn't. 20:14.000 --> 20:19.000 Why? Why don't play at all? 20:19.000 --> 20:24.000 Look here, under the top. 20:24.000 --> 20:30.000 All the strings are rusted away. Just hanging there. 20:30.000 --> 20:35.000 Mr. Dillon, Miss Piana ain't made a sound for years. 20:35.000 --> 20:37.000 Hmm. 20:37.000 --> 20:41.000 Well, I guess I didn't have to play, Chester. 20:41.000 --> 20:45.000 I just had to look pretty. 20:45.000 --> 20:49.000 It was all she had. 20:49.000 --> 21:16.000 Here, if you will bear with me, is a quote from a speech rendered by that old political character Elijah Cuddlestone. 21:16.000 --> 21:22.000 Now, I mean to tell you that this man is a radical. 21:22.000 --> 21:24.000 A radical, mind you. 21:24.000 --> 21:32.000 Why, talk about change. He's used enough platform planks, even planks that is, in this campaign alone to build you a new courthouse. 21:32.000 --> 21:39.000 I say, a new courthouse, and still have enough planks left over to construct a warehouse for all of his you-bast mistakes. 21:39.000 --> 21:45.000 Well, Elijah was a bit outspoken, and that's how he used the word radical. 21:45.000 --> 21:50.000 Radical comes from radix, the Latin word for root. 21:50.000 --> 21:54.000 Actually, today, radical isn't much more than a term of abuse. 21:54.000 --> 22:00.000 Before the 18th century, radical essentially meant a person who wanted to get to the root of a matter. 22:00.000 --> 22:11.000 Toward the end of the 18th century, a group of English politicals became known as radical reformers because they wanted to revamp the existing political setup. 22:11.000 --> 22:19.000 They became a hated crew because folks didn't like change, and radical became a term of low reproach. 22:41.000 --> 23:03.000 Gunsmoke, produced and directed by Norman MacDonald, stars William Conrad as Matt Dillon, U.S. Marshal. 23:03.000 --> 23:11.000 Featured in the cast were Parley Bear as Chester, Howard McNear as Doc, and Georgia Ellis as Kitty. 23:11.000 --> 23:13.000 George Walsh speaking. 23:13.000 --> 23:22.000 Join us again next week for another specially transcribed story on gunsmoke. 23:22.000 --> 23:45.000 This is the United States Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.