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01:00No, no! Hold on, hold on!
01:09What? Don't kill me! Don't kill me!
01:11Don't kill me!
01:12No, that'll work!
01:35Morg!
01:41Morg!
01:58Morg!
01:59That was it.
02:02The whole thing only lasted about 30 seconds.
02:06But it would become the most famous gunfight in Wild West history.
02:11And it would change everything for Wyatt Earp and America.
02:38Somebody get a doctor!
02:42I need a doctor!
02:44I need a doctor!
03:10Three cowboys were dead.
03:14Brothers Tom and Frank McClory.
03:18And Ike Clanton's younger brother, Billy.
03:35Billy!
03:37Billy!
03:39Billy!
03:40Billy!
03:56Doc, give me the whiskey.
03:59Here, take a swig of that.
04:06Nurse!
04:10You've got...
04:11Virgil Earp wounded through the leg.
04:14Morgan's seriously wounded.
04:15He's in horrible pain.
04:18Holliday's been skimmed by a bullet.
04:21And, I mean, you wouldn't think it was that painful,
04:23but it really hurts.
04:27In 1881, if you needed surgery,
04:30dying might actually sound like a better option.
04:34It was brutal.
04:36And barbaric.
04:38And your chances of surviving a bullet wound
04:42were pretty much zero.
04:46But often it wasn't a bullet that killed you.
04:48It was infection.
04:52You see, while the surgeons were poking around
04:55looking for the bullet,
04:56they were spreading germs from their dirty hands.
05:00The only way you had a chance of surviving
05:02is if you got shot in the arm of the leg.
05:05Because then the surgeon could just saw it off.
05:12You're not going to lose my leg.
05:15Now, call it fate or divine intervention,
05:18but it just so happened that one of the smartest doctors
05:21in the country was treating Morgan and Virgil.
05:26You're going to be just fine.
05:27Dr. George Goodfellow was a surgical pioneer,
05:32and one of the first to realize that washing your hands
05:35before surgery prevented infection.
05:38So who knows how many lives he saved just by that act alone?
05:43Look. Look.
05:46Look.
05:50While Wyatt was left wondering if his brothers were going to survive,
05:54most of the townspeople wanted to congratulate him.
06:00In the immediate aftermath of the shootout,
06:03the Earps are initially hailed as representatives of law and order.
06:08Sure, they killed a few people, but they were in the right when they did so.
06:19But Ike had fallen from grace.
06:26The once mighty mob boss was now the town's pariah.
06:32He'd started a gunfight and lost.
06:36He'd been completely humiliated.
06:41Ike Clanton was enraged for many, many reasons.
06:45Longstanding hatred of the Earps,
06:47the fact that he'd been humiliated and had to flee from the battle,
06:52and the fact that his brother had been killed.
06:56He was just consumed with a desire for vengeance.
07:12Now, Ike probably thought his days as the mob boss were over.
07:21But to hell with what people thought.
07:24He wasn't going anywhere.
07:37And this is where Ike did something totally unexpected.
07:48yellow in a position
08:12go to London
08:12The cowboys were placed in open-top coffins with a big sign that said murdered on the
08:19streets of Tombstone.
08:21This is sheer propaganda.
08:23They were in their Sunday best, looking so clean-cut, all-American.
08:28This is a real effort to win over public sentiment to the cowboy element and away from the herbs.
08:36And it worked.
08:43Casting.
08:59Casting.
09:09The thing is, Ike was just a
09:12just getting started three innocent young men in their prime were gunned
09:23down in cold blood by the very men that are supposed to protect this town Ike
09:30wanted to tell his version of events to as many people as possible so he used
09:35the press wider and his brothers Morgan Virgil you may call them lawmen I call
09:43them murderers Ike didn't just take control of the narrative he completely
09:50hijacked it and it's hard to believe but in the course of about 24 hours
09:55opinion started to shift from the Earps as heroes to murderers and the Cowboys as
10:03the innocent victims and that's when the story really blew up
10:15the story was picked up by big-city newspapers
10:24and soon spread across America
10:31the American newspaper industry is booming and there's a vast newspaper network all across the
10:40country and they're all competing for the most sensational version of a story and American
10:46newspaper readers wanted salacious stories they wanted corruption murder scandal infidelity and in
10:53this case gunfights because that's what sold newspapers the story about the gunfight at the
11:00okay corral couldn't have happened at a worse time because it landed just after another violent crime one
11:09that happened back East in Washington in 1881 America had a new president James Garfield he was young
11:18dynamic and popular he was the JFK of his time unfortunately in more ways than one
11:31while waiting to board a train he was gunned down by an assassin there is virtually no layer of protection
11:40for
11:40the president it's nothing like the protections that presidents have in the modern era and that allows for
11:46Garfield's assassin to walk right up to him on that train platform and shoot him the nation was horrified memories
11:55of Lincoln's assassination which happened only 16 years earlier came flooding back the whole country went into mourning
12:03even the white house was draped in black the death of a president was big news around the world and
12:09then soon after
12:11the story of the gunfight at the okay corral hit so you can imagine people were wondering what the hell
12:17was going on in America and news traveled fast it only took a day to reach England because of the
12:25transatlantic
12:26telegraph cable constructed a few years earlier running under the Atlantic Ocean
12:39and you know who this was a big problem for JP Morgan you see the news arrived in England just
12:48as he
12:48was about to close one of the biggest deals any American had ever attempted he'd spent weeks in London
12:54trying to secure an investment to help him take over the railroads in America and one of those
13:01investors was Lord Rothschild the northern Pacific have accepted my offer it's only a matter of time
13:09before the Erie Falls is something wrong I've spoken with our investors the feeling is now is not a good
13:19time a president assassinated and now I'm hearing stories about lawmen murdering innocent people it's
13:27rather disconcerting wouldn't you say whenever there is a crisis like the assassination of a president
13:47foreign investors take a moment and they wonder okay is this is this a good idea
13:53is this a good investment is my money going to be safe if I place it in an American railroad
14:01there was no way JP Morgan was going to lose this deal
14:05if Rothschild thought America was a disaster then Morgan was going to sort it out
14:12telegraph this to Washington yes sir after Garfield died the vice president became president his name
14:31Chester Arthur the only reason people have heard of him is that he's known as one of the worst presidents
14:37in history no one thought he was anything other than a decent guy he liked good meals the company of
14:44other gentlemen he dressed quite well he was a bit of a dandy but politically he was seen as a
14:50nothing
14:59he sent a telegraph to the governor of Arizona concerned about reports of a gunfight in tombstone
15:12investigate immediately and report forthwith
15:31the president's telegram basically said sort this out
15:40the governor of Arizona's response was to send a telegram basically saying the same thing
15:49to the sheriff of tombstone
15:56shit
15:58Johnny Behan was the sheriff and he was the top lawman in tombstone
16:06it was a well-paid job and he didn't have to do much police work
16:15he left that to the marshal and the deputy marshals who all reported to him and that was Virgil
16:23Morgan and Wyatt Earp what's important to understand about Sheriff Behan is that he was a politician
16:33the sheriff was an elected position so he had to stay on good terms with the locals including and
16:40maybe especially the cowboys
16:50you see Ike had a lot of influence in the town
16:55when Ike said vote for someone they voted and in return Behan turned a blind eye to Ike's criminal activities
17:12but that cozy relationship was now threatened
17:23because the governor had asked Behan to do a full investigation of the gunfight
17:35maybe he should just arrest Ike for causing the gunfight
17:40but you don't just arrest the mob boss not with an election coming up
17:47no he talked to him maybe he could get everyone to agree it was all just a big misunderstanding
17:57an accident
18:00nobody's fault
18:13no
18:14no
18:14no
18:17no
18:20no
18:22no
18:22no
18:26no
18:28no
18:28Nope.
18:29I have to write a report
18:32of the governor breathing down my neck about a gunfight.
18:35A gunfight that you started, huh?
18:44Well, that's not what happened.
18:48No.
18:50Why don't you go ahead and tell me what happened?
19:13We were just about to leave town and I heard Wyatt Earp screaming my name.
19:24All right, Clarton, where are you?
19:27What do they want?
19:28I don't know.
19:28Put your gun down.
19:29We don't want no trouble.
19:32They wanted to kill all of us.
19:35You sons of bitches.
19:37Don't shoot!
19:39Let them have it!
19:50I managed to escape.
19:53For God's sake!
19:56Run, rabbit, run.
20:14Don't shoot me!
20:15Don't shoot me!
20:16I'm unarmed!
20:25Don't shoot me!
20:27I'm unarmed!
20:27Don't shoot me!
20:29Please, no!
20:44Billy!
20:46Billy!
20:54They murdered him.
20:56Did you see?
20:57They shot him like a dog.
21:06All right.
21:09Well, if that's it, I guess I'll go talk to the others.
21:14You gonna speak with the Earps?
21:17I wouldn't be much of a sheriff if I didn't do that.
21:23So, Ike was basically saying that the Earps were shooting down in cold blood, these men who were surrendering.
21:29That's not what happened, but it was again, you know, Ike's way of twisting the story to make his brother
21:35and their associates look innocent.
21:40Behan knew Ike's story was bullshit, and usually that didn't matter. Whatever Ike said was good enough.
21:48But with the governor involved, Behan had no choice but to speak to his marshal, Virgil Earp, who, along with
21:56Morgan Earp, had barely survived the gunfight.
22:04Take it easy.
22:06And if you feel up for it, you can go ahead and tell me what happened.
22:13Oh, we don't want that!
22:21We went in there and we disarmed them.
22:24We weren't expecting them to fire.
22:30When we approached them near the O.K. Corral, they already had their guns raised.
22:36Billy Clanton fired first.
22:43We fired back in self-defense.
22:53Now, understandably, Virgil could only remember certain things.
22:57So it's probably best if you learned what really happened at the gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
23:07Most historians believe Billy went for his gun first and fired at Wyatt, just missing him.
23:13At the same time, Wyatt fired his gun not at Billy Clanton, but Frank McClory.
23:23Because he thought he was the most dangerous gunman of the bunch.
23:32Two of Ike's cowboys saw Frank get hit and ran like hell.
23:38That left four against four.
23:40The gunfire came in bursts.
23:45Frank returned to the fight, and his brother Tom tried to take cover behind a horse.
23:52Doc stalked him and then blasted him with a shotgun.
24:01He didn't last long after that.
24:06The strangest thing happened in the middle of the gunfight.
24:10Ike hadn't even pulled out a gun.
24:13He was frozen with fear.
24:16And in a panic, he ran towards Wyatt.
24:26Wyatt saw he had no gun in his hand and pushed him away.
24:30Ike ran into Fly's boarding house.
24:33As the gunfight continued,
24:36Morgan fired at Billy and got him in the right arm.
24:40He switched his gun to his left hand.
24:42Meanwhile, even though he was wounded, Frank McClory continued to fire
24:47and hit Virgil in the calf.
24:50Billy Clanton then hits Morgan in the shoulder.
24:54Frank fires at Doc, grazing him on the hip.
24:59Doc shoots Frank McClory in the chest.
25:05Morgan shoots and hits Frank in the head.
25:08At some point, Billy's hit in the chest.
25:11The bullet most likely coming from Morgan.
25:25He did the right thing.
25:28Howard does that.
25:30I ain't sure.
25:34You can rest up.
25:38You tough son of a bitch.
26:03You tough son of a bitch.
26:18Ike's plan to expose Wyatt Earp as a murderer had just unraveled.
26:26He was screwed, and he had to find another way.
26:38And this is where the story takes a massive turn.
26:44But to understand why, you have to know more about Sheriff Behan.
26:50You see, he was living with a beautiful actress, Josephine Marcus.
26:59Josephine was smart and talented, and way out of Behan's league.
27:05Behan had promised her a life of adventure, and had promised to marry her.
27:09But she waited, and waited, and neither happened.
27:18And the relationship quickly soured.
27:32What are you looking at?
27:47What are you looking at?
27:49What are you looking at?
27:59Where are you going?
28:12Johnny Behan is cheating on Josephine almost from the beginning.
28:18He had a girl in every brothel in Tombstone.
28:35But Josephine had a secret of her own.
28:42And it was only a matter of time before that secret got out.
28:52How long tell she sounds to die?
29:01What are you hoping to be just doing in this town?
29:14What's the supposed weekend?
29:14Wow.
29:15Oh, a pocky.
29:33How long do you have?
29:36An hour.
30:00Oh, my sweet Jesus.
30:10Help yourself.
30:21Now, there was always speculation about how this whole thing went down.
30:26Don't shoot the messenger.
30:29But one thing was for sure.
30:32I won't take care of it.
30:35Wyatt was having an affair with Josephie.
30:42This had all fallen into Ike's lap.
30:46Now, he just had to watch the whole thing play out.
31:05So, of all the women in all of Tombstone, Wyatt's got to steal the sheriff's girlfriend.
31:13And so, you have all the makings of a disaster.
31:42So, let's get here.
32:06Don't.
32:13Neither Behan, Wyatt or Josephine
32:16Ever talked about the moment when Behan confronted them
32:19So we don't know exactly what happened
32:22But you have to imagine Behan must have been so filled with rage
32:27That he desperately wanted to shoot Wyatt
32:32But he did something much smarter
32:33Wyatt Earp
32:36I'm arresting you for the murder of Billy Clanton
32:38Bray McClory and Tom McClory
32:46Put your clothes on
32:48The story that we never tell of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral
32:52Is that this was a love triangle
32:55A tale of jealousy and rage fought over a beautiful young woman
33:01Wyatt Earp had stolen Johnny Behan's girl
33:16So Behan makes a big show of it
33:19Marching him down into town
33:22Making sure everybody witnesses this
33:25There must be a personal factor here, right?
33:29Wyatt stole his girlfriend
33:36You will never see her again
33:40But also he is signaling to the cowboys
33:43That I'm on your side against Wyatt Earp
33:48Ike Clanton had gotten his revenge
33:51And now Behan was charging Wyatt
33:54His brothers and Doc
33:56With murder
33:58At the O.K. Corral
34:25This isn't good
34:28No shit
34:29No shit
34:58No shit
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