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I see.
That'll be all, Mr. Brocius.

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Now, is it a fact that you're
a heavy financial backer

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of another one of your employees,
Pete Spence,

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for the Tombstone City Marshal post
now held by Virgil Earp?

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It is a fact.
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That will be all.
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When you heard the shooting,
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why did you not go to the aid
of your brother and the McLowerys?

:14:30
It's been so long since there's been
a gunfight in this county,

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I could scarcely believe my ears.
:14:35
When you did ascertain
that a gunfight was actually in progress,

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what did you do?
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Nothing. I was unarmed.
:14:43
I find that my familiarity with weapons
is not an asset to me as a businessman.

:14:47
It has been stated
that your employees...

:14:52
the bookkeeper
and the cattle breeder...

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were armed.
Why, Mr. Clanton?

:14:57
I've been told that there's
a plot to assassinate me.

:15:01
Because of my stand for freedom
of the range against the easterners.

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In my opinion...
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such was the purpose of
the marshal's attack on the O.K. Corral.

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That is all.
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Then you did have an animosity
toward the Clanton group

:15:19
prior to October 26, 1881?
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Everyone in town knows I did.
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Oh, Marshal, you walked down
to that O.K. Corral

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with your brothers and Doc Holliday
in a state of frustration,

:15:29
with malice in your heart,
toward lke Clanton and his group.

:15:31
I've said that. Repeating the question
won't make it any stronger.

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That's all.
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Just a moment, Your Honor.
I should like to reexamine the defendant.

:15:42
Wyatt, did malice move you
against the Clanton group?

:15:46
No.
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Would you tell the court what did?
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The Clanton group was armed
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and made threats
of death and violence against us.

:15:55
It was our duty as sworn peace officers
to disarm and arrest them.

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I would disarm and arrest
General Ulysses S. Grant


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