GUNFIGHTS OF THE OLD WEST 30 min 18 sec

[Music] you [Music] howdy welcome to old El Paso what you see behind me are the streets of El Paso in 1880 1890 I'm going to share with you a little bit history today I'm going to talk about a couple of things people like Wyatt Earp spent one night here so there was too dangerous he went west of Tombstone Billy the Kid came through here a couple of times today we're gonna share with you a little bit of history about the four dead in five seconds and we're also going to talk a lot about John Wesley Hardin killed over 40 people before he met his demise and thank you for joining us in El Paso [Music] [Music] [Music] this is downtown El Paso today it's filled with people shopping hustling and bustling from one destination to another but from 1875 to roughly 1895 this was a most man-killing intersection in the American West [Music] this is modern-day El Paso's Camino Real Hotel formerly the Paso del Norte hotel built in about 1912 and a Cattleman's hotel prior to that this was the Ben dowell saloon was also the city post office it was a stage stop it was a Manning brothers saloon essentially it was the core of old El Paso the man-killing intersection of the American West [Music] you this is the site of the old Manning saloon and we're going to talk about the four dead and five seconds gun battle probably the wildest most colorful shootout in Western history and it began with an inquest taking place here because three Mexican Vaqueros had been killed in the bull ski up near Anthony New Mexico their bodies laying not in the street but in a buckboard here on El Paso Street and inside an inquest was just terminating city marshal Dallas student Myer is the first to leave and he walks across Del Paso Street and disappears into the old globe saloon Dallas Stoudenmire had no sooner entered the saloon than Gus crypt called the translator for the trial and also a city constable comes walking out toward his horse and right behind him comes George Campbell the ex city marshal and one of the accused Slayers of the three Vaqueros I thought dang this miscarriage of justice I ever did see that's ridiculous Campbell doesn't like the translations that Gus primp call is given and Campbell from roughly this area right here calls out to constable cramp call and says I tell you what anybody's standing for the Mexicans ought to be hug dirty hope you ain't talking about me well if the shoe fits wear it crimp call then begins arguing the two men are arguing and sitting right over here underneath the hotel window today in those days that's a Manning saloon and Johnny Hale a rancher from up around Anthony New Mexico is nursing a a whiskey bottle and George Campbell his friend still arguing with Gus cramp call but up to shoe fits you wear it amble says to heck with you George and Campbell walks over to get on his own horse at that minute Johnny Hale screams out to his partner Campbell and he draws his revolver and he shot constable crimp called down in the street then down the block city marshal Dallas student Meyer hears the gunfire comes on the run sees a dead man lying there in the street another person standing over him with a smoking six you tur and our marshal not being any dummy he knows immediately that a crime has been committed in his town so he reaches for his long barrel very accurate six-shooter and he aimed it at Johnny Hale and he fired and he killed an innocent bystander well that's the way it goes he cocked it aimed fired again and he shot down Johnny Hale killing Hale on the spot at this point George Campbell who had been ready to mount his horse and looking a gas that everything that's happening begins screaming this isn't my fight this isn't my fight my fact not my fight then the big marshal looks around and goes bang it out and puts a bullet in Campbell and there we had it four dead in five seconds one of the most dramatic bloodiest shootouts in American history well I tell you this is the biggest miscarriage of justice I've ever seen this is nonsense that's ridiculous I tell you what anybody's standing for the Mexicans ought to be hung giorgia hope you ain't telling about me now if the shoe fits word ya murdered me son of a [ __ ] [Music] like a lot of gun battles the four dead in five seconds shootout had its sequels bear in mind that Dallas student Meyer had been on the job a city marshal for three days when the four dead and five seconds gun battle took place prior to that another man by the name of Bill Johnson had applied to the job of city marshal but Bill Johnson drank a lot Bill Johnson had been City Marshal for less than a month when he was terminated due to heavy drinking however since most people in the city liked him they downgraded him to assistant marshal and he became the assistant to city marshal Dallas student Meyer but even student Meyer had problems with Johnson's drinking so he fired bill Johnson and two days after the famous four dead in five seconds gun battle bill Johnson takes a double-barrel shotgun and across the street between the two trees there was a pile of bricks stacked up where the state national hope to build a bank it's about eight o'clock in the evening it's just gotten dark Bill Johnson is on the pile of bricks with a double-barrel shotgun student Meyer is making his rounds and he's coming north of El Paso Street student Meyer gets roughly to the intersection here and bear in mind in those days El Paso was one-story adobe buildings and the streets were dirt it's my kind of knife find quiet today's our student Meyer making the turn walking toward pile of bricks unaware that Johnson is there Johnson aims the shotgun at him goes boom boom fired both barrels and missed student Meyer then pull both of this six shooters and put 9 bullets in poor old bill Johnson's so we win then back to my bar we're back in the box you ready yeah poor old bill Johnson fell dead there on that pile of bricks was later buried about two blocks from here where the El Paso Public Library is today and when they moved him to the present Concordia Cemetery some people wondered how he was doing so they pried the lid off the casket and according to some witnesses Bill Johnson was looking better than some of the people were who were staring down at him but any rate Johnson is today in in Concordia Cemetery and Dallas stood mired in those days was now a high-flying city marshal responsible for the four dead and five seconds shootout plus the very dramatic closure with the slaying of Bill Johnson across the street [Music] following the very dramatic 4 dead and five seconds shootout than the slaying of Bill Johnson across the street here in the center of El Paso Dallas student Meyer continued to serve a city marshal but he did not serve happily he drank too much there were occasions when he would walk into a saloon drink all afternoon finally couldn't stand any more fall onto the floor and sleep all night and nobody dared wake him up in particular he began feuding with the Manning brothers who ran the Manning brothers saloon Dallas student Myers deputy United States Marshal had his headquarters here in El Paso and one evening he had gone on the train up to Deming New Mexico to serve papers and at about 10 o'clock that night he has poured off the train at Union Station he walks down to the Manning saloon went inside looked around apparently didn't say much then left the Manning saloon and went down to what's known as the line or the brothel area where he spent the night about eight or nine o'clock the next morning he's out on the street his head is exploding from a terrible hangover and some people approached him and they say hey the Manning brothers are looking for you and they're going to kill you and he says why are they looking for me and the reply is while you were looking for them last night in the saloon and student Myers said no no no I wasn't looking for them I had all these wanted notices I was looking for other wanted people they weren't there so I looked around and I left so the city and Dallas Stoudenmire now realizes that there's that there's been a mistake and as a result you've got emissaries going back and forth from the Manning brothers to Dallas student Meyer all day long they agree they'll meet that afternoon in the Manning brothers saloon and sign another peace treaty and Dallas student Meyer was on time and he walked in and he looked around and there was doc Manning and there was James Manning two of the brothers but the third brother was missing and student Meyer says worse Frank James Manning says I don't know but I'll go getting so James Manning left at this point Dallas student Meyer who's about six to maybe six four and Doc Manning who's maybe five five or five six they bellied up through the bar they begin drinking and student Meyer makes a remark at some sons of [ __ ] have been telling lies about everybody this infuriates doc and they both begin saying you're a liar no you're a liar you're a liar both men reached for their gun student Meyer had his about halfway out of his hip pocket but the little doctor had a smaller gun and it was handy and he went bang and a bullet hit student Meyer squarely in the shoulder and his gun dropped to the floor student Meyer stumbled back several steps a little doctor in the meantime shot him again and the bullet hit student Meyer squarely in the shirt pocket but he had all those wanted notices folded up in there and a bullet didn't penetrate the skin but the impact knocked him through the batwing doors out here onto the side so at this point student Meyer begins lurching and staggering around he's trying to get his other gun out he has it he's over here he has the other gun out as the doctor comes running out the killing and student Meyer goes bang and his bullet hit the doctor in the arm and a little doctor Doc Manning his gun goes spinning into the dirt [Music] throwing the movies people go bang bang bang bang in reality they had to [ __ ] those things before they get farm again and student mired shot the doctor in the arm and now he puts the gun between his knees he's bleeding all over the place he's badly wounded he [ __ ] a gun but as he's pulling the the gun off the [ __ ] it the little doctor comes running up throws his arms around student Meyer and a two men now began bouncing off this adobe wall big Dallas student Meyer trying to shake him loose and killing and a little doctor hanging on for dear life and in a meantime James Manning who had gone to look for his other brother Frank James hearing all the shooting comes on the run sees what's happening here against the wall Manning takes out his own gun from his coat pocket aimed at its student Mars bobbing and weaving head fired missed the bullet shattered a barber pole he fired again after cocking it the bullet hits student Meyer right behind the right ear and he fell dead there on the sidewalk with a little doctor on top of him and a little doctor wildly beating student Meyer over the head with his own gun student Meyer was stone dead the Masonic home paid $15 for a suit they also paid train fare and a shifting for burial down to Columbus Texas both Manning brothers were tried for murder at the courthouse at Isleta about 15 miles east of El Paso they were both acquitted they lived in El Paso for perhaps another year and then moved on and Doc Manning died in Arizona and James Manning who had actually slammed Dallas student Meyer died in Los Angeles California and is buried in Forest Lawn the burial place of all the movie stars you [Music] you [Music] you [Music] here at the corner of San Antonio and Mesa Street three blocks east of the famous 4 dead and five seconds shootout we come to the Acme saloon the scene of a shootout when John Wesley Hardin perhaps the West's most notorious gunman earlier in the afternoon he had argued with constable John Selma are y'all good in it there's a bathroom entirely son of a [ __ ] which one blood on the police department he pulled my woman at robbed her a $50 no one you talked about my boys like that get away with it I'm not armed get yourself good I'll get my gun and I'll meet you smoking the two men were obviously very upset with one another at about 10 o'clock that night John Wesley Hardin came walking down San Antonio Street entered a door that was at this exact location the bar was right inside the door he walked down to the end of the bar but it was a little bit crowded and he came back to the head of the bar only about 15 yards from where I'm sitting now [Music] okay [Music] in those days the men rode dykes for the drink the game called ship captain and crew and Hardin picked up the dice rollin down the bar turned to a grocers standing beside him and said Brown you've got four sixes to be round you got four sixes to be [Music] and at that moment constable John Selman walked through the door fired four quick shots the first one hit Hardin in the back of the head the old gunfighter hit the floor flat on his back stone dead and a western era had ended [Music] [Music] the body of hardin was cleaned the newspaper said that except for being dead he was in pretty good shape and he was buried out in Concordia Cemetery in El Paso for today his grave is still El Paso's best known tourist attraction I saw him he's buried the banks of the river there anybody would know about it and that started the life of John Wesley Hardin for those who would like to visit with John Wesley Hardin the grave is always open at Concordia or once each April each year there is a walkthrough in which characters play the part of Hardin and other romantic historic figures and El Paso's early turbulent history now guys all right we want that reward money we wanted out with you taking you to stand out you stop bullsquid cute yeah [Music] [Music] oh no pass it was a wild and wicked border town why even as ladies carried guns had had our share of gunfights one of the most famous happened on a warm April night in 1881 right here on Utah Street in South El Paso where shady ladies ran what we called boarding houses my fine establishment though had its competition in a oneness Etta Clark a man who was forever roping away my girls and my clients $25 for back rent your clothing in your jewelry and you're gonna pay a while yeah you're a cheap I work for you there's all kinds of customers out here I can work with and leave you for goodness time you just wait and see you better sober up little [ __ ] is a liar and she's a cheat and I don't have to work for her so I'm ready to take you up on your offer [Music] [Music] [Music] so away [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] it looks big Alice was shot in the pubic arts but the newspapers made a mistake and creditors of public arch and I guess they had it right all along but she recovered and sold the city of El Paso [Music] we're at the alleyway right off of San Antonio Street and this is the original building of the old wigwam saloon one of the top five saloons in El Paso John Wesley Hardin at one time owned a half interest in this saloon you did you're drinking downstairs which was legal and your gambling upstairs which at that time was still legal and there was a stairway coming down into the alley and John Solman who had slammed John Wesley Hardin he has gone on trial it's a hung jury he is waiting to be retried again and he is on Easter Sunday 1896 he's doing what all gun fighters do is getting roaring drunk it's late at night John Selman comes down the stairway into the alley and who does he encounter but deputy United States Marshal George Scarborough well John Sulman has a young son John Selman Jr who's in jail over in Juarez and Selman a Scarborough for some assistance and getting his son out of the Juarez prison Scarborough refuses the two men argue as a result scarborough puts four bullets in John Selman and he died that afternoon on the operating table with sister's hospital which is today called hotel-dieu [Applause] someone's gun turned up missing it was found later somebody had swiped it on the night of the shooting and Salman died that afternoon at hotels do in those days they called it sister's hospital he died there and is buried in Concordia Cemetery 500 yards from where John Wesley Hardin is buried in fact it was only a couple of weeks ago that we discovered where Salman was all this time we've we've been looking for him but he was killed here and this ended this was the last of the great gun fighters in El Paso and all of this has been brought to you by the six guns and shady ladies [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 30min 21sec (1821 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 22 2020