Tombstone Territory (TV Series)

Day of the Amnesty (1959)

Richard Eastham: Harris Claibourne, Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Harris Claibourne : A road near Tombstone, Arizona Territory, September 16, 1889: Wally Jobe and Chick Umber - professional killers hired by the Hammond faction of the Tanner-Hammond land and cattle feud, a bloody range war spreading throughout the territory. So far 23 men had died - every road outside of Tombstone was a potential deathtrap.

• Harris Claibourne : An amnesty is a truce to stop wanton killings - a seering medicine to heal the gaping wounds of war, but which can leave little sores of infection to fester and spread.

• [last lines] 

  Harris Claibourne : Jobe had it figured right at the Oriental.

  Sheriff Clay Hollister : What do you mean?

  Harris Claibourne : Wonder if he knew he was playing for such high stakes when he said this was the only town he was ever in where a singleton ace beats two of a kind.