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The gunfight, believed to have lasted only about thirty seconds, was fought between the outlaw Cowboys Billy Clanton, Tom McLaury and his brother Frank McLaury, and the opposing lawmen Virgil Earp and his brothers Morgan and Wyatt Earp, aided by Doc Holliday acting as a temporary deputy of Virgil.
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Abdul Rahman Jabarah was killed in a gunfight with Saudi security forces, believed to have been involved in the attack, as was Zubayr Al-Rimi.
After a fierce gunfight, Graham is believed dead, and falls to the ground, and Anderson reunites with his daughter.
** At least four Shia Muslims, believed to be members of the Mahdi Army are killed by US soldiers in a gunfight following a United States raid into Sadr City, eastern Baghdad.
Following the two-hour gunfight between Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists based in Pakistan and Indian police, in which six terrorists were killed, opposition parties called for a nationwide strike with the country's leaders condemning the attack, believed to have been masterminded by Dawood Ibrahim.
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Behan testified that when he searched Tom McLaury for a weapon prior to the gunfight, he was not thorough, and that Tom might have had a pistol hidden in his waistband.
Even the Governor of the Arizona Territory, John C. Frémont, reported after the gunfight, " Many of the very best law-abiding and peace-loving citizens Tombstone have no confidence in the willingness of the civil officers to pursue and bring to justice that element of out-lawry so largely disturbing the sense of security ... opinion is quite prevalent that the civil officers are quite largely in league with the leaders of this disturbing and dangerous element.
The smoke from the gunpowder may have added to the confusion and bedlam of the gunfight in the narrow space.
Of the seven Hot Springs police officers that have been killed while in service of the department, three died during that gunfight, killed by deputies of the Garland County Sheriff's Office.
The sale seems to have been executed smoothly, but Todd unexpectedly tries to rob Rahad, and is killed in the ensuing gunfight.
Yet another claimed to have killed the Benders during a gunfight and buried their bodies on the prairie.
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A gunfight lasted for four hours, in which an RIC officer, Head Constable William Rowe, was killed and David Kent was seriously wounded.
Returning the gunfire, a platoon of 35 CRPF soldiers killed all five of the fighters in a gunfight that lasted for over an hour.
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This not only gave them a place to hide after the gunfight began, but put Snipers 1 and 2 in the line of fire of the other three snipers on the control tower.
No armored vehicles were at the scene at Fürstenfeldbruck, and were only called in after the gunfight was well underway.
He had developed a reputation as a no-nonsense, hard-nosed lawman, but prior to the gunfight in October, 1881, had been involved in only one shooting in Dodge City during 1878.
On November 22, he testified that he had arrived in Tombstone only the day before and had no knowledge of any of the events or any of the Cowboys or the Earps prior to the day of the gunfight.
* Extensive examination not only of the gunfight and vendettas, but of the myth-making that took place surrounding the OK Corral incident.
" He and Ringo were prevented from a gunfight only by the Tombstone police ( which did not include the Earps at the time ), who arrested them both.
Billy Claiborne had been in one gunfight prior to the shootout and was the only member of the Cowboy faction that had prior gunfighting experience ( not counting the Skeleton Canyon massacre, in which the McLaurys and Clantons took part ).
The only consensus is that the official version of events is incomplete and that an unidentified third person was present at the fatal gunfight.
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Corral was a gunfight that took place at about 3: 00 p. m. on Wednesday, October 26, 1881, in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, and is generally regarded as the most famous gunfight in the history of the American Old West.
Subsequent stories about the gunfight published in the Nugget after that day supported Behan and the Cowboys ' view of events.
Testifying about the gunfight itself, he said he saw " the marshal go up and speak to this other party.
* Mister Blueberry ( 1995 – 2005 ), a 5-volume story arc of the comics series Blueberry by French artist Jean Giraud aka Moebius combines multiple plots including one about the gunfight.
* Frontier Earth ( 1999 ), a sci-fi / western novel by actor Bruce Boxleitner, about the events leading up to the gunfight.
Why was the press — Britain's tabloids were jubilant — told lies about a huge car bomb being defused and about the three suspects having died in a gunfight?
Fearing for his safety, McCall soon left the area and headed into Wyoming, where he repeatedly bragged about the details of how he had killed Hickok in a " fair " gunfight.
One of Ringo's closest friends, " Curly Bill " Brocius, was killed by Wyatt Earp in a gunfight at Iron Springs ( later Mescal Springs ) about from Tombstone.
Former Mossad Director Zvi Zamir, who was present at the airport during the final gunfight, is interviewed about his views on the failed rescue ( he had previously been interviewed on this subject in an NBC profile of the Munich massacre broadcast during the Barcelona Olympics ).
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At Acoli's trial, Harper testified that the gunfight started " seconds " after Foerster arrived at the scene.
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In 1801, the King's Pardon was offered to any smuggler giving information on the Mullion musket men involved in a gunfight with the crew of HM Gun Vessel Hecate.
Long after America's Wild West was tamed, Vila was the scene of the occasional gunfight and public guillotining.
This structure was demolished to make way for the present one, which was built in 1917 and gained notoriety fifty years later when it was the location of a gunfight between land rights activists and authorities.
The gunfight was relatively unknown to the American public until 1931 when author Stuart Lake published what has since been determined to be a largely fictionalized biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal, two years after Earp's death.
During the gunfight, Doc Holliday was bruised by a bullet fired by Frank that struck his holster and grazed his hip.
Billy " the Kid " Claiborne was killed in a gunfight in Tombstone in late 1882, by gunman Franklin Leslie.
The gunfight and its aftermath stand for the change overcoming American as the Western frontier ceased to exist, between a modern nation that was rapidly industrializing, pushing out what had been a largely agrarian economy.
The result was a viscerally satisfying fight with far less actual hazard than either a sword or gunfight.
* Joseph Isaac ( Ike ) Clanton ( 1847 – June 1, 1887 ), was a member of a group of outlaws known as the Clanton Gang, who moved to water canyon, near Eagar, soon after the gunfight at O-K Corrall, in Tombstone, Arizona.
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