John F. Kennedy, 43, becomes the youngest man ever to be elected president of the United States, narrowly beating Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was also the first Catholic to become president. The campaign was hard fought and bitter. For the first time, On November 8, , Northern voters overwhelmingly endorse the leadership and policies of President Abraham Lincoln when they elect him to a second term.
With his re-election, any hope for a negotiated settlement with the Confederacy vanished. On November 8, , the famous Ford Rotunda stands in Dearborn, Michigan for the last time: the next day, it is destroyed in a massive fire. Some 1. He was unharmed. Live TV.
This Day In History. History Vault. Doc Holliday—gunslinger, gambler, and occasional dentist—dies from tuberculosis. US Government. When people hear that the movie character I would most like to be is from Tombstone, they assume I mean Wyatt Earp. I can never understand why. Wyatt Earp is good in a gunfight — he's brave and generally hits what he aims at — but he's not a gunfighter in the classic sense.
He's no quick-draw specialist. In contrast, the outlaw Johnny Ringo Michael Biehn is a legitimate gunslinger. Ringo engineers fights he knows he will win, like a boxer hand-picking his opponents. This is why he challenges Earp to a one-on-one shoot-out. And it is why, learning of the challenge, Doc Holliday staggers from his sickbed to take Earp's place. Reading on mobile?
Click to view. For me, what follows is one of the most inspiring sights in cinema: the disabled supporting character fighting through his physical limitations to easily defeat an enemy who has the film's great able-bodied hero completely outclassed. When Ringo thinks he sees Earp approaching, he is thrilled and eager to fight. When he recognises instead the pallid, infirm figure of Doc Holliday, he is suddenly terrified and stammers that their previous disagreements don't amount to a real quarrel.
He had discovered that he possessed a natural ability for gambling, and it quickly became his principal means of support. In the Frontier West, a gambler had to be able to protect himself, for he usually stood alone. Holliday faithfully practiced with a revolver and knife.
He soon developed a reputation as a man who could handle weapons, as well as cards and liquor. Holliday encouraged the stories that made him out to be a skilled gunman ready to kill at the drop of a hat. He did it for his own protection, since he was slim and frail and no match physically for most of the clientele in saloons.
According to legend, Holliday was already a killer before he came to Texas. Back in Valdosta, he was involved in an argument with some black youths over a swimming hole in the Withlacoochee River and was said to have killed one or more of them. Actually, he shot none of them; he fired over their heads. Many writers and newspaper reporters have had Holliday killing men he never met, in places he never was; killing men that were actually killed by someone else; and killing men that were not killed at all.
In Dallas, on January 2, , Holliday and a local saloonkeeper named Austin had a disagreement that flared into violence. Both men produced six-shooters.
Several shots were fired, but not one struck its intended target. Both shooters were arrested. Sometime later, Holliday supposedly shot and killed a prominent citizen and had to flee Dallas.
No newspaper accounts or court records could be found to support the death of this unnamed victim. In Jacksboro he supposedly enhanced his reputation with three fights. His alleged tally, accepted as gospel by some writers, was one gambler dead, two gamblers wounded and one 6th Cavalryman dead.
No newspaper accounts, court records or Army records mention any such occurrences. There, according to legend, he was drawn into a fight with local bully Budd Ryan. The victim carried horrible scars the rest of his life. Both Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson later recounted the tale many times, but neither of those famous Westerners had been present; they had only heard about it.
At some point after leaving Denver, Holliday briefly went to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, no longer using the name Mackey. Legend makers say he killed three unidentified men before he ended his visit. In truth, there is no evidence that he killed anyone in Wyoming. In the early fall of , Holliday was back in Fort Griffin, Texas.
Holliday found out where Rudabaugh was and informed Earp of his whereabouts — down near Fort Davis. The story goes that while playing poker, a gambler named Ed Bailey kept sifting through the discards, which was highly illegal.
Holliday warned him several times, but Bailey ignored him. The next time Bailey did it, Holliday just raked in the pot without showing his hand, which was according to the rules. Bailey pulled a revolver, but Holliday whipped out his trusty knife and went to work first. Bailey died without getting off a shot. The dead gambler apparently had friends because Holliday was put in jail, and a lynch mob began to form.
Holliday had in fact met Kate in the Flat a short time before he met Wyatt Earp. Tough, stubborn and fearless, she worked at the business of being a prostitute because she liked it. While Holliday was in jail and the mob was outside engaged in lynch talk, Big Nose Kate supposedly set fire to a barn. The burning building distracted the mob. Then Kate slipped into the jail, brandishing two six-shooters at the terrified jailer. She had horses ready, and she and Holliday rode off to Dodge City, Kan.
No newspaper articles or court records tell of such an incident. Also, he was not locked in jail, as the town had no jail at that time. Holliday was being held in a hotel room under guard. Kate actually did set fire to a shed behind the hotel as a diversion and did free Doc. John H. The local paper carried his ad:. Holliday, Dentist, very respectfully offers his professional services to the citizens of Dodge City and surrounding county during the Summer.
Office at Room No. Where satisfaction is not given, money will be refunded. Big Nose Kate coped with the shackles of respectability for about three months before she cast them off and returned to the bright lights of the saloons. Doc was livid with anger at Kate for using the name Mrs. Holliday and for making such a spectacle of herself. Her shenanigans were a terrible blow to his pride. Doc lost his desire to practice dentistry, and down came his shingle. Kate eventually took off for parts unknown, and Doc, feeling free and easy, headed for H.
It seems that two Texas cattlemen, Ed Morrison and Tobe Driscall, along with 25 Texas cowhands, were taunting Wyatt and were about to shoot him. At the last possible moment, Doc jumped in, a revolver in each hand.
During this distraction, Wyatt Earp regained his gun and pistol-whipped Morrison. Despite the overwhelming odds in their favor, the other Texans complied with the order. One report said that 50 revolvers were picked up from the street, which suggests that virtually every one of the Texans was a two-gun man. The Dodge City newspapers did not report any such incident, and there is no record of any large number of cowboys being arrested at one time.
More likely, Earp was arresting three cowboys, one of whom was trying to pull an out-of-sight pistol on Wyatt, when Holliday jumped up from a nearby poker table and dealt himself in, making the would-be gunman re-evaluate the situation.
In any case, Earp always said that Holliday had saved his hide that day. On his way to Colorado Territory, Holliday is said to have become involved in an argument with two gamblers — an argument that he won by killing both men.
And once in Trinidad, Colorado Territory, he supposedly got into a gunfight with an elusive gunman named Kid Colton. Legend, of course, has Doc also shooting Colton graveyard dead, thus adding another mythical notch to his gun. But, once again, no newspaper account or court record has surfaced that makes any mention of those two incidents. In the railroad construction camp of Otero, Doc is said to have killed yet another argumentative but unidentified soul, who was planted in the local cemetery.
As expected, there is no record or evidence whatsoever of such an incident. Bat Masterson added fuel to the Holliday legend when he gave an interview to the Arizona Weekly Citizen on August 14, Always prone to enlarge the facts in making his own life story a colorful extravaganza, Masterson did the same where Holliday was concerned. Holliday had run White, a bartender, out of Dodge and told him that if he ever saw him again, he would kill him.
They shoot and shoot with no one scoring a hit. Finally, Charley White is down! When he regained his senses he packed his belongings, went back to Boston and never came West again. No newspaper account or court records were found to verify that such a gunfight ever took place. But even if it did happen, Doc Holliday, the dangerous cold-blooded killer, still had not killed anyone yet.
Holliday left Las Vegas for Arizona Territory in the fall of In Prescott, he had a fantastic run of luck at the poker tables.
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