WYATT EARP DID not attend. He considered it a legal formality. The fight happened in broad daylight with hundreds of witnesses. How could there be any dispute about what happened? Wyatt had a tin ear for the vox populi at his best, and he was not at his best in the days that followed the shootout. And while a drinking man might have taken time to belt a few back under the circumstances, Wyatt was teetotal, so he was unaware of the arguments taking place in Tombstone’s smoky saloons. Doc Holliday started it. No, it was Morgan Earp! Well, I was there and all of the Earps had drawn their guns before they even turned onto Fremont. Of course they did! All night long, Ike was going around saying he’d shoot them on sight. Johnny Behan had already disarmed those boys, I tell you! The Earps shot them down like dogs. If Johnny Behan already took their guns, who in hell shot Virgil and Morgan and Doc Holliday? Answer me that! All right, I will! Wyatt shot them himself. They got in the way when he was shooting at Billy and the McLaurys.
