Archives
Too many Wyatt Earps walking Tombstone’s streets
April 1, 2009
High School Sports
Wyoming’s basketball team doesn’t have any cowboys named Tex or Hoss.
March 18, 1986
Movies
A Fighting Choice, Sunday’s new Disney movie, stars Beau Bridges and Karen Valentine as the parents of an epileptic 16-year-old (Patrick Dempsey) who takes them to court to try to obtain a risky treatment for his condition.
April 13, 1986
California
Terry (Ike) Clanton denies he’s trying to revise history concerning his distant relatives, the pivotal characters in Wyatt Earp’s celebrated 1881 gunfight at the OK Corral.
Nov. 26, 1995
The shootout’s 119th anniversary finds Clantons arguing that the killings by the Earps were an early case of police brutality.
Oct. 24, 2000
Sports
Terry Clanton would be the first to admit he was gambling when he went on the air with a sports card collecting and memorabilia talk show on radio station KORG (1190) in Anaheim.
Nov. 21, 1991
Joey Clanton claimed his second consecutive American Speed Assn. victory of the season, running away with the TireRack.com 300 at Irwindale Speedway in front of an announced crowd of 4,222 at the track’s first Sunday race.
April 8, 2002
Over the past 10 seasons, eight teams from the Avocado League have played for the San Diego Section 2-A title.
Sept. 9, 1988
World & Nation
Earl Clanton Jr., who took part in the largest Death Row breakout in U.S. history, was executed in the electric chair at the state penitentiary in Richmond, Va., for the murder of a school librarian during an $8 robbery.
April 15, 1988
“Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp / Brave, courageous and bold...”
Jan. 23, 1994