Saturday, January 10, 2009

Six degrees of Wyatt Earp

In my previous post, I mentioned the guy who worked at the federal prison in Bastrop where he met Jack Cerone, the Chicago gangster. If he didn't know the Rat Pack himself, he knew Sam Giancana and others who did. So Giancana knew Dean Martin(or the Rat Packer of your choice), who knew John Wayne, who as a young extra and stuntman met an old Wyatt Earp. Wayne said he patterned his lawmen characters after Earp. Bonus- through Earp, you get connected to Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson and Johnny Ringo.

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