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Doc Holliday
Doc Holliday | |
Holliday's dental school graduation photo at age 20 in 1872
Born | John Henry Holliday August 14, 1851 Griffin, Georgia, U.S. |
Died | November 8, 1887 Glenwood Springs, Colorado, U.S. |
(aged 36)
Resting place
Pioneer Cemetery 39°32′21.987″N 107°19′9.02″W / 39.53944083°N 107.3191722°W |
Education | Graduated from Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872 at age 20 |
Occupation | Dentist, professional gambler, gunfighter |
Known for | Gunfight at the O.K. Corral Earp Vendetta Ride |
Parents |
John Henry "Doc" Holliday (August 14, 1851 – November 8, 1887) was an American gambler, gunfighter, and dentist of the American Old West who is usually remembered for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
As a young man, Holliday earned a D.D.S. degree from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery and set up a dental practice in Atlanta, Georgia. In 1873 he was diagnosed with tuberculosis, the same disease that had claimed his mother when he was 15. He moved to the American Southwest in hopes that the climate would prolong his life. Taking up gambling as a profession, he subsequently acquired a reputation as a deadly gunman.
During his travels, he met and became a good friend of Wyatt Earp and his brothers. In 1880, he moved to Tombstone, Arizona, and participated alongside the Earps in the famous gunfight at the OK Corral. This did not settle matters between the two sides, and Holliday was embroiled in ensuing shootouts and killings. He successfully fought being extradited for murder and died in bed at a Colorado hotel at the age of 36.
The legend and mystique of his life is so great that he has been mentioned in countless books and portrayed by various actors in numerous movies and television series. For the 125-plus years since his death, debate has continued about the exact crimes he may have committed. It is believed that Holliday had killed between three to six men in his lifetime, has been to eight or more shootouts, and wounded countless others.[1]
Early life and education[edit]
Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia, to Henry Burroughs Holliday and Alice Jane Holliday (née McKey).[2] His father served in the Mexican–American War and the Civil War.[3] His family baptized him at the First Presbyterian Church in 1852.[4] Holliday's father brought with him an adopted son after the Mexican-American War, and taught Holliday bushwacking.
In 1864 his family moved to Valdosta, Georgia.[4] Holliday's mother died of tuberculosis on September 16, 1866, when he was 15 years old.[2] The same disease killed his stepbrother. Three months later, his father married Rachel Martin. While in Valdosta, he attended the Valdosta Institute,[4] where he received a strong classical secondary education in rhetoric, grammar, mathematics, history, and languages—principally Latin but also French and some Ancient Greek.[4]
In 1870 the 19-year-old Holliday left home to begin dental school in Philadelphia. On March 1, 1872, at the age of 20, he met the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery (which later merged with the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine).[2] He graduated five months before his 21st birthday, which would have been problematic since this age was needed both to hold a D.D.S. degree and to practice dentistry as anything other than a student under a preceptor in Georgia.[5]:p50
Doc won award as a dentist during the Annual Fair of the North Texas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Blood Stock Association at the Dallas County Fair by Holliday and his dental partner Doctor John A. Seegar. Holliday took all three awards - "best set of teeth in gold," "the best in Vulcanized rubber" and "the best set of artificial teeth and dental ware.[6]
Holliday did not go home after graduation but worked as an assistant with a classmate, A. Jameson Fuches, Jr., in St. Louis, Missouri.[5]:p51 By the end of July he had moved to Atlanta, where he lived with his uncle and his family while beginning his career as a dentist.[7] A few weeks before his birthday, the Atlanta papers carried an announcement by noted dentist Arthur C. Ford in Atlanta that Holliday would fill his place in the office while he was attending dental meetings. This was the beginning of Holliday's career in private practice as a dentist, but it lasted only a short time, until December.[5]:p53, 55
Holliday's cousin by marriage was Margaret Mitchell, who wrote Gone With the Wind.[8]
Author Karen Holliday Tanner reported that Holliday was born with a cleft palate and partly cleft lip that was repaired by his uncle, Dr. J.S. Holliday, and a family cousin, the famous physician Crawford Long. She wrote that Holliday needed many hours of speech therapy conducted by his mother.[7]:24 Another Holliday biographer, Gary L. Roberts, argues that it is unlikely that an infant as young as two months would have undergone cleft palate surgery in that era, as most operations of this type were postponed until the child was around two years old. Roberts asserts that such an early procedure would have been sufficiently noteworthy as to merit mention in local and national media and medical journals. Thus, he considers it doubtful that Holliday had a cleft palate at all and dismisses the claim that a surgical scar is visible in the graduation photograph. This portrait, taken at the age of 20, supports accounts that Holliday had ash-blond hair. In early adulthood, he stood about 5 feet 10 inches (178 cm) and weighed about 160 pounds (73 kg).
Shortly after beginning his dental practice, Holliday was diagnosed with tuberculosis. He may have contracted the disease from his mother, although he may also have caught it from a coughing or sneezing patient. Little or no precaution was taken against this during dental procedures, as tuberculosis was not known to be contagious until 1885. He was given only a few months to live, but he considered that moving to the drier and warmer southwestern United States might slow the deterioration of his health.[2][9]
Gambler and gunman[edit]
In September 1873, Holliday moved to Dallas, Texas, where he opened a dental office with fellow dentist and Georgian John A. Seegar. Their office was located between Market and Austin Streets along Elm Street, about three blocks east of the site of today's Dealey Plaza.[10] He soon began gambling and realized this was a more profitable source of income, since patients feared going to his office because of his ongoing cough. On May 12, 1874, Holliday and 12 others were indicted in Dallas for illegal gambling.[10] He was arrested in Dallas in January 1875 after trading gunfire with a saloon-keeper, but no one was injured and he was found not guilty.[2] He moved his offices to Denison, Texas, and after being found guilty of, and fined for, "gaming" in Dallas, he decided to leave the state.
One of Holliday's earliest shootings happened in 1873. A young Holliday together with friends went to their favorite bathing place, but discovers it occupied by a group of African-American youth. Holliday and his companions told them to leave, but were defiant. Enraged, Hollliday left and returned carrying either a shotgun or a pistol and started firing. Some of the Negroes started firing at him as well. Accounts of this varied. Holliday's family denied him ever killing anyone that day, but two accounts (one from Bat Masterson) said that Holliday killed one to two of the group.[11]
Holliday made his way to Denver, traveling the stage routes and staying at army outposts along the way, practicing his trade as a gambler. In the summer of 1875 he settled in Denver under the alias "Tom Mackey", working as a Faro dealer for John A. Babb's Theatre Comique at 357 Blake street. There, he got involved in an argument with Bud Ryan, a well-known gambling tough. A fight ensued and Doc mutilates him with his knife.[12] Doc left after hearing about gold being discovered in Wyoming, and on February 5, 1876, he relocated to Cheyenne, working as a dealer for Babb's partner, Thomas Miller, who owned a saloon called the Bella Union. In the fall of 1876, Miller moved the Bella Union to Deadwood (site of the gold rush in the Dakota Territory), and Holliday moved with him.[13]
In 1877, Holliday returned to Cheyenne and Denver, eventually making his way to Kansas to visit an aunt. He left Kansas and returned to Texas, setting up as a gambler in the town of Breckenridge, Texas. On July 4, 1877, he got involved in an altercation with another gambler named Henry Kahn, whom Holliday beat with his walking stick repeatedly. Both men were arrested and fined, but later in the day Kahn shot Holliday, wounding him seriously.[14]
The Dallas Weekly Herald incorrectly reported Holliday as dead in its July 7 edition. His cousin, George Henry Holliday, moved west to take care of him during his recovery. Fully recovered, Holliday relocated to Fort Griffin, Texas, where he met "Big Nose Kate" (Mary Katharine Horony) and began his longtime involvement with her.[14] In Fort Griffin, Holliday was initially introduced to Wyatt Earp through mutual friend John Shanssey.[15] Earp had stopped at Fort Griffin, Texas, before returning to Dodge City in 1878 to become the assistant city marshal, serving under Charlie Bassett.[16]:31 In the summer of 1878 Holliday assisted Earp during a barroom confrontation when Earp "was surrounded by desperadoes". Earp credited Holliday with saving his life that day, and the two became friends as a result.[17]
Holliday was still practicing dentistry on the side from his rooms in Fort Griffin and in Dodge City, as indicated in an 1878 Dodge newspaper advertisement (he promised money back for less than complete customer satisfaction), but this is the last known time he attempted to practice.[15] Holliday was primarily a gambler, although he had a reputation as a deadly gunman. In 1975, Holliday got an argument with saloon-keeper Charles Austin during a game. Both drew their pistols and fired several shots, but no one was injured. It was in this time that Holliday was now called "Doc" by many.[18]
One documented instance happened when Holliday was employed during a railroad dispute. On July 19, 1879, Holliday and noted gunman John Joshua Webb were seated in a saloon in Las Vegas, New Mexico, when a former U.S. Army scout named Mike Gordon tried to persuade one of the saloon girls, a former girlfriend, to leave town with him. When she refused, Gordon stormed outside, One report says he began firing into the building,[19] and another that after Doc followed him outside, Gordon shot at him.[20] In either case, Holliday pulled his own weapon and killed him. When Gordon died the next day, Holliday left town.[19] Doc fled to Apache country in Kansas Territory (now Colorado), as authority try to capture him for questioning and for his gambling. Making stops along the way in Pueblo, Leadville, Georgetown and Central City. He left three more dead pursuers in his wake,[12] but only one documented victim was a probability; a colored soldier named Private Jacob Smith.[21]
Dodge City was not a frontier town for long. By 1879 it had become too respectable for the sort of people who had seen it through its early days. For many, it was time to move on to places not yet reached by the civilizing railroad—places where money was to be made. By this time Holliday was as well known for his prowess as a gunfighter as for his gambling. Through his friendship with Wyatt and the other Earp brothers, especially Morgan and Virgil, Holliday made his way to the silver-mining boom town of Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in September 1880. The Earps had been there since December 1879. Some accounts state that the Earps sent for Holliday when they realized the problems they faced in their feud with the Cowboy faction. In Tombstone, Holliday quickly became embroiled in the local politics and violence that led up to the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in October 1881.
Prior to the gunfight, Doc heard that a Tombstone bar owner, Milt Joyce, was spreading rumors about Doc robbing a stagecoach. He rushed drunk over to the saloon and sends abuse to Joyce. When Joyce brandished a pistol at him, Doc shot the six gun out of Joyce's hand, putting a bullet through his palm. Seconds later he shot Joyce's bartender Parker in the toe when the latter tried to draw his pistol. But Milt managed to counter by pistol whipping Holliday that knocks him out. Holliday was then detained. In October 26, 1881, Doc sought out Ike Clanton when he learned Ike was the one spreading the rumors. Doc then challenges Ike to a gunfight. Clanton pleaded to be spared and was later pistol whipped by Wyatt that day. The Clanton-McLowery clan then sent a challenge to the Earp's for a showdown the next day at the OK Corral.[22][23]
The gunfight happened in front of, and next to, Fly's boarding house and picture studio (where Holliday had a room) the day after a late night of hard drinking and poker playing by Ike Clanton. The Clantons and McLaurys collected in the space between the boarding house and the house west of it before being confronted by the Earps. Holliday may have thought they were there specifically to assassinate him.[24] Holliday is credited to killing two of the three cowboys involved in the gunfight; Tom McLaury with a shotgun, and Frank McLaury with his pistol, and may have also killed the third man Billy Clanton. During the gunfight, Frank McLaury challenges Holliday and yells, "I've got you now," but Holliday replies back, "Blaze away! You're a daisy if you have," before he and Morgan Earp shoots Frank dead. Holliday was grazed in the hip during the fight.[25]
It is known that Holliday carried a coach gun from the local stage office into the fight. He was given the weapon just before the fight by Virgil Earp, as Holliday was wearing a long coat that could conceal it. Virgil Earp in turn took Holliday's walking stick, and by not going conspicuously armed, Virgil was seeking to avoid alarm in the citizenry of Tombstone, and in the Clantons and McLaurys.[26]
An inquest and arraignment hearing determined the gunfight was not a criminal act on the part of Holliday and the Earps. The situation in Tombstone soon grew worse when Virgil Earp was ambushed and permanently injured in December 1881. Then Morgan Earp was ambushed and killed in March 1882. After Morgan's murder, Virgil Earp and many remaining members of the Earp families fled town. Holliday and Wyatt Earp stayed in Tombstone to exact retribution on Ike Clanton and the corrupt members known as the Cowboys. In Tucson, while Wyatt, Warren Earp, and Holliday were escorting the wounded Virgil Earp and his wife Allie on the first stage of their trip to California, they prevented another ambush, and this may have been the start of the vendetta against Morgan's killers.
Earp Vendetta Ride[edit]
Several Cowboys were identified by witnesses as suspects in the shooting of Virgil Earp on December 27, 1881, and the assassination of Morgan Earp on March 19, 1882. Some circumstantial evidence also pointed to their involvement.
Wyatt Earp had been appointed Deputy U.S. Marshall after Virgil was maimed. He deputized Holliday, Warren Earp, Sherman McMaster, and "Turkey Creek" Jack Johnson, and they guarded Virgil Earp and his wife Allie on their way to the train for California. In Tucson, the group spotted Frank Stilwell and Ike Clanton who they thought was lying in wait to kill Virgil. On Monday, March 20, 1882, Frank Stilwell's body was found at dawn alongside the railroad tracks, riddled with buckshot and gunshot wounds.[27]
Tucson Justice of the Peace Charles Meyer issued arrest warrants for five of the Earp party, including Holliday. On March 21, they returned briefly to Tombstone, where they were joined by Texas Jack Vermillion and possibly others. Wyatt deputized the men who rode with him. After leaving Tombstone, the posse made its way to Spence's wood-cutting camp in the South Pass of the Dragoon Mountains. There they found and killed Florentino "Indian Charlie" Cruz. Over the next few days they also located and killed "Curly Bill" Brocius and wounded at least two other men thought to be responsible for Morgan's death. Holliday and four other members of the posse were still faced with warrants for Stilwell's death. The group elected to leave the Arizona Territory for New Mexico and then Colorado. While in Trinidad, Colorado, Wyatt Earp and Holliday parted ways, going separately to different parts of Colorado. Holliday arrived in Colorado in mid April 1882.[5]
Extradition fails[edit]
On May 15, 1882, Holliday was arrested in Denver on the Arizona warrant for murdering Frank Stilwell. Wyatt Earp, fearing that Holliday could not receive a fair trial in Arizona, asked his friend Bat Masterson, Chief of Police of Trinidad, Colorado, to help get Holliday released. The extradition hearing was set for May 30.[28]:230 Late in the evening of May 29, Masterson needed help getting an appointment with Colorado Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin. He contacted E.D. Cowen, capital reporter for the Denver Tribune, who held political sway in town. Cowen later wrote, "He submitted proof of the criminal design upon Holliday's life. Late as the hour was, I called on Pitkin." After meeting with Masterson, Pitkin was persuaded by whatever evidence he presented and refused to honor Arizona's extradition request.[28] His legal reasoning was that the extradition papers for Holliday contained faulty legal language, and that there was already a Colorado warrant out for Holliday—one on bunco charges that Masterson had fabricated in Pueblo, Colorado.[28]
Masterson took Holliday to Pueblo, where he was released on bond two weeks after his arrest.[29] Holliday and Wyatt met briefly after Holliday's release during June 1882 in Gunnison.
Death of Johnny Ringo[edit]
On July 14, 1882, Johnny Ringo was found dead in the crotch of a large tree in West Turkey Creek Valley, near Chiricahua Peak, Arizona Territory, with a bullet hole in his right temple and a revolver hanging from a finger of his hand. The book, I Married Wyatt Earp, supposedly written by Josephine Marcus Earp, reported that Wyatt Earp and Holliday returned to Arizona to find and kill Ringo. Actually written by Glen Boyer, the book states that Holliday killed Ringo with a rifle shot at a distance, contradicting the coroner's ruling that Ringo's death was a suicide. However, Boyer's book has been discredited as a fraud and a hoax[30] that cannot be relied upon.[31]:489 In response to criticism about the book's authenticity, Boyer said the book was not really a first-person account, that he had interpreted Wyatt Earp in Josephine's voice, and admitted that he could not produce any documents to vindicate his methods.[32]
Official records of the Pueblo County, Colorado, District Court indicate that both Holliday and his attorney appeared in court there on July 11, 14, and 18, 1882. Author Karen Holliday Tanner, in Doc Holliday, A Family Portrait, speculated that Holliday may not have been in Pueblo at the time of the court date, citing a writ of habeas corpus issued for him in court on July 11.[7] She believes that only his attorney may have appeared on his behalf that day, in spite of the wording of a court record that indicated he may have appeared in person—in propria persona or "in his own person". She cites this as standard legal filler text that does not necessarily prove the person was present. There is no doubt that Holliday arrived in Salida, Colorado, on July 7 as reported in a town newspaper. This is 500 miles (800 km) from the site of Ringo's death, six days before the shooting.[7]:295–5
Final illness, death and burial[edit]
Holliday spent the rest of his life in Colorado. After a stay in Leadville, he suffered from the high altitude. He increasingly depended on alcohol and laudanum to ease the symptoms of tuberculosis, and his health and his skills as a gambler and gunfighter began to deteriorate.[7]:218 One of Holliday last gunfights happened in a saloon Leadville, Colorado. An inexperienced and arrogant gunfighter named Billy Allen allegedly challenged Holliday to a duel. When Holliday replied that he carried no weapon, Allen sends insults to him, making him leave the saloon bitter. Allen again speaks to Doc, but was said to be armed and had a pistol in his pocket. When Doc sees Allen trying to draw his pistol, Doc lets out two shots from his own, one hitting Allen in the arm and disarming him. But at that time, Holliday's disease has already taken a toll on Holliday. In Deadwood, South Dakota, Holliday also had one of his last gunfight in the summer of 1882. While in a saloon, Holliday observed a bartender harassing a miner with a pistol. Holliday in turn drew his own pistol and shot the bartender in the wrist, disarming him. Holliday then reportedly said, "Gentlemen, I am Doc Holliday of Tombstone". The bartender then apologized and gave free drink to everyone. The event was preserved in the book Tombstone's Yesterday by Lorenzo D. Walters. This was the third or the fourth time Holliday shot a man in the hand or the arm to disarm and drop their weapons, his favorite method than risking capital punishment by killing.[33]
In 1887, prematurely gray and badly ailing, Holliday made his way to the Hotel Glenwood, near the hot springs of Glenwood Springs, Colorado. (The Hotel Glenwood was not a sanatorium, as is popularly believed. The sanatorium in Glenwood Springs was not built until many years after Holliday's death.[34]) He hoped to take advantage of the reputed curative power of the waters, but the sulfurous fumes from the spring may have done his lungs more harm than good.[7]:217 As he lay dying, Holliday is reported to have asked the nurse attending him at the Hotel Glenwood for a shot of whiskey. When she told him no, he looked at his bootless feet, amused. The nurses said that his last words were, "Damn, this is funny." Holliday died at 10 am on November 8, 1887. He was 36.[4] It was reported that no one ever thought that Holliday would die in bed with his boots off.[5]
Recent Holliday biographer Gary L. Roberts, however, considers it unlikely that Holliday, who had scarcely left his bed for two months, would have been able to speak coherently, if at all, on the day he died.[5] Although the legend persists that Wyatt Earp was present when Holliday died, Earp did not learn of Holliday's death until two months afterward. Big Nose Kate later said she attended to him in his final days, but it is also doubtful that she was present.[5]:p396
The Glenwood Springs Ute Chief of November 12, 1887, wrote in his obituary that Holliday had been baptized in the Catholic Church. This assertion in his obituary was based on correspondence written between Holliday and his cousin, Sister Mary Melanie, a Catholic nun. No baptismal record exists, however, in St. Stephen's Catholic Church in Glenwood Springs or at the Annunciation Catholic Church in nearby Leadville, Colorado.[35] Holliday's mother had been raised a Methodist and later joined a Presbyterian church (her husband's faith) but objected to the Presbyterian doctrine of predestination and reconverted to Methodism publicly before she died, saying she wanted her son John to know what she believed.[5]:p14, 41 Holliday himself was later to say that he had joined a Methodist church in Dallas.[5]:p70 At the end of his life, Holliday had struck up friendships with both a Catholic priest, Father E.T. Downey, and a Presbyterian minister, Rev. W.S. Randolph, in Glenwood Springs. When he died, Father Downey was out of town, and so Rev. Randolph presided over the burial at 4 pm on the same day Holliday died. The services were said to be in the presence of "many friends."[5]:p370, 372
He is buried in Linwood Cemetery overlooking Glenwood Springs. Because it was November and the ground may have been frozen, some authors like Bob Boze Bell[36] have speculated that Holliday could not have been buried in his marked grave in the Linwood Cemetery, which was only accessible via a difficult mountain road. Holliday biographer Gary Roberts, however, has located evidence that other bodies were transported to the Linwood Cemetery at the same time of the month that year. And the papers reported at the time explicitly that the burial was in the Linwood Cemetery; no exhumation has been attempted.[5]:p403–404
In an 1896 article Wyatt Earp said that "Doc was a dentist, not a lawman or an assassin, whom necessity had made a gambler; a gentleman whom disease had made a frontier vagabond; a philosopher whom life had made a caustic wit; a long lean, ash-blond fellow nearly dead with consumption, and at the same time the most skillful gambler and the nerviest, speediest, deadliest man with a six-gun that I ever knew."[37]:207
In a newspaper interview Holliday was once asked if his conscience ever troubled him. He is reported to have said, "I coughed that up with my lungs, years ago."[38]:189
Big Nose Kate, his longtime companion, remembered Holliday's reaction after his role in the O.K. Corral gunfight. She reported that Holliday came back to his room, sat on the bed, wept, and said, "That was awful—awful".[39]
Public reputation[edit]
Publicly, Holliday could be as fierce as was needed for a gambling man to earn respect.[5]:p410 In Tombstone in January 1882, he told Johnny Ringo (as recorded by diarist Parsons), "All I want of you is ten paces out in the street." 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. During the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Holliday likely killed Tom McLaury and probably fired the second bullet that hit Frank McLaury. Although Frank McLaury is sometimes erroneously stated to have been hit by three bullets (based on the next-day news accounts in Tombstone papers), the coroner's inquest found Frank was hit only in the stomach and through the back of the head under his ear; therefore, either Holliday or Wyatt missed Frank. Holliday was also present at the death of Frank Stilwell in Tucson, Arizona, and the other three men killed during the Earp Vendetta Ride.
Stabbings and shootings[edit]
Much of Holliday's violent reputation has been proven false. However, there were many instances where he did show great skill in gambling and gunfights. Even though Holliday was sick of tuberculosis, this did not hamper his ability as a gambler and a marksman. Holliday was ambidextrous, and was known to have carried two pistols into fights; a Colt Peacemaker and a Colt Lightning. In three of his four known pistol fights, he shot one opponent (Billy Allen) in the arm and one (Charles White) across the scalp and missed one man (saloon-keeper Charles Austin) entirely. In an early incident in Tombstone in 1880, shortly after he arrived in town, a drunken Holliday managed to shoot and disarm Oriental Saloon owner Milt Joyce in the hand when the latter brandished a pistol at Holliday, and also wounded his bartender Parker in the toe. For this, Holliday was fined for assault and battery. With the exception of Mike Gordon in 1879 and other few victims, there are no contemporaneous newspaper or legal records to match the many unnamed men whom Holliday is credited with killing in popular folklore; the same is true for the several tales of knifings credited to Holliday by early biographers. Some scholars have argued that Holliday may have allowed his reputation to remain as it was and in reality may not have killed that many.[5]:p410 Overall, Holliday has been in at least four one-on-one gunfights in his lifetime.[22]
In a March 1882 interview with the Arizona Daily Star, Virgil Earp told the reporter, "There was something very peculiar about Doc. He was gentlemanly, a good dentist, a friendly man, and yet outside of us boys I don't think he had a friend in the Territory. Tales were told that he had murdered men in different parts of the country; that he had robbed and committed all manner of crimes, and yet when persons were asked how they knew it, they could only admit that it was hearsay, and that nothing of the kind could really be traced up to Doc's account."[40]
Arrests and convictions[edit]
Biographer Karen Holliday Tanner found that Holliday had been arrested 17 times before his 1881 shootout in Tombstone. Only one arrest, an 1879 shootout with Mike Gordon in New Mexico, was for murder. Holliday was not successfully prosecuted. In the preliminary hearing following the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Judge Wells Spicer exonerated Holliday's actions as a duly appointed lawman. In Denver, the warrant for Frank Stilwell's murder went unserved when the governor was persuaded by Trinidad Chief of Police Bat Masterson to release Holliday to his custody for bunco charges.[41]
Out of all his other arrests, Holliday pleaded guilty to two gambling charges, one charge of carrying a deadly weapon in the city (in connection with the argument with Ringo), and one misdemeanor assault and battery charge (his shooting of Joyce and Parker). The others were all dismissed or returned as "not guilty".[41]
Alleged murder of Ed Bailey[edit]
Wyatt Earp recounted one event during which Holliday killed a fellow gambler named Ed Bailey. Wyatt and his common-law wife Mattie Blaylock were in Fort Griffin, Texas, during the winter of 1878, looking for gambling opportunities. Earp visited the saloon of his old friend from Cheyenne, John Shannsey, and met Holliday at the Cattle Exchange.[42]
According to Earp, Holliday was playing poker with a well-liked local man named Ed Bailey. Holliday caught Bailey "monkeying with the dead wood," or the discard pile, which was against the rules. Holliday reminded Bailey to "play poker", which was a polite way to caution him to stop cheating. When Bailey made the same move again, Holliday took the pot without showing his hand, which was his right under the rules. Bailey immediately went for his pistol, but Holliday whipped out a knife from his breast pocket and "caught Bailey just below the brisket" or upper chest. Bailey died and Holliday, new to town, was detained in his room at the Planter's Hotel.[42][43]:115
In Stuart Lake's best-selling biography, Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal (1931), Earp is quoted as saying that Holliday's girlfriend, Big Nose Kate, devised a diversion. She procured a second pistol from a friend in town and then, removing a horse from its shed behind the hotel, set fire to the shed. When everyone but Holliday and the lawmen guarding him ran to put out the fire, she calmly walked in and tossed Holliday the second pistol.[42] However, no contemporary records of any either Bailey's death or of the shed fire have been found. In addition, Big Nose Kate denied before she died in 1940 that the story was true and laughed at the idea of "a 116-pound woman holding a gun on a sheriff".[5]:p87
Photo issues[edit]
There are three photos most often printed (but of unknown provenance) of Holliday, supposedly taken by C.S. Fly in Tombstone (but sometimes said to be taken in Dallas). Holliday lived in a rooming house in front of Fly's photography studio. Many individuals share similar facial features and faces on people who look radically different can look similar when viewed from certain angles. Because of this, most museum staff, knowledgeable researchers, and collectors require provenance or a documented history for an image to support physical similarities that might exist. Experts will rarely offer even a tentative identification of new or unique images of famous people based solely on similarities shared with other known images.[44]
Prescott, Arizona, 1879, age 27; known provenance.
Creased and darker-toned version of Tombstone, Arizona photo on left.
Most-often reproduced "Doc Holliday" photo; heavily retouched oval-inscribed portrait with cowlick and folded-down collar.
Photo of "Doc Holliday" with bowler (derby) hat and more open vest and coat. This is not a retouch or expanded field version of any of the other photos.
On March 20, 2005, the 122nd anniversary of the killing of Frank Stilwell by Wyatt Earp, a life-sized statue of Holliday and Earp by the sculptor Dan Bates was dedicated by the Southern Arizona Transportation Museum at the restored Historic Railroad Depot in Tucson, Arizona, at the approximate site of the shooting on the train platform.[45][46] The facial features on this statue are based on the set of supposed portrait photos and not on the two known authentic photos of him.
For a time in the 1970s and 1980s, in Valdosta, Georgia, where he formerly resided, the Holliday Skate Palace, a since defunct roller skating rink, was named in his honor.
In January 2010, to coincide with its sesquicentennial celebration, Valdosta, Georgia, held a Doc Holliday look-alike contest.[47] It was won by local resident Jason Norton.[48]
Popular culture[edit]
Holliday was nationally known during his life as a gunman, and the O.K. Corral fight has become one of the most famous tales in the American west. Numerous westerns have been made of it, and the Holliday character has been prominent in all of them. However, not all films that feature Holliday or a character based on him are biographical in nature.
Actors who have played Holliday in name include:[49]
- Cesar Romero in Frontier Marshal, 1939, plays Doc Halliday (spelled with an A), a surgeon from Chicago, not a dentist from Georgia, who is killed coming out of the Bella Union tavern after performing surgery on the bartender's son. Minutes later Wyatt Earp, played by Randolph Scott, single-handedly fights and wins a gunfight against Doc's killers (not the Clantons, but 'Curly Bill", actually another villain of that locality) at the OK Corral in the middle of the night. Doc's tombstone in Boot Hill, the last shot in the film, reads John Halliday, M.D., 1848–1880 (although the OK Corral shootout took place in 1881).
- Walter Huston was an extremely older Holliday in The Outlaw, in 1943, with no real attempt at verisimilitude. Despite its reputation for introducing Jane Russell to films, the Howard Hughes film was very cheaply made.
- Victor Mature in My Darling Clementine, in 1946, directed by John Ford, with Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp. Holliday is portrayed as a Boston surgeon fleeing his fiancee because of his tuberculosis and dissolute lifestyle. Writer Alan Barra's comment on this movie is that it shows Holliday as he might have been, if he had been a tough-guy from Boston: "Victor Mature looks about as tubercular as a Kodiak bear." Also, Holliday is killed at the Corral, when in fact he survived it. And Ringo was not even there.
- Harry Bartell in the 13th episode of the CBS radio program "Gunsmoke," which aired on July 19, 1952.
- Kim Spalding in the syndicated television series Stories of the Century (1954), starring and hosted by Jim Davis.
- Kirk Douglas in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, in 1957, with Burt Lancaster as Earp. Again, Holliday's feud with Ringo is a large part of the story, and Ringo dies at the corral. In fact, he was not involved and committed suicide.
- Douglas Fowley in The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp television series (1955–1961) with Hugh O'Brian as Earp. As with many popular portrayals, Fowley was considerably older than the historical figure and played him with more maturity than the real Holliday possessed. Taking his cue from the popular Kirk Douglas performance, Fowley played Holliday as well-educated, scheming, courtly, wryly humorous yet dangerous when crossed. He is shown as a close but temperamental friend of Earp's who often takes care of outlaws in more direct ways than the Marshal. Unlike the Kirk Douglas Holliday, whose anger is often volcanic, Fowley's Holliday maintained a cool, gentlemanly Southern calm in memorably enjoyable performances.
- Myron Healey played a younger Holliday in a masterful characterization demonstrating the same sophistication and gravitas as Fowley without neglecting a notable tongue-in-cheek wittiness in ten other episodes of The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp.[50]
- Arthur Kennedy played Holliday opposite James Stewart as Earp in director John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn.
- Adam West played Holliday on episodes of three different ABC television series, Colt .45, Lawman, and Sugarfoot.
- Gerald Mohr and Peter Breck each played Holliday more than once in the 1957 ABC/WB series Maverick.
- Christopher Dark played Holliday in an 1963 episode of the NBC series Bonanza.
- Anthony Jacobs in the 1966 Doctor Who story The Gunfighters.
- Jason Robards in Hour of the Gun, a 1967 sequel to the 1957 movie, with James Garner as Earp. This is the first movie to fully delve into the vendetta that followed the gunfight; both films were directed by John Sturges.
- Sam Gilman in the 1968 Star Trek episode "Spectre of the Gun." Gilman, who refers to the character as 'Dil Holliday,' was 53 years old at the time he played this role. The real Holliday was 30 years old at the time of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
- Stacy Keach in Doc in 1971, in which the Tombstone events are told from his perspective.
- Bill Fletcher in two episodes of the TV series Alias Smith and Jones: "Which Way to the OK Corral?" in 1971 and "The Ten Days That Shook Kid Curry" in 1972.
- Dennis Hopper in Wild Times, a 1980 television miniseries based on Brian Garfield's novel.
- John McLiam portrayed an elderly version of Holliday in the pilot episode of the short-lived 1981 television series Bret Maverick.
- Jeffrey DeMunn played Holliday in the 1983 made-for-television movie "I Married Wyatt Earp."
- Willie Nelson in the 1986 all-singer/actor TV-remake of Stagecoach. In addition to the alcoholic Doc Boone character of the original film, the remake adds a new "Doc Holliday", also a medical doctor, and a consumptive. Since Doc Boone in the original film is loosely based on Holliday, the remake now contains two characters based on Holliday. If the character of the Southern-gentleman-gambler Hatfield is partly based on Holliday (being played by the thin John Carradine, for emphasis, in the original film), then the 1986 remake actually contains three characters wholly or partly based on Holliday.
- Val Kilmer in Tombstone in 1993. Sylvia D. Lynch in Aristocracy's Outlaw believes Kilmer caught Holliday's cheerful mix of despair and courage, but his last fight with Ringo is disputed.
- Dennis Quaid in Wyatt Earp in 1994, a detailed bio-pic of Wyatt Earp's life wherein Quaid plays an often drunk Holliday with a relationship with Big Nose Kate.
- Randy Quaid in Purgatory, a 1999 TV film about dead outlaws in a town between Heaven and Hell.
- Ryan Kennedy in the Hallmark Movie Channel film, Hannah's Law, alongside Sara Canning as Hannah Beaumont in October 2011. In a Hallmark Movie Channel web interview Kennedy said he was impressed by Kilmer's portrayal of Doc when he saw Tombstone as a child, and based his portrayal of the younger Doc in Hannah's Law on Kilmer's.(http://www.hallmarkmoviechannel.com/hmc/hannahslaw/video/Interviews/RyanKennedy)
Roy Halladay, a Major League Baseball pitcher, is nicknamed "Doc" Halladay, a name coined by the late Toronto Blue Jays announcer Tom Cheek.
"Doc Holliday Days" are held yearly in Holliday's birthplace of Griffin, Georgia.
In Fallout 2, a doctor going by Doc Holliday lives in Broken Hills. His dialogue reveals that he was an adventurer before he settled down and became a doctor there.[51]
A restaurant called "J Henry's," featuring pictures and memorabilia of Holliday, exists in Holliday's home town of Griffin, on College Street.
A bar called "Doc Holliday's Saloon," featuring murals and pictures of Holliday, exists on Avenue A in the East Village district of New York City.
In Parasite Eve II a portrait of Doc Holliday with the date 1851-1897, can be seen on room 1 in the second mission.
- Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday by Victoria Wilcox, 2013 ISBN 978-1-908483-55-3
- Holliday Nate Bowden and Doug Dabbs, 2012 ISBN 978-1-934964-65-1
- Doc: A Novel by Mary Doria Russell, 2011 ISBN 978-1-4000-6804-3
- Merkabah Rider: The Mensch With No Name by Edward M. Erdelac, copyright 2010, ISBN 978-1-61572-190-0
- The Buntline Special by Mike Resnick, copyright 2010, ISBN 978-1-61614-249-0
- Territory by Emma Bull, copyright 2007 ISBN 978-0-8125-4836-5
- The Last Ride of German Freddie by Walter Jon Williams, a Novella in Worlds that Weren't copyright 2005, ISBN 978-1-1012-1263-9
- The Once and Future Dentist by D. Richard Pearce, 2005, audio published by Escape Pod
- Bucking the Tiger: A Novel by Bruce Olds, copyright 2002 ISBN 978-0-312-42024-6
- The Fourth Horseman by Randy Lee Eickhoff, copyright 1998 ISBN 0-312-85301-7
- Deadlands a tabletop role-playing game produced by Pinnacle Entertainment Group in Law Dogs, copyright 1996, ISBN 978-1-889546-26-1
- Wild Times by Brian Garfield, copyright 1978 ISBN 978-0-671-24374-6
- "Linwood", written and performed by Jon Chandler on The Grand Dame of the Rockies – Songs of the Hotel Colorado and the Roaring Fork Valley; winner of the 2009 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Song[52]
- Danish metal band Volbeat performs the song "Doc Holliday" on their album Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies.
- The song "Doc Holliday" is featured on the 2010 album Suffocation by Latent Anxiety.
See also[edit]
- Lynch, Sylvia D. (1995). Aristocracy's Outlaw: The Doc Holliday Story. Tennessee Iris Press. ISBN 0-9645781-0-7.
- Roberts, Gary L. (2006). Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-26291-9.
- Tanner, Karen Holliday (1998). Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3320-1.
- ^ Walter Noble Burns in Tombstone : An Illiad of the Southwest, placed the fatalities as three
- ^ a b c d e Kansas Heritage genealogy.
- ^ NPS.gov Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System of the National Park Service
- ^ a b c d e Poling, Dean (January 1, 2010). "Valdosta's most infamous resident – John Henry "Doc" Holliday". Valdosta Scene VI (1): 19–20.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Roberts, Gary L. (2011). "A Living and Dying Legend". Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend. John Wiley and Sons. p. 372. ISBN 978-1-118-13097-1. "The Denver Evening Times reported the news with the simple statement,"Doc Holliday died in Glenwood on the 8th with his boots off.""
- ^ Tomstone Times: Doc Holliday bio.
- ^ a b c d e f Tanner, Karen Holliday (1998). Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0-8061-3036-9.
- ^ Fayette County History.
- ^ "John Henry "Doc" Holliday, D.D.S.". Dodge City, Kansas: Ford County Historical Society.
- ^ a b Erik J. Wright (December 2001). "Looking For Doc in Dallas". True West Magazine, pp. 42–43.
- ^ Roberts (2006) pp. 64-67
- ^ a b "Legends of America: Doc Holliday". Legends of America. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ^ Tanner (2001), "From Denver to Dodge", pp. 101–103
- ^ a b Tanner (2001), "From Denver to Dodge", pp. 106–109
- ^ a b Tanner (2001), "From Denver to Dodge", p. 113
- ^ Woog, Adam (February 28, 2010). Wyatt Earp. Chelsea House Publications. ISBN 1-60413-597-2.
- ^ Linder, Douglas (2005). "Testimony of Wyatt S. Earp in the Preliminary Hearing in the Earp–Holliday Case". Famous Trials: The O. K. Corral Trial. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ^ Roberts (2006) p.74
- ^ a b Weiser, Kathy (March 2010). "John Joshua Webb". Legends of America.
- ^ "Doc Holliday kills for the first time". This Day in History. History.com. Retrieved November 7, 2011.
- ^ Roberts (2006) pp.78-79
- ^ a b Bad Hombres: Doc Holliday.
- ^ October 12, 1880, the Nugget article
- ^ Lubet, Steven (2004). Murder in Tombstone: the Forgotten Trial of Wyatt Earp. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 288. ISBN 978-0-300-11527-7. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
- ^ Tombstone Epitaph October 27, 1881 article
- ^ Urban, William L. (2003). "Tombstone". Wyatt Earp: The Ok Corral and the Law of the American West. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-8239-5740-8.
- ^ "Wyatt Earp's Vendetta Posse". HistoryNet.com. January 29, 2007. Retrieved February 18, 2011.
- ^ a b c DeArment, Robert K. Bat Masterson: The Man and the Legend. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 442. ISBN 978-0-8061-2221-2.
- ^ Cristalen. "Biographical Notes Bat Masterson". Retrieved May 12, 2011.
- ^ Ortega, Tony (December 24, 1998). "How the West Was Spun". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ^ Blaise Cronin, ed. (2006). Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. Medford, N.J.: Information Today. ISBN 978-1-57387-242-3.
- ^ Ortega, Tony (March 4, 1999). "I Varied Wyatt Earp". Phoenix New Times. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ^ Roberts (2006) p.373
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- ^ Tanner (2001) p.300
- ^ The Illustrated Life and Times of Doc Holliday, Bob Boze Bell, Tri Star-Boze Publications, (1995) ISBN 1-887576-00-2.
- ^ Myers, John Myers (1973). Doc Holliday. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-5781-3.
- ^ Metzger, Jeff (2010). The Rogue's Handbook: A Concise Guide to Conduct for the Aspiring Gentleman Rogue. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks. ISBN 978-1-4022-4365-3.
- ^ Tanner (2001), "Gunfight in Tombstone", p. 169
- ^ "Interview with Virgil Earp Arizona Daily Star". Arizona Affairs. May 30, 1882. Archived from the original on April 28, 2009. Retrieved May 24, 2011. Originally published in the Arizona Daily Star on May 30, 1882
- ^ a b Holliday, Karen Tanner (2001). Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. Norman: University Of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0806133201.
- ^ a b c Paul, Lee. "John Henry Holliday". Retrieved October 29, 2011.
- ^ Tanner, Karen (2001). Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-3320-1.
- ^ Rowe, Jeremy (2002). "Thoughts on Kaloma, the Purported Photograph of Josie Earp". Retrieved June 6, 2011.
- ^ Miller, Susan L. (2006). Shop Tucson!. Lulu Press. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-4303-0141-7.
- ^ Roberts (2011, p. 247) Wyatt Earp later claimed that Doc and I were the only ones in Tucson at the time Frank Stillwell was killed
- ^ Harris, Kay (January 1, 2010). "Happy Birthday Valdosta! – City celebrates Sesquicentennial in 2010". Valdosta Scene VI (1): 8–9.
- ^ Chick, Jonathan; Leavy, Paul (February 2, 2010). "Photo Galley – Valdosta Sesquicentennial". Valdosta Scene VI (2): 54–57.
- ^ Doc Holliday characters at IMDB.com.
- ^ "Full Cast and Crew for The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp". Internet Movie Data Base. Retrieved January 23, 2013.
- ^ "Holliday - The Vault, the Fallout wiki - Fallout: New Vegas and more". Falloutwiki.com. Retrieved August 15, 2012.
- ^ "Best Western Song". Spur Award History. Western Writers of America. 2009. Retrieved October 4, 2011.
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- "Detail of Doc Holliday's Travels and Encounters by Date (1875–1887)". Archived from the original on April 5, 2009.
- Skyways.org, John Henry Holliday arrives in Dodge City from Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, by Karen Holliday Tanner, 1998
- Kansasheritage.org, John Henry Holliday family history
- Tombstonetimes.com, "Where's Doc"
- Doc Ancestry.com, Holliday Information, Photos and Genealogy from Spalding County, Georgia GenWeb
- "John Henry "Doc" Holliday". Western Lawman. Find a Grave. January 1, 2001. Retrieved September 2, 2012.
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[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit [official website] reinstated a conspiracy charge [PDF opinion] against alleged terrorist Jose Padilla [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] Tuesday, reversing a lower court decision [JURIST report] that the charge duplicated the other two counts against Padilla and his two co-defendants. The reinstated charge, conspiracy to "murder, kidnap and maim persons in a foreign country," carries a maximum sentence of life in prison, unlike the other two charges [JURIST report]. The court rejected the argument that the charges were multiplicitous and in violation of the US Constitution's double jeopardy clause [LII backgrounder], holding that different proof was required to establish each count. Judge Gerald Bard Tjoflat said in his opinion: "While these three charges are interrelated, they are not interdependent," as Padilla could theoretically be found to have violated the statutes of one count without having violated statutes of the others. AP has more.US authorities initially suspected Padilla, a US citizen, of planning to set off a radioactive "dirty bomb" in the United States and classified him in 2002 as an enemy combatant [JURIST news archive] subject to indefinite detention. Padilla was later indicted [JURIST report] in 2005 on unrelated terrorism charges. He was transferred to civilian custody [JURIST report] in January 2006 and subsequently pleaded not guilty [JURIST report] to the charges. His trial is scheduled to begin April 16.
[JURIST] Carla Del Ponte [official profile] said Tuesday that she will step down as chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) [official website] at the end of her current term in September. Del Ponte, who has served for 8 years as chief prosecutor, expressed disappointment about the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic [JURIST news archive], who died from heart failure [JURIST report] in March 2006 while his genocide and war crimes trial at the ICTY was in its fifth year. She also added that she has yet to see actual remorse from those who were tried and has witnessed only a few signs of reconciliation in the former Yugoslav republics.Del Ponte has also repeatedly criticized Serbia's lack of progress[JURIST report] in capturing former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic [ICTY case backgrounder; BBC profile] and his military commander, Ratko Mladic [ICTY case backgrounder; JURIST news archive], who are wanted by the ICTY for alleged crimes committed during Bosnia's 1992-95 war, including organizing the 1995 slaughter of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica [JURIST news archive]. As a result, Del Ponte has discouraged [JURIST report] the European Union [official website] from resuming membership talks with Serbia. The ICTY is scheduled to finish all trials by 2008 and all appeals by 2010. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock [official profile] said Tuesday that he has requested an assessment of the condition of Australian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] after Hicks' lawyer described Hicks in an interview [transcript; recorded audio] on ABC Australia as being chained to the floor of an interview room and removed from access to sunlight. Ruddock said that he's received previous reports that Hicks is allowed outdoors for exercise and compare conditions to that of a US maximum security jail.Ruddock said last week that Hicks could face reduced charges when he goes to trial [JURIST report] and in early January noted that his US counterpart, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, assured him that Hicks would be charged [JURIST report] soon after the new military commission rules were published. US President Bush promised that a trial will be held [JURIST report], but offered no timetable. The Australian government has been under increasing pressure [JURIST report] to call for Hicks' release. Hicks was detained in Afghanistan while allegedly fighting for the Taliban and US prosecutors claim that he trained at up to four terrorist camps. Australia's ABC News has more.
[JURIST] The Tokyo District Court denied financial compensation on Tuesday to 40 displaced Japanese nationals in China who were left there as children after the Japanese defeat in World War II. The plaintiffs sued the government of Japan [JURIST news archive] for 1.32 billion yen in damages for failing to quickly assist in their return and assimilation to Japan. In denying the claims, Judge Kenichi Kato stated that the damages were caused by the war, which is not an instance of Japan's government violating the law.In 1994, the Japanese government passed legislation providing financial assistance to Japanese nationals who returned to Japan. In December, a different Japanese court ordered the government to pay 468 million yen to 61 Japanese [JURIST report] who were displaced as children in China after WWII. In 2005, an Osaka court rejected similar claims [JURIST report] from a different group of plaintiffs, declaring that the government had no obligation to provide compensation. AP has more. Xinhua has additional coverage.
[JURIST] UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak [official profile, DOC; JURIST news archive] said Tuesday that torture is systematic and widespread in Jordan, especially when used to elicit confessions from suspected terrorists. Nowak found the practice of torture [JURIST news archive] to be routine at the General Intelligence Directorate (GID) [official website], the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Public Security Directorate, as well as Al-Jafr Correction and Rehabilitation Centre. According to Nowak, practices such as beatings with truncheons, batons, electrical cables and broom handles, burning detainees with cigarettes and forcing them to hold painful positions are accepted torture methods in detention centers. Nowak called on the Jordanian government to investigate and prosecute all claims of torture and to amend domestic laws and the constitution in order to ban torture. The UN Human Rights Council [official website] also plans to review Nowak's report. Reuters has more.In June 2006, Nowak recommended [JURIST report] that Jordan criminalize torture and end the use of special courts that protect accused police and intelligence officials, following the conclusion of his two-day visit to Jordan [JURIST news archive]. At that time, he also found evidence that torture is systematically practiced at the two detention centers in Amman run by the GID and the CID as well as Al-Jafr prison, but he claimed that officials at both centers obstructed his investigation through denying access to areas of the prison and hiding evidence.
[JURIST] US Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) [official website; JURIST news archive] re-introduced a bill [S.344 summary] Monday which would allow US Supreme Court [official website; JURIST news archive] proceedings to be televised, "unless the Court decides, by a vote of the majority of justices, that allowing such coverage in a particular case would constitute a violation of the due process rights of one or more of the parties before the Court." Specter said [press release]:
The Supreme Court makes pronouncements on Constitutional and federal law that have direct impacts on the rights of Americans. Those rights would be substantially enhanced by televising the oral arguments of the Court so that the public can see and hear the issues presented. With this information, the public would have insight into key issues and be better equipped to understand the impact of and reasons for the Courts decisions.
[JURIST] The Bangladesh High Court [government backgrounder] said Monday that it has banned the government from conducting any elections, including this month's upcoming national election, because of political instability in the country. The Chief Election Commissioner of the Bangladesh Election Commission [official website] resigned [JURIST report] just last week as further evidence of the current political instability in Bangladesh [JURIST news archive].Earlier this month, Bangladesh president Iajuddin Ahmed [Wikipedia profile] deferred the January 22 election indefinitely and declared a state of emergency [JURIST report] in the face of violent political protests and political parties threatening to blockade voting places. Bangladeshi authorities arrested over 2500 people [JURIST report] and raided the homes of several political leaders in a crackdown following the swearing-in of the new interim government [New Age report]. Xinhua has more.
[JURIST] US President Bush has signed an executive order [text] that places a White House-appointed policy administrator in all federal agencies responsible for developing and enforcing public health and safety, environmental, and civil rights policy. Under the order, which will affect groups such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration [official websites], a regulatory policy office will be placed in each agency to supervise and report to the White House the development of regulations. Jeffrey Rosen, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) [official website], told the New York Times that the measures are a "classic good-government measure" designed to increase transparency and accountability. Critics of the order accuse the President of overreaching, and say that the measure will only slow the implementation of rules that protect the public.Bush issued the order in light of his nomination of Susan Dudley [George Mason University profile], whose initiatives are written into the directive, to the position of administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the OMB. The Senate failed to confirm Dudley earlier this month, but Bush may push the nomination through while the Senate is in recess. The New York Times has more.
[JURIST] The European Union's Court of First Instance [official website] on Tuesday upheld [judgment text; press release, PDF] a 10.35 million euro fine imposed on telecommunications operator France Telecom [official website] by the European Commission for violating EU antitrust rules [EU materials] by charging consumers low prices for high-speed network access in an effort to stamp out rivals.The company began charging consumers artificially low prices in March 2001 and continued until October 2002. According to the European Commission's 2003 decision, the company planned to make up for the loss by charging competitors high prices for access to the network. Reuters has more.
[JURIST] Argentinean Federal Judge Norberto Oyarbide said Monday that extraditing former Argentine President Isabel Peron [Wikipedia profile] from Spain could take more than a year, if it ever happens at all. Argentinean authorities are seeking Peron's return to Argentina [JURIST news archive] for questioning about the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance (Triple A) [MIPT backgrounder], a government-supported death squad. Oyarbide said if Spain refuses to extradite Peron, he will push for a trial in Spain as authorized by a treaty signed by the two countries. In 1997, Person testified that she remembered approving a law authorizing the "annihilation" of leftist guerrillas, but could not recall specific details.Isabel Peron assumed the presidency of Argentina in 1974 after the death of her husband, President Juan Domingo Peron, and was ousted by a military junta in 1976. Earlier this month, Peron was arrested [JURIST report] in Spain [JURIST news archive] under an arrest warrant issued by an Argentinean judge, but was later given a provisional release because the Spanish authorities do not believe the 75-year-old Peron will be able to flee due to her poor health. The renewed attempts to extradite Peron began after amnesty laws were overturned [JURIST report] in the country in 2005 and the government began its subsequent campaign to prosecute the human rights violations of the country's infamous "Dirty War" [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. These investigations have been expanded to include the tenure of Peron [JURIST report]. AP has more.
[JURIST] The US Marine Corps [official website] said Monday that it will launch an investigation into the leak of a Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) [official website] report on the killing of Iraqi civilians in Haditha [USMC timeline; JURIST news archive] after the Washington Post earlier this month printed photos of the slain Iraqis [WP report]. Lt. Gen. James Mattis [official profile], the top general at Camp Pendleton [official website], ordered the investigation on January 23 after attorneys for charged Marine Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich [Wikipedia profile] asked for a probe into the leak [JURIST report].A total of eight Marines have been charged [list of charges and specifications; JURIST report] in connection with the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha [JURIST report], including women and children, last November. The Haditha investigation marks the largest US criminal case for civilian deaths during the war in Iraq. Wuterich said last year that his unit followed the rules of engagement [JURIST report] and did not purposefully attack civilians. AP has more.
[JURIST] A former US contractor working for the US Department of Defense [official website] in Iraq received a nine-year prison sentence [DOJ press release] Monday and was told he must forfeit the $3.6 million he received for awarding contracts to construction companies owned by an American businessman and through money laundering. Robert Stein, Jr. [Wikipedia profile], who worked as the comptroller and funding officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority [official website] during 2003 and 2004, pleaded guilty [JURIST report] to charges of conspiracy, money laundering and bribery last year. He admitted to conspiring with US Army officers [JURIST report] to steal over $2 million in rebuilding funds and awarding contracts to construction companies owned by Philip Bloom [Wikipedia profile; JURIST report] in exchange for more than $1 million in cash and goods.Stein will also serve three years of probation after his prison sentence ends. Officials from the US Department of Justice [official website] said Stein cooperated with the government's investigation, partially mitigating his sentence, which could have reached up to 30 years. Reuters has more.
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By Jenna Bayley-Burke On Apr 17 2009, 7:00 pm
Romance writing is ripe with contests. Entire websites are dedicated to tracking contests and winners. Writers on their way to publication are encouraged to mold their writing into the best version possible before presenting it to editors and agents.
Once a book is published, there are more contests looking to sift through and find the best representation of the industry. These contests are cost prohibitive, so authors need to take into consideration lots of variables — who is judging, what is offered to finalists and winners, how many books need to be shipped, the entry fee, etc.
Like the contests for aspiring authors, most of the contests for published books are judged by writers, some are graded solely by authors, and a few are ranked by industry professionals like booksellers and librarians. For me, comparing who the judges are is like comparing winning the Oscar (judged by peers) to the Golden Globe (voted on by the press). Anytime your work is recognized, it's fantastic.
No matter who is evaluating the novels, a story is being read by someone who might not have read it otherwise. Anyone who volunteers to read for a contest obviously likes romance novels, so if your story wows them, they'll likley find another of your books. And tell their friends about their new find. Finalling is just icing on the cake!
Why do I have contests on the brain? Her Cinderella Complex is a Passionate Plume finalist! There are quite a few Samhain books on the list. Check it out ::
**Jenna Bayley-Burke – Her Cinderella Complex **Mari Carr – Erotic Research
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**Dana Marie Bell – The Wallflower, Halle Pumas Book 1 **Crystal Jordan – Treasured ___________________ Jenna Bayley-Burke
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Don't think so!
Contests are fun and I am an insatiable reader of anything.
i love to read
I read, and read, and read. I am voracious! I am blessed that my daughter is the same way. We share the same tastes so we can move our books from one house to the other. If there are special ones we want to keep, then we buy a second copy for the other person. Hey, works for us!
Love to read. Anything…
Reading is my favorite escape.
Love to read
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I love stories either by book or audio.
There are only so many homecoming queens…let's have a cheer for the rest of us.
No homecoming queen for me. Most of the queens I've seen act like snobs. I'll stick to reading my book!
Homecoming was great from what I remember, but the queen was hustling, bustling trying to get votes. Meanwhile I was dancing and enjoying being with my friends.
Homecoming queen is not for me. I'd rather be dancing.
No need to be the Queen. It is wonderful for those who want it, but I'd rather be in hanging in the crowd.
I would have loved to be Homecoming Queen, but I guess I'll just have to read about it
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Secret Satans: Math
By Thomas Hayden | December 31, 2012 | 6 Comments
For the holiday season we here at LWON are giving ourselves the gift of confronting our fears. We are writing about our most daunting science-related subjects and why they scare us.
The advice came to me within the first few months of starting as a science writer: always be on the lookout for good math stories, the wonderful Sharon Begley told me. No one else ever covers them, she said, so the niche is wide open for a young writer to exploit. I had loved every little thing about science journalism up to that point, and perhaps working with Sharon most of all. But my gut clinched a little when she spoke those words.
It's not that I'm math phobic, exactly, nor entirely innumerate. Some of my best friends, favorite colleagues and best-loved family members perform or write about math on a regular basis. And I have no problem calculating tips in my head, say, or divvying up a complicated restaurant bill split nine ways. I studied statistics and economics enough that I can push my way through the analysis sections of most biology and chemistry papers, and follow the logic and mechanics of global climate models and economic forecasting algorithms.
But what I can't do is imagine mathematics, and that means I can't write about it, either. I can't see the stories because I can't inhabit the numbers in the same way I see others doing it. I can train myself to perform rote arithmetical tasks or, laboriously, follow along when others lay out clearly what they've done. But I can't see where they're going from the halfway point, let alone derive anything myself. When it comes to the abstract reasoning of higher mathematics, I can't even spot the difference between false logic and sheer brilliance.
Because even the simplest feats of numerical imagination are beyond me, I also can't tell what advances are important or interesting, the way I can with less abstract forms of reasoning and research. And because I can't quite grasp the nature of the challenge, I can never muster the interest or awe others seem to feel when one long-vexing equation or another is finally solved.
(I'm also not terribly interested in lovably eccentric geniuses or faux-profound mumbo jumbo about how fractals explain everything from traffic flow to human consciousness … so really, what math stories are left to me?)*
In high school, I slogged through algebra and trigonometry as most of my friends sailed through advanced calculus. In university, I concluded that I must have a kind of numerical dyslexia – how else to explain my struggles to master higher mathematics, when organic chemistry and other complex subjects came to me naturally? But no. An educational psychologist ruled out dyscalculia. Math was supposed to be hard, she said essentially – not grasping it was the human condition, not a diagnosis.
Today, I see my situation through a different medical metaphor. I understand now that I don't suffer from an inability to scan or remember numbers, but rather that I just can't seem to relate to them. Call it mathematical Asperger's syndrome.
I can recognize numbers, in other words, and I can imitate, with practice, some of the simpler things mathematicians do with them. But just as Dr. Asperger's patients struggled to form a theory of mind for other people, I can't feel the passion or humanity others apparently do for numbers and mathematical concepts. I can't read the poetry, and often enough can't even see the point. So how am I supposed to find or tell the stories? Fifteen years after Sharon's advice, I'm still looking for my first one.
*Dear internet: this is a joke.
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Gail Finkbeiner
December 31st, 2012 @ 1:05 pmI have been trying to envision performance math, having just viewed some of my daughter-in-law's pole-dancing photos, and somehow can't see math in the same light. How exactly do your friends and colleagues "perform" math?
Thomas Hayden
December 31st, 2012 @ 1:19 pmThat's funny, Gail! I like the image of math as a performance (though I probably wouldn't be able to appreciate the show at an appropriately deep level). But I just mean that doing complex math is a regular part of their work life as scientists or mathematicians. They perform math the way I perform writing. And yes, when I put it that way I can see how clumsy my writing performance was. I'll do better next year, I promise!
Thomas Hayden
December 31st, 2012 @ 1:20 pmAlso, I just noticed how off-handedly you mentioned your daughter-in-law's pole dancing. Isn't New Year's Eve a little early for a May pole?
Joel Erickson
January 1st, 2013 @ 10:26 amTwo points you might find interesting:
Mathematicians say that what they are doing and what scientists and others are doing in applying mathematics in their work are fundamentally different activities. Read Paul Halmos, Mathematics as a Creative Art or G H Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology, two easily Googlable articles about the field. Hardy is longer and more dogmatic.
At least parts of modern mathematics have arrived at a point that even experts in the same field can sometimes not know if a new and important claim is right without years of work:
You have no hope.Happy New Year!
The Last Word : The Last Word On Nothing
January 5th, 2013 @ 4:23 am[...] to confronted our most feared disciplines — with Tom's disclosure that he suffers from "mathematical Aspergers". Mathpergers? You heard it here [...]
Thomas Hayden
January 7th, 2013 @ 7:29 pmThanks for the comment, Joel. It's a classic example of the comments-are-better-than-the-posts phenomenon here at LWON!


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The Final Words of Texas' Death Row Offenders Made Visual
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
The poet Elizabeth Alexander once asked, "What if the mightiest word is love?"
For the 280 men and one woman executed in Texas between 2000 and 2012, "love" was the mightiest word — by an overwhelming margin, with three out of five saying the word in their last living moments.
Dylan C. Lathrop and GOOD created this graphic with a word cloud generated from the offenders' final thoughts shortly before they were put to death. The word "love" was used by 173 of the 281 people. That's more than 60 percent. Nearly half of them mentioned religion in some form, using "God" and "Jesus" and "Lord," to name a few. And note the petitions of prayer, expressions of apology and notions of family are present in their minds. Some were silent, others were defiant — and I'm guessing that's why "warden" shows up so prominently.
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Our twelfth voice on this twelfth day of Ramadan is Sabiha Shariff, an Indian woman who grew up in Mumbai and has lived and worked in New Jersey for nearly 25 years. Now retired and living in Dallas, she is active in her Muslim community on issues of homelessness and domestic violence.
Check back on this blog each day or on our Facebook page to hear a new voice in our "Revealing Ramadan" series. If you're the on demand type or simply need a more automated form of listening, we've produced a special podcast feed that's available now. Oh, and a special show too!
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On this eleventh day of Ramadan, Nicole Queen, a native-born Texan who was raised Southern Baptist, speaks about the initial isolation of being a convert to Islam. While learning about the tradition, she found strength in the ideas and teachings of Yusuf Estes, a fellow Texan convert. Now in her late 20s, she is a practicing Muslim and is active in her community in Dallas. She continues to photograph and blog about Islamic subjects.
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I look back at the fork in my road and often wonder if I should have, could have, taken the vocational, farming route. But, at the time, nobody valued that route. Everyone valued 'education.'
— Michael Sanchez, a chemical engineer living in upstate New York who grew up on a farm in east Texas, in his lovely reflection on "The Meaning of Intelligence."
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I was out on the golf course a couple of days ago playing with my usually partner and his wife. I am not sure why, but I have just assumed people know how to grip the golf club, which I am inaccurate on that though. I noticed that my golf buddies wife wasn't quite holding the club right. As a result, her wrist were not working correctly. What is cool is, after about 10 minutes with her, she was playing like a pro! Well, not a pro, but much, much better! Let me share with you the steps that we took, and maybe you can benefit as well.
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Posted at May 19 2012 by Jen in The Secret Circle |
Hey! It's true. The CW network decided not to renew and cancel our series, The Secret Circle, which was one of their high audience shows after The Vampire Diaries. We are devastated by this news, but despite this we are going to do everything in our power to change your CW's desicion. Meanwhile, # TheSecretCircle was trend on Twitter worldwide for three times, including the sentence # bringbackthesecretcircle. Apart from trying to make The Secret Circle trend more and more, I want you to sign these two petitions: Petition 1 Maybe we can bring our Secret Circle back! Everything depends on you! |
Posted at May 12 2012 by Jen in The Secret Circle |
Hey! I added HD screen captures from the last night's season finale episode "Family". Enjoy! |
Posted at May 11 2012 by Jen in Photos,The Secret Circle |
Andrew Miller talks about the season finale episode "Family". |


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