Bat Masterson1958

Narrator:
Cheyenne, Wyoming - the Crow Bit Saloon, a link to the name of the notorious John Surratt, only exonerated conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. John Surratt's name was to appear twice. First, Bat Masterson undertook to prevent the publishing of a false story that would rock the nation and affect the reputations of innocent people. A trumped-up story sold to the Cheyenne Clarion by a man named John Watson, posing as John Surratt, solely for the purpose of a fast fortune. John Watson met his death because of it. But the name of John Surratt was not dead. His name was to pop up again in the life of Bat Masterson, the man who became a legend in his own time.