Recent documents have been found in a Tombstone, AZ courtroom that give us a look at interviews performed soon after the Gunfight at the OK Corral that involved the legendary Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. The interviews were performed by local reporters and legal staffers with the friends, family, and neighbors of the shooting victims.

Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton were quiet neighbors both before - and after - the gunfight.

“They always stayed to themselves,” a resident of their Tombstone subdivision said. “They would leave early in the morning to get to work and would come back mid-afternoon. I’d see them working out in their yard, and they would wave. After a while they would go into their house. Seemed like nice guys.”

Another resident said, “Frank was always so good with our kids. He wouldn’t say much, but he’d always throw back their baseball if it went over the fence. He gave our youngest a baseball bat just a few days before all of this happened. Can’t believe something like this would happen to Frank. Makes you think twice about doing nice things for people if that’s how good people are going to be treated.”

When asked if they had any knowledge of the McLaury brothers and Billy Clanton being involved in cattle rustling and robbery, neighbors were doubtful. A local businessman said, “Tom and Frank wouldn’t do that sort of thing. They would always pay for the licorice that they took out of the candy jar. I use an honor system with that jar, and they never once abused it. No. They were not cattle rustlers.”

For more information about the newly-discovered documents, click here.

For an accurate, comprehensive recap of the famous gunfight, we’ve included a short documentary for your viewing pleasure: