James Arness, tall, quiet Marshal Dillon of TV’s ‘Gunsmoke,’ dies at 88 - The Washington Post

James Arness, who presided over the frontier town of Dodge City as television’s most enduring western hero, the laconic, fair-minded and incorruptible Marshal Matt Dillon of the two-decade-long series “Gunsmoke,” died June 3 at his home in Los Angeles at

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