Who is the man James Arness shoots every week in the introduction to Gunsmoke?
Dan Clutter
Denison, Iowa
Gun expert Jim Dunham wrote in the April 2014 Wild West History Association Journal that Arvo Ojala was the man gunned down weekly by James Arness’s Matt Dillon. The fast-draw expert taught many Hollywood stars—including Arness.
Ojala came to Hollywood in the early 1950s, opened a leather shop and patented the first real “fast-draw” holster. He utilized the buscadero design,
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