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Speak to Me Fair: The Boy Who Couldn’t

Speak to Me Fair: The Boy Who Couldn’t

Update: 2025-10-13
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Originally Aired: December 2, 1956


In Gunsmoke #243, “Speak to Me Fair,” a young Kiowa boy stumbles into Dodge, gravely wounded and unable to speak—his tongue brutally cut out. Marshal Matt Dillon, outraged by the boy’s mutilation, begins a tense investigation that points toward a ruthless cattleman, Silas Trach, whose own livestock has been disappearing. As Matt unravels the twisted motives behind the attack, he uncovers not only cattle rustlers exploiting the nearby Kiowa tribe, but a violent hatred lurking under Trach’s calm frontier veneer. A harrowing story of cruelty, justice, and the cost of silence.


Cast: William Conrad, Georgia Ellis, Howard McNear, Parley Baer, Harry Bartell, Vic Perrin, John Dehner


Tags:
western, injustice, nativeamerican, childabuse, cattletheft, WilliamConrad, GeorgiaEllis, Gunsmoke, 1950sradio, oldtimeradio, classicwestern, marshalldillon, frontiercrime, lescrutchfield, suspensepodcast, silence, mutilation, kiowa

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Speak to Me Fair: The Boy Who Couldn’t

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