To those interested, this video was originally created to appear on an episode of The Haunted Saloon, an internet TV show produced by my friend Terry "Ike" Clanton, a descendent cousin of Ike Clanton of OK Corral fame. A large number of my friends are interested in old west history and we visit Tombstone regularly. The death of Johnny Ringo is one of the popular mysteries that remain unsolved today, with many theories that attempt to explain how he died with his gun belt on upside down, his feet wrapped in a torn undershirt, his boots hung on the saddle of his horse that was found miles away, the gun found nearby not the gun he was known to carry, and other weird circumstances. Will we ever know what exactly happened? Probably not. Circumstance indicates that he either committed suicide or was murdered by Buckskin Frank Leslie. Wyatt Earp claimed that he and Doc Holliday did the deed but that is highly unlikely. Perhaps this information will answer the questions some people have regarding this video.

@rickkinki4624

6 жыл бұрын

Great video, but I've always wondered about something. If they were to exhume Ringo's body, couldn't they use modern forensic techniques to address the question? Certainly they could determine the caliber of the bullet that killed him, and the precise direction the bullet traveled, which would reveal a lot. If any of his hair survives, couldn't they determine his blood alcohol level? And I think it's also possible that if Ringo pulled the trigger, there might be traces of powder on his skull. I think it would be worth the effort to exhume his body, for exactly these reasons.

@billmarq

6 жыл бұрын

I doubt that much of Ringo's body would remain today, other than a skeleton. His body was dumped into a quickly dug grave just a few feet from that tree. At the time his body was discovered, he had been exposed to the sun or a day or two and his face was burned black, according to those who investigated the scene. There is a theory that he was first shot with a rifle and that the killer(s) then propped his body up onto the tree and used his gun to shoot a separate bullet through the same bullet hole in his skull in order to make it look like suicide. Perhaps an examination of his skull might prove or disprove that theory.

@rickkinki4624

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the response! I visited John Ringo's grave just a couple of weeks ago, and I'm fascinated by "The Gunfighter Who Never Was." Certainly nothing would be left but a skeleton. I doubt he was put in a coffin, nor buried especially deep. But traces of his hair might remain. I'm sure it will never happen, but I think a forensic examination of his remains would be fascinating!

@joshuatraffanstedt2695

6 жыл бұрын

I think he just shot himself. I doubt people were too worried about covering their trail. The law was pretty ignorant back then. Most murders were unsolved.

@cheymilion3168

5 жыл бұрын

So Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday are both liars?

I know for a fact that he was shot in the head by Val Kilmer. I saw it myself.

@althalus3267

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. Every thing else is a lie.

@jeaninemartinez5044

2 жыл бұрын

It was real quick while he was smokin' a spliff.

@TyroneJemielWashington

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeaninemartinez5044 BTW, Johnny wasnt much of a daisy.

@JohnWiIkesBooth

2 жыл бұрын

"C'MON JOHNNY!" "Yew ain't no daisy!"

@prmath

2 жыл бұрын

Headshots are pretty damnmnmnm fatal 🤷🏼‍♂️👋🏼🤷🏼‍♂️

Death was marked down as covid 19

@woodrowmagnus2535

3 жыл бұрын

The democrats would list it that way, wouldn't they?

@rocktober1327

3 жыл бұрын

Thats funny.

@cottonballs2776

3 жыл бұрын

Oh hell yes they would

@isabellapaar9549

3 жыл бұрын

😂

@connerkerrison2579

3 жыл бұрын

Covid1882

"Im your huckleberry" "Say when" *shot* "come on Johnny" "COME ON!!!"

@crashfistfight7088

3 жыл бұрын

"you're no daisy at all"

@gregorymoore2877

2 жыл бұрын

"Poor soul. You were just a little too high strung."

It was Val Kilmer....Abe Zapruder filmed it.

@RK-ml2ns

3 жыл бұрын

Apparently Ringo's head went back and to the left, back and to the left.

@christophermotyka8744

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao 🤣😂 thx for the laugh 😂😆

@nicanornunez9787

3 жыл бұрын

I think Kilmer directed part of the film

@fitzjon4628

2 жыл бұрын

Nice one

@guadguadalupe2614

2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha ha.

The actual tree is still in its place. Something that’s physically still here, that we can touch and in a small way be connected to the past. That in its self is amazing .

Johnny Ringo was killed by Val Kilmer

@jasonparis5635

3 жыл бұрын

Val Kilmers Batman killed Johnny ringo.

@lionelbelaunzaran522

3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonparis5635 Batman doesn't kill...

The stress was more than he could bare.

@user-qt5eh9wb7g

3 жыл бұрын

Poor soul. He was just too high-strung....

@jasonparis5635

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-qt5eh9wb7g im your huckleberry.

@markthomas3730

2 жыл бұрын

bare

I grew up in the 1930s back east listening to old timers and i mean old timers aged from 60 to 100+ years. Stories they told of their experiences in the east, west during the civil war and indian fights were fantastic and educational and about 90% of them factually verified later by historians and archaeologists. You can learn a lot more when hearing things from people who personally experienced them is more interesting than reading someone's perspective of the event. I was blessed to encounter these old timers and couldn't get enough of their knowledge. From the day i was old enough to understand things I've always looked forward to listening to old timers stories regardless of who they were or the story they told. If kids today took the opportunity to listen to the experiences of old timers they would be much better off.

@andolini1235

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck you..500 comments are doc holliday kill johhny ringo or Doc or I saw in the movie. You have not seen nothing and you dont know nothnig stupid people

"wow Johnny Ringo you look like someone just walked over your grave"

This is so great. I realize it was uploaded 10 years ago, but I'm really glad I came across this and the other videos you've uploaded. Thank you.

Really appreciate men like you sir who take the time to preserve our history and share it in such a cool and interesting manner. Well done.

He's no daisy at all

" Evidently Mr Ringo is a educated man.. now I really hate him"

"Why, Johnny Ringo. Looks like a whole mess of people WALKED over your grave..."

@gregorymoore2877

2 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid the strain was more than he could bear.

@markzuelch7452

2 жыл бұрын

And maybe even pissed on it too.

@cosmicabyss7358

Жыл бұрын

Why do people qoute things and get them wrong lol

"Look darling. It's Johnny Ringo."

Ringo was just foolin! Doc wasn't!

Just the fact that Ringo was shot once in the head tells me that he probably shot himself. It's hard to believe anyone in the Earp faction would have found him alone in the wild and only shot him once, and the same goes for any of the men who had a real grudge against him. Add this to the fact that he witnessed his own father shoot himself in the head and this seems even more certain.

But isn't it cooler to believe Doc killed him instead?

@hyperiongaming2132

7 жыл бұрын

mrtrek64 Doc holiday was the real person who killed himself

@jackfrost6493

7 жыл бұрын

killrr he drank alot and smoked alot he died from tuberculosis

@leighfoulkes7297

6 жыл бұрын

And hence, killed himself.

@ShadowMan66

6 жыл бұрын

the truth is real, cool is fake

@hyperiongaming2132

6 жыл бұрын

Shadow Man doc did its just people think he killed himself because. One bullet was shot

I had read in a book a few years back when I was in Cimmaron, New Mexico, staying at the St James Hotel. That Johnny Ringo had just bought a 2,500 acre ranch in partnership with Ike Clanton on the Arizona/ New Mexico border. It said there were court records and deed filings. A new business venture makes suicide seem unlikely to me.

@irishmancheckinin6540

6 жыл бұрын

suicide at all for that day and age or for a person like that seems impossible. I wish i had a time machine so i could watch history. Even if i could only see it but not change it I'd still be into seeing history like that. Could you imagine a technology like that? I clearly digress.

@joshuatraffanstedt2695

6 жыл бұрын

Irishman checkin in suicide has always been going on.

Why Johnny, you look like someone just walked over your grave.

@danielwebster5748

3 жыл бұрын

That's a bunch of bulshit if any of them wanted to fight him they would have done it the three times they back down in town they asked a hundred local people two or three said it was suicide the other 97 or 98 said it was definitely Buckskin Frank Leslie Doc Holliday was nowhere near Arizona and neither was Wyatt Earp where murder charges were waiting

Everybody knows Doc Holiday shot him. “I’m your Huckleberry.”

@loj1k829

4 жыл бұрын

At that scene he was meant to say hucklebearer

@alan30189

4 жыл бұрын

Carl Weiser - That would’ve been one record, long-ass shot, from Colorado.

@brettjones4300

4 жыл бұрын

You’re no daisy !

@billmarq

4 жыл бұрын

@@loj1k829 That is absolutely not true. "Huckleberry" is in the original screenplay. It is an old Southern expression, originally something of an insult but later simply meaning "guy" or "man" as in "I'm your guy." Glenn Ford uses a similar phrase in a 1950's western - "Let's go have a talk with that huckleberry."

@giveematug7093

4 жыл бұрын

@@billmarq however huckle bearer is still a southern term for pall bearer. Berry was used in film yes, but also could of been dual meaning from director/writers. Just a clever way of saying two words that both work for situation.

It could have been anyone. Rings was a drunk and a bully. He could have crossed anyone at anytime and got bushwhacked by anybody.

@billmarq

8 жыл бұрын

+Kenna Keeton - Very true, but the Sanders family who live on the property now, and whose ancestors did at the time of Ringo's death will tell you that Buckskin Frank Leslie did it.

@bigboy3jv

7 жыл бұрын

Kenna Keeton well said

Did they find John Ringo with his pearl handled guns? Seems that whoever he met His End with would have taken those valuable guns? I was left a broken Pearl handled Colt DA .41 caliber pistol and as my Understanding- a standard colt pistol was $5.00. A pearl handled one with nickel plating was $15.00. The balance on these Colts is unbelievable!. RH DSD

Ringo was a hopeless drunk. He was broke. All his friends were dead. When his horse took off with his boots, he said "Ah fuck it" and blew his brains out.

Actually I shot him. Feels good to come clean. I shot JR too.

@robertbishop5357

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah,me to and I shot doc, the daltons, Jessie James and Fred Flintstone.

@sjang816

4 жыл бұрын

what about the sheriff? but I don't think you killed the deputy

@zzaa2691

4 жыл бұрын

@@sjang816 I shot the sheriff, but I swear it was in self-defense

@TheBatugan77

4 жыл бұрын

@@robertbishop5357 You shot Fred? You BASTARD!

@eddieash6189

4 жыл бұрын

I knew it was you!

Fact: Doc Holliday was in Colorado when Ringo died, and many years later Wyatt Earp admitted to his biographer Stuart Lake that he found Ringo in a drunken sleep against an oak tree outside of Tombstone and shot him in the head.

@razablanco3766

2 жыл бұрын

Earp was known to lie and embellish just about every aspect of his life especially when he moved to LA

@jenniferfloyd9179

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think Wyatt Earp killed him I wonder if the last person to see him alive killed him I think this is a cold case that would be very interesting for them to find out the truth

@glennmeek2718

Жыл бұрын

Wyatt Earp was nowhere near Arizona Territory when Ringo was killed, that is historical fact.

We all saw Tombstone, we know that was a documentary

Well, one thing’s for sure: He was no daisy, and he had plenty of huckleberries aching to help him catch some lead in the head.

"I'm your huckleberry"

Wyaat Earp lived until 1929. Nobody ask him, so what happen to Ringo, who shot him ?? Also he wrote a book named 'My friend Doc Holliday'

we started a game that we didn't finish

@steveburtonomaha

6 жыл бұрын

G:D Jones crackpot videos fight for blood, remember?

very interesting story and great Video Production...

Doc Holliday killed Johnny Ringo, I saw it on TV. The rest is history.

My money is on Leslie. He had opportunity and motive. The gun with Ringo was also incosistent with what he normally carried but it was correct in being the type that Leslie carried. Billy Claibourne did claim that Buckskin Frank killed Ringo, so there's that. Leslie never claimed to do it. You'd think it would be in his favor to say that he did, except for the fact that there were still Plenty of the cowboy faction around to which Johnny was a memeber. Frank wasn't afraid to kill someome. It wasn't his first trip around that block. ;)

Everybody knows "DOC' Holiday shot Ringo! These people didn't see the movie!!

I doubt the coroner’s jury cared who killed John Ringo. Ringo was a loose cannon in Cochise county. They were glad he was gone

I really hope it was Doc Holliday

He met his huckleberry.

@rodbrock4759

Жыл бұрын

I did it. I saw it on TV in front of the camera.

I enjoyed this video. Thanks.

I know who killed ringo....it was Val Kilmer

@captainamerica6525

5 жыл бұрын

Lol! Sure enough!

@roramos5913

5 жыл бұрын

I agree with you, I saw it my very own eyes 👀 Lmao 😂

@richardramirez1701

5 жыл бұрын

@@roramos5913 good to know i wasn't the only witnss

@captainamerica6525

5 жыл бұрын

@@roramos5913 . Maybe Ringo had info on Hillary Clinton!

@adelaochoa437

5 жыл бұрын

He was so sexy when he was younger.

always to hear a detailed account from good indepents thank you sir.

But, I saw it with my own 2 eyes. It was Doc Holliday😉

For anyone curious, Johnny Ringo was born in Greensfork, Indiana, a town that I know well, and I still have cousins who live there. I used to fish in Morgan Creek, running very close to Greensfork many times growing up, clear into my junior high school days. It's a small, sleepy little hamlet, with maybe 500-1000 people at most even today.

@DrummerMattMcVey2012

6 жыл бұрын

PinkOld yep, glad to see someone know this little known fact. I’m from Richmond about 15 miles from Greensfork.

@Gunners_Mate_Guns

6 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear from someone else from the area, too!

@eazye088

5 жыл бұрын

Is it true that the town celebrates his birthday there?

He was just to high strung

Holiday never appeared in court and Wyatt was supposedly missing missing week Ringo died... There is your answer, and it was also confirmed by Marcus (Wyatt's wife) numerous times that they went back to finish the job once Ringo returned to Tombstone.

@WashuHakubi4

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think there's any good evidence that Wyatt or Doc ever went anywhere near Arizona again once they left.

@robertbrown6933

6 жыл бұрын

whip not with a rifle from a distance. Straight up gun fight though, yes your right

Doc Holiday. I saw the movie. Lol. 🍻

Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls

Good channel. I love Old West info like this. It was such a brutal time but so fascinating to hear about

"He was just too high strung"

Nope it was Doc Holiday I actually saw him do it

They can argue all they like, but they were not there when it happened, in fact we were Not even born when it happened!! I rest my Case

Well that certainly cleared that up.............

Plot twist. Ike Clanton grew a pair and he did it.

Doc Holiday never appeared in court in Colorado. His council postponed the hearing for the week after, hence he had plenty of time to rough up Ike Clanton and meet up with Johnnie Ringo

@tomcostello8220

Жыл бұрын

Doc Holliday had hired a "special master" to delay his court appearance in Colorado.

My real name is Buckskin Frank Leslie and I'm outraged by these slanderous lies. Johnny Ringo shot himself forty-seven times in the same hole in his head. He then partially undressed himself and reloaded his weapons. I seen him do it.

Johnny Ringo is an amazing name to have

@gregorymoore2877

2 жыл бұрын

Imagine if his middle names were Paul and George. 😉

Ringo. Earp and Holliday were in Gunnison Colorado at time of Ringo's death. Judging Ringo by today's DSN IV he was a raging full tilt drunk and manic depressive. I'm a.longterm recovering drunk and recognize some of his behavior patterns.

@NoticerOfficial

10 ай бұрын

DSM

@larry1824

10 ай бұрын

@@NoticerOfficial ok you win

Gentlemen, I just picked up some dirt *really* close to Johnny's grave, I'd like to get working a little museum and stuff for him... um, plans and things... Anyway, I'd *really* like to meet you gentlemen. The property is just rough dirt at the moment, but... yeah, plans. I'm bumping around Sunsites while working on getting the utilities put in; I hope to see you around. ~Abe

Val Kilmer killed him. I mean Doc Holliday did. Yeah I saw him do it! Geez. Its all on video.

Johnny Ringo was so fast that he was able to draw, shoot and reholster before he died lol

Lt. Joe Kenda could find out who killed Ringo...

@jamesfiguieredo9614

4 жыл бұрын

My my my

In peace requiescata

He started a game he couldn't finish

I'm gonna go with Doc Holiday. He just had a good alibi. If you killed someone and was speculated, you best believe to say you were out of town when it happened.

@shawnglass108

5 жыл бұрын

Eric Dizzy , I don’t think it was Doc. He wasn’t a cold blooded killer by any means.He Actually cried after the gunfight behind the OK corral. Along with the fact that he had a court appearance in another state at that time.

@kenfarris8069

5 жыл бұрын

@@shawnglass108 His court appearance in Trinidad, Colorado was handled by his attorney. That was the custom at the time. Also noted that Bat Masterson, a good friend of Doc's, was the sheriff of Trinidad at that time. Good alibi.

@brucemorrison2132

5 жыл бұрын

@@kenfarris8069 NOT. Bat Masterson disliked Doc immensely !

I like learning history especially about old Western days. I would love to visit tombstone someday, I live in New Mexico in the exact area where the history of Billy the kid took place, by the way sometimes I wonder if billy the kid every knew the Earps or anyone from tombstone during that time since they all existed in the same time period..... That would be kind of interesting to know

*Ringo died by the hands of death, who rode in on a pale horse*

The hat that fella is wearing the one with the western white shirt. What kind of hat is it it's a nice one

Doc laid the huckleberry on ringo

I would love to visit Tombstone. It’s on my bucket list along with Deadwood and Dodge City.

@YahshuaLovesMe

5 жыл бұрын

on a train or wagon heh...

@georgemorgan5906

5 жыл бұрын

Mine too!

@darrenrobertw

4 жыл бұрын

Hey guys, I was lucky to of gone there in 94, and it was AWESOME, I was walking along the sidewalk being Wyatt with my gf taking the Mick outta me, but I didn't care, guts you GOTTA GO. if I win the lottery vwe are all going ha ha.

@JakeNaughtFromStateFarm

4 жыл бұрын

@@darrenrobertw I’m gonna hold ya to that lol

@darrenrobertw

4 жыл бұрын

@@JakeNaughtFromStateFarm trust me wahayyyy, but if I only win a tenner you can forget it lol

He killed him self twirling his gun.

From what I've read about John Ringold he was most likely shot from a long distance, rifle distance, because he was really fast with his pistols and just anyone wasn't going to take him. The flap of skin on his temple is most likely the result of the bullet coming out sideways or keyhole.

@brucemorrison2132

5 жыл бұрын

You have bought into the false "Hollywood" narrative that all famous gunmen and mankillers were quick-draw artists, which is bs ! There were no fast-draw wizards ! Do the research, ,plenty of books with photos of the time that show hoglegs were worn high on the waist, in big holsters that swallowed the sixgun. You ain't gonna speed draw from such a rig ! As Wyatt Earp said , "the real killers who pulled a gun , took their time , in a hurry." Another good source of how guns were worn is the "Who Wore What in the American West" site.

@barneybrown8528

5 жыл бұрын

If you're from Georgia everybody in Arizona thinks you're Australian for some reason I even had a woman arguing with my wife about in Big nose Cates

Kirk Douglass killed Johnny Ringo. I saw him do it. Douglass sees Johnny through a window like opening of a barn, Johnny is in the barn. Douglass shouts "RINGO", AS Johnny spins to face the opening, Douglass gives it to him in the belly.

Doc killed Johnny! I saw the movie!!! LOL

@anarchy9141

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Dambeck He tolking about the real Johnny rango and doc

@lucioluevano8725

6 жыл бұрын

Mike Dambeckl

@andolini1235

3 жыл бұрын

No its not doc.. But however doc is a brave men but you are all cowards with that stupid comment

Enjoyed the movie, but who really knows who killed johnny ringing? Hollyweird also made everyone believed Billy the Kid was south paw!

@kirkf4crewdawg604

6 жыл бұрын

No, a reversed photo plate did that.

l'm your Huckleberry....

Boy that tree will last forever

I just love the old west. I was born 150 years too Damn late . I would love to have been a cowboy in those days . I think I would have been a bounty hunter. Thanks for these great videos.

@jackboyer1280

5 жыл бұрын

I bet if you born back then but knew what life would be like now you wouldn't want to be there. You would much rather live in these times rather than back then, life then was a hard life that's why life expectancy is so much longer now than then. I grew up in W Pa. In the 40's & 50's. Take my word for it going to an outsider in the middle of a harsh winter is something I don't wish on anyone but enemies or people I don't like very much.

@alc2371

5 жыл бұрын

Scott Cozart you probably would have been the bartender getting slapped up by Ike Clanton every day! Ike be taking no lip from you

@darrenthompson1058

5 жыл бұрын

Life was hard back then plus no wifi internet just playing cards or getting pissed all day and night and oh yeah gunfights.

@coreyhall1150

3 жыл бұрын

Shit was rough then...... I mean rough rough.

After watching this, I consider myself as much an expert on the death of Mr Ringo as these guys...

@billmarq

3 жыл бұрын

You are.

Buried in the Chiricahua mountains east of Tombstone.

Didn't end ask the lawmen seated to the left of the couple. I am sure they pondered the issue a few times...

It was doc Holliday I seen the movie 😁 y'all remember he said I'll be your huckleberry 😋

I went back in time and took out Johnny boy. I had to see if I was quicker.

The main discrepancy in the theory that Doc or Wyatt couldn't have done it is, that he was last seen on the 11th, so that would leave them two and half days, not one day. Not that I think either of them did, but there's no time of death, so he could have been killed any time between the 11th and the 13th.

Everybody knows that doc holiday killed Johnny ringo. I saw it in a movie

@girlspooptoo8567

6 жыл бұрын

Wallace Raymond Thanks By the way your caplocks are stuck on

@pickettmandi

6 жыл бұрын

girls poop too I was going to comment on my astonishment that girls poop too but someone beat me to it. Threw me a deuce!

@girlspooptoo8567

6 жыл бұрын

Mandi Pickett I'm just letting the world know. I hope I didn't throw you off to bad. It helps me to imagine that they are pooping marshmallow peeps Have a good one

In an ideal society, this is how everyone dresses everyday

And you’re next music lover!

"Frank Leslie killed Ringo. I saw him do it". - Billy Claiborne's last words

Doc Holiday....lol...What do you think Darling?..Well it reminds me of me....lol...you look somebody who just walk over your "GRAVE."..lol...we started a game we never got to finish...play for blood remember....lol...i loved that movie....are we not friends anymore?....lol...

Kurt russel killed him

"I beg to differ with you sa" ,Doc Holliday.

Great video love American history

I heard he died the same way Old Dan Tucker did . A toothache in his heel . I guess that was a common problem back then .

I guess only Lorne Green knows. (Listen to his recording "Ringo".

.” Oh I wasn’t as sick as I made out “ , Doc Holiday .

I find it..implausible that given the environment of the time that someone will drop Ringo with a rifle and THEN pack up the body, haul it several miles to the spot, and THEN go the additional trouble to prop him up like he committed suicide. That would serve no purpose-at all. This is all supposition, 3rd hand stories and speculation.

@stephenhatley3192

5 жыл бұрын

We may never know who for sure, but Ringo was killed by someone and most believe it was Frank Leslie. It is recorded that there was no powder burn on the side of his face. This would've been a certainty with cartridges containing black powder. He had to have been shot from a distance.

I'm your huckleberry. Oh, Jonny, you look like somebody just walked right over your grave. Fights not with you Doc. Oh but is it. We started a game that we never got to finish it. Play for blood, remember? I was just fooling. I'm wasn't. Okay Doc, let's do it. Say when. Say when Jonny! Oh poor soul, he was just to high strung.

@cruser0071

6 жыл бұрын

Tom Sawyer I beg to differ

@midnightfury4584

6 жыл бұрын

You're no daisy. You're no daisy at all.

@johnweymouth5685

6 жыл бұрын

Tom Sawyer Piper ur the closest one yet! except ringing didn't say "ok doc let's do it ", he said "ok lunger let's do it" lol.

@vCLOWNSHOESv

6 жыл бұрын

Tom Sawyer Piper it's "Ok lunger" not "Ok Doc"

Great Interesting Story ..

Doc Holliday & Wyatt Earp made sure they had good alibis !

@christilley7599

5 жыл бұрын

That could very well be true. Alot of the gang died mysteriously over the years after the Ok Corral.

My theory is probably...I don’t have a clue.