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Ransom Stoddard's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

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When watch this The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and watching the end, would could really think, Ransom Stoddard did shot Liberty Valance. Many stories that we are told when one is young, always stretch the truth, naming a few Columbus not really discovering America, even urban legends. Yes, one could state there a sense of sadness to do the lie (myth), but you also giving the people something to believe in. Yes, we see Tom Doniphon go into a fit of rage, and burn down his house, he lost the girl. He put his goal aside for something bigger. Stoddard needed to win, he is a very smart man, and knows the law. Doniphon could not state he killed Liberty Valance, because he killed him in cold blood. He gave the people what they went, like how Batman
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