TRUE GRIT starring John Wayne premiered on this day in 1969. 1969 was a pivotal year for the United States, bringing an end to a decade that bore witness to the high-profile assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Senator Bobby Kennedy, as well as the escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, coupled with civil unrest on the home front. Three distinctly different westerns graced the screen in 1969, closing out that tumultuous decade and putting the punctuation m

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