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In the first video below we see Henry Fonda – the friend who read the Robert Louis Stevenson poem at Steinbeck’s funeral – talking with Dick Cavett about a movie that was released the same year Steinbeck died. This interview was December 30, 1969.

In the second video we see the scene in the movie that Fonda describes to Cavett. 

In the third video, we see the opening scene from that movie, widely regarded to be the most dramatic opening scene of any western film ever made. Welcome to 1968, the year that Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated.