By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
June 3, 2011, 10:00 a.m.
James Arness, the towering actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon, the strong and commanding symbol of frontier justice on the landmark TV western series "Gunsmoke," died Friday. He was 88.
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