Playhouse 90 (TV Series)

Massacre at Sand Creek (1956)

William Schallert: Defense Attorney at Court-Martial

Quotes 

• Colonel John Templeton : When you've been out here as long as I have, you'll learn that there is no such thing as a peaceful Indian.

  Captain Kingsley - Defense Attorney at Court-Martial : Now, Colonel, the dictionary defines a battle as an engagement between two opposing hostile forces. Do you concur in that definition?

  Colonel John Templeton : I do.

  Captain Kingsley - Defense Attorney at Court-Martial : Would you then define a village of Indians; men, women and children, sleeping peacefully under the protection of a treaty, as an opposing hostile force?

• Captain Kingsley - Defense Attorney at Court-Martial : Defense has based its case on the contention that a state of war did not exist, that the accused could not possibly have given aid and comfort to enemy because there was no enemy; that what has been described as a condition of battle was in reality no battle at all, but a purposeful, successfully executed mass murder!