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| - Name: The Conflict Run Time: 9:35 Year: 1978
- The Government has ordered that Aunt Martha Corinne and her family, Boone, Wade and Vera, should be evicted from their mountain home because a new highway is planned to cover this land. One night, Boone, Martha Corinne's son and Wade Walton, Boone's grandson, arrive at the Walton home saying that they will fight the eviction and that they expect all Walton folk to help them. A new home has been offered to Martha Corinne, and she goes to see it on the understanding from the local Senator, that no further work will take place while she's away. She goes to stay at the Walton home, while Zeb Walton, and John Boy stay behind in Martha Corinne's home, with Boone, Wade and Vera, to protect it and make sure it is still there, and not bulldozed, when Martha Corinne returns. John Boy and his grandfa
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| - The Government has ordered that Aunt Martha Corinne and her family, Boone, Wade and Vera, should be evicted from their mountain home because a new highway is planned to cover this land. One night, Boone, Martha Corinne's son and Wade Walton, Boone's grandson, arrive at the Walton home saying that they will fight the eviction and that they expect all Walton folk to help them. A new home has been offered to Martha Corinne, and she goes to see it on the understanding from the local Senator, that no further work will take place while she's away. She goes to stay at the Walton home, while Zeb Walton, and John Boy stay behind in Martha Corinne's home, with Boone, Wade and Vera, to protect it and make sure it is still there, and not bulldozed, when Martha Corinne returns. John Boy and his grandfather have very different ideas about how this sort of conflict should be handled though. John Boy feels that talking is the best way to come to an agreement, while the other Walton menfolk take up rifles and are ready to fight for what is theirs. The boss of the construction company does indeed go ahead with the planned explosions and Martha Corinne returns to her home when word arrives that they have been double crossed. John Walton takes the matter to the senator and tries to get the commission to understand just what the loss of their home means to such old people. They feel that they have adequately compensated the mountain folk, but John tries to get them to understand that their land means everything to them, and that they really do not understand just why they have to leave what is theirs and their homes that they have had for many years. After several warnings, the Walton clan barricade the driveway to the land and stand around with their rifles just waiting for the marshalls to come and remove them. John Boy still doesn't believe that shooting is the way to come to an agreement, and he puts down his rifle and races towards the sheriff's car. He is knocked out of the way, and several shots are fired by both the law enforcers and the Walton men. John Boy makes one last effort to talk, but is shot trying to accomplish this. That is all the old Martha Corinne can take though, and she orders her family to pack up and leave quietly.
- Name: The Conflict Run Time: 9:35 Year: 1978
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