The first shot goes awry. She has to run across the ... Toward the end of Fred Gipson’s 1956 classic, “Old Yeller,” Travis says, “It was going to kill something inside me to do it, but ...

Old Yeller should have been left to his own devices; Travis’s parents should have been prosecuted for negligence. How else to interpret the wildly overblown attention placed on the shooting of a ...