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Dragnet: George Quan - The Jade Thumb Rings

Dragnet · December 8, 1949 · 28 min · 4,926 words

The transcript of “George Quan - The Jade Thumb Rings”, an episode of Dragnet first broadcast December 8, 1949. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays Dragnet free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. Fatima cigarettes, best of long cigarettes, brings you drag net. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail.

$8,000 worth of Chinese jade has been stolen. The criminal is vicious. His weapon, a handful of buckshot in a handkerchief. Your job, get him. If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of long cigarettes.

Smoke Fatima. Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos, superbly blended to make Fatima extra mild. And that's why Fatima is a much different, much better flavor under Roma than any other long cigarette.

That's why Fatima is doubling and redoubling its smokers. So if you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. Smoke Fatima. Dragnet, the documented trauma of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police

files. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. was Monday December 1st was foggy in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. My partner's Ben Romero. The boss is Ed Backstrand, chief of detectives. My name's Friday. It was 715 p.m. when we got to the police academy, the Banquith room. Where do we sit,

you know, Lee Jones is holding a couple seats for us someplace. You see him home? Yeah, yeah. There he is at burn. Look at him. He's here. Yeah, ought to be. Hi fellas, couple of rings I see.

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