Dragnet: The Big Almost No Show
Dragnet · January 31, 1952 · 29 min · 5,421 words
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The document had drama 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 transcribed from official police violence. From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
It was Wednesday, November 14th, it was overcast in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of homicide detail. My partner is Ed Jacobs, the boss is This is Captain Mormon. My name is Friday. We run away from the office and it was 8.56 a.m.
when we got to the S&H paper company on 4th Street. The rear entrance. Where do we find it Joe upstairs? No, Main floor. We told me we'd find her in the time-keepers office. She said it was near the back door entrance. We couldn't miss it.
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