Dragnet: The Big Phone Call
Dragnet · February 14, 1952 · 29 min · 5,397 words
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The story you're about to hear is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. Fatima cigarettes. Best of all, king-size cigarettes brings you dragnet on both radio and television. You're a detective sergeant.
You're assigned a robbery detail. A jewelry salesman is slugged and robbed of $20,000 in precious stones. After months of investigation, you finally discover the man responsible for the holdup. You've got the evidence to prove him guilty.
Your job, bring him in. Fatima, America's first largest selling blended cigarette. Now, best of all, king-size cigarettes. Prove it yourself, today. Compare Fatima with any other king-size cigarette. One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection.
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Definitely the best quality in its class. But the same price is in Cigarette, you're now smoking. Five Fatima, in the bright, sunny yellow pack. Best of all, king size cigarettes. Ha ha! The documented 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 prescribed from official police violence. From beginning to ends, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. Of course, Thursday, July 18th,
was sultry in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch out of robbery detail. The partners, Ed Jacobs, the bosses, Captain Didion. My name is Friday. It was 1.35 p.m. when we got back to the city hall, the interrogation room.
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