The Jean Cooper Murder Case

Here is another in NBC's Great Parade of New Shows. As Richard Diamond, private detective. Hello there, this is Diamond.

You know, there are a lot of people in the big city like this. Good ones and bad ones. They walk down Broadway and rob elbows and you can't tell them part. Why can't you? Because a lot of them were poured out of the same mold.

brought up in the middle of garbage cans and gang wars, weaned on the smell of slums and conditioned to the taste of dirt in the kick and the ribs. By the time they get old enough to raise their fist they're given two choices, two ways to beat the gang wars and garbage cans.

One guy picks himself up, shakes off the filth, and jumps over on the right side of the fence. The other guy picks himself up too. But when he does he raises that fist and shakes it at the whole world because he wants things the easy way.

He continues to shake his fist until someone shoves a gun at it. Then he's a swaggering giant. Sometimes he climbs over with his little bag of rotten hides in the lap of society. But take away the gun and he ends up right back in the middle of the garbage cans with his face in the dirt.

What about the guy on the right side of the fence? Well, you rarely ever hear of him, unless he becomes president or gets mixed up with the guy on the wrong side of the fence.

like the case I bumped into a couple of days ago, it all started in Central Park. I'm Kirk, I run over that young guy over there ran over with his car. I came up right after it happened, he was leaning over and crying, a little late for crying.