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Ladies and Gentlemen, the story you were about to 17 00:02:12,280 --> 00:02:16,400 hear is true, only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. 18 00:02:17,199 --> 00:02:34,039 NBC brings you Dragnet. You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned to robbery detail. 19 00:02:34,759 --> 00:02:37,960 An armed gang of blitz bandits has started to work in your city. 20 00:02:38,599 --> 00:02:43,639 Their pace is fast, four and five robberies each night. The criminals are 21 00:02:43,639 --> 00:02:52,520 not amateurs. They're well armed, dangerous. Your job get them Dragnets. 22 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:55,840 That document a drama of an actual crime, investigated and solved by the men 23 00:02:55,879 --> 00:03:00,479 who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home, your family, and 24 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:05,400 joy life. Paul. The next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los 25 00:03:05,439 --> 00:03:08,199 Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the 26 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:14,000 law through an actual case from official police files, from beginning to end, 27 00:03:14,520 --> 00:03:19,840 from crime to punishment. Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 28 00:03:23,879 --> 00:03:29,000 It was Thursday, October twenty third, was windy in Los Angeles. 29 00:03:29,319 --> 00:03:31,879 We were working a day watch out of robbery. My partner's Ben Romero. 30 00:03:32,159 --> 00:03:37,000 The boss is at backstrand Chief of detectives. My name is Friday. I 31 00:03:37,039 --> 00:03:38,879 was on my way back from the statisticians office, and it was eleven forty 32 00:03:38,879 --> 00:03:45,199 two am when I got to Room twenty seven A robbery detail I did workout, 33 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:46,520 Joe, any good prospects. I don't know how good they are, 34 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:50,080 but I got a handful. How men as you get. Let me see 35 00:03:50,319 --> 00:03:54,960 fifteeneen twenty two Bathol down on the Stat's office. Ran them on the IBM 36 00:03:55,039 --> 00:04:00,159 for me. There they are. I see it's a man working on foot 37 00:04:00,599 --> 00:04:04,360 flitz robberies. They only take cash. I'm always tie ups work from eight 38 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:06,840 to ten at night. One of the gangs tall, the other too short. 39 00:04:08,360 --> 00:04:11,280 And these are the men the machines ordered out under that heading. You 40 00:04:11,319 --> 00:04:15,080 know if our information is wrong, and so's the machine got a good bunch 41 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:18,639 of candidate's year descriptions match up with what we got. They seem to check 42 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:21,519 the names on that list. Ben some of the smartest thieves in the country. 43 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:29,439 Yeah, Tommy Willis, Ray Grandpa gimps to tell Manny Roberts, George 44 00:04:29,439 --> 00:04:35,040 Crosse, Mariokoski reads like June graduation at San Quentin. Yeah, George Cross 45 00:04:35,079 --> 00:04:38,680 and Tommy Willis are in town. We know that tan Cosky he is around 46 00:04:38,680 --> 00:04:41,399 a couple of weeks ago. And what about the rest. It's a big 47 00:04:41,439 --> 00:04:44,160 field. Have to check him out. I guess might as well start at 48 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,920 the beginning. Did you go through the overnight reports yet? Yeah? No 49 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:50,000 restaurants, no lequor stores. That makes five days. The gang's laid off. 50 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:54,639 I can afford to canty eighteen robberies in twenty forties. That's a pretty 51 00:04:54,639 --> 00:04:58,160 good hall. They stop and go strategy. There's Joe. It's got me. 52 00:04:58,480 --> 00:05:00,319 Yeah. They work hard for week in one area and then they lay 53 00:05:00,399 --> 00:05:03,279 low. They just keep going. We might have a better try at them. 54 00:05:03,720 --> 00:05:06,800 Hey, Joe, Yeah, Chandler, I see it. Joe names 55 00:05:06,839 --> 00:05:11,519 Decker, Decker, Henry Decker, didn't say I want to see him? 56 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:18,079 Yeah, send him in a How are you, Joey? Looking good? 57 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:23,439 Oh, Hank Decker, how are you? So? What are you waiting 58 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:26,680 for? Applause? Come on in and shut the door, Hank. This 59 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:29,399 is my partner, Ben Romero, Ben Hank Decker. All right, eh, 60 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,720 Hank and Iron service together. Yeah. I just dropped in for a 61 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,439 visit. Joe. Are you visiting? No more than usual? So thanks? 62 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:40,240 I remembered you telling me you were on the PD so I figured I'd 63 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,720 drop around and get an inside track. What do you mean I just fired 64 00:05:43,759 --> 00:05:46,920 with civil service to take the exam next month. Figure, I'd like to 65 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:50,360 work at being a cop. He shell shut. You know great pep talk 66 00:05:50,439 --> 00:05:54,720 you boys? Hand on you sure you want to be a cop? Look, 67 00:05:54,759 --> 00:05:57,800 I'm thirty years old, Joe. I'm married. High school education, 68 00:05:57,959 --> 00:06:01,240 but a year of junior college. What your wife think she's not sold? 69 00:06:02,160 --> 00:06:04,800 Well, that's why I dropped in. How about coming out of the house 70 00:06:04,839 --> 00:06:09,199 for dinner the night you want me to sell her? Just talk to her? 71 00:06:09,839 --> 00:06:14,399 Seven? Okay? Seven's okay. I'm glad to met you, Ben, 72 00:06:14,519 --> 00:06:16,079 than Man, Daggy, see you again, Bye bye, Joe, 73 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:21,480 see you at night, Hank. Well what do you think, Ben? 74 00:06:23,120 --> 00:06:30,279 I ought to make a good cup. We had a list of twenty two 75 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:33,040 possible suspects. By five o'clock, Ben and I had checked out two of 76 00:06:33,079 --> 00:06:35,959 them who might possibly have had a hand in the blitz robberies of the eighteen 77 00:06:35,959 --> 00:06:40,839 liquor stores and restaurants in the past twenty four days. Number one man was 78 00:06:40,879 --> 00:06:44,759 Thomas Willis, Caucasian, aged twenty nine, five feet eleven inches, one 79 00:06:44,839 --> 00:06:47,680 hundred and seventy five pounds, dark hair, blue eyes. Number two man 80 00:06:47,759 --> 00:06:51,759 was Mario Koski, Caucasian, five feet six inches, one hundred and seventy 81 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:57,160 pounds, dark hair, dark eyes, large scar under his chin, running 82 00:06:57,160 --> 00:07:00,680 across his throat up to and behind his left ear. According to our informants, 83 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:04,240 and after questioning some of their associates, either Willis or Coski or both 84 00:07:04,279 --> 00:07:08,759 could have taken part in the Blitz holdups. We showed their mugs to the 85 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,439 victims, but none of them could give us definite assurance that either Willis or 86 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:17,199 Coski were in the hold up game. At seven that night, I went 87 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:20,639 out to Hank Decker's house for supper. Met his wife, Linda, his 88 00:07:20,759 --> 00:07:26,079 four year old twin boys. We talked about the Army, played with the 89 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,600 kids for a while before we sat out to eat. We put the boys 90 00:07:29,639 --> 00:07:33,160 in bed. Hank was in the kitchen carving the roast. His wife closed 91 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:38,240 the door of the kid's room and we started downstairs for the kitchen. What 92 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,519 do you think of our two adam baums tether fine kids, Miss Decker. 93 00:07:43,639 --> 00:07:46,879 Hank told me that you were worried about him wanting to join the force. 94 00:07:47,240 --> 00:07:50,959 I was twelve years old. My father was shut down. He was a 95 00:07:50,959 --> 00:07:56,680 policeman in Des Moines. He was only thirty seven when he died. I 96 00:07:56,680 --> 00:08:00,319 wouldn't know what to do if anything like that happened to Hank. What do 97 00:08:00,360 --> 00:08:05,000 you want me to say? But does Hank really want it? Can't you 98 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,480 talk him out of it? You're his wife, can you? No? 99 00:08:09,639 --> 00:08:11,160 I think it's his choice, Miss Decker. He's going to have to make 100 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:18,360 up his own mind. I'm sorry, it's what Hank wants. I guess 101 00:08:18,399 --> 00:08:20,560 I worry too much. A lot of women marry cops. They have and 102 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:24,680 they will. They all worry. Hank will be all right? Will you 103 00:08:24,759 --> 00:08:33,120 guarantee it? Joe. During the next month, I heard from Hank Decker 104 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:37,759 only once. He was studying hard. During the same month, Ben and 105 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:41,600 I were working hard trying to find some kind of a concrete lead to break 106 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,399 the Blitz gang. There had been no subsequent holdups which seemed to tie in 107 00:08:45,480 --> 00:08:48,679 directly with a gang or its operations. From the list of possible suspects which 108 00:08:48,679 --> 00:08:52,159 Ben and I made up, eighteen names had been eliminated for one reason or 109 00:08:52,159 --> 00:08:56,240 another. Either they were in jail at the time of the robberies, out 110 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:58,679 of the Los Angeles area, or out of the state, but four names 111 00:08:58,679 --> 00:09:05,320 remained George Cross, Tommy Willis, Mario o'coski, Julian Brock. During the 112 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,240 latter part of the month, George Cross was booked on a minor charge and 113 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:13,360 we questioned him at that time he showed no knowledge of the holdups. Nearly 114 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:16,639 two months after the robberies were committed, Ben and I were still without a 115 00:09:16,639 --> 00:09:20,320 solution as to the whereabouts of the gang. Never known the Blitz gang back 116 00:09:20,799 --> 00:09:24,399 this way before, Joe. Once they get wound up, they usually go 117 00:09:24,440 --> 00:09:28,399 into Lick Court. Yeah, to get out those telegram checks to the east. 118 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,600 Yet last night before I went home, send out all three Willis, 119 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:35,120 Coski and Brock. I like to find just one of them. Chicago might 120 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:39,639 have some from Nescosky's old hangars, Willis too, What about Brock from Kansas 121 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:41,360 City and me? Yeah, I think good to why too? Might have 122 00:09:41,399 --> 00:09:46,120 an answer from one of them tomorrow. It's a slow job. We'll have 123 00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:48,679 to wait it out. Yes, so no following up from the victims. 124 00:09:48,720 --> 00:09:56,399 We go too. I'll get it robbery Friday. Well, Hi you Joe, 125 00:09:56,440 --> 00:09:58,960 Hank Dick could congtulate me? What for? It? Just passed my 126 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,919 written exam, got the lit this morning. How about that? That's fine. 127 00:10:01,039 --> 00:10:03,960 When do you take your physical? Well, not till the end of 128 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:05,639 the month. Next week, I take the oral and agility tests, then 129 00:10:05,679 --> 00:10:09,000 the physical. If I get party there, men, you're gonna have a 130 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:11,559 full month at the police academy after the test. There's a lot of work. 131 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,039 Hang. It can't be any worse than these tests. It's a tough 132 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,559 thirty days out there on the hill. Law, court, procedure, evidence, 133 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,159 combat firing, target packers. You don't have to wait through all of 134 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,600 them. You're ever gonna have anything encouraging to say. Yeah, when you're 135 00:10:22,639 --> 00:10:26,480 graduating, I won't count on it. How's your job going slow? How's 136 00:10:26,519 --> 00:10:31,159 your wife feel now about taking the job? A little better? She said 137 00:10:31,200 --> 00:10:33,440 to say, Hello, Okay, keep us posted him. I'll do that. 138 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:41,960 Joe right bye. Hank passes written TESTM sure, thank you, run 139 00:10:41,039 --> 00:10:48,240 in rout. Got a minute? Ask Come on, Joe, you got 140 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:52,519 something? Ed? Yeah, those bit robberies are handling not having much luck. 141 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:54,679 We were gangs disappeared, none a trace of them so far. They 142 00:10:54,759 --> 00:10:58,200 leave town. We're not sure, ed, we don't even have a good 143 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:01,360 description. We're guessing. Most of the way of your guesses you've had a 144 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,120 couple of months to make them. Twelve of the hold up victims we talked 145 00:11:03,159 --> 00:11:05,919 to told us definitely that there were three men in the gang, two of 146 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,799 them short, one of them tall. We've just been working from there. 147 00:11:09,919 --> 00:11:13,639 All three of them have dark complex and started with twenty two possibilities and got 148 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:16,879 it. We did down to four no them in three. Yeah, Tommy 149 00:11:16,879 --> 00:11:20,759 Willis, Mariokoski, Julian Brock, Willison Coski, Eastern hoods, brocks from 150 00:11:20,759 --> 00:11:22,679 the Middle West. And where are they now? Having sure their faces around 151 00:11:22,720 --> 00:11:26,879 town checking some of the cities in the east, it's about Oh, we 152 00:11:26,960 --> 00:11:31,399 got exkier and much for two months work. Thieves can't be that smart now 153 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:33,320 they are. They've sounded out every lead we had ed for doing our best. 154 00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:35,279 Either. Have you ever heard of a man by the name of l. 155 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:39,320 Michikov. No, I don't think so. Chicago gunman in the old 156 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:43,399 days, wasn't he? That's right? I thought he was doing time And 157 00:11:43,519 --> 00:11:48,360 Juliet b last year got a tippy was spotted on East Broadway night before last. 158 00:11:48,519 --> 00:11:50,240 We figured might tie in with our job. I don't know find out 159 00:11:50,759 --> 00:11:54,200 if I remember right. Michiganov's brother used to be pretty friendly with Mary Okoski. 160 00:11:54,799 --> 00:11:58,320 I helped send both of them up thirteen years ago. Same rap robbery. 161 00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:01,600 Was that all you heard it? Somebody spotted Michikov, that's all. 162 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:05,720 If you can track him down, you might get some kind of a lead. 163 00:12:05,840 --> 00:12:13,039 That's more than you got now. That night and for the next two 164 00:12:13,120 --> 00:12:16,600 nights following, Ben and I had dinner downtown instead of going home, and 165 00:12:16,639 --> 00:12:18,960 then we spent the rest of the night covering the lower end of the city 166 00:12:18,960 --> 00:12:22,440 in search of al Michikoff. We got more than a dozen leads on where 167 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:24,159 to find him from some of our informants, but none of the leads paid 168 00:12:24,200 --> 00:12:28,639 off. We kept missing him. No one knew where he was staying, 169 00:12:28,039 --> 00:12:33,519 no one knew or no one would tell us. Worst thing about this job, 170 00:12:33,600 --> 00:12:37,480 Joe leg were you must be averaging ten miles a night on feet, 171 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:46,600 say twenty almost midnight. Here's McCarthy's place. Let's try it right. Let's 172 00:12:46,639 --> 00:12:48,960 go down at the end of the bar. Ben, yeah, wow, 173 00:12:50,399 --> 00:12:54,039 I have been see you come in. Let's not oh not much. Bert 174 00:12:54,120 --> 00:12:58,279 made my partner, Joe Friday, Oh yeah, Friddy. All you fellas 175 00:12:58,279 --> 00:13:01,440 have looking for a guy bird his name is Al Michikoff, Chicago. You 176 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,320 heard anything? He was in here earlier tonight. A couple of guys with 177 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:07,799 him. Are you sure? What do you look like Sixth Street? I'm 178 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:11,480 forty five. I guess big Field sounds like him, all right? Joe? 179 00:13:11,919 --> 00:13:15,399 Is he staying in the neighborhood? B down here? I don't think 180 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:18,600 so. Most of those big timers stay uptown someplace. You're looking for Michigano. 181 00:13:18,679 --> 00:13:20,399 I like to talk to him. How long ago was he in? 182 00:13:20,679 --> 00:13:24,519 About eight o'clock? A couple of guys with him. They were talking about 183 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:28,200 driving out to the airport, something about Las Vegas. Uh huh, there's 184 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:30,639 an eight forty plan for Vegas, isn't there been? And thanks? So 185 00:13:30,720 --> 00:13:33,080 eight forty eight to fifty. I can't to go away? Bert, do 186 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:37,639 you remember the exact time they left him? Exactly the same? There's one 187 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:41,639 of the fellas that was with Michikov down there the middle of the bob which 188 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:46,519 one b Yeah, wonder to Sandy had big chin? It's him. Yeah, 189 00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:54,759 I want to talk Joe, come on and Josh in Vegas last week? 190 00:13:54,200 --> 00:13:58,240 That's me. I like to talk to him in it. Yeah, 191 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:01,519 who are you police? Sergeant Friday. Don't have a drink, Sergeant, 192 00:14:01,679 --> 00:14:05,919 No thanks, I said, I wanted to talk to you. Square John. 193 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:07,399 H wait a minute, George, Square John wants to talk to me. 194 00:14:07,519 --> 00:14:11,120 Come on outside, we can talk better out there. I ain't done 195 00:14:11,159 --> 00:14:13,360 nothing. What's the pitch? I gotta right to know. Let's go outside. 196 00:14:13,639 --> 00:14:16,639 Maybe I don't want to go outside. I think you better come on 197 00:14:18,120 --> 00:14:22,279 all right, all right, quit shoving you down my top, shoving the 198 00:14:22,399 --> 00:14:26,679 people around. What are you trying to do? I said, you all 199 00:14:26,759 --> 00:14:31,080 right down this way of Corus parked up the next day of Joe. Hey, 200 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:33,519 look, what's this all about? I gotta right to know. You 201 00:14:33,559 --> 00:14:37,080 were seen with al michikof tonight? Where is he? Oh, al Mischakoff? 202 00:14:37,080 --> 00:14:39,799 You honest to spell it? I don't think you can spell your own. 203 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:43,080 Nobody's asking you to play smart. Where's Michikoff? Out of town? 204 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:48,679 What do you care? Here's the car all right inside you. Look, 205 00:14:48,759 --> 00:14:52,519 you got me wrong. I ain't done nothing. Where's michikof you and some 206 00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:54,080 of the guy drove to the airport with him tonight. Let's have him. 207 00:14:54,320 --> 00:14:56,679 I'm clear, I tell you. I just drove out with him. That's 208 00:14:56,679 --> 00:15:03,200 all. Where'd Michikov go Vegas? Took the plane for Vegas? When about 209 00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:07,039 eight thirty, quarter to nine. What's up anyway? Who's the guy traveling 210 00:15:07,080 --> 00:15:13,039 with Michikoff? Nobody? Who's the guy traveling with Michikoff Kosky? I just 211 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:16,200 met him tonight, Mary Okosky? Is that today? Yeah? I'm level 212 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:18,879 and I ain't done up. Ben get to a phone call the office contact 213 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:26,279 Las Vegas police asked them to pick up Cosky in Michikoff. When we got 214 00:15:26,279 --> 00:15:28,840 back to the office, we questioned the man we had picked up for almost 215 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,720 two hours. His name was John Delmar, an ex convict. He'd been 216 00:15:31,759 --> 00:15:35,440 par old from Fulsom prison two months before after serving three and a half years 217 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:39,039 for burglary. He said Michikov was looking for a man to work with him 218 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:43,399 and Koski. He didn't specify the work. Delmar said he refused the offer, 219 00:15:43,440 --> 00:15:46,679 but they parted on friendly terms. They said, Coski and Michioff told 220 00:15:46,759 --> 00:15:50,080 him that they were going to Las Vegas for a few days, then returned 221 00:15:50,120 --> 00:15:52,559 to Los Angeles. But when Ben and I checked back with the Las Vegas 222 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:56,039 Police the next morning, they reported that nobody answering the description of either Cosky 223 00:15:56,120 --> 00:16:00,279 or Michikov was seen arriving or leaving the airport. We checked with the airlines 224 00:16:00,279 --> 00:16:04,600 and sent in parice to law enforcement agencies throughout the entire area. No sign. 225 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:11,919 Three weeks went by, still no sign. Nothing in the overnights, 226 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:18,879 Jill m No nothing. Yeah same here Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. 227 00:16:18,919 --> 00:16:22,240 Nobody's seen him. Don't got to come out sometime. We can wait, 228 00:16:22,399 --> 00:16:26,360 Yeah, we can wait. Gets on your nerves. Let's check with Backstrand. 229 00:16:26,360 --> 00:16:27,799 Maybe he's got a job for us. In the mean time, you're 230 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,519 getting his eager as your friend Hank's deck with Jill in Then they had things 231 00:16:32,519 --> 00:16:34,120 turn out for him. He passed all his exams, putting in his month's 232 00:16:34,120 --> 00:16:40,399 turning at the academy. Now you should do all right? Oh yeah, 233 00:16:40,519 --> 00:16:45,399 I'm Mike Skipper busy in his office. Won't be until afternoon. What's matter. 234 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,759 He's got a lecture at the police academy this morning. Thanks Mike, 235 00:16:48,919 --> 00:16:52,519 Come on, Ben, Ben and I drove out to the Police Academy near 236 00:16:52,559 --> 00:16:56,080 Alesian Park. We went out to check with that Backstrand on the blitz robberies 237 00:16:56,399 --> 00:17:00,840 not to listen to his lecture. When we walked into the classroom. He 238 00:17:00,919 --> 00:17:03,159 was just finishing up, so we sat in the back of the rom and 239 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:07,200 listened. It was a pretty good speech because of the alertness of the arresting 240 00:17:07,200 --> 00:17:11,480 officer, his talent for memorizing detail, and his knowledge of how a criminal 241 00:17:11,519 --> 00:17:15,480 accent or a given set of circumstances. The arrest was made. All that's 242 00:17:15,519 --> 00:17:19,880 about it, gentlemen, Thank you for your attention. Now, when I 243 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,160 ran this speech over at home, my wife said it wasn't a very good 244 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:27,039 talk, but at least it came out on time. Now it seems I'm 245 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:32,119 two minutes short, so I guess I failed on both counts. If I 246 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:34,319 may, I'd like to use the few minutes that are left to tell you 247 00:17:34,359 --> 00:17:37,920 what I think of being a cop. After twenty four years. For one 248 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,039 reason or other, you men have chosen the career of a police officer. 249 00:17:41,759 --> 00:17:45,880 Well, let me tell you right now, without any qualifications, it's a 250 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:49,720 thankless job. Maybe you can't see it now, maybe you think I'm exaggerating. 251 00:17:51,519 --> 00:17:53,839 When you graduate next week and get that uniform on, your whole lives 252 00:17:53,839 --> 00:17:59,359 are going to change. You're gonna lose friends, a lot of them. 253 00:18:00,160 --> 00:18:03,400 They'll want parking tickets fixed, some other favors. You'll have to turn them 254 00:18:03,400 --> 00:18:07,480 down, so you'll be a heel, a fat head. When you're on 255 00:18:07,519 --> 00:18:11,279 the beach, you're going to meet the cream of society and the scum, 256 00:18:11,559 --> 00:18:17,200 the lowest. Sometimes you won't be able to tell the difference. Some of 257 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:19,880 you will have to work with thugs, two big gangsters, dope addicts, 258 00:18:21,039 --> 00:18:25,480 cheap women, all a human garbage you can find in the big city. 259 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:27,960 You'll come home at night and take a shower to wash off the dirt, 260 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:33,480 but you still won't feel clean. That's a job. You buy a box 261 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:37,799 of candy and bring it home for your anniversary. Neighbors will say you chiseled 262 00:18:37,839 --> 00:18:41,359 it. When you save up a few dollars and buy a new car or 263 00:18:41,400 --> 00:18:45,200 some furniture for the house, it's graft. People are gonna want favors. 264 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:48,400 They'll offer you things a free beer or a new dress for your wife. 265 00:18:49,240 --> 00:18:52,039 If you take it, you're a chiseler. If you don't, you're a 266 00:18:52,079 --> 00:18:57,880 tough cop. Oh here's a piece of advice. Take nothing from anyone, 267 00:18:59,279 --> 00:19:02,519 no matter how good friend he is. Pay for everything you get, and 268 00:19:02,559 --> 00:19:07,000 don't ask favors. Treat everybody alike. No matter what they look like or 269 00:19:07,039 --> 00:19:11,599 what they believe in, you don't play favorites. There are going to be 270 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,240 times when a few men in the department get out of line. The newspapers 271 00:19:15,240 --> 00:19:19,240 will play it up because it makes good reading, and the average John public 272 00:19:19,279 --> 00:19:22,480 will love it because that's the only way he can pay you back for that 273 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:27,160 traffic ticket you gave him. Being a good cop is a hard job, 274 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:33,640 but it's a good one. Let me warn you just once more. It's 275 00:19:33,680 --> 00:19:42,119 one of the most thankless jombs on earth. That's all, gentlemen. The 276 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:45,880 following week, Hank Decker graduated from the Police Academy and hit the transfer list 277 00:19:45,920 --> 00:19:49,839 for a regular assignment. He drew a job of teaching combat firing and boxing 278 00:19:49,839 --> 00:19:52,480 at the academy. He didn't like it, so he put in a request 279 00:19:52,519 --> 00:19:56,640 for a transfer and waited for the next six weeks. Ben and I waited 280 00:19:56,640 --> 00:20:02,519 too, for some sign of the Blitz bandits isn't any The only possible suspects, 281 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:07,480 Mario Koski and al Mishakoff had disappeared completely. We kept a close check 282 00:20:07,519 --> 00:20:11,440 on every possible avenue of information. Still no sign. Ben and I were 283 00:20:11,519 --> 00:20:15,519 transferred to the night Watch on Robbery for a few weeks, and that gave 284 00:20:15,559 --> 00:20:18,200 Hank Decker a chance to drop in and visit with us a couple of hours. 285 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:21,799 When he went off duty at the academy, he was still as eager 286 00:20:21,839 --> 00:20:25,599 as ever. All right, Ben, is you all anything new? Hie? 287 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,720 Hank? Nothing here? What about the academy? Oh? Big news? 288 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,240 Oh zem get that transfer starting next Monday, going to start on the 289 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,160 beat. I thought you were all tied up with that boys club you started 290 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,599 out there. Oh I was what Hanson's going to take over when I leave. 291 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:40,799 The kids sure love it. Free swimming in the pool, boxing lessons, 292 00:20:40,839 --> 00:20:42,000 We teach him everything. Where's your big going to be? Huh? 293 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:45,519 Central right in the downtown district. Might learn something, You learn a lot 294 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,640 and you want to forget most of it. Woke. It's a quarter after 295 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:52,319 seven. Don't you ever go home for dinner? Hank? Getting no wife 296 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:53,480 used to it? This new ship's going to be night work, you know. 297 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,079 Wait, you're on it for a year and then you tell us how 298 00:20:56,079 --> 00:20:59,799 you like it the year. I want to be in the detective euro after 299 00:20:59,839 --> 00:21:02,279 you when you're not even gonna last a year. If you don't get home 300 00:21:02,279 --> 00:21:03,880 to dinner, your wife's called twice this week. Already she calls me. 301 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,799 Okay, when did she call the night? Yes? And Jane, I 302 00:21:07,839 --> 00:21:10,000 guess I better hit her off. Let me know if anything breaks. I 303 00:21:10,079 --> 00:21:12,319 enjoy. I'd like to tag along. Okay, Well on your way, 304 00:21:12,480 --> 00:21:18,960 Okay, good night. It's a long an't I? How eager can you 305 00:21:18,039 --> 00:21:21,799 get where? We like that? When we started? Not me. I 306 00:21:21,839 --> 00:21:25,759 never had that much energy at one time my whole life. I shot Joe, 307 00:21:25,759 --> 00:21:30,559 I'll get it. At seven six seven East Broadway, a liquor store 308 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:37,319 to eleven and slugging at seven six seven East Broadway, a liquor store to 309 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,960 eleven. Then seven six seven East Broadway to eleven liquor store. Let's go 310 00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:56,559 seven six seven East Broadway, King's Liquor Store. We pushed our way through 311 00:21:56,599 --> 00:22:00,319 the small crowd outside the door and into the shop to patrolman and you form. 312 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:03,359 We're already interviewing the proprietor. He had two large gashes on his head 313 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,160 just above the right temple. He was trembling and badly shaken, but he 314 00:22:07,200 --> 00:22:10,200 managed to give us a good description of the hold up. Man. Yeah, 315 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,799 I can tell you what they looked like, three of them, one 316 00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:18,000 short, one tall, husky, another short fat Remember what they were wearing. 317 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:22,559 The coats, all three dark coats. One of the short men, 318 00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:27,519 he had a big scar here on the throat, lot like this. After 319 00:22:27,559 --> 00:22:30,279 the three men robbed the store, they slugged me and tied me up. 320 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,160 Try to this man's hurt. You call an ambulance on the way. That's 321 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,480 fine. We have just one more question, mister King. Here's a handful 322 00:22:37,519 --> 00:22:40,559 of pictures. We'd like you to tell us if any one of these men 323 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:42,720 were in the gang that held you up tonight. Let me look here you 324 00:22:42,759 --> 00:22:53,920 are take your time. No, no, not him, No no oh. 325 00:22:55,079 --> 00:22:59,000 This one here he took the money from the register. Would you look 326 00:22:59,039 --> 00:23:04,839 through the rest? Please? Anymore? Let me see again? No no 327 00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:11,240 oh, here another one the fact went to scar. This is him. 328 00:23:11,559 --> 00:23:14,960 I think he's the one that slugged me. Thanks, mich King. Here's 329 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,480 our card. We'll be contacting you later, Turner, But you and your 330 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:19,680 partner take the crime report. We got some checking to do. Thanks. 331 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:25,960 Come on, Ben, Yeah, Cosky and Michikov and picked out both of 332 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:32,400 them. Yeah, yeah, I certainly didn't Attention all units, Attention, 333 00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:37,319 all units. Minute the southeast corner of Broadway and East third, a liquor 334 00:23:37,319 --> 00:23:41,240 store and restaurant two eleven Pull three, all units the southeast corner of co 335 00:23:48,759 --> 00:23:52,000 When we got to the liquor store and restaurant at Broadway and he's third men 336 00:23:52,039 --> 00:23:55,960 and I knew for certain that Cosky and Michigov were back in the city and 337 00:23:56,039 --> 00:24:00,880 working hard. The Ramo Matt's down to almost the smallest detail. We put 338 00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:03,480 a call through the communications and the entire Central Division was alerted. Then we 339 00:24:03,559 --> 00:24:07,559 called Chief Backstrand and told him the news. He assigned a special detail from 340 00:24:07,559 --> 00:24:11,319 the Metropolitan Unit to patrol the area until further notice. But at nine to 341 00:24:11,319 --> 00:24:15,720 twenty three PM before they pulled out of the police garage, the blitz Bandits 342 00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:18,119 added two more liquor stores and one more restaurants to their list of victims. 343 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,079 Early the next morning, Ben and I met with Chief Backstrand in his office. 344 00:24:22,240 --> 00:24:25,759 You got to make on that third man. Yet we ran his description 345 00:24:25,839 --> 00:24:27,519 through R and I early this morning. In closest candidate, a guy the 346 00:24:27,559 --> 00:24:30,640 name of Julian Brock, done time here in New York An he tie up 347 00:24:30,640 --> 00:24:34,039 with Costkey or Michigan from MoMA. Sheet says he knows Guskie pretty well, 348 00:24:34,079 --> 00:24:37,640 and that's good enough. Now, how do you think you're going to get 349 00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:41,759 these thieves who've got the alert out? Chiefs Bacial detail from Metropolitan Divisions, 350 00:24:41,759 --> 00:24:45,079 Ben Brief Communications all said, all right, here's a tip for him. 351 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:47,920 Tell them Inn if there's a hold up call and only the car in the 352 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:49,960 area of the hold up will handle it. These thieves are no amateurs. 353 00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:53,440 Let me try some decoy trick. Tell them in to stay in the area 354 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,960 they're assigned to him until they receive a call. Jake, we'll take care 355 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,039 of it. Ed, you're going to be in the hand in Na and 356 00:25:00,079 --> 00:25:02,599 when do you figure on starting. I'm going to have the full detail laveter 357 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:11,000 six thirty, play it safe and start at four. My chance missing him 358 00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,640 At three point thirty that afternoon, we left the police garage with a special 359 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:18,759 detail from Metropolitan Division and we started to cruise the central area. We weren't 360 00:25:18,799 --> 00:25:22,160 looking for any action in the first few hours, and we didn't get any 361 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:30,559 The five o'clock traffic in the downtown area was heavy as usual. Hope that 362 00:25:30,759 --> 00:25:33,039 gang holds off till after six. We couldn't get out of this traffic of 363 00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:37,880 our lab depended on her we'd probably do better on foot if it wasn't for 364 00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:44,000 radio content control forty eight K control ford eighty K your location, get it, 365 00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:47,000 will you? Yeah, well look at the money. Eighty K to 366 00:25:47,039 --> 00:25:52,960 control four. Eight ok to control four our location on Spring Street between second 367 00:25:52,000 --> 00:26:02,119 and third eighty K stand by eighty K office coat too, So you're office 368 00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:07,720 coat to heady kata control for Roger cam A three sixty seven. Yeah, 369 00:26:07,960 --> 00:26:11,200 Now what do I do for a parking space? You know you're lucky that 370 00:26:11,319 --> 00:26:14,960 guy up ahead there he's pulling out and that hasn't happened to me in six 371 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:18,400 months. Okay, hold on, Ben, I'll be back in a minute. 372 00:26:18,519 --> 00:26:42,920 Yeah, Hety Hall to Robbery Chandler, this is Friday Bell. You 373 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,160 want us? Yeah, I just met a Joe che wants to talk to 374 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:51,440 you. Hello, Yeah, Cruiser. Con just brought in a guy answering 375 00:26:51,519 --> 00:26:55,039 the description of Mario Konski. Yeah, get over here right away and question 376 00:26:55,160 --> 00:27:00,960 the guy if it is Cosky. Wait and I'll go home early. Ben 377 00:27:02,039 --> 00:27:03,440 and I went back to the office in question the man who gave his name 378 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:08,440 as Conrad Larkin. It was Koski's approximate height and weight, same color hair, 379 00:27:08,759 --> 00:27:14,400 same color eyes. The resemblance to Cosky's picture was evident. We questioned 380 00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:17,920 him thoroughly about the Blitz robberies, and then we checked out his fingerprints. 381 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:22,559 The coincidence was hard to overlook, but we were satisfied the man was not 382 00:27:22,759 --> 00:27:26,839 Mariokoski. There was a phone message on my desk to call Hank's wife. 383 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,119 I called her, and then we checked with Chief Backstrand again and started for 384 00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:34,400 the police garage. It was ten minutes past six. Hey, Ben, 385 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,759 so wait a minute, will you? Oh? Hi? Hang? What's 386 00:27:37,799 --> 00:27:40,359 all excitement? I've heard about those jobs last night, the Blitz gang. 387 00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,799 How about tagging along tonight? What's this stare? You suit yourself? Henk? 388 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:45,519 When doy I do home for dinner? I told the wife I'd eat 389 00:27:45,559 --> 00:27:49,160 out tonight. You sure you're not due home for dinner or not tonight? 390 00:27:49,279 --> 00:27:53,160 Joe? It's every luck yet not so far? I hang, maybe later 391 00:27:53,240 --> 00:28:00,680 on tonight. Come on, here's the garage. Did you come to the 392 00:28:00,759 --> 00:28:03,319 guy last night? I'm closing U two steps ahead of us all the way. 393 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:07,279 They shore must work fast, five chops in a row? All right, 394 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:15,319 Hank, Let's don't rub it in now. I ain't been watching with 395 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:19,559 him. Well, woman driver, how about it? Joe? Do you 396 00:28:19,599 --> 00:28:22,039 think I can make you out? You can talk to him backstrand he might 397 00:28:22,079 --> 00:28:26,319 get your transfer after a while. Yeah, I might try it, Joe. 398 00:28:26,799 --> 00:28:29,359 Look across the street that this guy coming out of the bar. Where 399 00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:30,960 in front of the bar. He's standing there? Guy in the down road, 400 00:28:32,039 --> 00:28:36,200 you see? Yeah? Two other guys behind him? Who is I 401 00:28:36,279 --> 00:28:38,319 can't be sure? Ben, you better pull ups. It's just like his 402 00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:42,960 picture. All right? Come on, all right, hold it mister. 403 00:28:44,079 --> 00:28:48,920 They want to talk to you. Watch it, Joke, get out, 404 00:28:48,079 --> 00:28:55,920 get down, so him down, Ben, But then went up valley. 405 00:28:56,079 --> 00:29:00,799 Let's go. Did they get Hank? Yeah? Probably hold it right here, 406 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:04,119 all right, husky rot your gun is bobble your hands up? All 407 00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:15,400 right, let's return the fire. Come on, all right, he had 408 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,759 his chance. Yeah, grab his gun. Let's get back to Hank. 409 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,680 Did you get the guns from the other two? Yeah, we're dead. 410 00:29:23,119 --> 00:29:26,599 Hain't got them more? All right? One side, please, officer? 411 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,680 Did you call an ambulance? Yeah the way Come on, Ben, one 412 00:29:30,799 --> 00:29:34,440 side? Please will you let us thro? Thanks? How you doing? 413 00:29:36,559 --> 00:29:38,079 That's a good shot? Ben? Will you get the crowd black? Give 414 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:45,359 him some air? Would you just move back right. Alright, easy, 415 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:52,079 Hank. They'll be here in a minute. Hank, Hank, how's it 416 00:29:52,119 --> 00:30:03,759 doing? Joe going? Yeah? Come on? What have you got yo? 417 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:11,240 Phone message from Hank's wife were you? Yeah? You returned the call 418 00:30:11,359 --> 00:30:18,519 before we left the office. Why she wanted me to remind Hank he was 419 00:30:18,599 --> 00:30:30,079 due home for dinner at seven o'clock. The story you have just heard is 420 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:41,559 true, only the names were changed to protect the innocent. You have just 421 00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:45,319 heard the twelfth in a new series of authentic cases from official files. Technical 422 00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:52,759 advice for Dragnet is furnished by the Los Angeles Police Department. Tonight's program is 423 00:30:52,839 --> 00:30:56,960 dedicated to Patrolman James Frank Gagan of the Cleveland Police Department, who, on 424 00:30:57,039 --> 00:31:03,359 the morning of January thirteenth, teen thirty nine, gave his life so that 425 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:11,680 yours might be more secure. Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles. If 426 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:15,680 you enjoyed tonight's production of Dragnet, you'll want to listen to Richard Diamond, 427 00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:21,359 private Detective, as played by the screens romantic tough guy Dick Powell, heard 428 00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:26,960 Saturday on most of these NBC stations. This is NBC, the National Broadcasting 429 00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:33,799 Company Welcome Back. It's a challenging episode to listen to because you know where 430 00:31:33,839 --> 00:31:37,680 it's going now. To be fair, I don't know if I expected this 431 00:31:37,880 --> 00:31:44,160 the first time, as the majority of my experience with Dragnet was from the 432 00:31:44,279 --> 00:31:49,119 nineteen sixties when I first listened to it in a nineteen sixties episode, I 433 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:55,559 don't know whether this story would have been told. Although the series never shot 434 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:00,680 away from the fact that policemen can lose their lives, this one definitely went 435 00:32:00,759 --> 00:32:04,839 in a more visceral direction because we got to know the officer, and we 436 00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:12,720 got to really experience his enthusiasm for the job and for his life, and 437 00:32:12,839 --> 00:32:17,079 you get the idea of him having a family and debating whether to go with 438 00:32:17,319 --> 00:32:22,720 this career that he really truly loved and wanted to pursue. Usually, in 439 00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:30,079 the sixties or seventies with Dragnet or Adam twelve, when an officer was shot 440 00:32:30,279 --> 00:32:35,200 and in peril, we tended not to meet the officer until after that had 441 00:32:35,279 --> 00:32:40,440 happened. In the episode of Adam twelve Requiem for a Pig, for example, 442 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:47,960 we see the officer shot, and then we flashed back to times when 443 00:32:49,079 --> 00:32:54,279 he was alive and he spent time with Malloy and Red, but you knew 444 00:32:54,359 --> 00:33:00,240 from the start that had been shot and would die. And even in the 445 00:33:00,319 --> 00:33:07,720 episode earlier in the season where an officer was killed, we only met him 446 00:33:07,079 --> 00:33:12,960 for one scene. This guy showed up time and time again, and we 447 00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:17,480 heard his progress, and so I think it hits harder, which makes for 448 00:33:17,559 --> 00:33:22,079 a stronger episode, even if it's not necessarily a more pleasant one. Now, 449 00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:28,680 of course, Joe couldn't try to dissuade him, as his wife requested, 450 00:33:29,359 --> 00:33:32,599 and I think she knew that as well, because this guy was certainly 451 00:33:32,680 --> 00:33:37,480 aware of the risk. And at some point, when someone's going in a 452 00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:43,799 direction that they really are passionate about, that they really want to go, 453 00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:47,720 that they may even have the sense of calling about this is what I was 454 00:33:47,839 --> 00:33:52,240 made for, this is what I want my life to be about. You 455 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:57,319 can try so hard and then at some point you just have to just be 456 00:33:57,440 --> 00:34:01,000 supportive. And he did end up dying doing what he chose to do, 457 00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:07,200 what he really wanted to do, although that certainly doesn't make it easier for 458 00:34:07,359 --> 00:34:13,440 those who were left behind. Jeff Chandler plays this role and this is not 459 00:34:13,599 --> 00:34:16,840 an appearance that would have happened a year later, he did a lot of 460 00:34:17,039 --> 00:34:23,079 radio work in the post war era. During the late forties. He was 461 00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:29,880 actually in the opening episode of The Old Time Radio snack Wagon when we played 462 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:34,360 the Voice of the Army episode with Jimmy Stewart. It also kind of spoke 463 00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:39,039 to the support that Jack Webb had gotten within the industry and the network he'd 464 00:34:39,119 --> 00:34:47,760 made as Jeff Chandler was appearing on Dragnet after Webb had actually had a recurring 465 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:54,159 role on chandler series The New Adventures of Michael Shane as the Police Poil a 466 00:34:54,239 --> 00:35:00,679 couple of years previously. As I said back on The Snack Wagon, Chandler 467 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:07,599 would become a star and net an Academy Award nomination for his work on Broken 468 00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:13,960 Era. Now, having listened to this episode, there is probably some sort 469 00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:22,599 of barroom bet that you could win or trivia that trick question on Jeff Chandler 470 00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:27,119 appearing in Dragnet, But I have little experience with those things, so I 471 00:35:27,199 --> 00:35:31,119 will leave the specifics to the listeners and you can do that at your own 472 00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:37,320 risk if you want to or not ed Backstrand's speech at the Police Academy was 473 00:35:37,639 --> 00:35:44,519 very reminiscent of the classic to be a cop speech that Joe Friday delivered in 474 00:35:44,639 --> 00:35:51,119 the nineteen sixty eight TV episode The Interrogation. Web is often given writing credit 475 00:35:51,199 --> 00:35:54,519 as a matter of course on Dragnet episodes in the sixties. So it really 476 00:35:54,599 --> 00:36:00,840 makes me curious about the creative history of that speech. Did we just have 477 00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:07,039 this speech like in his rhetorical back pocket and then just dust it off and 478 00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:12,199 revised it nearly two decades later, or was it something that got written that 479 00:36:12,519 --> 00:36:17,760 somebody remembered or had been influenced by this speech without remembering they heard it. 480 00:36:19,039 --> 00:36:23,960 That seems a bit unlikely since there weren't really reruns of particularly of this era 481 00:36:24,199 --> 00:36:32,039 of the program, although programs from fifty two on would be repeated between nineteen 482 00:36:32,119 --> 00:36:37,400 fifty five and fifty seven. That doesn't explain this. So I'm curious, 483 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,480 and I'm not certain there's a good answer on that. All right, Listener 484 00:36:40,599 --> 00:36:45,679 comments and feedback, And we have a comment from a YouTube listener who writes 485 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:50,679 regarding a dragon that episode. Yes, the great Raymond Burr, as a 486 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:55,519 Pat Novak fan, the trifecta of web owens am Berr is unbeatable. Thanks 487 00:36:55,599 --> 00:37:00,599 so much for the comment. Now it's time to think our Patreons supporter of 488 00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,039 the day, and I want to go ahead and thank Doug. Doug has 489 00:37:04,119 --> 00:37:08,159 been one of our Patreon supporters since July twenty twenty one, currently supporting the 490 00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:13,199 program at the shamous level of four dollars or more per month. Thank you 491 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,000 so much for your support, Doug, And that will actually do it for 492 00:37:16,199 --> 00:37:22,719 today. We'll be back next Saturday with another episode of Dragnet and then over 493 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:28,360 at videotheater dot Great Detectives dot net or at our YouTube channel at YouTube dot 494 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,960 Great Detectives dot net. You can watch our public domain video theater episode of 495 00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:38,039 Dangerous Assignment tomorrow. But coming up on the podcast tomorrow, it's not an 496 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:44,840 encore. We actually we'll be bringing you a holiday special, but not one 497 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,440 that most of our US listeners will have thought of. You want to be 498 00:37:47,639 --> 00:37:52,679 here and listen, though where you'll hear any danger? What makes you say 499 00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,760 that knowledge of the proposed daft to the scheme came to like thirty, the 500 00:37:55,920 --> 00:38:00,559 James Tutt, King of England, the possessor of a shrewd and'b mind, 501 00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:06,119 use the spectacular discovery of the plot to try and bolster his waning popularity as 502 00:38:06,159 --> 00:38:08,800 well as to justify increased religious persecutions. So that's the first I've heard of 503 00:38:08,840 --> 00:38:12,400 it. Home, I hello, it's true, just the same. I'm 504 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,960 afraid James Stuart, King of England was an unscrupulous tyrant. Come in. 505 00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,559 Oh, yes, missus Hudson. There was a gentleman to see you, 506 00:38:20,599 --> 00:38:23,679 Miss Browns. He said it was very important. He asked me to give 507 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:28,679 you his car. Oh, thank you, missus Hudson. Oh, ask 508 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,719 him to come up please, will you? Hi? Who is at home? 509 00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:36,039 A gentleman with a remarkably fine sense of timing. Rediscount for yourself. 510 00:38:36,559 --> 00:38:44,079 Look, mister James Stuart Great Scott as an extronic constance that he should arrive 511 00:38:44,559 --> 00:38:46,519 just as we're talking about James Stuart, King of England. Come in. 512 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,519 I hope you'll be with us then in the meantime. This sends your comments 513 00:38:51,599 --> 00:38:55,880 to Box thirteen. A great detective. Start ye, follow us on Twitter 514 00:38:57,039 --> 00:39:01,360 at Radio Detectives, and check us down on instant, Instagram, dot com, 515 00:39:01,599 --> 00:39:07,719 slash Great Detectives from Boise, Idaho. This is your host, Adam 516 00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:08,079 Graham signing off.