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From October twelfth, nineteen fifty here is the Big Quack.
Speaker 2: Tonight in Colorado Springs, Colorado, a group of men are
gathered together for their annual conference for the day in,
Day out service to the public. Dragnet honors the fifty
seventh Annual Conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
The story you're about to hear is true, only the
names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3: You're a detective sergeant.
Speaker 4: You're assigned to burglary detail.
Speaker 2: A man posing as a doctor is burglarizing homes in
your city. You have his description, your job find him.
Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented story of an actual crime. While the
next thirty 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.
Speaker 5: It was Sunday, November twenty second, was Chile in Los Angeles.
We were working a day watch out of Burgery Detail.
My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's Slad Brown, Chief Detectives.
My name's Friday. It was nine thirty five am when
we got to five nine one eight Canyon Cove, the
home of Marla Hutchins.
Speaker 6: Yes, Miss Marla Hutchins.
Speaker 7: I'm Miss Marla Hutchins.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 5: We're police officers, ma'am. This is Sergeant Romero. I'm Sergeant Friday,
Central Birgery.
Speaker 7: Come in.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Betty told me.
Speaker 6: She called you your Maney.
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm Betty Greg.
Speaker 6: I called you and if you could tell us what happened.
Speaker 7: Please, Doctor Arthur Shulte was treating me for headaches. I
have he took my mint coaches and my jewelry.
Speaker 6: Do you have a list of what's missing?
Speaker 8: Betty will have a list of what's missing here. I've
written down everything I think sci thank you.
Speaker 9: Well.
Speaker 6: Why do you say it was this sh doctor Schulte?
Is that right? Yes? Why do you say it was
him that took things? Miss Suchins?
Speaker 7: He did it. I know he did it. The doctor
was the only other person in the apartment. Officer.
Speaker 6: When was this last night? What time was the doctor
here last night?
Speaker 7: It's about eight I heard him leave later about nine fifteen.
Speaker 6: That right, Miss Hutchins, Yes, that's right. What could the
apartment have been entered without either one of you knowing it?
Speaker 8: No, sir, the back entrance is double latched, and no
one could have broken in the front way. My room's
right beside the front door, and I would have.
Speaker 10: Heard you told us on the phone that this doctor
Shulete was uh middle age dark rose to five feet eleven.
Speaker 6: Stocky And where's it goatee?
Speaker 7: Yes?
Speaker 6: No other distinguishing fentures is that correct. Yes? How about
his clothes? Where he was dressed?
Speaker 7: He was about average. He had on a gray suit
the last time, my sun, I don't care. Do you
know who he is?
Speaker 6: We'll find out. What kind of treatment were you taking
from doctor Shuletay and such as I call it?
Speaker 7: I don't know if therapy for.
Speaker 5: My head aches last night the same thing, yes, or
anything different from his previous visits.
Speaker 7: I was very nervous. You made me take three sleeping
capsules and I went to sleep, and she was.
Speaker 8: Still sleeping this morning when I went in and found
everything in the dressing table all over the floor.
Speaker 6: You see. Have you known this doctor Shultey Long was.
Speaker 4: Huch As about four months.
Speaker 6: Did you meet him at a party? Maybe? No?
Speaker 7: I was a student of his.
Speaker 6: But where was this?
Speaker 7: This small college in Hollywood? He was ahead of the school.
He was a teacher too.
Speaker 6: Do you have the name and address of the college? Bet?
Speaker 4: He can give it to you.
Speaker 7: It's in my desk.
Speaker 6: You're still a student there?
Speaker 7: No, I don't take the course.
Speaker 9: I stopped.
Speaker 7: College was closed. That's when he came here to treat
me for my head aches.
Speaker 6: How did he start giving any treatments? Miss Sutchins one.
Speaker 7: Day in his lecture. I fainted to his office and
told me that Payne was only a state of mind.
State of mind, that's my My headache didn't bother me
any more. He said that relief would only be temporary
if I didn't take regular treatments.
Speaker 6: What did you see him regularly?
Speaker 7: I saw him twice a week, twice a week, always here.
Speaker 6: At the college. Then it closed.
Speaker 7: I don't know why. He telephoned, said he would continue here.
Speaker 6: Well, what did you get in touch with him when
the college closed?
Speaker 7: I never did. He always called here.
Speaker 6: Do you have any idea where he is now? No?
Speaker 7: I just know that he's a thief man. Why don't
you lie down, Miss Hutchins, You looked tired, all right?
Speaker 6: Thank you, Miss Hutchins, Yes, ma'am, thank you very much.
Speaker 7: All right? Would you gentlemen like them coffee?
Speaker 6: Oh? Ben, I could chew you so it would be
very nice, miss, Thank you. Officer, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 8: If this man's just a common thief, treatments he's been
giving Miss Hutchins couldn't have been very good, could they?
Speaker 5: She still got the headaches, hasn't she? Eleven fifty am?
We checked the apartment for physical evidence. There was nothing
to indicate that the place had been broken into. We
put in a call the Latent Fingerprints to send a
man out.
Speaker 6: To check the closet and dresser. We completed the crime
report and Betty greg the maid, gave us the name and.
Speaker 5: Address of doctor Shultey's college, the Los Angeles College of
Psychotherapeutics and Psychiatry, at a Franklin Street number in Hollywood.
Ben and I got out of teletype to Sacramento asking
information on the chattering of the school that doctor Shulte
was supposed to have had. We checked on Betty Greg
the maid, and found that she was a Los Angeles
girl parents still living in the city.
Speaker 6: She had a good reputation. Two thirty five pm we
went to the address where the college has been. It
was a big brown clambered house with several dormer windows
facing the street. Was vacant. The front door was boarded up.
Speaker 5: A rental agency sign was stuck up on one of
the pillars on the front porch.
Speaker 6: Joe room. There must have been where they had glasses.
Those are chairs nailed down, you see me? Look, yeah,
I don't see any papers inside.
Speaker 11: No mail.
Speaker 4: Hi yep, my name's Tom Thompson. Interested in the place.
Speaker 6: You're the agent?
Speaker 12: No, No, I just lived next door. I'm a dry
cleaner myself, but I sort of promised a real estate agent.
I'd keep an eye peels, see if I could be
of help. Anyone came, run shepherd.
Speaker 6: Or police officers were just checking home?
Speaker 4: Was there something wrong? Somebody break in?
Speaker 6: Did you live next door when this was a school here?
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's psychology punch there here, but ten months maybe last.
I always thought it was kind of a shoe string operation.
Oh you know how much dough they're just make it
in me?
Speaker 6: No class, you know, always just adults.
Speaker 4: Well, classes used to be mostly during the day. I
was at work. The wife used to tell me, they're
no kids that cheap or so.
Speaker 6: Did you know the man that ran the school?
Speaker 4: No, already.
Speaker 12: He was a middle aged guy with a kind of
a pointed beard, had a palow younger guy never stopped
to talk.
Speaker 4: They're pretty tight up guys, like I said, Why what
they do?
Speaker 6: A routine investigation? It's done. Do you have any idea
where they might be contacted now?
Speaker 12: The interstate agent said they skipped without paying last month's
run for him.
Speaker 4: He's been trying to find him.
Speaker 6: Do you remember their names?
Speaker 4: Oh well, let's.
Speaker 12: See when with the older guy. The guy with a
beard was named Shultz or something like that. I can't
remember the young fellow though. But hey, wait a minute,
wait a minute, I got the door.
Speaker 4: How's that?
Speaker 12: I got their door? The agent let me have the
front door. I'm building a party or ports in the
back of my house. And the glass that I took
out of the doors got the names.
Speaker 4: Lettered on it.
Speaker 6: It's time.
Speaker 4: Come on, I'll see if I still.
Speaker 6: Got in the garage.
Speaker 4: It's letter on a little chilly today.
Speaker 6: Huh yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Want to stand back then, wh h's a door?
Speaker 5: Here we go.
Speaker 4: I like to keep a nice neat garage.
Speaker 6: Sure looks nice.
Speaker 4: Oh thanks?
Speaker 5: Say that these men live in the house, mister Thompson,
and they just use it for the school, you know,
oh best on all, just for classes.
Speaker 4: Like I say, they're pretty tight like guys, not very
part and they're real quiet.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I got just leave it right there. We'll come over there.
You wanted to move it. Let's see.
Speaker 5: Los Angeles College of Psychotherapeutics and Psychiatry doctor Arthur William Shuelta.
Speaker 6: Shoelta d A A pH D, s c D. Of
course to short doctor Leo George Donaldson d V, PhD,
s c D. I gut it you okay, it's fine.
We are much obliged, mister Thompson.
Speaker 4: Uh, here's our card. If you hear anything regarding these men,
we'd appreciate.
Speaker 6: You calling us.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, sure, I'll be glad to here.
Speaker 6: There's my car.
Speaker 12: Oh uh, ideal cleaners over an ive art you get
around that way? Why drive some stuff off? See it
gets special attention.
Speaker 6: Well, thank you very much, Miss Tompson.
Speaker 4: No, it's okay, sugar out. I didn't throw that glass away.
Speaker 12: Brother, Look at all of letters after the name is eh,
what don't what it takes to get a lineup of
degrees like that paintbrush.
Speaker 5: In about ten minutes five pm, Ben and I drove
back to the office. There was a report from Layton fingerprints,
nothing but the prints of the two girls had been
found in the Hutchins apartment.
Speaker 4: We checked what information we had on Shuelte and Donaldson
through to the FBI on the teletype.
Speaker 6: A check of doctors registered with the.
Speaker 5: Los Angeles County Medical Association and the American Psychiatric Association
failed to turn up anybody named doctor Shulte. We had
our I Bureau and Stat's office make runs on Leo
Donaldson and Shuelta and a run down on the reports
where the burger had posed as a psychologist. The Stat's
office turned up a couple of dozen new suspects.
Speaker 6: We pulled the mug shots and headed for the Hutchins apartment.
It's like something doing at the Hutchings apartment. HUF a
lot of Cruiser cars. Huh. I settled up, all right,
can't go in. Sorry for Friday Romero Central Burgery.
Speaker 4: Oh sure, sir, what's the teth girl name of Hutchins
shot herself?
Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
force in action.
Speaker 5: Monday, November twenty third, during the morning, the Coroner's office
signed off Marla Hutchin's case.
Speaker 6: The verdict was that she had taken her own life.
Speaker 5: The police psychiatrist told us that probably the hypnotic treatments
by Shulte had hastened her death. The information we'd received
from the Medical Association told us that they had had
complaints against.
Speaker 6: The operation of the Shulte school.
Speaker 5: They had pointed out to us that it takes over
twelve years and recognized medical schools to become a member
of the American Psychiatric Association. Shiulte had been mass producing
pseudo psychiatrists in eight weeks one we met with Captain Pullland.
Speaker 14: School was a phony degrees and diploma sold anybody who
had cash.
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're not operating anymore and we checked that out.
They're gone.
Speaker 4: Oh here's the answer to your telettecht Sacramento.
Speaker 14: Thank you gives details on the application for the School
of Shureley. He's listed as founder and Dean. Donaldson has
listed his staff. No addresses other than the Franklin Street
number that anything else. A month ago, Leo Donaldson opened
courses of construction in Los Angeles under the title of
California Physicians College as Pschiatry seven eighty one South Hill Street.
Speaker 6: Shulton associated with him. No have any idea where Shureley is.
Speaker 5: No, we don't, but we're looking. We've got the support
of the medical people to push a BUNCO charge for
the operation of the old school. Donaldson should be able
to give you a lead on Shulty.
Speaker 6: Thinks they might be in contact. Looks like they acted
and ran the school together. Even though Shulte was legal
response and Ben and I have an idea on well,
maybe we can find out how's that.
Speaker 5: We thought one of us could make a pitch to
Donaldson and see if he'd sell a degree from the
new school, get evidence to support a Bunco warrant, and
check at the same time to see if Donaldson has
contact with Shuelte.
Speaker 6: I'll let Bunco detail know. We'd try. You think you
can do it?
Speaker 5: Might try You know anything else about Donaldson's courses. No,
that doesn't bother me. Oh come, neither is Donaldson and
trying to get Shulte through his former associate Leo Donaldson.
We again contacted the Medical Association. They furnished this with
the name of Ralph Morse, a graduate of the Franklin
Street School who had since been killed in an auto accident.
Tuesday eleven thirty am, Ben and I get the seven
eighty one South Hill Street, a seventh story office building
in the heart of the Los Angeles business district. The
directory in the lobby list of the California Positions College
of Psychiatry for romans two fourteen and two sixteen.
Speaker 6: Ben waited outside in the car. I took the elevator up.
Speaker 4: Yes, man, I help you.
Speaker 6: Uh, doctor Donaldson, I'm doctor Leo Donaldson. Have you have assistance?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 6: My name is Frank Ditton. I wanted to ask about
the curriculum here.
Speaker 15: Well, we've just opened, mister Ditton, we're not quite ready
to start classes. You understand this is a very advanced instruction.
Most of our students will have had considerable background in psychiatry.
Speaker 5: Oh well, a friend of mine, doctor Morse, said that
they were sure I'd be a good student.
Speaker 6: For you, doctor Morse. I'm not sure when I place him.
Oh he was one of your students at the Franklin
Street School. Said that. Uh, doctor Schulte know him quite well.
Oh oh, yes, yes, I remember. Brilliant man. How's he
getting along? He was killed in a car collision. Oh
that's too bad.
Speaker 5: Well, Frankly, what I was interested in is being able
to take over his practice. Could I get the same
deal he got?
Speaker 6: I think so, mister Ditton. What'd you have in mind?
We'll take some.
Speaker 5: Courses and get a degree. I worked with Morse for
a while. I can set up a clinic he did. Okay,
I figure maybe I can too.
Speaker 6: Well, here's a list of the courses we'll offer. Thank you.
We'll over together and you can indicate what sphere of
study you'd like to undertake. Does doctor Schulte teach any
of these courses? No, he doesn't.
Speaker 15: Now the first semester will include Painless and Druglist, Childbirth,
Practical and Applied Psychology out of suggestion, prenatal suggestion.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well look, doctor Donaldson, straight Practical and Applied psychology
is the specialty that I want.
Speaker 6: See. Of what degree do I get? And how much
will it cost?
Speaker 15: Well, at least expensive. Is a doctor of Psychotherapy at
four hundred and fifty dollars. A Doctor of Philosophy and
Psychology is five hundred dollars for all purposes if you
can afford it. Mister Ditton is a doctorate of Science.
That's eight hundred. That course was a thousand dollars at
the Franklin Street School.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I don't know. It's a lot of money. Yes,
I have to have it, though, and if you'd take
a checking.
Speaker 15: Out, certainly you understand what a tremendous advantage these degrees
are to the professional man who, for one reason or
another may never had a chance to get a college diploma.
Speaker 6: The course is very hard. You look like an intelligent man,
mister Didton. I'm sure you'd have no difficulty. All right,
I'll say, Look, doctor.
Speaker 5: I live out in Van Eyes now, and I'm working
three days a week the present time, it's going to
be pretty tough to get downtown here.
Speaker 6: Do I have to be here every day?
Speaker 15: Since it's the diplomas most of our students are interested in,
we have on occasion made exceptions in cases like yours.
I appreciate that we could possibly, in the case of
a doctorate of science, present you with your diploma in
advance if you're taking the course, and you could launch
into private practice at once, take the course whenever it
suited you.
Speaker 6: I couldn't ask for a better deal.
Speaker 15: Everything's mentioned in this catalog, and the forums are in
the back. Why don't you sit down, I think, Oh,
thank you very much.
Speaker 5: Yeah, rules and regulations. No books are required as students,
lots of break huh.
Speaker 15: We let you a little differently from some colleges, and
therefore we've dispensed with texts because we feel they tend
to confuse the data.
Speaker 5: When I take the course, who will be my instructor?
I will well Morse talked a lot about doctor Shulte.
Does he teach any of the classes?
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 15: Doctor Schulte was associated with me in the operation of
the Franklin Street School, but is not the staff member
of the California Physicians College or Psychiatry.
Speaker 5: Well is wondering if I paid extra, could I get
some classes with him? More said that he picked up
a lot of useful information from Shulda.
Speaker 6: He's a fellow with a goatee, and he yes.
Speaker 15: That's right or truthfully, I have no idea where doctor
Shulte is presently located.
Speaker 6: Understand, that's one regulation here.
Speaker 5: No student will be admitted who cannot show documentary proof
of the successful completion of secondary school work high school.
Speaker 6: You can understand that, can'tier, mister didn't? I mean?
Speaker 15: Well, there are certain minimum academic standards we must observe. Yeah,
in order to maintain the quality of our degree.
Speaker 5: Doctor Donaldson accepted my check to the amount of eight
hundred dollars. I asked for a receipt, and he filled
out a blank Doctorate of Science degree with she carefully
lettered with the name Frank Ditton and signed himself as dean.
I arrested Donaldson and Ben and I took him in
for booking. One PM, we received a long teletype from Washington.
Arthur Shulte had a record of arrests and convictions back east,
and started with a conviction sixteen years ago for the
interstate transportation of pornographic motion pictures. The record gave us
no known addresses, but important in the information was the
fact that Schulte had originally been trained and had worked
at being a projectionist in movie theaters. In the mo
was the notation that he'd been known to take up
his old occupation when sought by authorities. One thirty five
PM we contacted the local office of the Motion Picture
Projectionist Union, where they told us that they had placed
in Arthur Shulte in the booth of one of the
main street newsreel houses. On Sunday, that was the day before.
Two thirty pm. The Crescent Theater was buried between two
bars and advertised an hour of newsreels and short subjects
for twenty cents.
Speaker 6: Where's the manager?
Speaker 5: I'm him and we talked to him in at police officers.
What I say, we're police officers.
Speaker 6: We'd like to talk to you.
Speaker 4: Nobody here to take over. Why don't you come in
and I can open the booth door here and talk. Okay,
right around the back, I guess here, Ben. Thanks, Hey, mister, okay,
what's the trouble, officers. You have a Madden of the
name of Schulte working here. That's right, projectionist isn't working right,
there's minute though it comes undue the four an hour.
Speaker 6: Alright, I wonder if you'd to take a look at
this description, police. Sure, there you are.
Speaker 4: Five eleven man working here's clean shaven, No go tee
inside of that sounds the same? Any idea where he lives?
Speaker 14: No, I don't.
Speaker 6: Well, we'll have to wait for him here.
Speaker 4: Alright, Wait a minute, This one where you wanna wait inside?
Speaker 6: Well, I think we'd rather stay up in the projection booth.
Speaker 4: It's all right up the steel stairs there on the right.
Tell Pete, I agen he's the man up there now.
I said it was okay, all right.
Speaker 6: Don't say anything to him when he gets you. What
do you say, I won't be yes. This way.
Speaker 11: It's a long climb, right, yeah, oh yeah, this must
be it.
Speaker 5: Hey, mister mister, yeah, police officers, anything wrong, We're gonna
have to wait here. The manager said it was Okay,
wait for what. We want to talk to your relief man,
I mean the doc.
Speaker 4: You know him just since yesterday?
Speaker 6: Why do you call him the doc? Oh?
Speaker 4: You know, speaks kind of pantcy for a projectionist.
Speaker 6: What do you do? Oh, we just like to talk
to him.
Speaker 4: Okay, you know the guy doesn't come on for about
an hour. Yeah, they told us, hey, you want to
look at the picture. You can both sit by the
observation port on the film safe there.
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 16: Thanks, sit over here, Ben, just all right here? Yeah, huh, Well,
what's the matter. I've seen this news room.
Speaker 6: My for PM. Shoelte was nearly two hours late. Ben
and I were worrying about whether or somehow he'd been
tipping us.
Speaker 4: Usual for men to be this late for a shift.
Not in a house like this. Bigger house would be different.
Wait it is with the doc being late like this,
just coross the boss a couple of bucks.
Speaker 11: What do you mean?
Speaker 4: I got more dough? I'm over my maximum hours. The
old guy'd stay away long enough, I'd be on golden
golden what's that? Yeah? Double and a half time boys
in a business called a golden time. Oh, most of
you can get his double golden. You'll get that working
over maximum number of hours after midnight on a Sunday.
Uh huh, that's double golden. Never happened to me, though.
Speaker 6: How do you stand?
Speaker 4: What do you mean the money? It's not a noise.
You can get used to it. Don't pay any attention
after a while.
Speaker 6: Don't you get tired of hearing the same soundtrack over
and over?
Speaker 4: No, you just know it's there. It never registers what
they're saying. I mean, just if it stops when it
shouldn't get used to it. Over the years, I've been
doing this wrong, eleven. It's a long time. Excuse me.
I gotta make it switch over. Would you say I
said I gotta make it switch over. I've been watching
you do that all afternoon.
Speaker 6: How do you know when to turn the other projector on?
Speaker 4: Mark's on the film up in the right corner, and
the screen usually a black dot. Look through the window,
look ben right here. The first tells me to start
the other projector when the second dot hits, I cut
this one, turn on the other one. Now watch okay,
say the first one, uh huh? Now the second dot see.
Speaker 6: Uh huh?
Speaker 4: Smooth? You never know the difference. Simple stuff people have
never seen. The notice is, which is.
Speaker 7: Just a minute?
Speaker 4: Alright, Doc, late, sorry, I overslipt your name Shuldy.
Speaker 6: That's right. Police officers would like to talk to you.
Speaker 4: I have to go to work.
Speaker 6: Then, why do you want to go downstairs?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 6: That's right, all right, this will be fine. Right here.
You say your name is Shulte, Arthur William Shulte.
Speaker 4: That's correct.
Speaker 6: Have you been known by any other name? Why do
you operate a school called the.
Speaker 4: Los Angeles College of Psychotherapeutics and Psychiatry during the past year.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying anything. Where are you living, mister, I'm
not saying anything. Let me see your identification? Hey, my wallet?
All right, now you hold it? See ope, my part there.
I take out the car union card. You'll take it
stands So it's a security card. That uh, second thing
there behind the cash. Yeah, it's trying to pull a
piece of paper there. It's just a bill. What is it, Jim,
It's a bill? Millican Hotel, let's go.
Speaker 5: We drove to the Millican Hotel, about six blocks from
the theater in the same skid road district. We got
the key from the room clerk and went up to
Shoelta's room looked like any dingy hotel room. A small
foot locker sat at the end of the bed on
the baggage stand. The two suitcases were over by the
closet and sitting on the floor alongside the bureau or
two waist high stacks of books.
Speaker 10: You've got the key to the small drunk I don't
have to submit to this. Let's open it up, hoping
at yourself. She's the key, all right, yeah, two main coats.
I'll check the restroom.
Speaker 6: Joe, right, that's your property. Doctor. I'm not saying anything.
Just plo those regular stuff.
Speaker 11: And girl, how.
Speaker 6: About those suitcase of they you got 'em? What do
you got it? How about this? It's a cigar box,
it's taped shut. What's inside? Doctor? Nothing? You would be
interested in him? I love him in Joe Shoel take.
Speaker 5: Bracelets, rings, matched ear rings that are stolen property reports.
Speaker 6: These were gifts. People say you took 'em. They're sick.
I've done them a lot of good that they know.
Speaker 9: They thank me this way.
Speaker 6: Well, people I get these things from they know I've
helped them. Will you help?
Speaker 2: Marla Hutchins, The story you have just heard was true.
Only the names were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 3: Arthur Shulty, free on bail pending trial, died of natural
causes on June fifteenth in Fresno, California. Leo Donaldson was
tried and convicted of grand theft and served a term
prescribed by law in the state penitentiary.
Speaker 9: And now here is our star, Jack Webb.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: When the rookie policeman becomes a full fledged member of
the department, one of the.
Speaker 6: First things he becomes aware of is the time warn
tradition of the peace officer. He has pride in the
many works with pride in his job. Ladies and gentlemen,
The Chief of Police of the City of Los Angeles, W. H.
Speaker 13: Parker, the Los Angeles Police Department awards this citation of
merit to Dragnet, or its authentic portrayal of cases from
the files of this department, bringing great credit to the
Los Angeles Police Department and its officers, and enhancing the
prestige of law enforcement generally among its millions of listeners.
Speaker 6: Thank you, Chief Parker, you have.
Speaker 3: Just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases from official files.
Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police,
wh Parker Los Angeles Police Department.
Speaker 4: Next, We the People three Times Mean Good Times on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome Back. This is a solid episode that deals with
a problem that we still have today with diploma mills
churning out unqualified practitioners and offering fraudulent degree. When people
who use big words but are not actually qualified, ethical,
and don't know what they're doing start messing around with
people's minds and bodies, it can really do great harm,
as this episode brings home, and this is yet another
example of Dragnet educating the public about a real problem
and a lesser known threat to public safety. The whole
bit about the movie projectors provides some interesting insight into
that profession, which I'm sure has changed in the past
seventy five years, as have many others. But it's also
probably an area of Jack Webb's particular interest. In Michael
Hayes's book My Name Is Friday, he mentions that on set,
when Web was just working as an actor, he spent
time in between scenes really questioning the various people who
are working on the film and getting a handle on
every aspect of the movie making business. To understand it.
He certainly would have wanted to understand the projection part
of the movie business, and it wouldn't surprise me if
this came from his own research. The award provided at
the end was definitely well earned, and it illustrates that
a year in to its production, Dragnet already had this
special place in popular culture and certainly in its relationship
with the Los Angeles Police Department. Well, now it's time
to thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I
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Adventures of the Falcon.
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