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nineteen fifty two, here is the big producer.
Speaker 2: The story you were about to hear is true. The
names have been changed to protect the innocent. You're a
detective sergeant. You're assigned a juvenile division. A steady supply
of obscene literature is finding its way into a half
a dozen high schools in your city. You get a
lead on one of the sources of supply, A seventeen
year old high school senior. Your job pick him up.
Speaker 3: Dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime. For 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 transcribed from official police violence,
from beginning to end, from crime to punishment. Dragnet is
the story of your police force in action.
Speaker 4: Was Wednesday, November eight was windy in Los Angeles. We're
working the day watch out of Juvenile Division. My partner's aid,
Jacob's the boss's captain Stein.
Speaker 5: My name is Friday. Was eleven oh five am when
we got to.
Speaker 4: The basement floor of Gorman High School, the locker room.
Speaker 6: Which way, Steve, I want to show us which locker's yours.
Speaker 7: You still haven't told me what this is all about.
Routine checks on Yeah, but why do you have to
pick on me? Why do you have to see my locker?
Speaker 5: We're not picking on you, Steve. Now, how about it?
Which locker is yours?
Speaker 7: Right here?
Speaker 8: This is mine?
Speaker 7: Three eighteen. Here's the key, No you open it, Steve.
Just a couple of personal things of mine. That's all
all right. I'll open it. Well, there you are see
for yourself. Want to take your things out of the locker?
Cent you can see what's in there? Cancher, my gym stuff.
A couple of textbooks.
Speaker 6: How about digging back in the corner left hand side
there where where? I mean? Come on, Steve, dig them
out back here?
Speaker 7: You mean he's joke books?
Speaker 5: That's right. Let's have a look.
Speaker 7: Huh why just a couple of joke books? Kid gave
him to me?
Speaker 5: Bring them out, Steve.
Speaker 7: Okay, just a couple of them. Kid came to me there.
Speaker 6: Looks like more than a couple.
Speaker 5: That's what you call a joke book, Steve.
Speaker 7: That's what the kids call him. Yeah, some of them
are a little dirty. That's so bad though.
Speaker 5: They're filthy Steve. And you know I know what you
get them.
Speaker 7: I told you kid gave him to him.
Speaker 6: Oh what's his name?
Speaker 7: Some kid around school I don't remember right.
Speaker 6: Now, gave you these books for nothing.
Speaker 7: Sure, I had a couple he wanted. We traded off
a lot of the kids, haven't they trade him around?
Speaker 4: That stack you got there? They looked pretty new. Couldn't
have been passed around much?
Speaker 7: Maybe not, I don't know, matter of.
Speaker 4: Fact, they look brand new, don't think, don't even look
like they've been open yet.
Speaker 7: How come you're rousing me on this thing? What about
the other kids?
Speaker 5: They got them too, they're buying them, Steve, They're not
selling them.
Speaker 7: I'm not selling them. Anybody says that's a liar.
Speaker 6: No good.
Speaker 9: So we talked to the fellows here at the high school.
Some kids are over the junior high school too. They
all say you're the one who's selling them.
Speaker 4: They're liars, both the fellas in high school and the
kids down the street in junior high. They say, you've
been selling this stuff for months, now about it.
Speaker 7: They're lying, that's all. They don't know what they're talking about.
Speaker 9: You've been selling these thirty five cents a piece, three
for a dollar last couple of weeks. You've been peddling
pictures to a dollar piece. You got any of them
in your locker?
Speaker 6: Steve?
Speaker 7: A couple I got them off another kid?
Speaker 8: What other kid?
Speaker 5: What's his name? What's his name?
Speaker 7: Some kid? I don't remember.
Speaker 5: It's not much of an answer.
Speaker 7: What do you want from me?
Speaker 5: Anyway?
Speaker 7: I told you I'm not selling the books. I don't
care what those other groops say. It's my work against theirs.
Speaker 6: And maybe you ought to get this straight. Son.
Speaker 9: We're not out to get you your way down the line.
We want the people at the top, the men who
print this junk, the wholesalers, the big distributors.
Speaker 7: So why ask me? I don't know anything about it. Nothing.
Speaker 6: You don't want to cooperate is anything?
Speaker 7: What am I supposed to cooperate about. I'm not mixed
up in anything.
Speaker 5: We think you are a son, We know you are.
Who you selling this for? What do you get your supply?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 7: Yeah, see, that's what's in my locker. I ain't selling
I don't have any supply. You got to go far
to prove I have.
Speaker 5: Not very far? Steve what from about here to your home?
Speaker 4: Eleven thirty eight am, after picking up his supply of
obscene books and photographs to be booked later as evidence
ed and I drove the subject Stephen Banner to his home,
approximately a mile from the high school. His apprehension and
our theory that he probably kept the bulk of his
supply of books and pictures that are near his home
was no accident. For weeks, we'd known that a steady
stream of pornography was being fed into a half a
dozen in high schools and junior high schools throughout the city. Books, photographs, pictures,
and pamphlets of the worst kind. Because of embarrassment on
the part of the curious teenage kids who bought this stuff,
it wasn't easy to pick up.
Speaker 5: A solid lead.
Speaker 4: After weeks of observation and questioning, we finally narrowed down
the principal source of supply to a single teenage boy,
Stephen Banner. Even then, we knew he must be only
one of one hundred small time distributors working for the
persons directly responsible for manufacturing this sort of thing. Our
only hope was that he'd be willing and able to
supply us with the names of the persons responsible. When
we got to Stephen Banner's home, where he lived with
his sister and brother in law, we searched it thoroughly,
but we found nothing. Both his sister and brother in
law were at work. We went back and started checking
through the garage at the rear of the house.
Speaker 6: Joe back in a conic. Yeah, have a look, Steve,
want to tell us about this?
Speaker 9: Yeah, these books here, these pictures, case foot of them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well about it? Son, Your sister and brother in
law know about.
Speaker 7: This, No, they don't know anything. I didn't think you'd
find him.
Speaker 5: Are you ready to tell us about it?
Speaker 7: My sister going to have to find out.
Speaker 5: I don't know. This team's going to be pretty hard
to keep it from her.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess.
Speaker 6: So who's a contact? Son? Where'd they come from?
Speaker 7: Charlie, Charlie Freiberg Only the books, though pictures came from
another guy. It's a long story.
Speaker 6: We got the time son, who is this fird?
Speaker 7: Met him downtown one Sunday Penny Archide on Broadway. Me
and this other kid were in there. Bud Spencer Friburg
came up, started to talk to us, all right, go on.
He finally took a couple of these books out of
his pocket, came him to us. He wanted to know
what we thought of him. Old us he had plenty
of them, if we knew any of the other kids
who wanted him.
Speaker 6: He knew you and your friend Bud were in high school.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 5: What else, Steve?
Speaker 7: That's about it? Yes, me and but if we wanted
to sell for them around school.
Speaker 6: His friend here is Bud Spencer. He's selling them too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he goes to a different school. Though we both
of us did pretty good with the books sold real fast.
The pictures were even better.
Speaker 4: So you say you didn't get the pictures from Friburg,
there was somebody.
Speaker 7: Else, man by the name of Jack, you don't know
his last name. Friberg put us onto him, gave us
an introduction, set up the deal. We got the pictures
for seventy five cents. Most of the time they got
us a dollar, dollar and a half apiece button. I
did pretty good.
Speaker 4: You know, any other fellows working for this Freiburg Steve
and the other kids in school and.
Speaker 7: No just butting me, that's all I know. It wouldn't
be so bad if it was just the books. Lousy Charlie,
you had to go and promote the party routine. Get
everybody mixed up in that.
Speaker 6: What do you mean, what's it all about, Charlie.
Speaker 7: He stays at this place out on Sepalvita. It's a motel.
That's where we always contacted him. Yeah, after a couple
of weeks when we got to know him, he asked
me and but out to this place, said he was
going to throw a party, told us to bring our
girlfriends along. Turned out we were the only ones at
the party, Me and Bud and the girls and Charlie Freiberg.
Party lasted pretty late. I should have smart enough to
figure it out. I wasn't.
Speaker 5: What do you mean, Steve, figure out?
Speaker 11: What?
Speaker 7: Why Charlie be throwing parties just for us? The first
two times there wasn't anything wrong. We just talk danced
with the girls, drank some beer. Charlie told us to
have a good time. He threw a party every Friday night.
Never broke up till after three o'clock.
Speaker 6: Old your girl friend Jr's.
Speaker 7: And Buds seventeen. They were both seventeen. They've been around though.
No use kidding you. They weren't very smart. I can
tell you that none of us were. I guess. Next
couple of parties, Charlie had whiskey there. Them girls drank
right along with him.
Speaker 5: So did we cribe break served the whiskey?
Speaker 12: Did he?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. He noted the drinks, kept handing the
girls a lot of stuff about how I used to
be a director in pictures. He had a lot of
connections in Hollywood. The last party I was at, he
said he was going to get the girl's screen test
a lot of malarchy like that?
Speaker 5: What else Steve?
Speaker 7: I don't know. I had a beef with Charlie about
it and I walked out. I haven't been back since.
Speaker 6: He still throw these Friday night parties, do you know?
Speaker 7: Maybe I don't know, remember three or four after the
last one I walked out on. Think Charlie's just great? God,
So I can't stand the guy.
Speaker 5: How about the party? She didn't show up for Steve
and get a run down him.
Speaker 7: I heard a couple of things. Yeah, sure, glad, I
wasn't there.
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 7: Dumb girls never fails, the oldest line in the world.
They still go for it.
Speaker 5: What's that?
Speaker 7: Tell him? You're going to get him in the movies?
Speaker 4: We continued questioning the subjects seventeen year old Stephen Banner.
He gave us a full description of the man who
had been selling him the books, Charles Freiberg, and also
a description of the man known as Jack, the one
who had been supplying him with pictures and photographs. In addition,
he gave us the addresses of the two men, a
fair description of Freiburg's car no license number, and the
names and addresses of the two girls. He and his
friend had taken to Freiburg's parties.
Speaker 5: One PM.
Speaker 4: ED and I took the case of obscene books from
the garage loaded in the backseat of our car, and
Stephen Banner directed us to the high school attended by
his friend Bud Spencer. We picked up the Spencer boy
and drove him and bannered down on Town to Georgia
Street Juvenile, where we booked them in on seven hundred
B Welfare and Institution Code lack of supervision. We drove
to the motel out on Supulvita, but the suspect, Charles Freiberg,
had moved out five days before, no forwarding address.
Speaker 5: It wasn't a dead end though. From his motel.
Speaker 4: Registration card we got the description and license number of
his car. On the way into the office, we checked
out the address of his confederate, the man known as Jack.
He'd moved the same day as Freiburg. No forwarding address.
Back at the office, DMV got a make on the
license number for us the car registered in Freiburg's name
two thirty nine West ninety second Street. We went down
to R and I and pulled the package on the
suspect three forty pm.
Speaker 6: Last address on was three years old. How's his record read?
Speaker 5: Well, he's been in the business before.
Speaker 4: A couple of bag charges, three to eleven charges to
possession obscene literature, served.
Speaker 6: Eight months in Kylie jail. Mug shot there, Yeah, here
close enough.
Speaker 4: The way the boy described him, I'd say, so, there's
m two Huh, same pitch. The last time they got
him working in the high school trade passed himself off
as a studio man, movie director.
Speaker 6: How about the other man, Jack? You had anything there
that chat?
Speaker 4: I gave the information on him to the stats. I
was they're going to make a run for us. Well,
I guess we better check on the kid's girlfriends. Huh,
get their stories?
Speaker 6: Yeah, I suppose so.
Speaker 9: It sure gets me, Joe, what's that very young girls
like that out at motel parties with three am drinking?
Speaker 6: Yeah, seventeen year old. No reason for it, no reason
at all.
Speaker 5: I think a one that might do their parents.
Speaker 4: We checked out the suspect's address, furnished this by DMV
and also the information from the.
Speaker 5: R and I package They went nowhere.
Speaker 4: We had a second interview with Steven Banner and his
friend Bud Spencer. We showed them Freiburg's mugshot and both
of them identified it. We got out a broadcast and
an apb on him. Four to twelve am. Together with
policewoman Doreen statesl Ed and I drove out to the interne.
The two teenage girls involved a Dorothy Ryan and a
Laura Osburn. We stopped at the home of the Osbourne
girl first, but she wasn't there, and neither were her parents.
An older sister told us that both the mother and
father were working and that Laura was at a neighborhood
school for models, taking her weekly lesson. We checked at
the modeling school, a converted second floor social hall, where
we finally located the girl, a tall brunette, dark eyes,
fair complexion. The heavy makeup didn't do much to hide
her age. While a modeling lesson went on, Policewoman statesill
ed and I talked to the girl off in one
corner of the hall.
Speaker 13: Your friend Steve Banner, he took you to those parties
at mister Friburg's placed. U. Huh, that's right, very nice man.
It was always nice to Dorothy and me. Dorothy Ryan,
she came to the parties with Bud. He's a friend
of Steve Banner's.
Speaker 4: You have no complaint to make about this, mister Friberg.
He never caused you trouble of any kind.
Speaker 13: Charlie will know. So I told you before that business
about Steve getting magic, because Charlie told us you'd get
us in the movies. What was silly, That's all, plain
and silly. Charlie was just helping us. How do you mean, Laura, Well,
he's in Hollywood, you know, Charlie Freiberg. He has lots
of connections. He just wanted to help us get some
good modeling job. That's why he took our pictures. There
was nothing wrong. You continued going to these Friday night
parties without the two boys, is that right? Yes, Dorothy
and me, there wasn't anything wrong with it. We know
Charlie as well as they did by that time. Few
bathings the pictures, that's all. There was nothing wrong in that.
Do you ever see Prince of any of those pictures?
Either you or Dorothy rad No, But Charlie's going to
get us some he promised he would.
Speaker 5: You know where he is now?
Speaker 13: No, he moved having any idea where he is.
Speaker 9: When's the last time you saw Freiburg, Miss, about ten
days two weeks ago.
Speaker 13: What's this all about? Offs are you looking for Charlie?
Speaker 5: How does he usually contact you, Laura? By phone?
Speaker 13: Yeah, usually calls.
Speaker 5: Has he called you lately?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 13: I don't know why are you looking for him?
Speaker 6: Can't you tell me routine investigation?
Speaker 5: Miss?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 13: I'm sorry, I don't know where Charlie is. Why can't you.
Speaker 6: Tell me why you want him?
Speaker 5: We want him?
Speaker 13: Why can't you give me a reason?
Speaker 6: This is one of the reasons, Laura.
Speaker 7: Look at this picture.
Speaker 13: Charlie took this.
Speaker 5: It's his business, Laura. That's the way his police record reads.
Speaker 13: I can't believe it.
Speaker 4: That's one reason we want Friburg. There's lots of others.
You're willing to help us, Laura.
Speaker 13: He said they'd be beautiful glamours.
Speaker 12: They're not.
Speaker 6: You know where he stays now?
Speaker 13: No, I'll find out though.
Speaker 5: What do you mean?
Speaker 13: I've got a date with him, supposed to meet him
out on Wilster, Wilsher and Librea. When's at eight o'clock
tomorrow night?
Speaker 3: You are listening to dragnet authentic stories of your police
force and action.
Speaker 4: November eighth, Wednesday, five point thirty pm After our interview
with seventeen year old Laura Osborne, policewoman Doreen States, Aled
and I drove to the home of Laura's girlfriend, Dorothy Ryan,
who was also present at the motel parties given by
the suspect, Charles Freiberg.
Speaker 5: Her story of what.
Speaker 4: Had happened was essentially the same as the one we
got from the Osbourne girl. That night, we met with
the parents of both girls. They were well meaning and cooperative.
They admitted their mistake was the same old story of
lack of supervision.
Speaker 5: And very little home life.
Speaker 4: The parents told us that they had no idea of
what had been going on or the late hours that
their teenage girls had been keeping. Besides promising closer supervision
of the girls, they told us they would notify us
immediately if the suspect Freiburg made any attempt to contact
their daughters. Six twenty five p m. We got back
to the office, put in a call to Stephen Banner's
home and notified his sister and brother in law that
the boy was being held for further interrogation.
Speaker 5: We also notified the parents of Bud Spencer.
Speaker 4: The following morning, Ed and I went across the Street
to the District Attorney's office, presented our case and a
warrant was issued on Charles Freiburg for seven o two
wic contributing to the delinquency of a miner. At seven
o'clock that night, Ed and I staked out on a
cocktail lounge near the intersection of Wilshire and Lobrea, the
place where a suspect that told Laura Osborn to meet
him seven thirty seven forty five.
Speaker 5: We waited.
Speaker 9: I think maybe we're in business. Joe down the corner
there waiting with the signal to change dog suit.
Speaker 6: Dog hat. Yeah, could be across and over now heading
for the bar.
Speaker 5: All right, let's go.
Speaker 6: M No mistaken, Hey, fellow, pull it up on the
William how's.
Speaker 5: That police officer? Is your name Friburg?
Speaker 8: No, that's not my name, it's your identification.
Speaker 6: Please.
Speaker 8: Yes, I've got my identification. Why can we see it?
Speaker 5: Please?
Speaker 8: Why what do you want your identification? Before? I haven't
done anything.
Speaker 6: Let's call mister talk about a downtown.
Speaker 8: Wait a minute, just a minute. I don't want any trouble.
I'll show you. Yeah, driver's license. Rest of my stuff,
Charles Friburg. It's an old addressident. Yeah, I haven't had
time to change it. Just got back town. Which the matter? Anyway?
Speaker 6: Where you stay in Freiburg?
Speaker 8: No place. I just got back in town. I told
you that. Not staying any place yet, no connections at all.
Where's your car? I don't have one. I've had one
for a year. I sold it. Look how about filling
me in? What do you want with me?
Speaker 5: You want to step over here Freiburg by.
Speaker 8: The way, all right, just like to know what's going on,
and so I'd.
Speaker 9: Like to see what you're carrying in your pockets. Take
ere with theing out, please, one pocket at a time.
Speaker 8: What is this a shakedown? You can start with your
coat pockets, all right.
Speaker 6: There?
Speaker 8: Okay, all right now.
Speaker 6: The other one.
Speaker 8: Okay. We said you don't have a car Freburgh, of
course not I told you that.
Speaker 5: But what are you doing with that parking ticket?
Speaker 4: We walked the suspect Freiburg two blocks to the parking
lot listed on the clean check that he had in
his coat pocket. He had black hair streaked with gray.
Looked to be in his mid fifties. We questioned him
on the way, but he'd admit nothing. We located his
car in the parking lot and searched it. In the
glove compartment, Besides a half a dozen photographs and small books,
we found a key with a metal disk attached to it.
Stamped on the disc were the words west Side Studios
number twenty three.
Speaker 5: Freiberg refused to identify the key. He refused to admit
a thing. We walked him back to our car, and.
Speaker 4: Together the three of us headed out for the old
west Side Studios, just off Jefferson Boulevard. On the way,
we tried again to question the suspect, but we got nowhere.
He refused to answer even the simplest questions. One look
at the west Side Studios, kne knew right away the
place had seen better days. It had been fairly prominent
in the early days of motion picture making, but all
that was left now was two square blocks of broken
down scenery, one dilapidated sound stage, and a row of
weather beaten cottages, the tar paper peeling off the roofs.
We got out of the car and started up the walk.
The faded sign over the main gate read west Side
Studios founded nineteen twenty and down in one corner admissioned
by pass only the guard shack at the gate was
boarded up, no sign of a night watchman.
Speaker 5: We kept walking.
Speaker 6: How come I don't keep a watchman at the gate
for Iberg. Don't they make pictures here anymore? You bet
they do.
Speaker 8: Place has been going downhill for a long time, coming
back though?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 5: You do know the place?
Speaker 6: Is that right?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I know it? I should know it.
Speaker 6: What do you mean by that?
Speaker 8: Nothing?
Speaker 5: You rent an office here?
Speaker 6: Is that it? Friburg?
Speaker 8: Yeah? That's right straight down the way there, Collage twenty three.
Speaker 5: What's your job doing some kind of movie work?
Speaker 8: Yeah? I've been for thirty years, more than thirty years.
Speaker 6: That's so you an actor?
Speaker 8: Friburg. Haven't you ever heard the name? I'm a producer?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 5: I see, why don't you tell us that? To start with?
Speaker 8: I want to know different reasons. I don't like to
throw my weight around. I have a lot of connections
in Hollywood, you know that's so in the trade thirty years, Albert,
one of the first. You can make a lot of
friends for thirty years.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I guess so. How about those books we've found
in your car? Those pictures? How explain them?
Speaker 8: This studio will be back on the speak of the year.
I'll bet a thousand dollars on it, this whole block
here sound stages. I got the plans for him in
my desk.
Speaker 5: So do you have an interest in this lot?
Speaker 8: Not exactly, not right now anyway, I did have an interest, though,
I will again I was one of the original owners.
You know.
Speaker 5: Still haven't got an explanation.
Speaker 4: How about the books and pictures we found in your car?
Speaker 8: Oh? That nothing to explain? Is there just a few
gimmes I picked up?
Speaker 5: You know a boy the name of Stephen Banner.
Speaker 8: Banner, No, I don't think so.
Speaker 6: Why how about Bud Spencer? You know him?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 8: I knew what George Spencer wants. Actor. I was back
in the old days.
Speaker 4: So how about Laura Osborn, Dorothy Ryan?
Speaker 5: You know them?
Speaker 8: No, it's pretty hard to say, you know, sergeant. Over
the years, in this business especially, you meet an awful
lot of people.
Speaker 5: Well these are fairly recent. You ought to remember them.
They're just kids, seventeen.
Speaker 8: Year olds, No afraid, I don't recall the names. Town
stage Bell. They got a company over there doing some
shooting tonight television films. They make them too fast. Trade's
not like it used to be. Quality. That's what we
went after gone. Now it's all gone. West Side will
do it again, though. You can bet on that we're
coming back.
Speaker 6: Look, how about leveling Friedburg. You know why we picked
you up? You know why we're out here.
Speaker 8: I just did. I don't know why.
Speaker 12: Oose.
Speaker 8: Look across the road that's set over there, the old
greenhouse there, colonial mansion, Weather's Fate of the Colors, a
little typical old Southern mistake. Now you know, we shot
some beautiful footage there. Pictures are classic in its own right.
Maybe you remember it Moonlight Magnolia's but changed the title later,
Loved and the Moonlight beautiful thing?
Speaker 5: You ever see it? No, I don't think so.
Speaker 8: I couldn't tell you how many beauties we turned out
that year. I was a young fellow. Then Song and Stripe,
Moonlight Magnolia's Little Orphan Girl, Sweetheart at the campus at your.
Speaker 6: Cutt examinter Friberg. What's that just down away there? Number
twenty three?
Speaker 8: Oh yeah, completely forgot about it. I hope you'll excuse
the way it looks. I have been able to find
a good accommodations in town. I've been saying it.
Speaker 5: The office.
Speaker 8: We have a little couch there I sleep on that.
We have a hot plate too good enough to boil
the coffee in the morning.
Speaker 4: How come you couldn't find space in town? The hotel's
a pet USh are they?
Speaker 8: I'm the one time used to be staying at Guas.
I just soon camp here at the studio and stay
at one of those places downtown. Jay, would you like
to see the rest of the lot. Pretty interesting if
you've never seen a real movie lot, I mean a
high class one.
Speaker 5: We've seen him, mister Friber. We'd like to check your office.
Speaker 8: Oh all right, this is it, cotty. You need a
good coat of paint. Of course, it'll all be done
pretty soon. West Side is going to come back strong.
You can bet on that, guess so, oh watch it
on that first step there, it's loose. Have to call
maintenance and get that fixed. Yeah, it's all right, man.
Here we are well. Didn't you see the opposite? And
very much?
Speaker 4: What if you want a gentlemen, you want to check
that cabinet there? Ed, I don't take a look through
these cases over now. Okay, this picture here on the wall.
That's the cast and the production staff on my first film.
Here's the other one. Me and Harsey Bernard he autographed
the picture for me, Bernard himself. Those were the days,
all right. Quality, that's what we went after. And the pictures,
real quality, not like to day gone, the good days,
fine pictures. It's gone, oh gone. How about at Freiburg,
these chases of books here in these photographs.
Speaker 8: Not my fault, Believe me. I had to make a living.
I had to make money. How do you think it
feels to get cheap like that? I used to be young,
I was big, I was talent, big pictures. How do
you think it feels to get cheap all of a sudden,
cheap enough to do this kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Nobody forced It was your choice, mister.
Speaker 8: It wasn't my choice. You're wrong. All I want to
do is make pictures. There isn't a chance anymore, not
like the old days. You eat hundreds of thousands, millions,
it's gone, it's all gone. I had to eat. I
had to put clothes on my back.
Speaker 6: You admit you're responsible for this books pictures. You're working
in the high school trade kids like Steve Banner Bud Spencer.
Speaker 8: After nineteen thirty five, I couldn't get a job. I
didn't want this. I had to do it. I'm ashamed.
Who wouldn't be. I had to eat. It was the
only way, and I had to live.
Speaker 5: There's honest jobs to be had. How about this man
named Jack, He was.
Speaker 8: In with me. He was my cameraman back in the
old days. You can't blame him either. He had to
live too.
Speaker 6: He wanted to come downtown with us. He give us
a statement, yes, all, all right?
Speaker 8: Anything?
Speaker 5: How about the parties, the two girls, Laura Osborne, Dorothy Ryan.
Speaker 8: I took some pictures at you all. I didn't harm
them nothing anyway, he added, Ron Freiburg.
Speaker 5: You know that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I know. But just to have the kids there,
it made you remember the days in your life, best
days in anybody's life. That's so when he used to
have money, when he used to be young.
Speaker 2: The story you have just heard was true. The names
were changed to protect the innocent.
Speaker 12: On January twenty ninth, trial was held in Superior Court,
Department eighty seven, City and County of Los Angeles, State
of California. In a moment the results of that trial,
the suspects, Charles Zieman Freiberg and his accompliced Jack L.
Lavery were tried and convicted on four counts of contributing
to the delinquency of miners. Both of them served full
terms in the county jail. Contributing to the delinquency of
miners is punishable by a fine if not more than
one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail
for one year, or by both fine and imprisonment. You
have just heard Dragnet, a series of authentic cases from
official files. Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief
of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. Heard
tonight were Barney Phillips, Virginia Gregg, and Ralph Moody. Script
by Jim Moser, music by Walter Schumann, Hell Gibney speaking.
Speaker 5: Now It's Counterspy on NBC.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. You know, there are some people who imagine
that in the past we were tougher on crime as
a general rule, and we've gotten softer. The truth is
usually quite a bit more complicated, as you will see
that there are some crimes we have gotten more strict
on enforcing and others we've let up on. And this
is a good example. A year in the county jail
and a thousand dollars fine if you did what mister
Freiberg did and you're caught. Today you are looking at
multiple felon accounts, sensual federal prosecution, and a law more
and just listening to the accounts of what he did,
and in particular the one girl they talked to to me,
I'm like, this is not this should not be a
mistaket And the TV version of this has even more
issues in that regards. But that was the state of
affairs back then. Well, now we turn to listener comments
and feedback, and we go to our listener survey and
Peter in Franklin, Massachusetts comments I've been listening more or
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Few things have captured my attention as long as Old
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it all or where George here?
Speaker 11: So?
Speaker 10: What happened? George? The cops haul him off and throw
him into the clink, Durrango? Who else, Johnny?
Speaker 11: This man is unbelievable. It's fantastic.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 11: I don't know how he worked at how much it
cost him? And of course, as always, he game here
loaded with money thousands Johnny.
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, but the.
Speaker 11: Police didn't even take those six guns away from him.
Speaker 10: Brother, All the more reason why I'm getting out of here.
Speaker 11: Yes, Durrengo still thinks he's living in the old days
of the wild and wooly West.
Speaker 10: What oh, you bet your life?
Speaker 14: I am, and I'm putting all the costs of transportation
on expense account. Alla, was you who got me into
this whole thing?
Speaker 11: Listen to me?
Speaker 7: Where are you going?
Speaker 10: What do you think? I tell you?
Speaker 14: You're in co hoats with his wild old man this
trying to get me to marry his niece. So, Johnny,
if you and Carol love each other, so, what do
you think we want him to force us into it?
Speaker 11: Suppose we?
Speaker 10: Yeah? Oh, come on, George, I'm in a hurry. George.
Speaker 11: Are you in your apartment? Johnny?
Speaker 14: That's right, but not for any longer than Why do
you ask that you stay right there?
Speaker 1: Johnny?
Speaker 10: Dranggell you just stay right there.
Speaker 11: I'm coming right over. I gotta talk to you, young
color and that ain't all.
Speaker 1: Give me, Gunny hope you'll be with us then in
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