Dragnet: The Big Speech (EP4742)

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Welcome to the Great Detectives of Old Time Radio from Boise, Idaho.
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This is your host, Adam Graham. In a moment, we're
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going to bring in this week's episode of Dragnet. But first,
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to nineteenth, nineteen fifty one, here is the big speech.
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The story you were about to hear is true, only
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the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
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Dragnet the document a drama of an actual crime. For
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the next thirty minutes, in cooperation with the Los Angeles
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Police Department, you will travel step by step on the
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side of the law through an actual case transcribed from
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official police files, from beginning to end, from crime to punishment.
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Dragnet is the story of your police force in action.
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It was Monday, August seventh. It was warm in Los Angeles.
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We were working a day watch out of robbery detail.
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My partner's Ben Romero, the boss's Thad Brown, cheap of detectives.
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My name is Friday. It was one fifteen PM when
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I got to forty six fifty six Collis Avenue the
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front door.
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Is that your jersey?
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Yeah, it's me.
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I didn't expect you so soon.
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Well, I'm off for lunch, and Ben and I were
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in the neighborhood.
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So oh well, I'll.
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Get the telegram. Thank you, say, I'm glad you could
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get home. Telegrams always make me nervous. Nobody ever sends
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a telegram that's it's important here, So thank.
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You, yes, said you, Maa. Some people send wires invite
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you to lunch or do a reception or something like that.
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Or is that so sure you've just forgotten? Haven't sure?
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I've gotten them before like that?
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There's no way to do anyhow.
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Why not?
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I'm always associaped frightening things with telegrams. Well aren't you
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going to open?
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Oh yeah, sure, Well if you were worried, you could
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open it.
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I've been all right, you know, I never opened anything
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addressed to you, Joseph, anything important.
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It's from Belmont, my old high school. Oh yeah, they
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want me to come up next week. They're having some
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sort of assembly up there, want me to talk to
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the student body.
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That's nice, you're going to go?
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Yeah, I think I better, don't you. I have to
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clear through Captain Sheldon.
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Though I think it's awfully nice for them to remember you.
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But are you going to talk on.
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To say, uh, police work? It says, yeah, I'll have
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to think of something to base.
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It on, though, wat I you don't have to memorize it.
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Joseph doesn't look well for men to stand up on
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a platform ready prepare to talk?
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Yeah, I know. Oh that's Ben. I gotta go on my.
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Would you I've been like some lunchhop and picture something
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about a minute.
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No, we haven't got time, girl. I'll see you later.
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I don't know why they couldn't have written a letter
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instead that I said. They could have written you a letter. Besides,
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it's much cheaper than a telegram.
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Yeah, well, I'll see you later.
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By Jersey.
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Right, she's gotta call Joe. They want us to call
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the office, so well I might as well do it
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from the house. Yeah all right, I'll be right back. Right,
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it's just me again.
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Ma came back and used the phone.
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Please, it's Friday. Glenn got one for you, Joe. I
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can't hear you. Glenn got one for you. Wait a minute,
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I can't hear you. Hey, Ma, would you hold that
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vacuum for a minute please? I can't hear. Thank you,
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I'm sorry, Glenn. What did you say again?
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That young kid hit again Doctor's office.
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Yeah, it's that same kid, only.
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This time you get a little rough.
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Victims at Georgia Street. He's still carrying that gun.
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Did he use the gun to beat the man with victims?
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A fifty five year old doctor? No reason for it, Joe,
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All right, we'll get right on it, right, yeah, bye, okay,
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I'm all through anything. Yeah. That young high pit again
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Doctor's office. Beat him up pretty bad. He's down at
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Georgia Great combination, isn't it. You know? What's that? Armful
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of narcotics and a loaded gun? Monday, August seventh. Since
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June twenty seventh, Ben and I had been assigned to
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a case involving a young narcotics thief. For seven weeks now,
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he'd been robbing every possible source available to him of narcotics.
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Since the inception of the investigation, we'd seen this young
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criminal develop from a small time sneak thief to a
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full fledged, armed and vicious thug. The descriptions of the
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young thief taken from his various victims tallied almost to
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the letter, blonde like, complex and small stature five seven
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to five ten, nervous, and unusually juvenile in appearance. Everything
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possible was being done for his quick apprehension. Hundreds of
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mugshots were screened and shown to victims no identification. Three
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point thirty pm. We checked back in at the office,
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went to see Sergeant ed Hall, Narcotics Division.
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Chandler said, you went over to Georgia Street to see
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that doctor. Yeah, try ed Short visit poor guy.
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Pretty bad. The guy's really a mess. Kid must have
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worked overtime on him and wants his condition still critical.
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Yeah, they wouldn't let us stay alone. We got a description.
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It's the same kid. Doctor's name was Gannon, fifty five
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years old.
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Yeah, pistol whipped him, knocked out seven of his teeth,
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fractured his jaw.
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Doctor was wearing glasses. They don't know if he'll see
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out of his right eye anymore. This puts junior in
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the big leaves now, Yeah, it sure it does.
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We got out of supplementary all points on him. Here's
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a list of the joke that he got quite a
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haul here.
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Yeah, m morphine, quarter grain thirty miles five dollars half
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grain cordine dolphine quarter grains six miles. Yeah, he did
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all right, long list here. We got that from the nurse.
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She was out to lunch when it happened. To the
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small office out there, and the doctor closes up at noon.
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Nurse goes out to lunch and he eats in the office.
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That's when the kid got to him.
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He knew when they hit, didn't he. Yeah, boys have
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been able to.
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Turn up a thing for you. Nobody seems to know
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the kid well. The amount of stuff he haul out
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of that doctor's office something on a show. Should Yeah
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all like that. You got anything at all to work on?
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Yeah, that car that was used on the job still
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got a stake down. We'll just picked this up for
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the report counting when out the car was reported stolen
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two hours after the robber. It's a little bit of
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a breakout. The fort was taken on at the Wilchire station.
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Miss Irving Adams states to her husband had notified her
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that the car was stolen from him while he was
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at work today, so he always parks it out in
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front on the street.
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We haven't checked it out yet. We figured it was
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a good place to start. Maybe, wait a minute, would
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you say that name was Irving Adams. Let me see
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that before. Wells, Adams is a user. He's up in
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county now waiting crown. Are you sure about that? Yeah,
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Walker and I picked him up. I just talked to
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Adams up in the county jail this morning. How long
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has he been in Let's see, it was last Tuesday,
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July thirtieth. The car couldn't have been stolen from Adams
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today if he's been in jail for a week. There's
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one guy can figure it out for you, Adams. Four
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h five pm we went up to the tenth flour
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of the county Jail, the interview room. We talked to
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Irving Adams for an hour. He said he wanted to cooperate,
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but he couldn't explain his wife's action in reporting the
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car stolen from him. He kept repeating that he knew
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his wife was not involved in anything, that she was
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innocent of any complicity in the case of the youthful gunman.
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He could give us no information on anyone fitting the
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gunman's description. He insisted that the entire matter was a
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mistake and that his wife could clear everything up if
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we just talked to her. Five twenty pm, Ben and
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I drove out to two thirty nine West ninety second Street.
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The Adam's residence was a small white bungalow, trimmed and red.
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The front lawn needed cutting in care. There were four
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bottles of soured milk on the front porch, along with
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several old newspapers. The front blinds were down, although it
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was still early. The front porch light was burning. The
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other homes in the neighborhood appeared to be neat and
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well kept. The screen door was ajar and supported by
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one rusty hinge. Five twenty one pm. It's like nobody's home. Yea,
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let's give it a try.
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Give me a minute, I'll cover the back right, Yes.
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Police officer, my name is Friday, or missus Irving Adams.
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Yes, that's right.
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Well, I like talk to you about your stolen car.
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Have we found it?
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Yes?
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We have?
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Can I come in place?
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Is in such a mess? Can't we talk here?
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Well, if you don't mind, I'd rather come inside.
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Oh right, don't look at the house. I've been kind
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of sick. I haven't felt much like cleaning up.
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All right, you alone here?
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Are you right now? My husband's at work.
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Mind if I go through the.
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House, I mean, searcher, you've got a warrant.
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Well, I just want to go to the back door.
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What for?
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Well, my partners around back there. This is the way
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to the back door.
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Hair, that's right, This is it's locked. Key's in the door,
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hey Ben?
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Yeah, everything will right? Yeah? Fine?
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Is he a police officer too?
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Yeah, that's right. This all that is to the house here?
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What do you mean?
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Well, just these three rooms here?
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Yes, that's all.
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I thought you said you were alone here I am.
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Who's that woman lying down in the other room.
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That's Catherine. I didn't want you bothering you. She's been
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sick too, she sleeps most of the time. I just
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forgot about it. Anybody else around, no nobody.
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No, I mean anybody's sick or otherwise, anyone besides you
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and this girl in there.
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Well, you've been in every room in the house except
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the bathroom. Miss it here? Yes, okay, I don't understand
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all this. I reported my car's tolen, and you come
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out here and search my house. If I did steal
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my car, I wouldn't hide it in here.
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Yeah, man, want to come in yeah.
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Could you tell me something?
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Yeah?
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Why are you here?
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Well?
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I told you we find your car. This is sigent Romeo.
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How do you do?
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What's the trouble? Anything wrong?
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Who'd you say your car was stolen from me?
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It was my car?
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Is that the way you made the report? Miss Adams,
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was stolen from you?
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I think, sir?
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Yes, it was Adams. According to the report that you
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made out this morning, you stated that the car was
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stolen from your husband. Isn't it right?
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Is that what I said?
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Yes, ma'am, that's right.
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I don't remember we both used the car so much
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for God?
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Well, no, which is it you or your husband?
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I'm not sure. You've been drinking heavy a little bit,
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just to ease my nerves.
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I have been feeling. Well, it's obvious you're not drunk.
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Missus Adams. Why don't you keep your story straight?
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We love users. I am telling the truth.
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Your husband's in the county jail. He's been there for
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a week. The car couldn't have been stolen from him,
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I could it.
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I didn't say it was stolen from him.
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This year's signa tore Miss Adam.
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Yes, sir, this is a copy of the Auto Theft
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report that you made at the WILSR Division.
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Yes, well, as this report a true one or a
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false one, is a penalty for making a false report,
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Miss Adams, I'm sure you're aware of that.
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I only want my car back.
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Who was it stolen from?
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Whatever it says there? My husband?
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Well, we just told you that he's in jail. He's
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still in there. We just talked to him. The car
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couldn't have been stolen from him. Have you got anything
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to say to that? No? Well, I think we better
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go downtown where you can sit and straighten yourself out
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and give us some right answers.
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I don't want to go to jail.
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That's just where you're going if you don't snap out
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of it and come up with the truth.
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I know who you want. It's Rex Burley, isn't it.
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Who's Rex Burley?
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Young kid going small? He told me he was in
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some kind of trouble with the car. Said, if I
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tell the police it was told him to be all
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right that way.
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Do you know where he is now?
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No? I don't you sure about that? That's the truth.
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Yeah? Yeah.
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Catherine's awful sick. She always sleep is heavy only when
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she's sick.
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She's really out, isn't she? Yeah, look at her leg. Yeah,
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she's a user. Say this girl's on Narcoticsmith's Adams. Are
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you a user?
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No, I'm not. I don't know where Catherine gets it.
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How about rex Burley?
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He's on it too. Maybe she gets it from him.
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Is there any stuff in the house now, not that
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I know.
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You want to tell us where rex Burley is?
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I don't know. He called her about an hour ago.
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Catherine talked to him. Did he tell her where he what?
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Yes? He did. She wrote it down on a piece
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of paper.
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Where's that paper under a pillow?
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You are listening to Dragnet from beginning to end. Dragnet
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is the authentic story of your police force in action.
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Now, from beginning to end, the Fatima story, actual convincing
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proof that in Fatima the difference is quality.
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Quality of tobaccos, the finest domestic and Turkish varieties, extra
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mild and superbly blended to give you a much different,
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much better flavor and aroma.
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Quality of manufacture, smooth, round, perfect cigarettes, rolled in the
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finest paper money can buy, Manufactured in the newest and
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most modern of all cigarette factories.
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Quality even to the appearance of the bright, clean, golden
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yellow package carefully wrapped and sealed to bring you Fatima's rich, fresh,
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extra mild flavor.
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Because of its quality, it's extra mildness, it's better flavor
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and aroma more Long cigarette smokers are now insisting on
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Fatima than ever before.
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So if you smoke a long cigarette compare Fatima, you'll
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find they now cost the same.
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But your first puff will tell you, ah, that's different.
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Yes, in Fatima. The difference is quality. Insist on Fatima.
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Start enjoying the quality King size cigarette Fatima best of
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all long cigarettes.
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Monday, August seventh, six thirty pm, the young girl who
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has identified as Katherine Dorrance was awakened and she produced
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rex Burley's address. He stated that she'd known him for
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the past year, she had just graduated from high school
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and gave her ages eighteen. And Talking further with both
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Iris Adams and Katherine Dorrance, we found that the description
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of rex Burley checked out with that given us from
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the suspects victims. They both stated that as far as
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they knew it was his true name, that he had
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no friends or associates known to them. A check with
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R and I showed no record on the name Rex Burley.
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At six thirty seven pm, Sergeant's Hall and Walker from
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Narcotics Division arrived and continued the investigation of the two
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female suspects. A stakeout was placed on the house at
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two thirty nine West ninety second Street. The address we
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got from Catherine Dorrance was a hotel on Washington Boulevard.
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We drove out and checked with the clerk. We asked
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if he had anyone registered under the name of Rex Burley,
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and he told us no. We gave him Burley's description.
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He said that a young man similar to that had
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registered and was in room two ten. We got a
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pass key from the clerk. We walked up to the
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second floor. It mhmm, lights on under the door? Yeah, carefully,
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where is it? Open up? We want to talk to you.
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What about what's the key in the door? Yeah, thats
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key's no good? All right, come on, open up, police officers.
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All right, let's hit it again once more.
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Yeah, winner's open up the fire escape joe, police officers,
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hold it up?
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Watch you all right?
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Yeah, right, come on, let's go.
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Right.
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Hold it up there.
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He doesn't want to stop.
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He's over the side under the roof.
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Al right, come on alright, easy seem No, it's pretty dark,
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all right, Come on easy now, easy Over there on
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that side, can you see him? No, it's too dark.
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What's that skyline? He's over there in that corner. You
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see him? Yeah, Now he's going muster duck back down. Well,
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he's in that corner. All right, let's take him. I
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keep down. You circle around from that side. I'll go
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around this way, all right, careful, keep down, don't please
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don't t get your hands in the air.
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Walk toward the middle of the rock.
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There.
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I see him, Joe, I got him covered you all right, Yeah,
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all right.
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Keep those hands up right, standstill, so all right, get
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your hands behind you, man.
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Let's go.
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Burlie.
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I didn't mean to do it.
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I was wrong.
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I know I was wrong.
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You should have thought about that a long time ago.
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How old are you, Burleie? Twenty? You're living pretty high,
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aren't you. I had to have this stuff.
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I needed it. How olse could I get it?
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I didn't buddy to buy it.
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He didn't have to get started on it. Come on,
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let's go.
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I didn't want to get started. All of a sudden,
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I just done it. I couldn't do anything about it.
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You don't understand. It's just somebody else to explain it to.
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There is, but they won't understand it either. Monday, August seventh,
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eight rex Burley was taking downtown to the Robbery Division
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for further interrogation. He told us that he was in
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his senior year in high school when he got started
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on narcotics. He kept repeating this, he didn't mean to
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get started. He readily admitted his participation in six narcotics robberies.
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He told us that he got Katherine Dorrance, his eighteen
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year old girlfriend, started on dope. Jean Bechdel took his
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statement and a complete report was made. A partial recovery
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of the stolen narcotics was made from his hotel room,
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and the remainder had been found at Irving Adams residence
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on ninety second Street. Both female suspects, Iris Adams and
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Katherine Dorrance were filed on for violation of the State
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Narcotics Act. A show up was scheduled for August eighth
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to allow positive identification from rex Burley's victims. We received
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word from Georgia Street that doctor Gannon's condition was improved.
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The suspect was transported to the main jail where he
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was booked. It was ten thirty eight pm when I
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got to fourteen fifty six Collis Avenue. The front door
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is that you? No, I'm not hungry.
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I don't have to eat fixture something.
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I'm kind of tired. I just like to sit down
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for a minute.
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All right, there's evening paper.
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Oh thank you.
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What don't you do to the sleep of your coat?
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It's so Messa ripped it?
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Uh you slip it off. I'm mended after it fixtures
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some dinner.
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Why don't you sit down and work on it now
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if you want to. I've got something I'm kind of
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like to go over with you. You remember that telegram
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from Belmont this morning high school? Well, I think I
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got an idea for a speech. Maybe I just made
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a few notes here, wrote down sound of it. You
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think you feel like listening to it? See if it's okay?
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You're at the speech today?
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Well, just parts of it. I hadn't written a clara yet.
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I just got a few. I want to see what
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you thought of.
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It, and let me have your coat?
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Then, yeah, there you go. Thank you.
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Now it's here you talk.
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Well, I remember it's not written down yet. It's just
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kind of hit and miss as I going wrong, But
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I think I can get the thought across and then
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I'll put it all down on papers. Mister Fisher, that's
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the principal up there, mister Fisher. Members of the faculty
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in students, I like to tell you about a young
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boy who started out in high school and ended up
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on the roof of a downtown hotel, dodging police bullets.
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I like to tell you about his girlfriend, eighteen years
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old and a dope addict. This young fellow started out
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on narcotics in search of a new thrill, something new
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that he hadn't experienced in his young life. He was
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still in high school when a group of the more
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high living youngsters used to congregate at the local malt shop.
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Well that's not so good, is it. Well, maybe sound
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better this way. There was a malt shop on the
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corner where some of the youngsters used to get together
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after school. Kind of a place where if you had
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the right connections, and our young boy and girl did,
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you could get a drink of liquor in the back room. Well,
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the high school faculty knows all about this local malt shop,
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and they inform the authorities and pressure is brought to bear.
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But the man who operates the place is clever. If
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you can call the operations of a man like this clever.
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He knows how to cover up, how to keep the
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front room legitimate, in the back room a spawning place
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for a juvenile delinquency, and the students don't help much.
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There seems to be something during the formation of a
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juvenile mind that when his teachers or his parents catch
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him doing wrong or they try to tell him it's bad,
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he prides himself and seeing how long he can get
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away with it under covers seems to be the stylish
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thing to do to outwit your parents and teachers. As
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the youngsters grow older, they invariably find out how infantil
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and stupid this is. But sometimes it's too late. That
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sounds kind of stuffy, Ma, What do you think.
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It sounds like the truth? Let me hear the rest
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of it.
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Well, you know how kids are. Sometimes they resent it
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if they think you're lecturing them. Maybe they could have
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been with Ben and I and I might make a difference. Well,
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I want to make this too long, man, I think
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maybe I ought to finish up something like this from
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this malt shop on the corner. In that back room,
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our young boy gets a good shoved down the road
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of self degradation. He has the right connections and isn't
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too long before he graduates the liquor in the back
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room for something. He thinks it's far better narcotics. He's
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heard that, unlike liquor, you can't smell it on his breath.
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And he's a real veteran now he has hangovers. He's
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heard that narcotics doesn't leave you with a hangover, so
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it doesn't take too long before in our well, in
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police parlance, he's hooked. Living in this day and age,
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he thought that they taught him well in his economics
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and civics classes. He thought he knew what post war
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inflation was all about. He didn't have the vaguus notion
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of the cost of his daily supply of narcotics. Once
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he was hooked on it, he found that before long
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he had to have his daily dosage and no time
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at all. He found that it was all he could
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do to get buy on thirty dollars a day, So
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that costs monk thirty dollars each and every day. Or
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he became violently ill, so sick that he couldn't seem
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to function properly well in order to maintain his daily needs.
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He got a gun and he robbed and he beat
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people in He stole. He shared with his girlfriend, and
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he dragged her down with him. He ended up on
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the roof of a hotel trying to shoot his way out.
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Well.
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The boy was twenty years old, his girlfriend was eighteen.
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Two years ago, they both sat out there in a
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high school auditorium during an assembly. He went a long way,
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didn't he? In his two years out of high school.
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Taken into custody on the night of August seventh. Who
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was crying when we put the handcuffs on him? He
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was crying when we left him in his cell at
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the county jail. I guess he's still crying. I only think, man,
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that's just rough. I haven't.
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Good. I believe it. You think it'll do any good?
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Well, I don't know, man, it's up to them.
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The story you have just heard was true, only the
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names were changed to protect the innocent.
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On November ninth, trial was held in Superior Court, Department
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eighty three, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California.
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In a moment, the results of that trial, and now.
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Here is our star Jack Webb.
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Thank you friends. There are many cases on record of
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two people not related looking so much alike it's hard
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to tell them apart. A quick check of fingerprints, however,
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easily proves who's who on first sight. You could just
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as easily be fooled by King size cigarettes. If you
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were to place a Fatima in any other King size
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cigarette side by side, you'd find a look identical. But
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believe me, there's a real difference in Fatima. That difference
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is quality, quality that gives you extra mildness, a much
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better flavor and aroma. Compare Fatima with any King size cigarette.
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But in Fatima the difference is quality. By a pack.
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Tomorrow, Rex Martin Burley was found guilty of three counts
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of robbery in the first degree and was sentenced to
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the State penitentiary, where he is now serving his term.
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First degree robbery is punishable by imprisonment from five years
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to life.
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The Federal Civil Defense Administration will send you an air
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raid instruction sheet if you will write the Superintendent of Documents, Washington,
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You have just heard Dragnet a series of authentic cases
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from official fails. Technical advice comes from the Office of
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Chief of Police W. H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department.
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a dragon at portions transcribed from Los Angeles.
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Stay tuned for Counterspy next. Over many NBC stations.
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Welcome back a solid narcotics episode. In terms of life decisions,
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taking legal advice from a twenty year old narcotics addict
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about how to file a police report might be one
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of the most foolish decisions you can make without even
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getting details as to what he advised. Also, we have
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another use of the last name Ginning. It just stands
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out how much they reuse that name along with Carver
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throughout the run of Dragnet. I did really like the
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ending segment where Joe Friday was crafting this speech. It's
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interesting in many ways because so many people are familiar
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with the nineteen sixties series where Joe Friday is associated
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with having a thorough three point lecture ready to deliver
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at an instant. I mean, some of the Joe Friday
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speeches from the sixties were so impressive that they were
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put into the Congressional record, and essentially it's assumed that, yeah,
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he's just got that on the top of his head.
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So having the scene where he's thinking through what he
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wants to say and how it's going to be received
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by his audience reflects the way the character was originally conceived.
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And he's having to put some real thought into how
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he's going to speak to these high schoolers. And it's
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a realistic, kind of first outline of how the speech
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might worked out, rather than a finished product. And certainly
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there's some thought as to how he's going to craft
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the message, but there is actually with that closing line,
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an important idea that reflects something different than the way
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we often view things in the twenty first century. Friday
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said whether the speech would do any good would be
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up to the kids, And I think in our information age,
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in so many contexts, you'll hear people emphasize the role
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of the speaker, the role of the presentation, and suggests
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that if you have the right speakers and the most
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effective methods and the right in influencers, then that will work.
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And if people make bad decisions, the speaker has failed
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in their function. Now Certainly speakers should try to be engaging.
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They shouldn't be overtly offensive to their audience unnecessarily. They
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should do the best job to present the information in
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the best way possible. And certainly, if you're using new
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technology and social media, you should you do all the
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fundamentals of presenting in that format. But at the end
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of the day, we're all fundamentally responsible for our own
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lives and the decisions we make, whether the decisions more legal, financial, spiritual, health,
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or anything else. We always say that the idea is
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that people need to communicate ideas better, we can ignore
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that responsibility element, and I think that's an interesting point
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from this episode. All right, well, now it's time to
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thank our Patreon supporter of the day, and I want
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to go ahead and thank Robert, currently supporting the podcast
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at the Detective Sergeant level of seven dollars and fourteen
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cents or more per month. He's been one of our
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Patreon supporters since July twenty twenty. Thanks so much for
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your support, Robert, and that will do it for today.
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If you're enjoying the podcast, please follow us using your
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downloading it from. We'll be back next Saturday with another
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episode of Dragnet, but join us back here on Monday
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for the Adventures of the Falcon.
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Where am I Anna talking to that distinguished gentleman known
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faw and white as a falcon?
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I'll hand exad How the world did you know it
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was me?
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I recognize you buy a white suit. How we going?
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I'm not so hot Mike. Maria spotted me this morning
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in al fam I'm sorry, pal, but it couldn't be helped,
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though I managed to tell her to the Cafe europah
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Wessia heightst of the couple with Steve Butler.
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Always Steve Butler, isn't it uh huh?
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You let anything else?
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No, not a single blessed thing if you ask me, friend,
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we got a bum steir that Gal's no spy.
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And what about those confidential reports and the embassy.
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We found in her apartment?
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I'm beginning to think they were planted by home by
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the same little lady who gave us the original tip?
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Are you able to laugh?
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Jound to her again?
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Nope, had names she used was a phony. Don't get
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it me and Nina by I, Lady six too, and
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even somebody's trying to frame Maria. What gets me is
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why I hope.
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You'll be with us then. In the meantime, send your
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comments to Box thirteen at Great Detectives dot net, follow
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This is your host, Adam Graham signing off.