1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:07,000 The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the 2 00:00:14,520 --> 00:00:15,760 innocent. 3 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:31,760 Fatima cigarettes, best of all long cigarettes, brings you dragnet. 4 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:37,240 You're a detective sergeant. You're assigned the juvenile bureau. The high schools in your 5 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:42,800 city have been flooded with obscene literature. You stamp out one source and a dozen more 6 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:49,520 spring up. Your job, stop them. 7 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:56,520 If you want a long cigarette, smoke the best of all long cigarettes. Smoke king size Fatima. 8 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:03,480 Fatima is the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos superbly 9 00:01:03,480 --> 00:01:10,240 blended to make Fatima extra mild. And that's why Fatima has a much different, much better 10 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:16,120 flavor and aroma than any other long cigarette. That's why Fatima has more than doubled its 11 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:23,120 smokers coast to coast. So enjoy Fatima, the best of all long cigarettes. 12 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:27,760 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 13 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:34,760 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 14 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:41,760 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. For the next 30 minutes in cooperation 15 00:01:43,240 --> 00:01:47,560 with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will travel step by step on the side of the 16 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:53,680 law through an actual case from official police files. From beginning to end, from crime to 17 00:01:53,680 --> 00:02:00,680 punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force in action. 18 00:02:00,680 --> 00:02:05,240 It was Monday, October 21st. It was cool in Los Angeles. We were working the day watch 19 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:09,560 at a juvenile bureau. My partner is Ben Romero. The boss is Inspector Lester, commander of 20 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,960 the juvenile bureau. My name is Friday. It was 10 a.m. when we got to the auditorium 21 00:02:13,960 --> 00:02:18,960 of Canfield High School. Stage door. 22 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,960 I guess we go right out onto the stage. There's a better way to work call though, huh? 23 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:25,160 You're the man from the police department? 24 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:27,760 Yes, sir. This is Sergeant Romero. My name's Friday. 25 00:02:27,760 --> 00:02:28,760 How do you do? 26 00:02:28,760 --> 00:02:29,760 Right in here. 27 00:02:29,760 --> 00:02:32,840 You're the principal here. Come right out onto the stage and we'll get the meeting started. 28 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:33,840 All right. 29 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:36,840 Just have a chair there. 30 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:37,840 Thank you. 31 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:40,840 Is the microphone on? 32 00:02:40,840 --> 00:02:47,840 Ladies and gentlemen of the coordinating council, members of the parent-teacher association, 33 00:02:49,840 --> 00:02:55,320 as you know, this meeting has been called for the purpose of discussing ways and means 34 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:59,960 to bring about an end to the distribution of the filthy and obscene books and pamphlets 35 00:02:59,960 --> 00:03:04,520 that have been littering every high school campus in the city of Los Angeles. We've tried 36 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:10,080 every means at our disposal to clean this matter up and they all seem to fail. On the 37 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:15,080 advice of the coordinating council and Mrs. Randall to the PTA, we've called in the authorities 38 00:03:15,080 --> 00:03:20,080 here to discuss the matter with us this morning, our two offices connected with the juvenile 39 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:27,080 bureau of our police department, Sergeant Romero and Sergeant Friday. And now may I turn the 40 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:34,200 meeting over to Sergeant Friday of the Los Angeles police department. 41 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:37,000 Thank you. 42 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,920 Ladies and gentlemen, the only way we're going to get to the bottom of this thing and put 43 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:45,080 a stop to it is to get all the information we can on where this lascivious material is 44 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:49,880 coming from. You people as parents and teachers of the children who are buying and reading 45 00:03:49,880 --> 00:03:54,640 this stuff might be able to give us some help. So if it's all right with you Mr. Fisher, 46 00:03:54,640 --> 00:03:57,400 I'd like to hear from some of the people sitting out there if I may. 47 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:58,400 Certainly, go right ahead. 48 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:02,840 Thank you. Well if any of you people have anything to say or any information, any questions, 49 00:04:02,840 --> 00:04:06,240 why don't we be glad to listen to you and do our best to answer your questions. 50 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:07,240 Sergeant. 51 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:10,240 Yes, the lady out there, go right ahead. 52 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:17,240 I'm Mrs. Stein. I know of a place in our neighborhood that has dirty books. I feel sure that that's 53 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:24,240 one of the places where the children are getting this trash. Complaints have been made to the 54 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:31,240 police department, but the man who runs the place has never been arrested. Can you tell 55 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:32,240 me why? 56 00:04:32,240 --> 00:04:36,640 Well, ma'am, I think I'd better make it clear now that there's only one way a police officer 57 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:41,280 can arrest anyone for possession of lewd literature. The officer has to prove that 58 00:04:41,280 --> 00:04:45,980 the party who possesses this literature does so for the purpose of selling it. Sometimes 59 00:04:45,980 --> 00:04:47,400 that's difficult to prove. 60 00:04:47,400 --> 00:04:49,920 Well, I told you I can prove it. 61 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:52,920 You mean you can go to this place and buy a book from him? 62 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:55,920 Maybe I couldn't. If I were known. 63 00:04:55,920 --> 00:05:00,040 Yes, ma'am, that's just the point. Now, I don't know offhand about the one in your 64 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,280 neighborhood, but I can assure you that we've cracked down on hundreds of such peddlers in 65 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:07,080 the past few months. You can see for yourselves that this doesn't put a stop to it. We've 66 00:05:07,080 --> 00:05:08,080 got to get to the source. 67 00:05:08,080 --> 00:05:09,080 I have a question for you. 68 00:05:09,080 --> 00:05:10,080 Yes, sir? 69 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:11,080 My name's Fred Scott. I'm director of the Squareshooter's Boys Club. 70 00:05:11,080 --> 00:05:12,080 Yes, sir. 71 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:19,080 The point I'm trying to make is, I know the young boys pretty well. With the exception 72 00:05:19,080 --> 00:05:27,080 of my boys, 49 in number, I believe that just about every boy in this high school has one 73 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,080 of those books. Or at least he's seen one. 74 00:05:30,080 --> 00:05:31,080 Yes, sir, we're aware of that. 75 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:36,080 The point I'm trying to make is, somewhere in the municipal code, there's got to be a 76 00:05:36,080 --> 00:05:38,080 law to forbid such things. 77 00:05:38,080 --> 00:05:39,080 Yes, sir, there is such a law. 78 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:40,080 Then why isn't it enforced? 79 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:42,080 It is. 80 00:05:42,080 --> 00:05:44,080 What does the law say? 81 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:45,080 Well, how do you mean, sir? 82 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:49,080 Well, I mean, what happens when somebody's found guilty of selling these books? What's 83 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:50,080 the penalty? 84 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:55,080 Oh, well, the law states that an offender is liable to fines, a jail term of six months 85 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:56,080 or both. 86 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:00,080 That's not much of a law, is it? Why is there a stronger law? 87 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,080 Well, I wouldn't know that, sir. 88 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:06,080 The point I'm trying to make is, we need laws with some teeth in them. 89 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:10,080 We have good laws in the state of California for the most part. It's true that we're weak 90 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:13,080 in some cases, but you can say that about most states, I think. 91 00:06:13,080 --> 00:06:19,080 Well, you may be satisfied with the laws, but I'm not. I say stronger laws. That's the 92 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,080 answer. 93 00:06:20,080 --> 00:06:24,080 No, I don't think it is, Mr. Scott. Passing a set of new laws isn't going to make this 94 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:29,080 city a cleaner or a safer place for your boys to grow up in. Laws don't decide how moral 95 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:35,080 a city's going to be. People do. Laws don't mold character in young boys either. The parents 96 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:36,080 and the teachers do that. 97 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:39,080 I don't think I know what you're getting at. What do you mean? 98 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:42,080 Well, just this, Mr. Scott. It's our job on the police department to keep filthy junk 99 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,080 like these books from falling into youngsters' hands. 100 00:06:44,080 --> 00:06:45,080 Yes. 101 00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:49,080 Now, on the other side of the fence, the youngster has to be taught to recognize the 102 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:54,080 obscene material for what it is, filth and garbage. And the youngsters have to be taught 103 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:59,080 that in the home, in the school, and the church. Now, if they can be made to understand what 104 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:04,080 the kind of dirt and filth these books represent, well, that would be worth more than any new 105 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:05,080 set of laws, wouldn't it? 106 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:10,080 But what about these men who put out their books? The men who sell them? How do you reach 107 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:11,080 them? 108 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,080 Through the youngsters. They seem to know the way. 109 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:20,080 The next morning at 8 a.m., after meeting with Inspector Lester of Juvenile Bureau, 110 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,080 Ben and I went on stakeout at Canfield High School. From past experience, we knew there 111 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:29,080 was little hope of a quick end to the case. It was going to be a long haul, tracing the 112 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,080 source all the way up the line from the high school kids who bought the filthy books to 113 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:37,080 the small fry pushers, the wholesalers, and finally, we hoped, to the top, the man who 114 00:07:37,080 --> 00:07:42,080 printed the books. We had no illusions on that score. Generally, with the arrest of his pushers 115 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:46,080 and other small timers who worked for him, the top man gets the alarm and clears out 116 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:51,080 before the police officer can apprehend him with evidence that he'll stand up in court. 117 00:07:51,080 --> 00:07:55,080 During the first two days at Canfield High, Ben and I found out nothing. The obscene literature 118 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:59,080 was being bartered in exchange between students, but the main source of supply was still a 119 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:04,080 mystery. We had one slim lead to go on. Mr. Fisher, the high school principal, helped run 120 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:09,080 it down. We've been watching that boy down in the yard since yesterday, Mr. Fisher. He 121 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:13,080 seems to have quite a bit of spending money, expensive clothes to carve his own. I don't 122 00:08:13,080 --> 00:08:17,080 know that boy's family. They could be wealthy. We saw him with a stack of those dirty books 123 00:08:17,080 --> 00:08:20,080 in his notebook. He must have had a dozen of them. We were showing him around to his 124 00:08:20,080 --> 00:08:27,080 crowd. Travers, are you sure? Joe, take a look down there. Yeah. Yeah, Travers is showing 125 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:33,080 him something. I can't see what it is. Come over to this side and run. Yeah. Small books. 126 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:37,080 He's giving them to one of the other folks. They've got their wallets out. They're giving 127 00:08:37,080 --> 00:08:42,080 Travers money. Come on, Ben. You better come too, Mr. Fisher. This way out to the yard? 128 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:52,080 No, to the left. That's it. What's hurry, huh? This door side. Right here. Travers. Travers. 129 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:58,080 Hello, Mr. Fisher. They like to talk to you. Yeah? These men here are from the police department. 130 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:04,080 They want to ask you some questions. Can we go inside? Yeah, sure. Come on. What's the 131 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:12,080 matter, Mr. Fisher? I haven't done anything. We'll see. Come on. What is it? What's it all 132 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:17,080 about? Sergeant, it'll be a lot easier if we have the truth now, son. Did you just sell 133 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:23,080 those boys out there some dirty books? No, I mean, it's only a gag. They're funny books. 134 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:29,080 Have you got any more of them, one? Yes, sir. Can we see them, please? I didn't steal them. 135 00:09:29,080 --> 00:09:38,080 Only books. Funny books. Here. Thanks. Almost a dozen. Do you think these are funny books, 136 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:45,080 do you, Travers? Well, some of them, I guess not. It's only a gag, Sergeant. Where'd you 137 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:51,080 get them? I didn't steal them. I bought them off a guy. Who? I can't tell you. Do you 138 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:55,080 have any more of these books? No, sir. Will you show us your locker? I can't remember the 139 00:09:55,080 --> 00:10:00,080 combination. It's a new locker. Could you open the locker for us, Mr. Fisher? Yes, but I'll 140 00:10:00,080 --> 00:10:09,080 have to get the maintenance man. All right. I'll show you. Come on. Down here, sir. This 141 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:21,080 one. 412. I've only got a couple. All right. We'll see. Come on. Open it. I haven't 142 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:30,080 done anything. Here's a sample, Joe. Lockers loaded down with rotten silk. You can't arrest 143 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:35,080 me. I don't sell the books. I only rent them. Somebody's been briefing you, who? You're 144 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:39,080 only making it hard on yourself, boy. You can't prove anything. These are my books. I don't 145 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:44,080 sell them. Where do you get them? Who sold them to you? Nobody. I got them, that's all. 146 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:50,080 All right. We'll have to talk to your folks. You can't. They're away. No, you can't. Don't. 147 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,080 I'm afraid we'll have to, son. Oh, please. Please don't tell them. Please don't let them 148 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:57,080 know. I'll do anything. All right. Let's have the truth, then. Who are you selling your books 149 00:10:57,080 --> 00:11:03,080 for? His name's Barney. That's all I know. I meet him at a cigar store downtown, 5th 150 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:07,080 and Harrison. Does he sell you the books? He gives them to me. I sell them and then give 151 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:14,080 him the money. I get 10 cents for every one I sell. How much do you sell them for? 25 cents. 152 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:18,080 Some are a dollar. I get 30 cents for those. The boys in this school have been paying that 153 00:11:18,080 --> 00:11:23,080 kind of money for this film? Yes, sir. This man who gives you these books, you know where 154 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:29,080 he lives? No, sir. I have any idea. When are you going to see him? Well, this is Wednesday. 155 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:33,080 I was going to meet him downtown this afternoon. The cigar store? Yes, sir. But I don't want 156 00:11:33,080 --> 00:11:38,080 to get Barney in trouble. He's been okay to me. Sure. He's done a lot for you. 157 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:46,080 4 p.m. Wednesday. Ben and I drove downtown with 16-year-old Eddie Travers. We parked 158 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:51,080 the car near the corner of 5th and Harrison and kept an eye on the cigar store. We waited. 159 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:58,080 No sign yet, Travers? No, sir. Barney usually waits by the newsstand there. I haven't seen 160 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:04,080 him yet. How long have you been selling for this man, son? About three months, maybe four. 161 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:09,080 Any idea where he gets the books? Well, I... Just a minute, sergeant. Yeah? I think... 162 00:12:09,080 --> 00:12:14,080 Yeah, that's Barney, the one going up to the cigar counter. The man in the gray suit, then? 163 00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:18,080 Yeah, that's him. He's going into Juanita's Cafe. Is that where you usually go after you 164 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:22,080 meet him? Yes, sir. You better take the boy back to the office, Ben. I'll tail this guy 165 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,080 and see what I can find out. Okay. Want me to pick you up later? No, I'll call you at the 166 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:31,080 office. Oh, you got any matches? No, I'm out. I'll pick some up at the cigar stand. All right. 167 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:34,080 See you later. Yeah. 168 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:47,080 Box of matches? Oh, yeah. And, uh, pack a spearmint, too. All right, sir. 169 00:12:47,080 --> 00:12:53,080 What's the boys? Uh, got a special on old typical new bourbon today. 269.5. No, no, thanks. 170 00:12:53,080 --> 00:13:03,080 Hey, Rosie. Rosie, another tamale when you get time, huh? All right, Barney. Go for a minute. 171 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:10,080 Yes, sir? Uh, let me have a chicken tacos, a side order of fried beans and a cup of coffee, huh? 172 00:13:10,080 --> 00:13:13,080 Chicken tacos on one. Side up beans. 173 00:13:14,080 --> 00:13:16,080 Okay. 174 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:19,080 I'll take the other one. 175 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,080 Okay. 176 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,080 I'll take the other one. 177 00:13:26,080 --> 00:13:28,080 Okay. 178 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:34,080 Another tamale. Anything else, Barney? Let me have some more coffee, Rosie. Tamale on one. 179 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:45,080 Hey. Huh? Slide the ketchup down here, will you? Yeah. Here you go. Thanks. 180 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:50,080 They got good tacos. You know, lots of minivans. Fresh stuff. Yeah. 181 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:58,080 There's the sugar. Oh, thank you. Hey, Rosie. Here. Here, Rosie. Yeah? 182 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:03,080 I got some new ones in just today. Whole stack of them. What are you talking about? 183 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:08,080 You know, the picture book. Good ones. You can make some money on the side. They sell good around here. 184 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:12,080 Listen, Barney, I told you once, no. Oh, come on, here. Look, I'm over here. 185 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,080 I'm over here. 186 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:20,080 I said no to that lousy junk. The next time you bring that stuff in here, I tell the boss, understand? Now, eat and get out. 187 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:27,080 Well, that's a real funny thing. Looks great, but what a cold potato. Yeah. 188 00:14:29,080 --> 00:14:32,080 Come on. Come on. Eat and get out and take that junk with you. 189 00:14:32,080 --> 00:14:36,080 Ah, cold potato. I don't want you to chow on her anyway. 190 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:43,080 Well, coffee's certainly cold. Yeah. Yeah. You probably get a big boot out of you. Here, look. 191 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:53,080 Pretty good. Yeah, it's good quality stuff. Yeah. Give me that little book there. Let me show you one. 192 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,080 What do you mean? Yeah. 193 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:01,080 You know, I'm not going to tell you anything. I'm just going to tell you something. 194 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:07,080 Give me that little book there. Let me show you one. What do you mean? Yeah. 195 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:10,080 When I kill you? 196 00:15:10,080 --> 00:15:14,080 I mean, how about selling me one of them? 197 00:15:15,080 --> 00:15:19,080 Okay. Four bits for the small ones, buck for the big ones. Wait a minute. 198 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:26,080 Let's see, I got, I got 14 of them out there. Tell you what I'll do, I'll make you a deal. You can have the whole works for 10 bucks. 199 00:15:26,080 --> 00:15:28,080 Okay. You got any more? 200 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:32,080 Why don't you go on a business for yourself? No, I got a new stand out in Riverside. 201 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:36,080 Books, I guess, ought to go fast. I think I can probably handle another 25 bucks worth. 202 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:40,080 Ah. I'll get the rest of them back at the hotel. Some will rank color. 203 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:43,080 You want to meet me there tonight? Around seven? 204 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:48,080 Where's the hotel? Why don't you go straight up 6th Street from here. It's just one block on your left. 205 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,080 Called the Denver House. I'm in room 337. You going up there now? 206 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:59,080 I was supposed to meet some guy, but yeah, we can go now. What about a check, Rosie? 207 00:15:59,080 --> 00:16:04,080 Yeah. Hey, you're probably wanting more of these. I can put you on my mailing list. 208 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:07,080 Okay. The prices are right. I don't want to pay retail. 209 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:10,080 We can work out a deal. Come on, let's go. Okay. 210 00:16:10,080 --> 00:16:14,080 Look at that Rosie, huh? She's really putting together. Yeah. 211 00:16:14,080 --> 00:16:22,080 Two bags. A real cold potato though. Summer like that. Yeah. No sense of humor. 212 00:16:24,080 --> 00:16:29,080 We left Juanita's Cafe and walked up Harrison Street to 6th. We turned left and went down one block. 213 00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:34,080 It was five minutes to five when we got to Barney's room in the Denver House, number 337. 214 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,080 He dragged out a steamer trunk from under the bed. 215 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:43,080 He counted out a stack of books and pamphlets covering the general topic of degenerate filth in stories and photographs. 216 00:16:43,080 --> 00:16:49,080 Okay, Mac, yeah, it's 25 bucks worth. The money and the bucks are all yours. 217 00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:59,080 Okay. Here you go. That's 10, 15, 18. I have to give you a check for the rest. 218 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:03,080 How do I know it's any good? You could take off. I'd never see you again. 219 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:07,080 You'll see me. You're under arrest. Huh? You're kidding. Hey, let go. All right. Let's hold it right here. 220 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:12,080 Hey, wait a minute. Look, we can work this thing out. 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It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 234 00:18:52,080 --> 00:19:00,080 The best of all long cigarettes. 235 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:08,080 The filthy literature racket feeds on the curiosity of youngsters and the stupidity and ignorance of adults. 236 00:19:08,080 --> 00:19:14,080 It's an all-season business, and in its own quiet way, it has reached a market which the other heavy rackets never hoped to reach. 237 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:25,080 Your home and your children. 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 23rd. We checked the records and the make sheet showed the book peddler's true name to be Barney W. Timpson, 38 years old. 238 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:36,080 He had a past record of one previous conviction for peddling lewd literature in Dodge City, Iowa in March 1948. We had him brought to the interrogation room. 239 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,080 Sit down, Timpson. 240 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:44,080 Let's make it easy, Barney. Where are you getting the books? 241 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:46,080 I told you, Sergeant, they deliver them to me. 242 00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:47,080 Who do they? 243 00:19:47,080 --> 00:19:50,080 Different guys. I don't remember them all. They send different guys every time. 244 00:19:50,080 --> 00:19:51,080 How often do they make the deliveries to you? 245 00:19:51,080 --> 00:19:52,080 Once a month. 246 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:53,080 When? 247 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,080 Around the first, usually. Sometimes, maybe the second and the third. 248 00:19:55,080 --> 00:19:56,080 They bring the books to your hotel? 249 00:19:56,080 --> 00:19:58,080 Yeah, they leave a pack up in the lobby addressed to me. 250 00:19:58,080 --> 00:19:59,080 Do they ever use the mail? 251 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:01,080 They never do. They're not that dumb. 252 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,080 So you've never seen the men that you do business with? 253 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,080 Not so I'd know them, no. 254 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,080 You have no idea where they're operating? 255 00:20:06,080 --> 00:20:07,080 I don't know. 256 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,080 You expect us to swallow that? 257 00:20:09,080 --> 00:20:10,080 I'm telling you, I don't know. 258 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:11,080 Oh, don't push it. Is that kind of a story, Barney? 259 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:13,080 I'm giving it to you straight. Now what else do you want? 260 00:20:13,080 --> 00:20:15,080 Who's the supplier, man? 261 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:19,080 Look, we found this notebook in your hotel room, Barney. There's a list of names in it. 262 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:20,080 Is this your customer book? 263 00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:21,080 Right. 264 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,080 Okay, okay, the customer's... 265 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:24,080 That gives us enough to land on you. 266 00:20:24,080 --> 00:20:26,080 I know that. I told you everything. 267 00:20:26,080 --> 00:20:28,080 You still don't know who you're working for? 268 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:31,080 Look, there's a phone number in this notebook. No name to go with it. 269 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:32,080 Yeah. 270 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,080 Now look at it. This one right here. 271 00:20:34,080 --> 00:20:36,080 I don't know. It must be another customer. 272 00:20:36,080 --> 00:20:37,080 There's a blunt, boss. 273 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:39,080 I don't know the boss. He don't know me. 274 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:40,080 Then who do you buy the books from? 275 00:20:40,080 --> 00:20:41,080 Who says I buy them? 276 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:42,080 You must owe somebody a lot of money. 277 00:20:42,080 --> 00:20:44,080 Don't worry. I don't owe him nothing. He don't owe me nothing. 278 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:45,080 He does now. 279 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:46,080 What? 280 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:47,080 You're going to jail for him. 281 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:56,080 Barney Timpson was booked into central jail for violation of the penal code, section 311.3. 282 00:20:57,080 --> 00:21:01,080 We contacted the telephone company and they traced the extra phone number in Timpson's notebook 283 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,080 to a private residence on Wonderview Drive in Laurel Canyon. 284 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:07,080 A detail of men was assigned to stake out on the place. 285 00:21:07,080 --> 00:21:11,080 During the next week, mainly from information obtained from Barney Timpson's customers, 286 00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:15,080 seven other peddlers of obscene books and pamphlets were taken into custody and questioned. 287 00:21:15,080 --> 00:21:20,080 Five of the seven told us they picked up their supply of books from the Laurel Canyon address. 288 00:21:20,080 --> 00:21:24,080 We moved in on the place and found thousands of lewd books and pamphlets stored in the garage. 289 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:26,080 Three men on the premises were taken into custody. 290 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:31,080 They identified themselves as John Alexander, George Kelleher, and Raymond Kester. 291 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:35,080 We brought them downtown and interrogated them for two hours. They refused to admit anything. 292 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:40,080 They were booked in, but by noon their lawyers arrived and they were released on writs of habeas corpus. 293 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,080 2 p.m. Ben and I met with Inspector Lester of Juvenile Bureau. 294 00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:47,080 Just had a call from the men on stake out of the Laurel Canyon place. 295 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,080 They've just been over the garage with the books restored. 296 00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:50,080 Did they get anything, Skim? 297 00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:52,080 A couple of things. Might be fair leads. 298 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:53,080 What's that? 299 00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,080 Three stacks of books they found were wrapped in proof letterheads from the Havenbrook Hotel. 300 00:21:56,080 --> 00:21:57,080 Yeah? 301 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,080 We checked with the hotel. 302 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,080 They get all their printing done at Rudolph Brothers, placed out in West L.A. 303 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:03,080 That name's not familiar to me. 304 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,080 It's a big layout. They're specialties in religious books, Bible, things like that. 305 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:07,080 That doesn't add. 306 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:08,080 That's for sure. 307 00:22:08,080 --> 00:22:09,080 How do you mean? 308 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:10,080 Be a perfect cover for the racket. 309 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:13,080 Printing the Bible one day and a flock of filthy books the next. 310 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:14,080 Could be the setup. 311 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,080 What kind of a name does this Rudolph's place have around town? 312 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:18,080 They've been here long. 313 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:19,080 50 years. Good reputation. 314 00:22:19,080 --> 00:22:21,080 Well, if you give it a look, where is the place? 315 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,080 On West 3rd, just below Athens Street. 316 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,080 All right. 317 00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:26,080 Check the place over, but don't make them suspicious. 318 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,080 If there's anything wrong, no use telling them until we're ready to move. 319 00:22:28,080 --> 00:22:29,080 Right, Skipper. 320 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,080 We've got to reach the presses turning out this junk and choke off the supply where it starts. 321 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,080 Do that when we've got a beat. 322 00:22:33,080 --> 00:22:34,080 All right. 323 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,080 Just a minute. 324 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:36,080 Juvenile Bureau left it. 325 00:22:36,080 --> 00:22:37,080 Can't have it. 326 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:38,080 Now where? 327 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:40,080 Okay, it'll be right out. 328 00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,080 Rosenbottelli, they spotted one of the delivery cars. 329 00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:43,080 Where? 330 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:44,080 Downtown. They followed it out to West L.A. 331 00:22:44,080 --> 00:22:45,080 Yeah? 332 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:46,080 Rudolph's printing shop. 333 00:22:50,080 --> 00:22:53,080 4 p.m. Ben and I, together with two other men from Juvenile Bureau, 334 00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,080 drove out Beverly Boulevard to Athens Street 335 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,080 and down one block to the corner of West 3rd, 336 00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,080 where we picked up Rosenbottelli on stakeout. 337 00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:03,080 The Rudolph Brothers printing company covered almost half a square block 338 00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:05,080 on the corner of West 3rd and Athens. 339 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,080 The front of the plant had display windows, 340 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:11,080 featuring expensive leather-bound bibles and other religious literature. 341 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,080 While the other men remained on stakeout, 342 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,080 Ben and I crossed the street and entered the plant. 343 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:19,080 We introduced ourselves to the clerk in charge as potential wholesale customers, 344 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:21,080 and we asked to be shown around the shop. 345 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:23,080 It was more than obliging. 346 00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,080 I'd be happy to show you our plant, gentlemen. 347 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,080 The most modern religious publication company in the West. 348 00:23:28,080 --> 00:23:30,080 That's our claim. Would you step this way, please? 349 00:23:30,080 --> 00:23:31,080 Thank you. 350 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,080 On your left there, those are three of our new level-o machines. 351 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,080 Excellent mechanisms, needless to say. 352 00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:46,080 You must employ quite a few men in here. 353 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,080 65 full-time. 354 00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:51,080 Enough to meet any emergency rest job you might want done. 355 00:23:51,080 --> 00:23:54,080 Now, over here are Bush Emerson hand presses. 356 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:58,080 You handle only religious books then, nothing else? 357 00:23:58,080 --> 00:24:01,080 That's right, sir. We specialize exclusively in that. 358 00:24:01,080 --> 00:24:05,080 You don't take in any small contracts, school journals, things like that? 359 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,080 No, our steady customers take up all of our time. 360 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,080 Here on this stone, you see the pages of a new prayer book we're getting together. 361 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:13,080 Very ultra. 362 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,080 An entirely different kind of typeface. 363 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:16,080 Oh, is that so? 364 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,080 Yes, and back there, along the wall, our new line of types. 365 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:21,080 The very latest, monotypes. 366 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,080 Then the proof presses. 367 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,080 Next to them are proof readers. 368 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,080 And the flatbed trussload press beyond that. 369 00:24:29,080 --> 00:24:32,080 Seems like lots of activity. Business is pretty good, I guess, huh? 370 00:24:32,080 --> 00:24:34,080 Oh, yes, we're kept pretty busy. 371 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,080 Quality printing is always in demand. 372 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:37,080 Yeah. 373 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:39,080 Well, thanks very much for showing us around. 374 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,080 Not at all, gentlemen. Anytime. 375 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:42,080 Here, this way out. 376 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:43,080 All right. 377 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,080 I'll get you one of my cards here. 378 00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:48,080 Here you are. 379 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,080 Thank you. 380 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:51,080 And when you're ready to do business, why don't you just give me a call? 381 00:24:51,080 --> 00:24:52,080 I'd be glad to take care of you. 382 00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:54,080 All right, sir, thanks. We'll do that. 383 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:55,080 Good afternoon, gentlemen. 384 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:56,080 Good morning. 385 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:57,080 All right. 386 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,080 What do you think? 387 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:03,080 You got me. Nothing out of place. 388 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:05,080 Yeah, whatever system they're using, they got it down past. 389 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:08,080 Bibles, prayer books, church announcements, that's all I saw. 390 00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:09,080 Hey, Ben, look. 391 00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:12,080 That man getting out of that car going into Rudolph's there. 392 00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,080 Alexander, the guy we picked up this morning out in North Canyon. 393 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:17,080 Yeah. 394 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:46,080 What are you doing here? 395 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,080 I'm just figuring the plan. 396 00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,080 That printing press. 397 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:51,080 I'm starting up. 398 00:25:51,080 --> 00:25:52,080 Okay, let's move. 399 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,080 Hey, uh, Gross, you and Pacelli want to go through the back, 400 00:25:55,080 --> 00:25:56,080 and Ben and I will take the front. 401 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:57,080 Right, let's go, Mike. 402 00:25:59,080 --> 00:26:00,080 It's a neat setup. 403 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:01,080 I had it all figured. 404 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:03,080 Yeah. You didn't spot any side entrances, did you? 405 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,080 No. 406 00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:05,080 Here we are. 407 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,080 Want to try the door? 408 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:07,080 Yeah. 409 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:08,080 It's no good. 410 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:09,080 All right. 411 00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:10,080 Who is it? 412 00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:11,080 Police officers. 413 00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:12,080 Open up. 414 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:14,080 All right, come on. 415 00:26:14,080 --> 00:26:15,080 Open up. 416 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,080 They're precious stuff. 417 00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:18,080 All right, let's hit it quick. 418 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:19,080 Come on again. 419 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,080 There we are. 420 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:24,080 There they are, Joe. 421 00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,080 They're trying to smash the plates. 422 00:26:25,080 --> 00:26:26,080 Come on. 423 00:26:26,080 --> 00:26:27,080 McHenry! McHenry, leave those plates! 424 00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:28,080 Watch it, Ben. 425 00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:32,080 All right, come on. 426 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:33,080 All right, you all right. 427 00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,080 Hold it. 428 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:35,080 Hold it against the wall. 429 00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:36,080 All right, come on. 430 00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:37,080 All right, you all right. 431 00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:38,080 Hold it. 432 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:39,080 Hold it against the wall. 433 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,080 Hey, Groves, get those plates off the press, will you? 434 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:43,080 All right, hold it, you two. 435 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:44,080 Joe, look out! 436 00:26:44,080 --> 00:26:45,080 All right. 437 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,080 Get the plates, Joe! 438 00:26:49,080 --> 00:26:51,080 I round up those men and keep the doors covered. 439 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,080 Get them at the most tables. 440 00:26:53,080 --> 00:26:54,080 Come on over to the wall. 441 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,080 That's about most of them, Joe. 442 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:56,080 Those two men going at the door. 443 00:26:56,080 --> 00:26:57,080 Come on, hit them off, will you? 444 00:26:58,080 --> 00:26:59,080 Come on, you. 445 00:26:59,080 --> 00:27:00,080 Come on back inside. 446 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:01,080 Get out of the way. 447 00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:02,080 Get your hands off of them! 448 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:03,080 Hold it up, mister. 449 00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:04,080 Come on, over there with the rest. 450 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:06,080 You'll pay for this. 451 00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:07,080 I'll sue you down your last knick. 452 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:08,080 Yeah, come on, simmer down. 453 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,080 Hey, Joe, we got Rudolph going out the back. 454 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,080 Right. 455 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:12,080 Call the office. 456 00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:13,080 We're going to need transportation. 457 00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:14,080 Okay. 458 00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:15,080 Take those two with you, huh? 459 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:16,080 All right, come on. 460 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:23,080 Well, we got enough evidence against them? 461 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,080 Yeah, we're going to need it. 462 00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:28,080 Two old pages of the junk right here. 463 00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,080 Yeah. 464 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:32,080 Look. 465 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,080 Right next to it. 466 00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,080 Yeah. 467 00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,080 Page from the Bible. 468 00:27:43,080 --> 00:27:46,080 The story you have just heard was true. 469 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:50,080 Only the names were changed to protect the innocent. 470 00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,080 On January 9th, trial was held in Superior Court, 471 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,080 Department 94, City and County of Los Angeles, State of California. 472 00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,080 In a moment, the results of that trial. 473 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:03,080 It's amazing how many long cigarette smokers are changing to Fatima. 474 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,080 Here is the actual report. 475 00:28:04,080 --> 00:28:09,080 From coast to coast, king-size Fatima has more than doubled its smokers. 476 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,080 Yes, more and more smokers every day are discovering 477 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,080 that Fatima is the best of all long cigarettes. 478 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:22,080 Long cigarette smokers find Fatima has a much different, much better flavor and aroma. 479 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,080 Long cigarette smokers find that Fatima is extra mild 480 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:31,080 because it's the long cigarette which contains the finest Turkish and domestic tobaccos 481 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:34,080 superbly blended to make it extra mild. 482 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:37,080 So enjoy extra mild Fatima. 483 00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:40,080 Best of all long cigarettes. 484 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:44,080 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 485 00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:48,080 It's wise to smoke extra mild Fatima. 486 00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:57,080 Frank Rudolph and 16 of his accomplices were tried and convicted 487 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,080 of possessing lewd and lascivious literature for the purpose of sale. 488 00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:03,080 They received sentences as prescribed by law 489 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:06,080 and are now serving their terms in the county jail. 490 00:29:06,080 --> 00:29:29,080 Remember this Saturday because that means Dimension X on NBC.