1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:10,140 The story you are about to hear is true. 2 00:00:10,140 --> 00:00:12,560 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 3 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:18,360 Fatima cigarettes, best of all king-sized cigarettes, brings you dragnet on both radio 4 00:00:18,360 --> 00:00:28,280 and television. 5 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:31,880 You're a detective sergeant, you're assigned a juvenile division. 6 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:36,020 A steady supply of obscene literature is finding its way into a half a dozen high schools in 7 00:00:36,020 --> 00:00:37,020 your city. 8 00:00:37,020 --> 00:00:42,580 You get a lead on one of the sources of supply, a 17-year-old high school senior. 9 00:00:42,580 --> 00:00:47,920 Your job, pick him up. 10 00:00:47,920 --> 00:00:52,600 Fatima, America's first largest selling blended cigarette. 11 00:00:52,600 --> 00:00:55,360 Now best of all king-sized cigarettes. 12 00:00:55,360 --> 00:01:01,320 Prove it yourself, today, compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. 13 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:06,080 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 14 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,720 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 15 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:15,560 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21% longer than standard cigarette 16 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:16,560 size. 17 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:22,280 And in Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection of Fatima 18 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:23,280 quality. 19 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:27,280 It's definitely the best quality in its class, but the same price as the cigarette you're 20 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:28,280 now smoking. 21 00:01:28,280 --> 00:01:31,840 Bye, Fatima, in the bright sunny yellow pack. 22 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:37,040 Best of all king-sized cigarettes. 23 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:43,520 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 24 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:48,280 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 25 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,800 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 26 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,480 police files. 27 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:59,560 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 28 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:05,560 in action. 29 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,880 Was Wednesday, November 8th, was windy in Los Angeles. 30 00:02:07,880 --> 00:02:10,240 We were working the day watch out a juvenile division. 31 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:12,840 My partner's Ed Jacobs, the boss is Captain Stein. 32 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:13,840 My name's Friday. 33 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:21,040 It was 1105 AM when we got to the basement floor of Gorman High School, the locker room. 34 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,040 Which way, Steve? 35 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:23,040 You want to show us which locker's yours? 36 00:02:23,040 --> 00:02:25,280 You still haven't told me what this is all about. 37 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:26,280 Routine checks, son. 38 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:27,840 Yeah, but why do you have to pick on me? 39 00:02:27,840 --> 00:02:29,320 Why do you have to see my locker? 40 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:30,600 We're not picking on you, Steve. 41 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:31,600 Now, how about it? 42 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:32,600 Which locker's yours? 43 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:33,600 Right here. 44 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:34,600 This is mine, 318. 45 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:35,600 Here's the key. 46 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:36,600 No, you open it, Steve. 47 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:41,600 Just a couple of personal things of mine, that's all. 48 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:46,600 All right, I'll open it. 49 00:02:46,600 --> 00:02:51,240 Well, there you are. 50 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:52,240 See for yourself. 51 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,440 Want to take your things out of the locker, son? 52 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:55,800 You can see what's in there, can't you? 53 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,440 My gym stuff, a couple of textbooks. 54 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:59,840 How about digging back in the corner, left-hand side there? 55 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:00,840 Where? 56 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:01,840 You know what I mean. 57 00:03:01,840 --> 00:03:02,840 Come on, Steve, dig them out. 58 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:04,840 Back here, you mean these joke books? 59 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:05,840 That's right. 60 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:06,840 Let's have a look, huh? 61 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:08,600 Why, just a couple of joke books. 62 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:09,600 A kid gave them to me. 63 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:11,600 Bring them out, Steve. 64 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:12,600 Okay. 65 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:14,480 Just a couple of them. 66 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:15,480 Kid gave them to me. 67 00:03:15,480 --> 00:03:16,480 There. 68 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:17,480 Looks like more than a couple. 69 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:20,880 That's what you call a joke book, Steve. 70 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,000 That's what the kids call them, yeah. 71 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:24,160 Some of them are a little dirty. 72 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:25,160 Not so bad, though. 73 00:03:25,160 --> 00:03:26,600 They're filthy, Steve, and you know it. 74 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:27,600 Now, where'd you get them? 75 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:28,600 I told you. 76 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:29,600 Kid gave them to me. 77 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:30,600 Who? 78 00:03:30,600 --> 00:03:31,600 What's his name? 79 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:32,600 Some kid around school. 80 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:33,600 I don't remember right now. 81 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:34,600 Gave you these books for nothing? 82 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:35,600 Sure. 83 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:36,600 I had a couple he wanted. 84 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:37,600 We traded off. 85 00:03:37,600 --> 00:03:38,600 A lot of the kids have them. 86 00:03:38,600 --> 00:03:39,600 They trade them around. 87 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:40,600 That stack you got there, they look pretty new. 88 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:41,600 Couldn't have been passed around much. 89 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:42,600 Maybe not. 90 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,600 I don't know. 91 00:03:43,600 --> 00:03:44,600 Matter of fact, they look brand new, don't they? 92 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:45,600 Don't even look like they've been opened yet. 93 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:47,280 How come you're rousing me on this thing? 94 00:03:47,280 --> 00:03:54,280 What about the other kids? 95 00:03:54,280 --> 00:03:55,280 They got them, too. 96 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:56,280 They're buying them, Steve. 97 00:03:56,280 --> 00:03:57,280 They're not selling them. 98 00:03:57,280 --> 00:03:58,280 I'm not selling them. 99 00:03:58,280 --> 00:03:59,280 Anybody says that's a liar? 100 00:03:59,280 --> 00:04:00,280 No, good, son. 101 00:04:00,280 --> 00:04:01,280 We talked to the fellows here at the high school. 102 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:02,280 Some kids over at the junior high school, too. 103 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:03,280 They all say you're the one who's selling them. 104 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:04,280 They're liars. 105 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:05,280 Both the fellows in high school and the kids down the street in junior high, they say you've 106 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:06,280 been selling this stuff for months. 107 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:07,280 Now, how about it? 108 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:08,280 They're lying, that's all. 109 00:04:08,280 --> 00:04:09,280 They don't know what they're talking about. 110 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,280 You've been selling these 35 cents apiece, three for a dollar. 111 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:15,120 Last couple of weeks, you've been peddling pictures, too, a dollar apiece. 112 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,120 You got any of them in your locker, Steve? 113 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,120 A couple. 114 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,120 I got them off another kid. 115 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:21,120 What other kid? 116 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:22,120 What's his name? 117 00:04:22,120 --> 00:04:23,120 What's his name? 118 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:24,120 Some kid. 119 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:25,120 I don't remember. 120 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,000 That's not much of an answer, son. 121 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:28,600 What do you want from me, anyway? 122 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:30,680 I told you I'm not selling the books. 123 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:32,360 I don't care what those other goofs say. 124 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:33,360 It's my word against theirs. 125 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,200 Now, maybe you ought to get this straight, son. 126 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:36,200 We're not out to get you. 127 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:37,200 You're way down the line. 128 00:04:37,200 --> 00:04:40,800 We want the people at the top, the men who print this junk, the wholesalers, the big distributors. 129 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:41,800 So why ask me? 130 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:43,760 I don't know anything about it, nothing. 131 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:45,160 You don't want to cooperate, is that it? 132 00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:46,600 What am I supposed to cooperate about? 133 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:48,240 I'm not mixed up in anything. 134 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:49,880 We think you are, son. 135 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:50,880 We know you are. 136 00:04:50,880 --> 00:04:52,120 Who are you selling this for? 137 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:53,120 Where do you get your supply? 138 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:54,680 All you see is what's in my locker. 139 00:04:54,680 --> 00:04:55,680 I ain't selling. 140 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:57,640 I don't have any supply. 141 00:04:57,640 --> 00:04:59,280 You got to go far to prove I have. 142 00:04:59,280 --> 00:05:00,280 Not very far, Steve. 143 00:05:00,280 --> 00:05:01,280 What? 144 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:04,280 From about here to your home. 145 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:06,000 11.38 a.m. 146 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:10,320 After picking up his supply of obscene books and photographs to be booked later as evidence, 147 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,200 Ed and I drove the subject, Stephen Banner, to his home approximately a mile from the 148 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:15,800 high school. 149 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:20,120 His apprehension and our theory that he probably kept the bulk of his supply of books and pictures 150 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,320 at or near his home was no accident. 151 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:27,000 For weeks we've known that a steady stream of pornography was being fed into a half a 152 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:30,520 dozen high schools and junior high schools throughout the city. 153 00:05:30,520 --> 00:05:35,220 Books, photographs, pictures, and pamphlets of the worst kind. 154 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:38,840 Because of embarrassment on the part of the curious teenage kids who bought this stuff, 155 00:05:38,840 --> 00:05:42,200 it wasn't easy to pick up a solid lead. 156 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:45,760 After weeks of observation and questioning, we finally narrowed down the principal source 157 00:05:45,760 --> 00:05:50,160 of supply to a single teenage boy, Stephen Banner. 158 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,920 Even then we knew he must be only one of a hundred small-time distributors working for 159 00:05:53,920 --> 00:05:58,040 the persons directly responsible for manufacturing this sort of thing. 160 00:05:58,040 --> 00:06:01,920 Our only hope was that he'd be willing and able to supply us with the names of the persons 161 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:03,320 responsible. 162 00:06:03,320 --> 00:06:06,960 When we got to Stephen Banner's home, where he lived with his sister and brother-in-law, 163 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:09,960 we searched it thoroughly, but we found nothing. 164 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:14,120 Since his sister and brother-in-law were at work, we went back and started checking through 165 00:06:14,120 --> 00:06:16,200 the garage at the rear of the house. 166 00:06:16,200 --> 00:06:19,240 Joe, back here in the corner? 167 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:20,240 Yeah. 168 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:21,240 Have a look. 169 00:06:21,240 --> 00:06:24,080 Steve, you want to tell us about this? 170 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:25,080 Yeah. 171 00:06:25,080 --> 00:06:28,080 These books here? 172 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:32,120 These pictures, the case full of them? 173 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:33,120 Yeah. 174 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,160 Well, how about it, son? 175 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:36,680 Your sister and brother-in-law know about this? 176 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:37,680 No, they don't know anything. 177 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:40,120 I didn't think you'd find them. 178 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:41,840 Are you ready to tell us about it? 179 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:43,400 Is my sister going to have to find out? 180 00:06:43,400 --> 00:06:44,400 I don't know, Steve. 181 00:06:44,400 --> 00:06:45,920 It's going to be pretty hard to keep it from her. 182 00:06:45,920 --> 00:06:47,360 Yeah, I guess so. 183 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:48,360 Who's the contact, son? 184 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:49,760 Where'd they come from? 185 00:06:49,760 --> 00:06:50,760 Charlie. 186 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:51,760 Charlie Freiburg. 187 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,640 Only the books, though. 188 00:06:53,640 --> 00:06:54,640 Pictures came from another guy. 189 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:55,640 It's a long story. 190 00:06:55,640 --> 00:06:57,360 Well, we got the time, son. 191 00:06:57,360 --> 00:06:58,360 Who is this Freiburg? 192 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:02,360 Met him downtown one Sunday, Penny Arcade on Broadway. 193 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:05,080 Me and this other kid were in there, Bud Spencer. 194 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:07,040 Freiburg came up, started to talk to us. 195 00:07:07,040 --> 00:07:08,040 All right, go on. 196 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:11,600 He finally took a couple of these books out of his pocket, gave them to us. 197 00:07:11,600 --> 00:07:12,880 He wanted to know what we thought of them. 198 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,800 Well, he had plenty of them. 199 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,480 We knew any other kids who wanted them. 200 00:07:16,480 --> 00:07:18,640 You knew you and your friend Bud were in high school? 201 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:19,640 Yeah, that's right. 202 00:07:19,640 --> 00:07:20,640 What else, Steve? 203 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:21,640 Well, that's about it. 204 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:24,640 He asked me and Bud if we wanted to sell for them around school. 205 00:07:24,640 --> 00:07:27,240 His friend of yours, Bud Spencer, he's selling them, too? 206 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:28,240 Yeah. 207 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:29,840 He goes to a different school, though. 208 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:31,240 Both of us did pretty good with the books. 209 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:32,240 Sold real fast. 210 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:33,960 The pictures are even better. 211 00:07:33,960 --> 00:07:37,800 So you say you didn't get the pictures from Freiburg, there was somebody else? 212 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:39,160 A man by the name of Jack. 213 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:41,200 I don't know his last name. 214 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:44,840 Freiburg put us onto him, gave us an introduction, set up the deal. 215 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,040 We got the pictures for 75 cents. 216 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,840 Most of the time they got us a dollar, dollar and a half a piece. 217 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:52,360 Bud and I did pretty good. 218 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:54,840 You know any other fellows working for this Freiburg, Steve? 219 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,000 Any other kids in school? 220 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:57,880 No, just Bud and me. 221 00:07:57,880 --> 00:07:58,880 That's all I know. 222 00:07:58,880 --> 00:08:02,600 It wouldn't be so bad if it were just the books, that lousy Charlie. 223 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:06,320 He had to go and promote the party routine, get everybody mixed up in that. 224 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:07,320 What do you mean? 225 00:08:07,320 --> 00:08:08,320 What's that all about? 226 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:09,320 Charlie. 227 00:08:09,320 --> 00:08:10,960 He stays at this place out on Sepulveda. 228 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:12,560 It's a motel. 229 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:14,080 That's where we always contacted him. 230 00:08:14,080 --> 00:08:15,080 Yeah. 231 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:17,800 After a couple of weeks when we got to know him, he asked me and Bud out to this place. 232 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:19,280 Said he was going to throw a party. 233 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,240 Told us to bring our girlfriends along. 234 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:24,320 Turned out we were the only ones at the party. 235 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,320 Me and Bud and the girls and Charlie Freiburg. 236 00:08:27,320 --> 00:08:29,120 Party lasted pretty late. 237 00:08:29,120 --> 00:08:31,080 I should have been smart enough to figure it out. 238 00:08:31,080 --> 00:08:32,080 I wasn't. 239 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:33,080 What do you mean, Steve? 240 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:34,080 Figure out what? 241 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,080 Why Charlie be throwing parties just for us. 242 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,400 The first two times there wasn't anything wrong. 243 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:41,880 We just talked, danced with the girls, drank some beer. 244 00:08:41,880 --> 00:08:43,360 Charlie told us to have a good time. 245 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,080 He threw a party every Friday night. 246 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:47,560 Never broke up till after three o'clock. 247 00:08:47,560 --> 00:08:49,480 How old are your girlfriends, yours and Bud's? 248 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:50,480 Seventeen. 249 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:51,480 They're both seventeen. 250 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,360 They've been around though, no use kidding you. 251 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,280 They weren't very smart, I can tell you that. 252 00:08:55,280 --> 00:08:57,440 None of us were, I guess. 253 00:08:57,440 --> 00:09:00,000 Next couple of parties, Charlie had whiskey there. 254 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,520 Same girls drank right along with him, so did we. 255 00:09:02,520 --> 00:09:04,000 Freiburg served the whiskey, didn't he? 256 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:05,000 Yeah, that's right. 257 00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:08,440 He loaded the drinks, kept handing the girls a lot of stuff about how he used to be a director 258 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:09,440 in pictures. 259 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:11,520 He had a lot of connections in Hollywood. 260 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:15,240 The last party I was at, he said he was going to get the girls screen test. 261 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:17,560 A lot of malarkey like that. 262 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:18,560 What else, Steve? 263 00:09:18,560 --> 00:09:19,640 I don't know. 264 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:21,880 I had a beef with Charlie about it when I walked out. 265 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:22,880 I haven't been back since. 266 00:09:22,880 --> 00:09:25,480 Does he still throw these Friday night parties, do you know? 267 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:26,840 Maybe, I don't know. 268 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:30,360 There were three or four after the last one I walked out on. 269 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:32,080 Dumb girls think Charlie's just great. 270 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:34,040 God, so I can't stand the guy. 271 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,120 How about the parties you didn't show up for, Steve? 272 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,480 You get a rundown on them? 273 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,800 I heard a couple of things, yeah. 274 00:09:39,800 --> 00:09:40,800 Sure glad I wasn't there. 275 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:41,800 How do you mean? 276 00:09:41,800 --> 00:09:44,400 Dumb girls, never fails. 277 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,200 The oldest line in the world, they still go for it. 278 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:48,200 What's that? 279 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:53,720 Tell them you're going to get them in the movies. 280 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:57,280 We continued questioning the subject, 17-year-old Stephen Banner. 281 00:09:57,280 --> 00:10:01,400 He gave us a full description of the man who'd been selling him the books, Charles Freiburg, 282 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,800 and also a description of the man known as Jack, the one who'd been supplying him with 283 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:06,720 pictures and photographs. 284 00:10:06,720 --> 00:10:10,640 In addition, he gave us the addresses of the two men, a fair description of Freiburg's 285 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:15,240 car, no license number, and the names and addresses of the two girls he and his friend 286 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:17,920 had taken to Freiburg's parties. 287 00:10:17,920 --> 00:10:19,200 One 20 p.m. 288 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:23,040 Ed and I took the case of obscene books from the garage, loaded it in the backseat of our 289 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:28,680 car, and Stephen Banner directed us to the high school attended by his friend, Bud Spencer. 290 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:32,680 We picked up the Spencer boy and drove him and Banner downtown to Georgia Street Juvenile, 291 00:10:32,680 --> 00:10:39,320 where we booked them in on 700B, welfare and institution code, lack of supervision. 292 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,320 We drove to the motel out on Sepulveda, but the suspect, Charles Freiburg, had moved out 293 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:46,520 five days before, no forwarding address. 294 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,140 It wasn't a dead end, though. 295 00:10:48,140 --> 00:10:52,860 From his motel registration card, we got the description and license number of his car. 296 00:10:52,860 --> 00:10:56,420 On the way into the office, we checked out the address of his confederate, the man known 297 00:10:56,420 --> 00:10:58,040 as Jack. 298 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,920 He'd moved the same day as Freiburg, no forwarding address. 299 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:05,000 Back at the office, DMV got a make on the license number for us. 300 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,600 The car registered in Freiburg's name, 239 West 92nd Street. 301 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:16,120 We went down to R&I and pulled the package on the suspect, 340 p.m. 302 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,280 Last address on this three years old. 303 00:11:18,280 --> 00:11:20,960 How's his record reading? 304 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:25,360 He's been in the business before, a couple of ag charges, a 311 charge too, possession 305 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:26,360 of obscene literature. 306 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:28,600 Served eight months in county jail. 307 00:11:28,600 --> 00:11:29,600 Mugshot there? 308 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:30,600 Yeah, here. 309 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:34,440 Close enough to the way the boy described him. 310 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:35,440 I'd say so. 311 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:36,440 There's MO2. 312 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:41,000 Same pitch the last time they got him, working the high school trade, passed himself off 313 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:42,480 as a studio man, movie director. 314 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:43,480 How about the other man, Jack? 315 00:11:43,480 --> 00:11:44,480 You got anything there? 316 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:45,480 Not yet. 317 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:47,840 I gave the information on him to the stats office. 318 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,840 They're going to make a run for us. 319 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:53,080 Well, I guess we better check on the kids' girlfriends, huh? 320 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:54,080 Get their stories. 321 00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:55,080 Yeah, I suppose so. 322 00:11:55,080 --> 00:11:57,080 It sure gets me, Joe. 323 00:11:57,080 --> 00:11:58,080 What's that? 324 00:11:58,080 --> 00:12:01,400 Very young girls like that, out at motel parties till 3 a.m. drinking. 325 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:02,400 Yeah. 326 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:04,200 Seventeen year olds, no reason for it, no reason at all. 327 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:06,400 Well, I can think of one that might do. 328 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:11,160 Their parents. 329 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:15,640 We checked out the suspect's address, furnished us by DMV and also the information from the 330 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:16,640 R&I package. 331 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:18,400 They went nowhere. 332 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:22,080 We had a second interview with Stephen Banner and his friend, Bud Spencer. 333 00:12:22,080 --> 00:12:25,400 We showed them Freiburg's mugshot and both of them identified it. 334 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,320 We got out a broadcast and an APB on him. 335 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:32,640 Four twelve p.m. Together with policewoman Doreen Statesl, Ed and I drove out to interview 336 00:12:32,640 --> 00:12:37,180 the two teenage girls involved, a Dorothy Ryan and a Laura Osborn. 337 00:12:37,180 --> 00:12:40,640 We stopped at the home of the Osborn girl first, but she wasn't there and neither were 338 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:41,640 her parents. 339 00:12:41,640 --> 00:12:45,280 An older sister told us that both the mother and father were working and that Laura was 340 00:12:45,280 --> 00:12:48,920 at a neighborhood school for models taking her weekly lesson. 341 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:52,560 We checked at the modeling school, a converted second floor social hall where we finally 342 00:12:52,560 --> 00:12:57,360 located the girl, a tall brunette, dark eyes, fair complexion. 343 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,200 The heavy makeup didn't do much to hide her age. 344 00:13:00,200 --> 00:13:04,080 While the modeling lesson went on, policewoman Statesl, Ed and I talked to the girl off in 345 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,080 one corner of the hall. 346 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:10,360 Your friend, Steve Banner, he took you to those parties at Mr. Freiburg's place. 347 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:11,360 Uh-huh, that's right. 348 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:12,360 Very nice man. 349 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,240 He was always nice to Dorothy and me. 350 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:17,080 Dorothy Ryan, she came to the parties with Bud. 351 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:18,280 He's a friend of Steve Banner's. 352 00:13:18,280 --> 00:13:20,800 You have no complaint to make about this Mr. Freiburg? 353 00:13:20,800 --> 00:13:22,600 He never caused you trouble of any kind? 354 00:13:22,600 --> 00:13:23,600 Charlie, well no. 355 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,520 I told you before that business about Steve getting mad just because Charlie told us he'd 356 00:13:27,520 --> 00:13:28,520 get us in the movies. 357 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:31,000 Well it was silly, that's all plain silly. 358 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:32,160 Charlie was just helping us. 359 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:33,160 How do you mean Laura? 360 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:35,360 Well he's in Hollywood you know, Charlie Freiburg. 361 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:37,440 He has lots of connections. 362 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,320 He just wanted to help us get some good modeling jobs. 363 00:13:40,320 --> 00:13:42,280 That's why I took our pictures, there was nothing wrong. 364 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:45,640 You continued going to these Friday night parties without the two boys, is that right? 365 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:46,640 Yes, Dorothy and me. 366 00:13:46,640 --> 00:13:48,640 There wasn't anything wrong with it. 367 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:50,640 We knew Charlie as well as they did by that time. 368 00:13:50,640 --> 00:13:52,480 A few bathing suit pictures, that's all. 369 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:53,480 There was nothing wrong in that. 370 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:56,880 Did you ever see prints of any of those pictures, either you or Dorothy Ryan? 371 00:13:56,880 --> 00:13:59,560 No, but Charlie's gonna get us some, he promised he would. 372 00:13:59,560 --> 00:14:00,560 You know where he is now? 373 00:14:00,560 --> 00:14:01,560 No, he moved. 374 00:14:01,560 --> 00:14:02,880 I haven't any idea where he is. 375 00:14:02,880 --> 00:14:05,080 When's the last time you saw a Freiburg miss? 376 00:14:05,080 --> 00:14:08,400 About ten days, two weeks ago. 377 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:09,400 What's this all about, officer? 378 00:14:09,400 --> 00:14:10,400 Are you looking for Charlie? 379 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:13,480 How does he usually contact you, Laura, by phone? 380 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,920 Yeah, usually calls. 381 00:14:15,920 --> 00:14:17,920 Has he called you lately? 382 00:14:17,920 --> 00:14:20,440 Well, I don't know. 383 00:14:20,440 --> 00:14:21,920 Why are you looking for him? 384 00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:22,920 Can't you tell me? 385 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:23,920 Routine investigation, miss. 386 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:27,600 Oh, I'm sorry, I don't know where Charlie is. 387 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,320 Why can't you tell me why you want him? 388 00:14:29,320 --> 00:14:30,320 We want him. 389 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:31,320 Why? 390 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:32,320 Can't you give me a reason? 391 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:36,680 This is one of the reasons, Laura, would you look at this picture? 392 00:14:36,680 --> 00:14:37,680 Charlie took this? 393 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,960 It's his business, Laura, that's the way his police record reads. 394 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:41,280 I can't believe it. 395 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,680 That's one reason we want Freiburg, there's lots of others. 396 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:44,680 You willing to help us, Laura? 397 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,320 He said they'd be beautiful, glamorous, they're not. 398 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:48,320 You know where he stays now? 399 00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:49,320 No, I'll find out, though. 400 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:50,320 How do you mean? 401 00:14:50,320 --> 00:14:54,640 I've got a date with him, supposed to meet him out on Wilshire, Wilshire and La Brea. 402 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:55,640 When's that? 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450 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,560 Was Banner there waiting for the signal to change? 451 00:17:57,560 --> 00:17:59,040 Dark suit, dark hat? 452 00:17:59,040 --> 00:18:01,040 Yeah, could be. 453 00:18:01,040 --> 00:18:02,440 Crossing over now, heading for the bar. 454 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:05,440 All right, let's go. 455 00:18:05,440 --> 00:18:06,440 Mm-hmm. 456 00:18:06,440 --> 00:18:07,440 No mistake. 457 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:12,440 Hey, fella, hold it up on me, will you? 458 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:13,440 How's that? 459 00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:15,440 Police officer, is your name Freyberg? 460 00:18:15,440 --> 00:18:16,440 What? 461 00:18:16,440 --> 00:18:17,440 No, that's not my name. 462 00:18:17,440 --> 00:18:18,440 Is your identification, please? 463 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:19,440 Yes, I've got my identification. 464 00:18:19,440 --> 00:18:20,440 Why? 465 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:21,440 Can we see it, please? 466 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:22,440 Why, what do you want? 467 00:18:22,440 --> 00:18:23,440 Your identification. 468 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:24,440 What for? 469 00:18:24,440 --> 00:18:25,440 I haven't done anything. 470 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:26,440 Let's go, mister. 471 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:27,440 Talk about it downtown. 472 00:18:27,440 --> 00:18:28,440 Wait a minute, just a minute. 473 00:18:28,440 --> 00:18:29,440 I don't want any trouble. 474 00:18:29,440 --> 00:18:30,440 I'll show you. 475 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:31,440 There, driver's license, rest of my stuff. 476 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:32,440 Charles Freyberg. 477 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:33,440 It's an old address, isn't it? 478 00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:34,440 Yeah, I haven't had time to change it. 479 00:18:34,440 --> 00:18:35,440 Just got back in town. 480 00:18:35,440 --> 00:18:36,440 What's the matter, anyway? 481 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:37,440 Where are you staying, Freyberg? 482 00:18:37,440 --> 00:18:38,440 No place. 483 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:39,440 I just got back in town. 484 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:40,440 I told you that. 485 00:18:40,440 --> 00:18:41,440 Not staying any place yet. 486 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:42,440 No connections at all. 487 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:43,440 Where's your car? 488 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:44,440 I don't have one. 489 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:45,440 I'm going to the police station. 490 00:18:45,440 --> 00:18:46,440 I'll be right back. 491 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:47,440 I'll be right back. 492 00:18:47,440 --> 00:18:48,440 I'll be right back. 493 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:49,440 I'll be right back. 494 00:18:49,440 --> 00:18:54,440 I'll be right back. 495 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:20,440 Okay. 496 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:24,440 You said you don't have a car, Freyberg. 497 00:19:24,440 --> 00:19:25,440 Of course not. 498 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:26,440 I told you that. 499 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:32,920 What are you doing with that parking ticket? 500 00:19:32,920 --> 00:19:36,920 We walked the suspect Freyberg two blocks to the parking lot listed on the claim check 501 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,000 that he had in his coat pocket. 502 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,840 He had black hair streaked with gray, looked to be in his mid-50s. 503 00:19:42,840 --> 00:19:45,640 We questioned him on the way, but he'd admit nothing. 504 00:19:45,640 --> 00:19:48,280 We located his car in the parking lot and searched it. 505 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:52,000 In the glove compartment, besides a half a dozen photographs and small books, we found 506 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,760 a key with a metal disc attached to it. 507 00:19:54,760 --> 00:19:59,040 Stamped on the disc were the words West Side Studios, number 23. 508 00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:00,920 Freyberg refused to identify the key. 509 00:20:00,920 --> 00:20:02,960 He refused to admit a thing. 510 00:20:02,960 --> 00:20:06,420 We walked him back to our car and together the three of us headed out for the old West 511 00:20:06,420 --> 00:20:09,640 Side Studios just off Jefferson Boulevard. 512 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,480 On the way, we tried again to question the suspect, but we got nowhere. 513 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,920 He refused to answer even the simplest questions. 514 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,280 One look at the West Side Studios and you knew right away the place had seen better 515 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:21,280 days. 516 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:24,560 It had been fairly prominent in the early days of motion picture making, but all that 517 00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:29,120 was left now was two square blocks of broken down scenery, one dilapidated sound stage, 518 00:20:29,120 --> 00:20:33,800 and a row of weather-beaten cottages, the tar paper peeling off the roofs. 519 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:36,240 We got out of the car and started up the walk. 520 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:41,600 The faded sign over the main gate read West Side Studios, founded 1920. 521 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:44,320 Down in one corner, admission by pass only. 522 00:20:44,320 --> 00:20:46,520 The guard shack at the gate was boarded up. 523 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,640 No sign of a night watchman. 524 00:20:48,640 --> 00:20:49,640 We kept walking. 525 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:54,480 How come they don't keep a watchman at the gate, Freyberg? 526 00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:56,040 Don't they make pictures here anymore? 527 00:20:56,040 --> 00:20:57,040 You bet they do. 528 00:20:57,040 --> 00:20:59,080 The place has been going downhill for a long time. 529 00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:00,360 It's coming back though. 530 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:03,040 Then you do know the place, is that right? 531 00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:04,040 Yeah, I know it. 532 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:05,040 I should know it. 533 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:06,040 What do you mean by that? 534 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:07,040 Nothing. 535 00:21:07,040 --> 00:21:09,040 You renting an office here, is that it? 536 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,040 Freyberg? 537 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:11,040 Yeah, that's right. 538 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:15,000 Straight down the way there, cottage 23. 539 00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,000 What's your job? 540 00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:17,000 You're in the movie work? 541 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Yeah, I have been for 30 years. 542 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:19,000 More than 30 years. 543 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:20,000 That's so, you an actor? 544 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,000 Freyberg. 545 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:22,000 Haven't you ever heard the name? 546 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,000 I'm a producer. 547 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,000 Oh, I see. 548 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,000 Why don't you tell us that to start with? 549 00:21:25,000 --> 00:21:26,000 I don't know, different reasons. 550 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:27,000 I don't like to throw my weight around. 551 00:21:27,000 --> 00:21:28,000 I have a lot of connections in Hollywood, you know. 552 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:29,000 That's so. 553 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,000 I've been in the trade 30 years. 554 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:31,000 I was one of the first. 555 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:32,000 You can make a lot of friends in 30 years. 556 00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:33,000 Yeah, I guess so. 557 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:34,000 How about those books we found in your car, those pictures? 558 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:35,000 How do you explain them? 559 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,000 This studio will be back on the speak the year. 560 00:21:36,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I bet a thousand people will be there. 561 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:38,000 I'm sure they'll be there. 562 00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:51,000 This whole block here, sound stages, I got the plans for them in my desk. 563 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:52,000 That's so. 564 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,000 You have an interest in this lot? 565 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Not exactly. 566 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,000 Not right now, anyway. 567 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:56,000 I did have an interest though. 568 00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:57,000 I will again. 569 00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:58,000 I was one of the original owners, you know. 570 00:21:58,000 --> 00:21:59,000 Still haven't got an explanation. 571 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:00,000 How about the books and pictures we found in your car? 572 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:01,000 Oh, that? 573 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:02,000 Nothing to explain, is there? 574 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:03,000 Just a few gimmicks I picked up. 575 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:08,000 You know a boy by the name of Steven Banner? 576 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,000 Banner? 577 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,000 No, I don't think so. 578 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:11,000 Why? 579 00:22:11,000 --> 00:22:12,000 How about Bud Spencer? 580 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:13,000 You know him? 581 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:14,000 No. 582 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:15,000 I knew a George Spencer once. 583 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,000 Actor. 584 00:22:16,000 --> 00:22:17,000 That was back in the old days, though. 585 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,000 How about Laura Osborne? 586 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:19,000 Dorothy Ryan? 587 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:20,000 You know them? 588 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:21,000 No, it's pretty hard to say. 589 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:22,000 You know, Sergeant, over the years in this business, especially you meet an awful lot 590 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,000 of people. 591 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:24,000 Well, these are fairly recent. 592 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,000 You ought to remember them. 593 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:26,000 They're just kids, 17 years old. 594 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:27,000 They're not that old. 595 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,000 They're not that old. 596 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:29,000 They're not that old. 597 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:30,000 They're not that old. 598 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,000 They're not that old. 599 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:32,000 They're not that old. 600 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:33,000 It's all in your head that these men and women are just kids, seventeen-year-olds. 601 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,000 No. 602 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:35,000 Wait. 603 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,680 I don't recall the names. 604 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,040 Soundstage Bell. 605 00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:42,600 I've got a company over there doing some shooting tonight, television films. 606 00:22:42,600 --> 00:22:44,480 They make them too fast. 607 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:46,400 Trade's not like it used to be. 608 00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,200 Quality, that's what we went after. 609 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:49,200 Gone now. 610 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,200 It's all gone. 611 00:22:50,200 --> 00:22:52,280 Westside'll do it again though. 612 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:53,280 You can bet on that. 613 00:22:53,280 --> 00:22:54,280 We're coming back. 614 00:22:54,280 --> 00:22:55,280 Look, how about leveling, Freiburg? 615 00:22:55,280 --> 00:22:56,400 You know why we picked you up. 616 00:22:56,400 --> 00:22:57,720 You know why we're out here. 617 00:22:57,720 --> 00:22:58,720 It just did. 618 00:22:58,720 --> 00:22:59,720 I don't know why. 619 00:22:59,720 --> 00:23:01,720 Oh, say, look across the road. 620 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:02,920 that's set over there. 621 00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:05,760 The old greenhouse there, Colonial Mansion. 622 00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:07,660 Weather's faded the colors a little. 623 00:23:07,660 --> 00:23:10,320 Typical old Southern estate now, you know? 624 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:11,960 We shot some beautiful footage there. 625 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:14,000 Picture's a classic in its own right. 626 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,160 Maybe you remember it. 627 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:17,000 Moonlight magnolias. 628 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:18,520 I changed the title later. 629 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,080 Love and the moonlight, beautiful thing. 630 00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:21,920 You ever see it? 631 00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:22,880 No, I don't think so. 632 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:24,360 I couldn't tell you how many beauties 633 00:23:24,360 --> 00:23:26,000 we turned out that year. 634 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:27,600 I was a young fella then. 635 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:30,280 Song and strife, moonlight magnolias, 636 00:23:30,280 --> 00:23:32,800 little orphan girl, sweetheart at the campus. 637 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,560 That's your cottage there, Mr. Fraberg? 638 00:23:34,560 --> 00:23:35,400 What's that? 639 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,360 Just down the way there, number 23. 640 00:23:37,360 --> 00:23:39,520 Oh, yeah, completely forgot about it. 641 00:23:41,840 --> 00:23:44,120 I hope you'll excuse the way it looks. 642 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:45,760 I haven't been able to find good accommodations 643 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:47,800 in town, I've been staying at the office. 644 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,280 We have a little couch there, I sleep on that. 645 00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,760 We have a hot plate too. 646 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,360 Good enough to boil a coffee in the morning. 647 00:23:54,360 --> 00:23:55,960 How come you couldn't find space in town? 648 00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,400 Hotels aren't that rushed, are they? 649 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,920 Well, the ones I'm used to staying at, yes. 650 00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:01,440 I'd just soon camp here at the studio 651 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,880 and stay at one of those places downtown. 652 00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,040 Say, wouldn't you like to see the rest of the lot? 653 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,360 Pretty interesting, if you've never seen 654 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:10,320 a real movie lot, I mean a high class one. 655 00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,840 We've seen them, Mr. Fraberg, we'd like to check your office. 656 00:24:12,840 --> 00:24:13,840 Oh, all right. 657 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:16,080 This is it. 658 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,680 Cottages need a good coat of paint, of course. 659 00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:19,880 It'll all be done pretty soon. 660 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:21,240 West Side's going to come back strong, 661 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,080 you can bet on that. 662 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:22,920 Yeah, yes, sir. 663 00:24:24,840 --> 00:24:28,120 Uh-oh, watch out on that first step there, it's loose. 664 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:29,720 Have to call maintenance and get that fixed. 665 00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:30,720 Yeah, it's all right. 666 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:36,720 Here we are. 667 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,320 Well, as you can see, the office isn't very much 668 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:48,800 what it you wanted, gentlemen. 669 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:50,520 You want to check that cabinet there, Ed? 670 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:51,920 I'll take a look through these cases over here. 671 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:52,760 Okay. 672 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:57,760 This picture here on the wall, 673 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:02,440 that's the cast and the production staff 674 00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:03,600 on my first film. 675 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:05,840 Here's the other one. 676 00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,400 Me and RZ Bernard. 677 00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:11,040 He autographed a picture for me, Bernard himself. 678 00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:14,000 Those were the days, all right. 679 00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,360 Quality, that's what we went after 680 00:25:17,360 --> 00:25:18,960 in pictures, real quality. 681 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:22,160 Not like today, gone. 682 00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:27,080 The good days, time, pictures, it's gone. 683 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:29,240 All gone. 684 00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:34,720 How about at Freiburg, these cases of books here 685 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:35,920 and these photographs? 686 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,840 Not my fault, believe me. 687 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:40,920 I had to make a living, I had to make money. 688 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,800 How do you think it feels to get cheap like that? 689 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:47,600 I used to be young, I was big, I was talented. 690 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:49,440 I made big pictures. 691 00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,920 How do you think it feels to get cheap all of a sudden, 692 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,560 cheap enough to do this kind of thing? 693 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:55,680 Nobody forced you, it was your choice, mister. 694 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:57,840 It wasn't my choice, you're wrong. 695 00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:00,880 All I want to do is make pictures. 696 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,120 There isn't a chance anymore, not like the old days. 697 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:07,520 You need hundreds of thousands, millions. 698 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,960 Gone, it's all gone. 699 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,160 Had to eat, had to put clothes on my back. 700 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:15,520 You admit you're responsible for this, 701 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:17,880 books, pictures, working in the high school trade, 702 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:20,080 kids like Steve Banner, Bud Spencer? 703 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,080 After 1935, I couldn't get a job. 704 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,000 I didn't want this, I had to do it. 705 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:31,000 I'm ashamed, who wouldn't be? 706 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,160 I had to eat, it was the only way, I had to live. 707 00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:35,480 There's honest jobs to be had. 708 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:36,720 How about this man named Jack? 709 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:40,320 He was in with me, he was my cameraman back in the old days. 710 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,560 You can't blame him either, he had to live too. 711 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:43,840 You want him to come downtown with us, 712 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:45,120 give us a statement? 713 00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:48,200 Yeah, sure, all right, anything. 714 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,680 How about the parties, the two girls, 715 00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:51,440 Laura Osborne, Dorothy Ryan? 716 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,040 I took some pictures, that's all. 717 00:26:53,040 --> 00:26:55,520 I didn't harm them, nothing anyway. 718 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,560 You had it wrong, Fieberg, you know that. 719 00:26:57,560 --> 00:26:59,040 Yeah, I know. 720 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:00,960 Just to have the kids there, 721 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,360 made you remember the days in your life, 722 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:05,480 best days in anybody's life. 723 00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:06,600 Let's go. 724 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,040 When you used to have money, 725 00:27:09,360 --> 00:27:10,720 when you used to be young. 726 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:15,720 The story you have just heard was true. 727 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,120 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 728 00:27:22,120 --> 00:27:24,920 On January 29th, trial was held in Superior Court, 729 00:27:24,920 --> 00:27:27,320 Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, 730 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:28,800 State of California. 731 00:27:28,800 --> 00:27:31,120 In a moment, the results of that trial. 732 00:27:31,120 --> 00:27:33,360 And now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 733 00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:34,800 Thank you, George Fenomen. 734 00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:36,480 Friends, won't you do this for me? 735 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:39,280 Compare Fatima with any other things I've ever seen. 736 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,600 You'll find Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters 737 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:43,960 for your protection, 738 00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,360 cools the smoke for your protection. 739 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:48,680 Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 740 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:51,800 21% longer than standard cigarette size. 741 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,240 And you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, 742 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:56,880 plus the added protection of Fatima quality. 743 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,080 That's why I'd like you to buy Fatima. 744 00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:10,080 The suspects, Charles Eamon Freyberg and his accomplice, 745 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,920 Jack L. Lavery, were tried and convicted on four counts 746 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,640 of contributing to the delinquency of minors. 747 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,760 Both of them served full terms in the county jail. 748 00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,440 Contributing to the delinquency of minors is punishable 749 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,280 by a fine of not more than $1,000, 750 00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,240 or by imprisonment in the county jail 751 00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:27,600 for more than a year. 752 00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:30,520 Or by both fine and imprisonment. 753 00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:34,000 You have just heard Dragnet, 754 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,360 a series of authentic cases from official files. 755 00:28:37,360 --> 00:28:40,000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 756 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,800 W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 757 00:28:42,800 --> 00:28:44,520 Heard tonight were Barney Phillips, 758 00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:46,720 Virginia Gregg and Ralph Moody. 759 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:48,520 Script by Jim Martin, 760 00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,120 and the director of the Department of Public Affairs, 761 00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:53,920 and the director of the Department of Public Affairs, 762 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,920 and the director of the Department of Public Affairs, 763 00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:58,480 and the director of the Department by Jim Moser. 764 00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,240 Music by Walter Schuman. 765 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:01,560 Hal Gibney speaking. 766 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:06,920 Fatima cigarettes. 767 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,120 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes 768 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,760 has brought you Dragnet Transcribed from Los Angeles. 769 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,240 ["Dragnet"] 770 00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:20,560 Now it's Counter-Spy on NBC. 771 00:29:20,560 --> 00:29:25,560 ["Dragnet"]