WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:10.140 The story you are about to hear is true. 00:10.140 --> 00:12.560 The names have been changed to protect the innocent. 00:12.560 --> 00:18.360 Fatima cigarettes, best of all king-sized cigarettes, brings you dragnet on both radio 00:18.360 --> 00:28.280 and television. 00:28.280 --> 00:31.880 You're a detective sergeant, you're assigned a juvenile division. 00:31.880 --> 00:36.020 A steady supply of obscene literature is finding its way into a half a dozen high schools in 00:36.020 --> 00:37.020 your city. 00:37.020 --> 00:42.580 You get a lead on one of the sources of supply, a 17-year-old high school senior. 00:42.580 --> 00:47.920 Your job, pick him up. 00:47.920 --> 00:52.600 Fatima, America's first largest selling blended cigarette. 00:52.600 --> 00:55.360 Now best of all king-sized cigarettes. 00:55.360 --> 01:01.320 Prove it yourself, today, compare Fatima with any other king-sized cigarette. 01:01.320 --> 01:06.080 One, Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters for your protection. 01:06.080 --> 01:09.720 Two, Fatima's length cools the smoke for your protection. 01:09.720 --> 01:15.560 Three, Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 21% longer than standard cigarette 01:15.560 --> 01:16.560 size. 01:16.560 --> 01:22.280 And in Fatima, you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, plus the added protection of Fatima 01:22.280 --> 01:23.280 quality. 01:23.280 --> 01:27.280 It's definitely the best quality in its class, but the same price as the cigarette you're 01:27.280 --> 01:28.280 now smoking. 01:28.280 --> 01:31.840 Bye, Fatima, in the bright sunny yellow pack. 01:31.840 --> 01:37.040 Best of all king-sized cigarettes. 01:37.040 --> 01:43.520 Dragnet, the documented drama of an actual crime. 01:43.520 --> 01:48.280 For the next 30 minutes in cooperation with the Los Angeles Police Department, you will 01:48.280 --> 01:52.800 travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case transcribed from official 01:52.800 --> 01:54.480 police files. 01:54.480 --> 01:59.560 From beginning to end, from crime to punishment, Dragnet is the story of your police force 01:59.560 --> 02:05.560 in action. 02:05.560 --> 02:07.880 Was Wednesday, November 8th, was windy in Los Angeles. 02:07.880 --> 02:10.240 We were working the day watch out a juvenile division. 02:10.240 --> 02:12.840 My partner's Ed Jacobs, the boss is Captain Stein. 02:12.840 --> 02:13.840 My name's Friday. 02:13.840 --> 02:21.040 It was 1105 AM when we got to the basement floor of Gorman High School, the locker room. 02:21.040 --> 02:22.040 Which way, Steve? 02:22.040 --> 02:23.040 You want to show us which locker's yours? 02:23.040 --> 02:25.280 You still haven't told me what this is all about. 02:25.280 --> 02:26.280 Routine checks, son. 02:26.280 --> 02:27.840 Yeah, but why do you have to pick on me? 02:27.840 --> 02:29.320 Why do you have to see my locker? 02:29.320 --> 02:30.600 We're not picking on you, Steve. 02:30.600 --> 02:31.600 Now, how about it? 02:31.600 --> 02:32.600 Which locker's yours? 02:32.600 --> 02:33.600 Right here. 02:33.600 --> 02:34.600 This is mine, 318. 02:34.600 --> 02:35.600 Here's the key. 02:35.600 --> 02:36.600 No, you open it, Steve. 02:36.600 --> 02:41.600 Just a couple of personal things of mine, that's all. 02:41.600 --> 02:46.600 All right, I'll open it. 02:46.600 --> 02:51.240 Well, there you are. 02:51.240 --> 02:52.240 See for yourself. 02:52.240 --> 02:54.440 Want to take your things out of the locker, son? 02:54.440 --> 02:55.800 You can see what's in there, can't you? 02:55.800 --> 02:57.440 My gym stuff, a couple of textbooks. 02:57.440 --> 02:59.840 How about digging back in the corner, left-hand side there? 02:59.840 --> 03:00.840 Where? 03:00.840 --> 03:01.840 You know what I mean. 03:01.840 --> 03:02.840 Come on, Steve, dig them out. 03:02.840 --> 03:04.840 Back here, you mean these joke books? 03:04.840 --> 03:05.840 That's right. 03:05.840 --> 03:06.840 Let's have a look, huh? 03:06.840 --> 03:08.600 Why, just a couple of joke books. 03:08.600 --> 03:09.600 A kid gave them to me. 03:09.600 --> 03:11.600 Bring them out, Steve. 03:11.600 --> 03:12.600 Okay. 03:12.600 --> 03:14.480 Just a couple of them. 03:14.480 --> 03:15.480 Kid gave them to me. 03:15.480 --> 03:16.480 There. 03:16.480 --> 03:17.480 Looks like more than a couple. 03:17.480 --> 03:20.880 That's what you call a joke book, Steve. 03:20.880 --> 03:23.000 That's what the kids call them, yeah. 03:23.000 --> 03:24.160 Some of them are a little dirty. 03:24.160 --> 03:25.160 Not so bad, though. 03:25.160 --> 03:26.600 They're filthy, Steve, and you know it. 03:26.600 --> 03:27.600 Now, where'd you get them? 03:27.600 --> 03:28.600 I told you. 03:28.600 --> 03:29.600 Kid gave them to me. 03:29.600 --> 03:30.600 Who? 03:30.600 --> 03:31.600 What's his name? 03:31.600 --> 03:32.600 Some kid around school. 03:32.600 --> 03:33.600 I don't remember right now. 03:33.600 --> 03:34.600 Gave you these books for nothing? 03:34.600 --> 03:35.600 Sure. 03:35.600 --> 03:36.600 I had a couple he wanted. 03:36.600 --> 03:37.600 We traded off. 03:37.600 --> 03:38.600 A lot of the kids have them. 03:38.600 --> 03:39.600 They trade them around. 03:39.600 --> 03:40.600 That stack you got there, they look pretty new. 03:40.600 --> 03:41.600 Couldn't have been passed around much. 03:41.600 --> 03:42.600 Maybe not. 03:42.600 --> 03:43.600 I don't know. 03:43.600 --> 03:44.600 Matter of fact, they look brand new, don't they? 03:44.600 --> 03:45.600 Don't even look like they've been opened yet. 03:45.600 --> 03:47.280 How come you're rousing me on this thing? 03:47.280 --> 03:54.280 What about the other kids? 03:54.280 --> 03:55.280 They got them, too. 03:55.280 --> 03:56.280 They're buying them, Steve. 03:56.280 --> 03:57.280 They're not selling them. 03:57.280 --> 03:58.280 I'm not selling them. 03:58.280 --> 03:59.280 Anybody says that's a liar? 03:59.280 --> 04:00.280 No, good, son. 04:00.280 --> 04:01.280 We talked to the fellows here at the high school. 04:01.280 --> 04:02.280 Some kids over at the junior high school, too. 04:02.280 --> 04:03.280 They all say you're the one who's selling them. 04:03.280 --> 04:04.280 They're liars. 04:04.280 --> 04:05.280 Both the fellows in high school and the kids down the street in junior high, they say you've 04:05.280 --> 04:06.280 been selling this stuff for months. 04:06.280 --> 04:07.280 Now, how about it? 04:07.280 --> 04:08.280 They're lying, that's all. 04:08.280 --> 04:09.280 They don't know what they're talking about. 04:09.280 --> 04:12.280 You've been selling these 35 cents apiece, three for a dollar. 04:12.280 --> 04:15.120 Last couple of weeks, you've been peddling pictures, too, a dollar apiece. 04:15.120 --> 04:17.120 You got any of them in your locker, Steve? 04:17.120 --> 04:18.120 A couple. 04:18.120 --> 04:20.120 I got them off another kid. 04:20.120 --> 04:21.120 What other kid? 04:21.120 --> 04:22.120 What's his name? 04:22.120 --> 04:23.120 What's his name? 04:23.120 --> 04:24.120 Some kid. 04:24.120 --> 04:25.120 I don't remember. 04:25.120 --> 04:27.000 That's not much of an answer, son. 04:27.000 --> 04:28.600 What do you want from me, anyway? 04:28.600 --> 04:30.680 I told you I'm not selling the books. 04:30.680 --> 04:32.360 I don't care what those other goofs say. 04:32.360 --> 04:33.360 It's my word against theirs. 04:33.360 --> 04:35.200 Now, maybe you ought to get this straight, son. 04:35.200 --> 04:36.200 We're not out to get you. 04:36.200 --> 04:37.200 You're way down the line. 04:37.200 --> 04:40.800 We want the people at the top, the men who print this junk, the wholesalers, the big distributors. 04:40.800 --> 04:41.800 So why ask me? 04:41.800 --> 04:43.760 I don't know anything about it, nothing. 04:43.760 --> 04:45.160 You don't want to cooperate, is that it? 04:45.160 --> 04:46.600 What am I supposed to cooperate about? 04:46.600 --> 04:48.240 I'm not mixed up in anything. 04:48.240 --> 04:49.880 We think you are, son. 04:49.880 --> 04:50.880 We know you are. 04:50.880 --> 04:52.120 Who are you selling this for? 04:52.120 --> 04:53.120 Where do you get your supply? 04:53.120 --> 04:54.680 All you see is what's in my locker. 04:54.680 --> 04:55.680 I ain't selling. 04:55.680 --> 04:57.640 I don't have any supply. 04:57.640 --> 04:59.280 You got to go far to prove I have. 04:59.280 --> 05:00.280 Not very far, Steve. 05:00.280 --> 05:01.280 What? 05:01.280 --> 05:04.280 From about here to your home. 05:04.280 --> 05:06.000 11.38 a.m. 05:06.000 --> 05:10.320 After picking up his supply of obscene books and photographs to be booked later as evidence, 05:10.320 --> 05:14.200 Ed and I drove the subject, Stephen Banner, to his home approximately a mile from the 05:14.200 --> 05:15.800 high school. 05:15.800 --> 05:20.120 His apprehension and our theory that he probably kept the bulk of his supply of books and pictures 05:20.120 --> 05:23.320 at or near his home was no accident. 05:23.320 --> 05:27.000 For weeks we've known that a steady stream of pornography was being fed into a half a 05:27.000 --> 05:30.520 dozen high schools and junior high schools throughout the city. 05:30.520 --> 05:35.220 Books, photographs, pictures, and pamphlets of the worst kind. 05:35.220 --> 05:38.840 Because of embarrassment on the part of the curious teenage kids who bought this stuff, 05:38.840 --> 05:42.200 it wasn't easy to pick up a solid lead. 05:42.200 --> 05:45.760 After weeks of observation and questioning, we finally narrowed down the principal source 05:45.760 --> 05:50.160 of supply to a single teenage boy, Stephen Banner. 05:50.160 --> 05:53.920 Even then we knew he must be only one of a hundred small-time distributors working for 05:53.920 --> 05:58.040 the persons directly responsible for manufacturing this sort of thing. 05:58.040 --> 06:01.920 Our only hope was that he'd be willing and able to supply us with the names of the persons 06:01.920 --> 06:03.320 responsible. 06:03.320 --> 06:06.960 When we got to Stephen Banner's home, where he lived with his sister and brother-in-law, 06:06.960 --> 06:09.960 we searched it thoroughly, but we found nothing. 06:09.960 --> 06:14.120 Since his sister and brother-in-law were at work, we went back and started checking through 06:14.120 --> 06:16.200 the garage at the rear of the house. 06:16.200 --> 06:19.240 Joe, back here in the corner? 06:19.240 --> 06:20.240 Yeah. 06:20.240 --> 06:21.240 Have a look. 06:21.240 --> 06:24.080 Steve, you want to tell us about this? 06:24.080 --> 06:25.080 Yeah. 06:25.080 --> 06:28.080 These books here? 06:28.080 --> 06:32.120 These pictures, the case full of them? 06:32.120 --> 06:33.120 Yeah. 06:33.120 --> 06:35.160 Well, how about it, son? 06:35.160 --> 06:36.680 Your sister and brother-in-law know about this? 06:36.680 --> 06:37.680 No, they don't know anything. 06:37.680 --> 06:40.120 I didn't think you'd find them. 06:40.120 --> 06:41.840 Are you ready to tell us about it? 06:41.840 --> 06:43.400 Is my sister going to have to find out? 06:43.400 --> 06:44.400 I don't know, Steve. 06:44.400 --> 06:45.920 It's going to be pretty hard to keep it from her. 06:45.920 --> 06:47.360 Yeah, I guess so. 06:47.360 --> 06:48.360 Who's the contact, son? 06:48.360 --> 06:49.760 Where'd they come from? 06:49.760 --> 06:50.760 Charlie. 06:50.760 --> 06:51.760 Charlie Freiburg. 06:51.760 --> 06:53.640 Only the books, though. 06:53.640 --> 06:54.640 Pictures came from another guy. 06:54.640 --> 06:55.640 It's a long story. 06:55.640 --> 06:57.360 Well, we got the time, son. 06:57.360 --> 06:58.360 Who is this Freiburg? 06:58.360 --> 07:02.360 Met him downtown one Sunday, Penny Arcade on Broadway. 07:02.360 --> 07:05.080 Me and this other kid were in there, Bud Spencer. 07:05.080 --> 07:07.040 Freiburg came up, started to talk to us. 07:07.040 --> 07:08.040 All right, go on. 07:08.040 --> 07:11.600 He finally took a couple of these books out of his pocket, gave them to us. 07:11.600 --> 07:12.880 He wanted to know what we thought of them. 07:12.880 --> 07:14.800 Well, he had plenty of them. 07:14.800 --> 07:16.480 We knew any other kids who wanted them. 07:16.480 --> 07:18.640 You knew you and your friend Bud were in high school? 07:18.640 --> 07:19.640 Yeah, that's right. 07:19.640 --> 07:20.640 What else, Steve? 07:20.640 --> 07:21.640 Well, that's about it. 07:21.640 --> 07:24.640 He asked me and Bud if we wanted to sell for them around school. 07:24.640 --> 07:27.240 His friend of yours, Bud Spencer, he's selling them, too? 07:27.240 --> 07:28.240 Yeah. 07:28.240 --> 07:29.840 He goes to a different school, though. 07:29.840 --> 07:31.240 Both of us did pretty good with the books. 07:31.240 --> 07:32.240 Sold real fast. 07:32.240 --> 07:33.960 The pictures are even better. 07:33.960 --> 07:37.800 So you say you didn't get the pictures from Freiburg, there was somebody else? 07:37.800 --> 07:39.160 A man by the name of Jack. 07:39.160 --> 07:41.200 I don't know his last name. 07:41.200 --> 07:44.840 Freiburg put us onto him, gave us an introduction, set up the deal. 07:44.840 --> 07:47.040 We got the pictures for 75 cents. 07:47.040 --> 07:49.840 Most of the time they got us a dollar, dollar and a half a piece. 07:49.840 --> 07:52.360 Bud and I did pretty good. 07:52.360 --> 07:54.840 You know any other fellows working for this Freiburg, Steve? 07:54.840 --> 07:56.000 Any other kids in school? 07:56.000 --> 07:57.880 No, just Bud and me. 07:57.880 --> 07:58.880 That's all I know. 07:58.880 --> 08:02.600 It wouldn't be so bad if it were just the books, that lousy Charlie. 08:02.600 --> 08:06.320 He had to go and promote the party routine, get everybody mixed up in that. 08:06.320 --> 08:07.320 What do you mean? 08:07.320 --> 08:08.320 What's that all about? 08:08.320 --> 08:09.320 Charlie. 08:09.320 --> 08:10.960 He stays at this place out on Sepulveda. 08:10.960 --> 08:12.560 It's a motel. 08:12.560 --> 08:14.080 That's where we always contacted him. 08:14.080 --> 08:15.080 Yeah. 08:15.080 --> 08:17.800 After a couple of weeks when we got to know him, he asked me and Bud out to this place. 08:17.800 --> 08:19.280 Said he was going to throw a party. 08:19.280 --> 08:21.240 Told us to bring our girlfriends along. 08:21.240 --> 08:24.320 Turned out we were the only ones at the party. 08:24.320 --> 08:27.320 Me and Bud and the girls and Charlie Freiburg. 08:27.320 --> 08:29.120 Party lasted pretty late. 08:29.120 --> 08:31.080 I should have been smart enough to figure it out. 08:31.080 --> 08:32.080 I wasn't. 08:32.080 --> 08:33.080 What do you mean, Steve? 08:33.080 --> 08:34.080 Figure out what? 08:34.080 --> 08:36.080 Why Charlie be throwing parties just for us. 08:36.080 --> 08:38.400 The first two times there wasn't anything wrong. 08:38.400 --> 08:41.880 We just talked, danced with the girls, drank some beer. 08:41.880 --> 08:43.360 Charlie told us to have a good time. 08:43.360 --> 08:46.080 He threw a party every Friday night. 08:46.080 --> 08:47.560 Never broke up till after three o'clock. 08:47.560 --> 08:49.480 How old are your girlfriends, yours and Bud's? 08:49.480 --> 08:50.480 Seventeen. 08:50.480 --> 08:51.480 They're both seventeen. 08:51.480 --> 08:53.360 They've been around though, no use kidding you. 08:53.360 --> 08:55.280 They weren't very smart, I can tell you that. 08:55.280 --> 08:57.440 None of us were, I guess. 08:57.440 --> 09:00.000 Next couple of parties, Charlie had whiskey there. 09:00.000 --> 09:02.520 Same girls drank right along with him, so did we. 09:02.520 --> 09:04.000 Freiburg served the whiskey, didn't he? 09:04.000 --> 09:05.000 Yeah, that's right. 09:05.000 --> 09:08.440 He loaded the drinks, kept handing the girls a lot of stuff about how he used to be a director 09:08.440 --> 09:09.440 in pictures. 09:09.440 --> 09:11.520 He had a lot of connections in Hollywood. 09:11.520 --> 09:15.240 The last party I was at, he said he was going to get the girls screen test. 09:15.240 --> 09:17.560 A lot of malarkey like that. 09:17.560 --> 09:18.560 What else, Steve? 09:18.560 --> 09:19.640 I don't know. 09:19.640 --> 09:21.880 I had a beef with Charlie about it when I walked out. 09:21.880 --> 09:22.880 I haven't been back since. 09:22.880 --> 09:25.480 Does he still throw these Friday night parties, do you know? 09:25.480 --> 09:26.840 Maybe, I don't know. 09:26.840 --> 09:30.360 There were three or four after the last one I walked out on. 09:30.360 --> 09:32.080 Dumb girls think Charlie's just great. 09:32.080 --> 09:34.040 God, so I can't stand the guy. 09:34.040 --> 09:36.120 How about the parties you didn't show up for, Steve? 09:36.120 --> 09:37.480 You get a rundown on them? 09:37.480 --> 09:39.800 I heard a couple of things, yeah. 09:39.800 --> 09:40.800 Sure glad I wasn't there. 09:40.800 --> 09:41.800 How do you mean? 09:41.800 --> 09:44.400 Dumb girls, never fails. 09:44.400 --> 09:47.200 The oldest line in the world, they still go for it. 09:47.200 --> 09:48.200 What's that? 09:48.200 --> 09:53.720 Tell them you're going to get them in the movies. 09:53.720 --> 09:57.280 We continued questioning the subject, 17-year-old Stephen Banner. 09:57.280 --> 10:01.400 He gave us a full description of the man who'd been selling him the books, Charles Freiburg, 10:01.400 --> 10:04.800 and also a description of the man known as Jack, the one who'd been supplying him with 10:04.800 --> 10:06.720 pictures and photographs. 10:06.720 --> 10:10.640 In addition, he gave us the addresses of the two men, a fair description of Freiburg's 10:10.640 --> 10:15.240 car, no license number, and the names and addresses of the two girls he and his friend 10:15.240 --> 10:17.920 had taken to Freiburg's parties. 10:17.920 --> 10:19.200 One 20 p.m. 10:19.200 --> 10:23.040 Ed and I took the case of obscene books from the garage, loaded it in the backseat of our 10:23.040 --> 10:28.680 car, and Stephen Banner directed us to the high school attended by his friend, Bud Spencer. 10:28.680 --> 10:32.680 We picked up the Spencer boy and drove him and Banner downtown to Georgia Street Juvenile, 10:32.680 --> 10:39.320 where we booked them in on 700B, welfare and institution code, lack of supervision. 10:39.320 --> 10:43.320 We drove to the motel out on Sepulveda, but the suspect, Charles Freiburg, had moved out 10:43.320 --> 10:46.520 five days before, no forwarding address. 10:46.520 --> 10:48.140 It wasn't a dead end, though. 10:48.140 --> 10:52.860 From his motel registration card, we got the description and license number of his car. 10:52.860 --> 10:56.420 On the way into the office, we checked out the address of his confederate, the man known 10:56.420 --> 10:58.040 as Jack. 10:58.040 --> 11:01.920 He'd moved the same day as Freiburg, no forwarding address. 11:01.920 --> 11:05.000 Back at the office, DMV got a make on the license number for us. 11:05.000 --> 11:09.600 The car registered in Freiburg's name, 239 West 92nd Street. 11:09.600 --> 11:16.120 We went down to R&I and pulled the package on the suspect, 340 p.m. 11:16.120 --> 11:18.280 Last address on this three years old. 11:18.280 --> 11:20.960 How's his record reading? 11:20.960 --> 11:25.360 He's been in the business before, a couple of ag charges, a 311 charge too, possession 11:25.360 --> 11:26.360 of obscene literature. 11:26.360 --> 11:28.600 Served eight months in county jail. 11:28.600 --> 11:29.600 Mugshot there? 11:29.600 --> 11:30.600 Yeah, here. 11:30.600 --> 11:34.440 Close enough to the way the boy described him. 11:34.440 --> 11:35.440 I'd say so. 11:35.440 --> 11:36.440 There's MO2. 11:36.440 --> 11:41.000 Same pitch the last time they got him, working the high school trade, passed himself off 11:41.000 --> 11:42.480 as a studio man, movie director. 11:42.480 --> 11:43.480 How about the other man, Jack? 11:43.480 --> 11:44.480 You got anything there? 11:44.480 --> 11:45.480 Not yet. 11:45.480 --> 11:47.840 I gave the information on him to the stats office. 11:47.840 --> 11:49.840 They're going to make a run for us. 11:49.840 --> 11:53.080 Well, I guess we better check on the kids' girlfriends, huh? 11:53.080 --> 11:54.080 Get their stories. 11:54.080 --> 11:55.080 Yeah, I suppose so. 11:55.080 --> 11:57.080 It sure gets me, Joe. 11:57.080 --> 11:58.080 What's that? 11:58.080 --> 12:01.400 Very young girls like that, out at motel parties till 3 a.m. drinking. 12:01.400 --> 12:02.400 Yeah. 12:02.400 --> 12:04.200 Seventeen year olds, no reason for it, no reason at all. 12:04.200 --> 12:06.400 Well, I can think of one that might do. 12:06.400 --> 12:11.160 Their parents. 12:11.160 --> 12:15.640 We checked out the suspect's address, furnished us by DMV and also the information from the 12:15.640 --> 12:16.640 R&I package. 12:16.640 --> 12:18.400 They went nowhere. 12:18.400 --> 12:22.080 We had a second interview with Stephen Banner and his friend, Bud Spencer. 12:22.080 --> 12:25.400 We showed them Freiburg's mugshot and both of them identified it. 12:25.400 --> 12:28.320 We got out a broadcast and an APB on him. 12:28.320 --> 12:32.640 Four twelve p.m. Together with policewoman Doreen Statesl, Ed and I drove out to interview 12:32.640 --> 12:37.180 the two teenage girls involved, a Dorothy Ryan and a Laura Osborn. 12:37.180 --> 12:40.640 We stopped at the home of the Osborn girl first, but she wasn't there and neither were 12:40.640 --> 12:41.640 her parents. 12:41.640 --> 12:45.280 An older sister told us that both the mother and father were working and that Laura was 12:45.280 --> 12:48.920 at a neighborhood school for models taking her weekly lesson. 12:48.920 --> 12:52.560 We checked at the modeling school, a converted second floor social hall where we finally 12:52.560 --> 12:57.360 located the girl, a tall brunette, dark eyes, fair complexion. 12:57.360 --> 13:00.200 The heavy makeup didn't do much to hide her age. 13:00.200 --> 13:04.080 While the modeling lesson went on, policewoman Statesl, Ed and I talked to the girl off in 13:04.080 --> 13:06.080 one corner of the hall. 13:06.080 --> 13:10.360 Your friend, Steve Banner, he took you to those parties at Mr. Freiburg's place. 13:10.360 --> 13:11.360 Uh-huh, that's right. 13:11.360 --> 13:12.360 Very nice man. 13:12.360 --> 13:14.240 He was always nice to Dorothy and me. 13:14.240 --> 13:17.080 Dorothy Ryan, she came to the parties with Bud. 13:17.080 --> 13:18.280 He's a friend of Steve Banner's. 13:18.280 --> 13:20.800 You have no complaint to make about this Mr. Freiburg? 13:20.800 --> 13:22.600 He never caused you trouble of any kind? 13:22.600 --> 13:23.600 Charlie, well no. 13:23.600 --> 13:27.520 I told you before that business about Steve getting mad just because Charlie told us he'd 13:27.520 --> 13:28.520 get us in the movies. 13:28.520 --> 13:31.000 Well it was silly, that's all plain silly. 13:31.000 --> 13:32.160 Charlie was just helping us. 13:32.160 --> 13:33.160 How do you mean Laura? 13:33.160 --> 13:35.360 Well he's in Hollywood you know, Charlie Freiburg. 13:35.360 --> 13:37.440 He has lots of connections. 13:37.440 --> 13:40.320 He just wanted to help us get some good modeling jobs. 13:40.320 --> 13:42.280 That's why I took our pictures, there was nothing wrong. 13:42.280 --> 13:45.640 You continued going to these Friday night parties without the two boys, is that right? 13:45.640 --> 13:46.640 Yes, Dorothy and me. 13:46.640 --> 13:48.640 There wasn't anything wrong with it. 13:48.640 --> 13:50.640 We knew Charlie as well as they did by that time. 13:50.640 --> 13:52.480 A few bathing suit pictures, that's all. 13:52.480 --> 13:53.480 There was nothing wrong in that. 13:53.480 --> 13:56.880 Did you ever see prints of any of those pictures, either you or Dorothy Ryan? 13:56.880 --> 13:59.560 No, but Charlie's gonna get us some, he promised he would. 13:59.560 --> 14:00.560 You know where he is now? 14:00.560 --> 14:01.560 No, he moved. 14:01.560 --> 14:02.880 I haven't any idea where he is. 14:02.880 --> 14:05.080 When's the last time you saw a Freiburg miss? 14:05.080 --> 14:08.400 About ten days, two weeks ago. 14:08.400 --> 14:09.400 What's this all about, officer? 14:09.400 --> 14:10.400 Are you looking for Charlie? 14:10.400 --> 14:13.480 How does he usually contact you, Laura, by phone? 14:13.480 --> 14:15.920 Yeah, usually calls. 14:15.920 --> 14:17.920 Has he called you lately? 14:17.920 --> 14:20.440 Well, I don't know. 14:20.440 --> 14:21.920 Why are you looking for him? 14:21.920 --> 14:22.920 Can't you tell me? 14:22.920 --> 14:23.920 Routine investigation, miss. 14:23.920 --> 14:27.600 Oh, I'm sorry, I don't know where Charlie is. 14:27.600 --> 14:29.320 Why can't you tell me why you want him? 14:29.320 --> 14:30.320 We want him. 14:30.320 --> 14:31.320 Why? 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17:55.480 --> 17:57.560 Was Banner there waiting for the signal to change? 17:57.560 --> 17:59.040 Dark suit, dark hat? 17:59.040 --> 18:01.040 Yeah, could be. 18:01.040 --> 18:02.440 Crossing over now, heading for the bar. 18:02.440 --> 18:05.440 All right, let's go. 18:05.440 --> 18:06.440 Mm-hmm. 18:06.440 --> 18:07.440 No mistake. 18:07.440 --> 18:12.440 Hey, fella, hold it up on me, will you? 18:12.440 --> 18:13.440 How's that? 18:13.440 --> 18:15.440 Police officer, is your name Freyberg? 18:15.440 --> 18:16.440 What? 18:16.440 --> 18:17.440 No, that's not my name. 18:17.440 --> 18:18.440 Is your identification, please? 18:18.440 --> 18:19.440 Yes, I've got my identification. 18:19.440 --> 18:20.440 Why? 18:20.440 --> 18:21.440 Can we see it, please? 18:21.440 --> 18:22.440 Why, what do you want? 18:22.440 --> 18:23.440 Your identification. 18:23.440 --> 18:24.440 What for? 18:24.440 --> 18:25.440 I haven't done anything. 18:25.440 --> 18:26.440 Let's go, mister. 18:26.440 --> 18:27.440 Talk about it downtown. 18:27.440 --> 18:28.440 Wait a minute, just a minute. 18:28.440 --> 18:29.440 I don't want any trouble. 18:29.440 --> 18:30.440 I'll show you. 18:30.440 --> 18:31.440 There, driver's license, rest of my stuff. 18:31.440 --> 18:32.440 Charles Freyberg. 18:32.440 --> 18:33.440 It's an old address, isn't it? 18:33.440 --> 18:34.440 Yeah, I haven't had time to change it. 18:34.440 --> 18:35.440 Just got back in town. 18:35.440 --> 18:36.440 What's the matter, anyway? 18:36.440 --> 18:37.440 Where are you staying, Freyberg? 18:37.440 --> 18:38.440 No place. 18:38.440 --> 18:39.440 I just got back in town. 18:39.440 --> 18:40.440 I told you that. 18:40.440 --> 18:41.440 Not staying any place yet. 18:41.440 --> 18:42.440 No connections at all. 18:42.440 --> 18:43.440 Where's your car? 18:43.440 --> 18:44.440 I don't have one. 18:44.440 --> 18:45.440 I'm going to the police station. 18:45.440 --> 18:46.440 I'll be right back. 18:46.440 --> 18:47.440 I'll be right back. 18:47.440 --> 18:48.440 I'll be right back. 18:48.440 --> 18:49.440 I'll be right back. 18:49.440 --> 18:54.440 I'll be right back. 19:19.440 --> 19:20.440 Okay. 19:20.440 --> 19:24.440 You said you don't have a car, Freyberg. 19:24.440 --> 19:25.440 Of course not. 19:25.440 --> 19:26.440 I told you that. 19:26.440 --> 19:32.920 What are you doing with that parking ticket? 19:32.920 --> 19:36.920 We walked the suspect Freyberg two blocks to the parking lot listed on the claim check 19:36.920 --> 19:39.000 that he had in his coat pocket. 19:39.000 --> 19:42.840 He had black hair streaked with gray, looked to be in his mid-50s. 19:42.840 --> 19:45.640 We questioned him on the way, but he'd admit nothing. 19:45.640 --> 19:48.280 We located his car in the parking lot and searched it. 19:48.280 --> 19:52.000 In the glove compartment, besides a half a dozen photographs and small books, we found 19:52.000 --> 19:54.760 a key with a metal disc attached to it. 19:54.760 --> 19:59.040 Stamped on the disc were the words West Side Studios, number 23. 19:59.040 --> 20:00.920 Freyberg refused to identify the key. 20:00.920 --> 20:02.960 He refused to admit a thing. 20:02.960 --> 20:06.420 We walked him back to our car and together the three of us headed out for the old West 20:06.420 --> 20:09.640 Side Studios just off Jefferson Boulevard. 20:09.640 --> 20:13.480 On the way, we tried again to question the suspect, but we got nowhere. 20:13.480 --> 20:16.920 He refused to answer even the simplest questions. 20:16.920 --> 20:20.280 One look at the West Side Studios and you knew right away the place had seen better 20:20.280 --> 20:21.280 days. 20:21.280 --> 20:24.560 It had been fairly prominent in the early days of motion picture making, but all that 20:24.560 --> 20:29.120 was left now was two square blocks of broken down scenery, one dilapidated sound stage, 20:29.120 --> 20:33.800 and a row of weather-beaten cottages, the tar paper peeling off the roofs. 20:33.800 --> 20:36.240 We got out of the car and started up the walk. 20:36.240 --> 20:41.600 The faded sign over the main gate read West Side Studios, founded 1920. 20:41.600 --> 20:44.320 Down in one corner, admission by pass only. 20:44.320 --> 20:46.520 The guard shack at the gate was boarded up. 20:46.520 --> 20:48.640 No sign of a night watchman. 20:48.640 --> 20:49.640 We kept walking. 20:49.640 --> 20:54.480 How come they don't keep a watchman at the gate, Freyberg? 20:54.480 --> 20:56.040 Don't they make pictures here anymore? 20:56.040 --> 20:57.040 You bet they do. 20:57.040 --> 20:59.080 The place has been going downhill for a long time. 20:59.080 --> 21:00.360 It's coming back though. 21:00.360 --> 21:03.040 Then you do know the place, is that right? 21:03.040 --> 21:04.040 Yeah, I know it. 21:04.040 --> 21:05.040 I should know it. 21:05.040 --> 21:06.040 What do you mean by that? 21:06.040 --> 21:07.040 Nothing. 21:07.040 --> 21:09.040 You renting an office here, is that it? 21:09.040 --> 21:10.040 Freyberg? 21:10.040 --> 21:11.040 Yeah, that's right. 21:11.040 --> 21:15.000 Straight down the way there, cottage 23. 21:15.000 --> 21:16.000 What's your job? 21:16.000 --> 21:17.000 You're in the movie work? 21:17.000 --> 21:18.000 Yeah, I have been for 30 years. 21:18.000 --> 21:19.000 More than 30 years. 21:19.000 --> 21:20.000 That's so, you an actor? 21:20.000 --> 21:21.000 Freyberg. 21:21.000 --> 21:22.000 Haven't you ever heard the name? 21:22.000 --> 21:23.000 I'm a producer. 21:23.000 --> 21:24.000 Oh, I see. 21:24.000 --> 21:25.000 Why don't you tell us that to start with? 21:25.000 --> 21:26.000 I don't know, different reasons. 21:26.000 --> 21:27.000 I don't like to throw my weight around. 21:27.000 --> 21:28.000 I have a lot of connections in Hollywood, you know. 21:28.000 --> 21:29.000 That's so. 21:29.000 --> 21:30.000 I've been in the trade 30 years. 21:30.000 --> 21:31.000 I was one of the first. 21:31.000 --> 21:32.000 You can make a lot of friends in 30 years. 21:32.000 --> 21:33.000 Yeah, I guess so. 21:33.000 --> 21:34.000 How about those books we found in your car, those pictures? 21:34.000 --> 21:35.000 How do you explain them? 21:35.000 --> 21:36.000 This studio will be back on the speak the year. 21:36.000 --> 21:37.000 I bet a thousand people will be there. 21:37.000 --> 21:38.000 I'm sure they'll be there. 21:38.000 --> 21:51.000 This whole block here, sound stages, I got the plans for them in my desk. 21:51.000 --> 21:52.000 That's so. 21:52.000 --> 21:53.000 You have an interest in this lot? 21:53.000 --> 21:54.000 Not exactly. 21:54.000 --> 21:55.000 Not right now, anyway. 21:55.000 --> 21:56.000 I did have an interest though. 21:56.000 --> 21:57.000 I will again. 21:57.000 --> 21:58.000 I was one of the original owners, you know. 21:58.000 --> 21:59.000 Still haven't got an explanation. 21:59.000 --> 22:00.000 How about the books and pictures we found in your car? 22:00.000 --> 22:01.000 Oh, that? 22:01.000 --> 22:02.000 Nothing to explain, is there? 22:02.000 --> 22:03.000 Just a few gimmicks I picked up. 22:03.000 --> 22:08.000 You know a boy by the name of Steven Banner? 22:08.000 --> 22:09.000 Banner? 22:09.000 --> 22:10.000 No, I don't think so. 22:10.000 --> 22:11.000 Why? 22:11.000 --> 22:12.000 How about Bud Spencer? 22:12.000 --> 22:13.000 You know him? 22:13.000 --> 22:14.000 No. 22:14.000 --> 22:15.000 I knew a George Spencer once. 22:15.000 --> 22:16.000 Actor. 22:16.000 --> 22:17.000 That was back in the old days, though. 22:17.000 --> 22:18.000 How about Laura Osborne? 22:18.000 --> 22:19.000 Dorothy Ryan? 22:19.000 --> 22:20.000 You know them? 22:20.000 --> 22:21.000 No, it's pretty hard to say. 22:21.000 --> 22:22.000 You know, Sergeant, over the years in this business, especially you meet an awful lot 22:22.000 --> 22:23.000 of people. 22:23.000 --> 22:24.000 Well, these are fairly recent. 22:24.000 --> 22:25.000 You ought to remember them. 22:25.000 --> 22:26.000 They're just kids, 17 years old. 22:26.000 --> 22:27.000 They're not that old. 22:27.000 --> 22:28.000 They're not that old. 22:28.000 --> 22:29.000 They're not that old. 22:29.000 --> 22:30.000 They're not that old. 22:30.000 --> 22:31.000 They're not that old. 22:31.000 --> 22:32.000 They're not that old. 22:32.000 --> 22:33.000 It's all in your head that these men and women are just kids, seventeen-year-olds. 22:33.000 --> 22:34.000 No. 22:34.000 --> 22:35.000 Wait. 22:35.000 --> 22:36.680 I don't recall the names. 22:36.680 --> 22:38.040 Soundstage Bell. 22:38.040 --> 22:42.600 I've got a company over there doing some shooting tonight, television films. 22:42.600 --> 22:44.480 They make them too fast. 22:44.480 --> 22:46.400 Trade's not like it used to be. 22:46.400 --> 22:48.200 Quality, that's what we went after. 22:48.200 --> 22:49.200 Gone now. 22:49.200 --> 22:50.200 It's all gone. 22:50.200 --> 22:52.280 Westside'll do it again though. 22:52.280 --> 22:53.280 You can bet on that. 22:53.280 --> 22:54.280 We're coming back. 22:54.280 --> 22:55.280 Look, how about leveling, Freiburg? 22:55.280 --> 22:56.400 You know why we picked you up. 22:56.400 --> 22:57.720 You know why we're out here. 22:57.720 --> 22:58.720 It just did. 22:58.720 --> 22:59.720 I don't know why. 22:59.720 --> 23:01.720 Oh, say, look across the road. 23:01.720 --> 23:02.920 that's set over there. 23:02.920 --> 23:05.760 The old greenhouse there, Colonial Mansion. 23:05.760 --> 23:07.660 Weather's faded the colors a little. 23:07.660 --> 23:10.320 Typical old Southern estate now, you know? 23:10.320 --> 23:11.960 We shot some beautiful footage there. 23:11.960 --> 23:14.000 Picture's a classic in its own right. 23:14.000 --> 23:15.160 Maybe you remember it. 23:15.160 --> 23:17.000 Moonlight magnolias. 23:17.000 --> 23:18.520 I changed the title later. 23:18.520 --> 23:21.080 Love and the moonlight, beautiful thing. 23:21.080 --> 23:21.920 You ever see it? 23:21.920 --> 23:22.880 No, I don't think so. 23:22.880 --> 23:24.360 I couldn't tell you how many beauties 23:24.360 --> 23:26.000 we turned out that year. 23:26.000 --> 23:27.600 I was a young fella then. 23:27.600 --> 23:30.280 Song and strife, moonlight magnolias, 23:30.280 --> 23:32.800 little orphan girl, sweetheart at the campus. 23:32.800 --> 23:34.560 That's your cottage there, Mr. Fraberg? 23:34.560 --> 23:35.400 What's that? 23:35.400 --> 23:37.360 Just down the way there, number 23. 23:37.360 --> 23:39.520 Oh, yeah, completely forgot about it. 23:41.840 --> 23:44.120 I hope you'll excuse the way it looks. 23:44.120 --> 23:45.760 I haven't been able to find good accommodations 23:45.760 --> 23:47.800 in town, I've been staying at the office. 23:47.800 --> 23:50.280 We have a little couch there, I sleep on that. 23:50.280 --> 23:51.760 We have a hot plate too. 23:51.760 --> 23:54.360 Good enough to boil a coffee in the morning. 23:54.360 --> 23:55.960 How come you couldn't find space in town? 23:55.960 --> 23:57.400 Hotels aren't that rushed, are they? 23:57.400 --> 23:59.920 Well, the ones I'm used to staying at, yes. 23:59.920 --> 24:01.440 I'd just soon camp here at the studio 24:01.440 --> 24:03.880 and stay at one of those places downtown. 24:03.880 --> 24:07.040 Say, wouldn't you like to see the rest of the lot? 24:07.040 --> 24:08.360 Pretty interesting, if you've never seen 24:08.360 --> 24:10.320 a real movie lot, I mean a high class one. 24:10.320 --> 24:12.840 We've seen them, Mr. Fraberg, we'd like to check your office. 24:12.840 --> 24:13.840 Oh, all right. 24:14.800 --> 24:16.080 This is it. 24:16.080 --> 24:18.680 Cottages need a good coat of paint, of course. 24:18.680 --> 24:19.880 It'll all be done pretty soon. 24:19.880 --> 24:21.240 West Side's going to come back strong, 24:21.240 --> 24:22.080 you can bet on that. 24:22.080 --> 24:22.920 Yeah, yes, sir. 24:24.840 --> 24:28.120 Uh-oh, watch out on that first step there, it's loose. 24:28.120 --> 24:29.720 Have to call maintenance and get that fixed. 24:29.720 --> 24:30.720 Yeah, it's all right. 24:35.880 --> 24:36.720 Here we are. 24:44.880 --> 24:47.320 Well, as you can see, the office isn't very much 24:47.320 --> 24:48.800 what it you wanted, gentlemen. 24:48.800 --> 24:50.520 You want to check that cabinet there, Ed? 24:50.520 --> 24:51.920 I'll take a look through these cases over here. 24:51.920 --> 24:52.760 Okay. 24:52.760 --> 24:57.760 This picture here on the wall, 25:00.840 --> 25:02.440 that's the cast and the production staff 25:02.440 --> 25:03.600 on my first film. 25:04.480 --> 25:05.840 Here's the other one. 25:05.840 --> 25:07.400 Me and RZ Bernard. 25:08.400 --> 25:11.040 He autographed a picture for me, Bernard himself. 25:12.400 --> 25:14.000 Those were the days, all right. 25:14.920 --> 25:17.360 Quality, that's what we went after 25:17.360 --> 25:18.960 in pictures, real quality. 25:18.960 --> 25:22.160 Not like today, gone. 25:23.280 --> 25:27.080 The good days, time, pictures, it's gone. 25:28.400 --> 25:29.240 All gone. 25:32.640 --> 25:34.720 How about at Freiburg, these cases of books here 25:34.720 --> 25:35.920 and these photographs? 25:35.920 --> 25:37.840 Not my fault, believe me. 25:37.840 --> 25:40.920 I had to make a living, I had to make money. 25:40.920 --> 25:43.800 How do you think it feels to get cheap like that? 25:43.800 --> 25:47.600 I used to be young, I was big, I was talented. 25:47.600 --> 25:49.440 I made big pictures. 25:49.440 --> 25:51.920 How do you think it feels to get cheap all of a sudden, 25:51.920 --> 25:53.560 cheap enough to do this kind of thing? 25:53.560 --> 25:55.680 Nobody forced you, it was your choice, mister. 25:55.680 --> 25:57.840 It wasn't my choice, you're wrong. 25:58.840 --> 26:00.880 All I want to do is make pictures. 26:00.880 --> 26:04.120 There isn't a chance anymore, not like the old days. 26:04.120 --> 26:07.520 You need hundreds of thousands, millions. 26:07.520 --> 26:09.960 Gone, it's all gone. 26:11.000 --> 26:14.160 Had to eat, had to put clothes on my back. 26:14.160 --> 26:15.520 You admit you're responsible for this, 26:15.520 --> 26:17.880 books, pictures, working in the high school trade, 26:17.880 --> 26:20.080 kids like Steve Banner, Bud Spencer? 26:20.080 --> 26:23.080 After 1935, I couldn't get a job. 26:23.080 --> 26:26.000 I didn't want this, I had to do it. 26:27.200 --> 26:31.000 I'm ashamed, who wouldn't be? 26:31.000 --> 26:34.160 I had to eat, it was the only way, I had to live. 26:34.160 --> 26:35.480 There's honest jobs to be had. 26:35.480 --> 26:36.720 How about this man named Jack? 26:36.720 --> 26:40.320 He was in with me, he was my cameraman back in the old days. 26:40.320 --> 26:42.560 You can't blame him either, he had to live too. 26:42.560 --> 26:43.840 You want him to come downtown with us, 26:43.840 --> 26:45.120 give us a statement? 26:45.120 --> 26:48.200 Yeah, sure, all right, anything. 26:48.200 --> 26:49.680 How about the parties, the two girls, 26:49.680 --> 26:51.440 Laura Osborne, Dorothy Ryan? 26:51.440 --> 26:53.040 I took some pictures, that's all. 26:53.040 --> 26:55.520 I didn't harm them, nothing anyway. 26:55.520 --> 26:57.560 You had it wrong, Fieberg, you know that. 26:57.560 --> 26:59.040 Yeah, I know. 26:59.040 --> 27:00.960 Just to have the kids there, 27:00.960 --> 27:03.360 made you remember the days in your life, 27:03.360 --> 27:05.480 best days in anybody's life. 27:05.480 --> 27:06.600 Let's go. 27:06.600 --> 27:08.040 When you used to have money, 27:09.360 --> 27:10.720 when you used to be young. 27:10.720 --> 27:15.720 The story you have just heard was true. 27:19.080 --> 27:22.120 The names were changed to protect the innocent. 27:22.120 --> 27:24.920 On January 29th, trial was held in Superior Court, 27:24.920 --> 27:27.320 Department 87, City and County of Los Angeles, 27:27.320 --> 27:28.800 State of California. 27:28.800 --> 27:31.120 In a moment, the results of that trial. 27:31.120 --> 27:33.360 And now, here is our star, Jack Webb. 27:33.360 --> 27:34.800 Thank you, George Fenomen. 27:34.800 --> 27:36.480 Friends, won't you do this for me? 27:36.480 --> 27:39.280 Compare Fatima with any other things I've ever seen. 27:39.280 --> 27:42.600 You'll find Fatima's length filters the smoke 85 millimeters 27:42.600 --> 27:43.960 for your protection, 27:43.960 --> 27:46.360 cools the smoke for your protection. 27:46.360 --> 27:48.680 Fatima's length gives you those extra puffs, 27:48.680 --> 27:51.800 21% longer than standard cigarette size. 27:51.800 --> 27:54.240 And you get an extra mild and soothing smoke, 27:54.240 --> 27:56.880 plus the added protection of Fatima quality. 27:56.880 --> 27:59.080 That's why I'd like you to buy Fatima. 27:59.080 --> 28:10.080 The suspects, Charles Eamon Freyberg and his accomplice, 28:10.080 --> 28:12.920 Jack L. Lavery, were tried and convicted on four counts 28:12.920 --> 28:15.640 of contributing to the delinquency of minors. 28:15.640 --> 28:18.760 Both of them served full terms in the county jail. 28:18.760 --> 28:21.440 Contributing to the delinquency of minors is punishable 28:21.440 --> 28:24.280 by a fine of not more than $1,000, 28:24.280 --> 28:26.240 or by imprisonment in the county jail 28:26.240 --> 28:27.600 for more than a year. 28:27.600 --> 28:30.520 Or by both fine and imprisonment. 28:30.520 --> 28:34.000 You have just heard Dragnet, 28:34.000 --> 28:37.360 a series of authentic cases from official files. 28:37.360 --> 28:40.000 Technical advice comes from the Office of Chief of Police, 28:40.000 --> 28:42.800 W.H. Parker, Los Angeles Police Department. 28:42.800 --> 28:44.520 Heard tonight were Barney Phillips, 28:44.520 --> 28:46.720 Virginia Gregg and Ralph Moody. 28:46.720 --> 28:48.520 Script by Jim Martin, 28:48.520 --> 28:51.120 and the director of the Department of Public Affairs, 28:51.120 --> 28:53.920 and the director of the Department of Public Affairs, 28:53.920 --> 28:56.920 and the director of the Department of Public Affairs, 28:56.920 --> 28:58.480 and the director of the Department by Jim Moser. 28:58.480 --> 29:00.240 Music by Walter Schuman. 29:00.240 --> 29:01.560 Hal Gibney speaking. 29:05.360 --> 29:06.920 Fatima cigarettes. 29:06.920 --> 29:09.120 Best of all, king-sized cigarettes 29:09.120 --> 29:11.760 has brought you Dragnet Transcribed from Los Angeles. 29:11.760 --> 29:14.240 ["Dragnet"] 29:17.560 --> 29:20.560 Now it's Counter-Spy on NBC. 29:20.560 --> 29:25.560 ["Dragnet"]