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The Badge: True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV, from the Creator and Star of Dragnet Paperback - 2005

by Jack Webb; Introduction by James Ellroy

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Webb's collection of stories that could not be presented on TV includes untold, behind-the-scenes accounts of the Black Dahlia murder, the Brenda Allen confessions, Stephen Nash's "thrill murders," and Donald Bashor's "sleeping lady murders," to name a few.

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Before Charlie's Angels, Miami Vice, or NYPD Blue, there was Dragnet. From 1951 to 1959, Jack Webb starred as Sergeant Joe Friday in the most successful police drama in television history. Webb (Just the facts, ma'am) was also the creator of Dragnet, and what made the show so revolutionary was its documentary-style format and the fact that each episode was "ripped" from the files of the LAPD. But 1950s television censors deemed many of the stories in the LAPD's files too violent or sensational for the airwaves. The Badge is Webb's collection of stories that could not be presented on TV: untold, behind-the-scenes accounts of the Black Dahlia murder, the Brenda Allen confessions, Stephen Nash's "thrill murders," and Donald Bashor's "sleeping lady murders," to name just a few. Case by case, The Badge takes readers on a spine chilling police tour through the dark, shadowy world of Los Angeles crime. It is a journey that, even four decades after it originally appeared in print, no reader is likely to forget.

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THE WAY IT IS WITH SO MANY WOMEN WHO LIVE ALONE, life had held back on Karil Graham.

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  • Title The Badge: True and Terrifying Crime Stories That Could Not Be Presented on TV, from the Creator and Star of Dragnet
  • Author Jack Webb; Introduction by James Ellroy
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 310
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2005-05-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Glossary, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781560256885 / 1560256885
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 1 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southern California
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
  • Category True Crime / Espionage
  • Library of Congress subjects Los Angeles (Calif.), Police - California - Los Angeles
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2005281695
  • Dewey Decimal Code 364.9

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Citations

  • Ingram Advance, 05/01/2005, Page 119
  • Library Journal, 06/01/2005, Page 192

About the author

Jack Webb began in film, but it was Dragnet that brought him popular and critical acclaim. After Dragnet, Webb returned to feature films both as a director and as an actor, and for a time was head of Warner Television. Upon his death in 1982 he was buried with full honors by the LAPD, including a seventeen-gun salute.

James Ellroy is the bestselling author of L.A. Confidential, The Black Dahlia, and My Dark Places, among others.

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