RARA-AVIS: RE: Angeleno Cop-Writers

From: Duane Spurlock ( duane@emazing.com)
Date: 28 Sep 2001


JIM DOHERTY < jimdohertyjr@yahoo.com> wrote:

<< Los Angeles has always been a fertile ground for growing cops who become writers. For example, it's worth noting, in the wake of the debut of the latest STAR TREK series, for example, that Gene Roddenberry, then an LAPD sergeant, got his start as a screenwriter putting together screen treatments of real-life cases for DRAGNET.>>

I didn't know that!

<< LESLIE WHITE GORDON GORDON
>>

Is this the fellow whose name I've seen on book spines as "The Gordons"?

<< BERT HITCHENS JOHN BALL WILLIAM CAMP JESS KIMBROUGH JOSEPH WAMBAUGH
>>

Excellent survey, Jim! Thanks very much -- I look forward to seeing more!
-- Duane

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