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    Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh Jr. (born January 22, 1937) is an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United...
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  • Police. Though not the first police officer to write procedurals, Joseph Wambaugh's success has caused him to become the exemplar of cops who turn their...
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  • neo-noir crime drama film directed by Harold Becker and written by Joseph Wambaugh, based on his 1973 true crime book of the same name. The film stars...
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  • 2020-09-26. Wambaugh. p. 216 United States v. Orr, 29 F.3d 636 (9th Cir. 1994-07-21). Wambaugh. p. 227 Wambaugh, pp. 216-217 Wambaugh, p. 221-222 Wambaugh, p....
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    Chief William H. Parker during the 1950s; author and police officer Joseph Wambaugh in the 1970s, by which time "thin blue line" was used across the United...
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  • directed by Robert Aldrich, written by Christopher Knopf and Joseph Wambaugh based on Wambaugh's 1975 novel of the same name. It features an ensemble cast...
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  • novel of the same name by author and policeman (both at that time) Joseph Wambaugh. It stars George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Scott Wilson, Jane Alexander...
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  • The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes...
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  • Echoes in the Darkness is the title of a 1984 book by crime writer Joseph Wambaugh which also became a made-for-TV movie in 1987. The book details the...
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  • Wambaugh is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Eugene Wambaugh (1856–1940), American legal scholar Joseph Wambaugh (born 1937), American...
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  • Prentiss and Harry Dean Stanton. It is based on the 1978 novel by Joseph Wambaugh. Pragmatic Sgt. Natalie Zimmerman of the LAPD is paired with Sgt. Valnikov...
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    and 1987. The show was created by author and former police officer Joseph Wambaugh and was described by The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network and...
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  • 1970s drama Police Story, written by former LAPD Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh.[citation needed] On the September 13, 1965 episode of To Tell The...
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    known as the "Onion Field" Killer, Powell's story was depicted in Joseph Wambaugh's 1973 non-fiction book, The Onion Field. The book was later adapted...
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  • Lines and Shadows is a 1984 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a former police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the activities...
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  • The Choirboys (novel) (category Novels by Joseph Wambaugh)
    fiction written by Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh. In 1995 the novel was selected by the Mystery Writers of America as...
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  • The Blue Knight (novel) (category Novels by Joseph Wambaugh)
    Knight is the second novel by former Los Angeles Police detective Joseph Wambaugh, written while he was still a serving detective. Published in 1972...
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    The New Centurions (1972) directed by Flesicher based on a book by Joseph Wambaugh. Scott then appeared in a series of box office flops, beginning with...
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  • multiple lawsuits against the Pennsylvania State Police and against Joseph Wambaugh, "accusing them of colluding to convict him falsely, but lost all of...
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  • Garner, Margot Kidder and John Lithgow. The film, based on the 1981 Joseph Wambaugh Hollywood-set homicide novel of the same name, was directed by Stuart...
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  • first choice was former police officer and best-selling author Joseph Wambaugh, but Wambaugh refused, saying he didn't believe a national dragnet would work...
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    a two-episode program, "Year of the Dragon" (1975), a creation of Joseph Wambaugh; as Paul, a jewel thief, in The Streets of San Francisco with Karl...
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    Retrieved 1 April 2010. Joseph Wambaugh, The Blooding (New York, New York: A Perigord Press Book, 1989), 369. Joseph Wambaugh, The Blooding (New York...
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  • The Delta Star (category Novels by Joseph Wambaugh)
    The Delta Star is a novel by author Joseph Wambaugh, published in 1983. The book is about a group of police in the Rampart Division of the Los Angeles...
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  • crimes were originally chronicled in the 1989 book The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh. Pitchfork's crimes were aired on the American true crime series Forensic...
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    Bumper Morgan. The show was based on the 1973 novel of the same name by Joseph Wambaugh and produced by Lorimar Productions. It was also inspired by the 1973...
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  • TV film 1992 Keep the Change Astrid TV film 1992 From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One Christine Avila TV film 1993 Crime & Punishment Detective...
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  • Lyn Nelson, marine painter Meagan Tandy, Miss California USA 2007 Joseph Wambaugh, author of novels often involving Los Angeles Police Department Frank...
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  • 1992 Dangerous Curves Courtney Douglas "Daddy Dearest" (season 2, episode 2) 1992 From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One Rita Mulick TV movie...
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  • Barbara Vine, pseudonym of Ruth Rendell H. Russell Wakefield (1888–1964) Joseph Wambaugh (1937–) Charlie Wells Patricia Wentworth (1878–1961) Donald Westlake...
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