William Parker, Part 3

Posted on June 19, 2007 by lmharnisch

June 19, 1957
Los Angeles

This will be fascinating reading to anyone interested in the LAPD in the 1930s and ’40s, but never forget that it is told from the viewpoint of one man: William H. Parker. I wish I had time to pick apart his statements, because he refers to many incidents that are worth pursuing. With luck, I’ll have time to track them down as this blog unfolds. In the meantime, here’s Chief Parker.

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Part 1

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Part 2

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3 Responses to William Parker, Part 3

  1. Joe D'Augustine's avatar Joe D'Augustine says:
    June 19, 2007 at 4:40 pm

    Didn’t Parker get in some trouble before he went into the Army?
    –I’m not aware of anything in that regard and can’t readily locate anything in the clips. Though he was a controversial figure, Parker had the reputation among his officers of being squeaky clean. It’s not in his Times obituary, but to the best of my recollection, he was in the Marines, not the Army, and I believe he was a colonel. I’ll see if I can dig up the information.
    Cheers,
    Larry

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  2. johnny_yuma's avatar johnny_yuma says:
    June 19, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    I’d really like it if you could track down some more of the stuff in these pieces.
    Also, the text of some of these articles is very difficult to decipher. Would transcription to the blog be too time consuming?
    –If you click on the page images, they will open in a pop-up window at full size and should be fairly readable…. Give it a try. Maybe you have pop-ups disabled.
    Cheers,
    Larry

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  3. Richard H's avatar Richard H says:
    June 21, 2007 at 10:18 am

    “–If you click on the page images, they will open in a pop-up window at full size and should be fairly readable…. Give it a try. Maybe you have pop-ups disabled. ”
    Actually, at least on my computer, I only get part of the picture of the text. The full picture does not appear and no scrolling has been possible to read the entire text on some of the pictures for some reason.
    However, I found a solution to this problem.
    Click on the text in the POP-UP WINDOW (not the picture in the text of the column) and save it to a file. Open the file the text from the POP-UP WINDOW was saved to and open the saved text using a picture viewer. On my computer, the default is the Windows Picture and Fax Viewer. The entire text will appear on the viewer. On the viewer the text can be blown up either using the mouse controls or the “+” control on the screen and scrolled up and down for easy reading.
    –Thanks for sharing! Larry

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