Richard Whitaker

In 1969 I took my plain clothes unit to a theater in Downtown Los Angeles to catch the first when it first aired on the BIG screen. Best Western made. All you heard was cops shoutin" , woman screaming and my partner yelling as he turned and looked directly into the eyes of a rat the size of a mid-sized cat staring at him from the balcony step next to his nose. Those were the days when being a cop in Los Angeles meant something!. When we cleaned the streets, we cleaned the streets. Whitaker October 1965