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For the laboratory, combining experts in each field can come pretty close to solving any crime.

9 seconds sound clip from the Bullets or Ballots (1939) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:38:27 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- He has a degree in law, is a master of sciences and a doctor of philosophy.

- He's been technical director of several movies dealing with crime and has worked on some eight thousand cases, hundreds of them, murders.

- As a 20th century Sherlock Holmes, tell us just how do you do it?

- Well, we have to deal in chemistry, ballistics, physics, toxicology, and handwriting.

- No one man can be outstanding in all fields.

- For the laboratory, combining experts in each field can come pretty close to solving any crime.

- To me, one of the outstanding values of our laboratory is not its power to convict the guilty, but to free the innocent.

- Hundreds of times evidence that might have otherwise convicted a perfectly innocent man, when examined in our laboratory, has freed him of every suspicion.

- I know that you are perhaps the nation's greatest expert in solving crime with the evidence of human hair. While you you might have some difficulties with me...

- What can you learn from those whose tresses are a bit more abundant?

- You'll do fine as long as you have a single hair left on your head.

[...]

Bullets or Ballots (1939) Sound Clip

Bullets or Ballots (1939)Quotes with sound clips from Bullets or Ballots - Lux Radio Theatre play originally aired on April 17, 1939.

Actors: Edward G. Robinson (Detective Johnny Blake), Mary Astor (Lee Morgan), Humphrey Bogart (Bugs Brenner), Otto Kruger (Al Kruger)

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