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

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

You can hear this line at 00:38:04 in the radio play.

Quote context

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- The battle that Johnny Blake is fighting in our play against racketeering and terrorism is being fought throughout the country by men like tonight's guest, Mr. Frank B Gompert.

- He matched the brawling and daring of gangsters with the relentless weapons of science.

- He is the criminologist in charge of the research laboratory of the sheriff's office of Los Angeles County.

- He's a policeman who fights not with machine guns, but with microscopes.

- 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.

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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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