Media
Parts of Glatman's career were fictionalized by Jack Webb in the 1966 TV movie Dragnet. The film convinced TV executives to relaunch Dragnet as a TV series in 1967 for a four-year run. Dragnet 1966, however, was not aired until 1969. It is notable for dialogue based on Glatman's own statements to police, including this:
Criminal: "The reason I killed those girls was 'cause they asked me to. (pause) They did; all of them."
Officer: "They asked you to."
Criminal: "Sure. They said they'd rather be dead than be with me."
Capt. Pierce Brooks, LAPD, who helped trick Glatman into revealing where his toolbox was, served as a technical advisor for the film.
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“Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing more than a system of rewards and punishments based upon one’s ability to pledge loyalty oaths to Anglo culture. The media and the “educational system” are the prime sources of racism in the United States.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)