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The Onion Field

Joseph Wambaugh

Chronicles the events and aftermath of a confrontation between two criminals and two policemen in a California onion field which ended in death for one of the officers

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Dateline NBC

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Dateline NBC

The book by Joseph Wambaugh was mentioned in relation to the emotional impact the case had on individuals, particularly investigators who deeply involved themselves in the investigation.

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Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote great crime fiction and interview will shed a tear in the interview and then tell me not to air that, you know, because they get really emotional and they get invested.

— Episode: Talking Dateline: A Promise to Gloria

Episode: Talking Dateline: A Promise to Gloria

The book by Joseph Wambaugh was mentioned in relation to the emotional impact the case had on individuals, particularly investigators who deeply involved themselves in the investigation.

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Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote great crime fiction and interview will shed a tear in the interview and then tell me not to air that, you know, because they get really emotional and they get invested.

Morbid

Podcast

Morbid

The book was described as Wambaugh's nonfiction account of the 1963 Onion Field incident, a bestselling work that later spawned a popular film.

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Author Joseph Wambaugh, who we will talk about later, he wrote the book The Onion Fields about this story.

— Episode: The Onion Field Incident

Episode: The Onion Field Incident

The book was described as Wambaugh's nonfiction account of the 1963 Onion Field incident, a bestselling work that later spawned a popular film.

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Author Joseph Wambaugh, who we will talk about later, he wrote the book The Onion Fields about this story.

In Joseph Wambaugh's retelling of the incident in Donyon Field I mentioned earlier, it's cited in the show notes, he speculates that Powell and Smith maybe aroused the suspicions of the officers pretty quickly.

10 years after the murder, the story was in the headlines again when Joseph Wambaugh published his nonfiction account of the event, The Onion Field.

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