{"id":6096,"date":"2012-01-08T12:39:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2023-09-08T11:55:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T15:55:38","slug":"racket-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/01\/08\/racket-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Racket Squad!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Here’s a relic from the early 1950s that I had never heard of until the lovely and talented Tina Garceau<\/strong> had bought me one of those inexpensive DVD gift sets of old television shows that had lapsed into the public domain. This set had 100 television episodes mostly dating from the dawn of television broadcasting and mainly featuring shows that were spun off of radio programs like The Burns and Allen Show<\/strong> and Dragnet<\/strong>, but it also included shows I never heard of like Racket Squad. <\/strong>I popped the disk in, and when I saw Johnny Roventini<\/strong><\/a> calling for Philip Morris<\/strong>, I was sold! \"\"<\/a>The show always started with Reed Hadley<\/a> speaking to the camera and the TV audience at home:<\/p>\n

What you are about to see is a real-life story, taken from the files of the police racket and bunco squads, business protective associations and similar sources around the country. It is intended to expose the confidence game – the carefully worked-out frauds by which confidence men take more money each year from the American public than all the bank robbers and thugs with their violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n