Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/19

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Subject: [Leica] More on the forbidden bank
From: kenfphoto at gmail.com (Ken Firestone)
Date: Tue Jun 19 05:43:52 2007
References: <4ea832d10706181949w2279ace8q6e3b199fd434a4d9@mail.gmail.com> <C29CD2F8.5C2F5%mark@rabinergroup.com>
 
On 6/19/07, Mark Rabiner <mark@rabinergroup.com> wrote:
>
>
> >>
> >> Especially Chicago cops. At least they were during the late 70s and
> early
> > 80s when I lived and photographed there.
> >
> > Ken Firestone
> >
>
> Not known for being practically human in the 60s during the Chicago riots
> and after. And before. That's all stuff of legend.
> I'm sure they've mellowed out.
> Its not as if its still Mayer Daley or anything.
>
>
Most of the bad actors in the department were gone by the early seventies. A
friend of mine did a story for the Chicago Tribune about this.

And at least one of the bad guys, changed, moved up in the ranks,
and became one of the "best friends a photojournalist could have.

Ken Firestone
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