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Joseph Wambaugh, LA cop who wrote ‘The Onion Field’ and other bestsellers, dies at 88
The prolific author, who initially planned to be an English teacher, had been with the Los Angeles Police Department 11 years ...
San Diego Union-Tribune on MSN5d
Joseph Wambaugh, Ex-Calif. Police Officer Turned Best-Selling Writer, Dies
A former Los Angeles police officer who wrote "The Onion Fields," Joseph Wambaugh tried to "put people in the cops' skin" in ...
Joseph Wambaugh, cop-turned-best-selling-author, dies at 88
Unlike those on 'Dragnet' and other cop shows, Wambaugh's fictional officers were often compromised and deeply flawed ...
Joseph Wambaugh, author who knew gritty reality of cop life, dies at 88
Mr. Wambaugh’s best-selling books included the Los Angeles police novels “The New Centurions” and the true crime drama “The ...
Joseph Wambaugh, Author With a Cop’s-Eye View, Is Dead at 88
In novels like “The Glitter Dome” and nonfiction works like “The Onion Field,” he took a harsh, unglamorous look at the ...
Joseph Wambaugh, L.A. Cop Turned Novelist and Screenwriter, Dies at 88
He wrote 'The Onion Field,' 'The New Centurions' and 'The Blue Knight' and created the realistic anthology series 'Police ...
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Joseph Wambaugh, ex-LAPD officer who wrote ‘The Onion Field’ and other bestsellers, dies at 88
The son of a police officer, Joseph Aloysius Wambaugh, Jr. had planned to become a teacher after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cal State Los Angeles. He said he chose law ...
Joseph Wambaugh Dies: ‘The Onion Field’ Writer, ‘Police Story’ Creator Was 88
In 1971, eleven years after joining the LAPD, Wambaugh saw his first novel, The New Centurions, published by Little, Brown ...
Joseph Wambaugh, Creator of ‘Police Story’ and ‘Onion Field’ Writer, Dies at 88
Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD officer who brought realism to the "Police Story" TV series and books like "The Onion Field, ...
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Joseph Wambaugh, LA cop who wrote ‘The Onion Field’ and other bestsellers, dies at 88
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote the gripping, true-crime bestseller “The Onion Field” and numerous gritty but darkly humorous novels about day-to-day police work drawn from his ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution8d
Joseph Wambaugh, LA cop who wrote 'The Onion Field' and other bestsellers, dies at 88
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote the gripping, true-crime bestseller "The Onion Field" and numerous gritty but darkly humorous novels about day-to-day police work drawn from his own ...