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- ↑ "'Dragnet' actor Jack Webb dead at 62". Associated Press. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ↑ Hayde, Michael J. (2001). My Name's Friday: The Unauthorized But True Story of Dragnet and the Films of Jack Webb. Nashville, TN: Cumberland House Publishing, Inc. p. 14. ISBN 1581821905 . Retrieved 4 July 2015.
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