Attached is an article from the pages of a 1941 Collier’s Magazine profiling legendary New York Police detective Johnny Broderick, who’s words and deeds were so widely known that visiting politicians would request that he take charge of their security detail and the broadcasting moguls wanted to make radio shows celebrating his daring-do.
To be sure, many of the men who experienced the famous round-house punches of Johnny Broderick would sooner or later take a trip “up river” – and so you might want to Click here to see a 1938 photo-essay about life in Sing Sing Prison.
Click here to read about the U.S. Border Patrol in 1940.
