The Real French Connection

Gangland Wire

Gary Jenkins

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, History

4.6 • 647 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Aaron and Gary go into the real story behind the French Connection, a popular film staring Gene Hackman. The French Connection film followed Robin Moore's true crime book that documented the exploits of famous New York Police narcotics detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso. In this episode Gary and Arron examine the real story behind how these two detectives exposed the largest heroin ring in New York City.

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1:01.2	Gangland Wire True Crime Stories is produced at the Big Dumb Fun Show Studio 4.
1:08.6	And now, here's Gary Jenkins.
1:14.1	Well, hello, all you wiretappers out there.
1:17.0	I'm here in the classic old ice house building in Midtown, Kansas City, in a very cold, icy day.
1:23.5	Sitting here with my good friend and co-host, Aaron, say hello, Aaron.
1:26.5	Hello, Aaron.
1:28.1	Aaron, tonight we're going to do a story, kind of a compare and contrast, with the French
1:34.0	connection case, the movie, and the real case. It's one of the first of these types of movies
1:40.8	and books that I read in 1971. Robin Moore was a pretty well-known non-fiction
1:46.0	writer, wrote a book called The French Connection, a true account of cops, narcotics, and
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