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- Christine Collins: Why would they do this?
- Rev. Gustav Briegleb: To avoid admitting they made a mistake when they brought back the wrong boy. Of course, anyone reading the newspaper with half a brain would see through it instantly. Sadly, that would exclude about half the readership of the Times. Mrs. Collins, I have made it my mission in life to bring to light all the things the LAPD wish none of us ever knew about. A department ruled by violence, abuse, murder, corruption and intimidation. When Chief Davis took over the force two years ago, he said...
- Chief James E. Davis: We will hold court against gunmen in the streets of Los Angeles. I want them brought in dead, not alive, and I will reprimand any officer who shows the least mercy to a criminal.
- Rev. Gustav Briegleb: He picked 50 of the most violent cops on the force, gave them machine guns and permission to shoot anyone who got in their way. He called them the Gun Squad. No lawyers, no trials, no questions, no suspensions, no investigations, just piles of bodies. Bodies in the morgues, bodies in the hospitals, bo
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Monday morning, March 16, 2009
It’s not common for a mainline denominational pastor to be a hero in an academy award winning film, but that’s what happened this year. What’s even better is that the real life character that inspired the screen actor is grandfather to two friends of mine (they are cousins).
This preacher feared no one. In the roaring twenties, when the consumption of alcohol was a violation of federal law and Al Capone ran Chicago and the Patrick J. Kennedy ran Boston, Los Angeles kept pace with the other major cities in America. Crime went unchecked. Guns and grit controlled the streets. These were the days of economic boom. Values were high. The stock market made millionaires. Unemployment was virtually non-existent. Parties were extravagant and frequent. Some consider it a period of moral and ethical anarchy.
“Fighting Bob Shuler,” pastored the largest Methodist Church in Los Angeles. His technical guys set up a broadcasting tower on the roof of the church and secured a clear channel on the radio. Shuler’s pe
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Introduction
I find myself sitting here amidst stacks of Briegleb family history in the form of newspaper articles and photographs, which are evoking memories of years gone by. Some good, some not so good. I will attempt to put the foregoing on this site in the days, months and years to come. The 30 or so years of my family’s and others experiences at El Mirage could undoubtedly fill volumes. But it won’t. I have my limits. To begin with, the reader will learn about some of my ancestors, most noteworthy, my Grandfather, Gustav Arminius Briegleb (GAB), my father William Gustave Briegleb (Gus) my mother Annie Briegleb, and brother Ken. The narrative will then follow my family’s journey from Van Nuys, California to the Mojave Desert where my Dad purchased from the War Assets Administration an ex army airfield known as Mirage Field Auxiliary #3. The viewer, reader of this site will notice a section of pictures that will eventually accompany the story of my experiences in homebuilt/experimental aviation in which I’m still active. My father was always inv
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