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Jack Webb’s One Out of Seven

Jack Webb performing in the Dragnet television series.

by Andrew Hamilton

ONE OF Hollywood’s most successful personalities was Jewish actor, writer, director, and producer Jack Webb, active for four decades in radio, television, and movies. He is best-known for his role as Los Angeles police Sergeant Joe Friday in the fictionalized police series Dragnet on radio, television, and in a motion picture.

Webb began his long career in radio as the 25-year-old co-creator and star of a short-lived weekly “documentary drama” radio series called One Out of Seven on San Francisco’s KGO AM radio station. KGO, previously owned by NBC, then belonged to the newly formed American Broadcasting Company (ABC). Seven episodes of the show were broadcast in February and March 1946.

Each opened with the following announcement: “Twenty-four hours make a day. Seven days make one week. And from these past seven days the editors here in our San Francisco newsroom have chosen the one story which they have judged most worthy of retelling. This is One Out of Seven!”

The actor Jack Webb, seen here circa 1945, was half-Jewish (father) according to Jewish writer Maurice Zolotow, who interviewed him in the 1950s.

Like today’s fake news and entertainment, the broadcasts, peddled as true stories, were heavily propagandistic and anti-White. As a voice actor Jack Webb portrayed every character in every episode, doing impressions of famous people and using a variety of dialects ranging from Blacks to Jews to the stereotyped evil German Nazi and Southern racist in “Free Men.”

The inaugural episode of February 6, 1946, sneeringly entitled “Senator Bilbo is an Honorable Man,” was a harsh attack on U.S. Senator Theodore Bilbo (D.-Miss.). America’s controlled media were running a concerted campaign against Bilbo that year because he was up for reelection.

The author of a self-published book entitled Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization (1947), Bilbo had been influenced by the ideas of Black leader Marcus Garvey, who in turn praised the Senator. In 1938 Bilbo proposed an amendment to a federal work relief bill to deport 12 million Black Americans to Liberia at federal expense to relieve Depression-era unemployment.

Theodore Bilbo

Although the Senator won reelection in 1946 despite the massive, one-sided Jewish-Leftist press battering he was forced to endure, the Republican-dominated Senate, ignoring the vote, refused to seat him. The following year the Jewish propaganda film Gentleman’s Agreement, a defamatory attack on Americans’ alleged “anti-Semitism” starring Leftist movie star Gregory Peck, mentioned Bilbo as an exemplar of bigotry.

Ironically, like most Southern “racists,” Bilbo had Jewish friends and never criticized Jews the way he did Blacks. His campaign manager in 1940 was a Jew, and he once said, “I’m for every damned Jew from Jesus Christ on down.” Though this brought no tolerance from God’s chosen people, Bilbo would never have dreamed of returning their hatred in kind.

The other episodes of One Out of Seven followed the same pattern, among them “National Brotherhood Week,” “The Coming Third World War” (pushing One World internationalism), “Anti-Negro South,” “Equality: A Most Wonderful Thing,” and “Free Men” (anti-German, anti-Southern). The latter episode was interspersed with Negro spirituals; in real life Webb was a connoisseur of Negro jazz.

The now century-long media campaign against Whites of which Webb’s program was a small part, beamed ceaselessly, daily, to a passive audience of millions and millions of people, combined with rigid censorship of alternative views, has caused the deaths of millions of human beings, the rapid destruction of Western civilization, and now genocide.

No individual or movement has yet been able to overthrow this hatred and power, and few have challenged it. Most do not even see the problem because they are part of it: some knowingly, others irresponsibly or zombielike.

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Robert McNamara
Robert McNamara
26 July, 2017 9:09 am

Ironically, the 1960’s/70’s version of “Dragnet” features a great many episodes with a socio-political slant many WN’s today would agree with, featuring anti-leftist, anti-drug use, anti-flower children, anti-black power, and all-around anti-freak stories spotlighting what was then only the beginning of what would later become the Cultural Marxist society we know today.

In fact, I remember back then how “Dragnet” was attacked for its right-wing “moralizing”, and it indeed was that. In fact, it was one of the last TV shows to fight the onrushing tide of cultural change sweeping both our government and our society. So if Webb was a “bad Jew”, just imagine what those who opposed his TV show must have been like.

Kevin Alfred Strom
Kevin Alfred Strom
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Reply to  Robert McNamara
26 July, 2017 4:12 pm

I do remember that Dragnet seemed conservative, just as you described, and appealed to conservatives. Its characters dressed, acted, and spoke in a way that harked back to an earlier time. But I think the main effect of the show was to gain a large audience of anti-counterculture Americans and then constrain them to attitudes and “solutions” that never trespassed into the forbidden territory of racial thinking. Misbehaving “Black power” types were taught to respect and obey the System, and the audience was supposed to be pleased when Blacks “acted right” and became “good Americans.” (I am sure there were episodes where messages of real decency were conveyed, but always on issues that didn’t challenge our racial dispossession.) The audience was given the impression that the Establishment and its authority… Read more »

David Pringle
David Pringle
Reply to  Kevin Alfred Strom
28 July, 2017 3:35 pm

Laura Lee and I have been watching old films recently. Across the board every film has anti-White themes and portrayals. Take Mayberry RFD for example. The only adult who is married (Otis) complains about his wife and is drunk all the time. All the rest are single. Widow, widower, Gomer Pyle. The program is an outright assault on White men and masculinity. Why does Barney only have one bullet?

I met with Jack Webb in 1978 in his office and ate lunch at his private dining table in Universal Studios. Our meeting and lunch was part of the propaganda program discussed above. The only reason I was there was because I saved the child of an illegal Mexican from a house fire in our neighborhood.

Harvey
Harvey
Reply to  Kevin Alfred Strom
29 July, 2017 2:34 pm

Excellent clarification — this narrative phenomenon in TV deserves some kind of terminology, because it really is present throughout numerous sorts of shows in this medium. It is a little like balking in baseball.

Although “Dragnet” now has a slightly darker meaning in light of its method of unsolved problem spectacle, as nostalgic viewing, Dragnet was appealing because it demonstrated a civic respect for the law. Citizens dressed like it mattered — instead of technology gadgets being flashed as culture, sartorial presentation functioned as a citizenship oriented cultural technology.

Andrew Hamilton
Andrew Hamilton
5 August, 2019 11:09 pm

Jack Webb and Harry Morgan tracked down dastardly American neo-Nazis in this half-hour color episode of Dragnet called “The Big Explosion” (complete), broadcast on NBC TV on January 19, 1967.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnhj7z_EdUs

“The story you have just seen is true. The names were changed to protect the innocent.”

“Donald Lewis Chapman” now serving his life sentence in San Quentin.

Viewed nearly 700,000 times on YT since it was posted by a Negro in 2011.

Phil
Phil
6 August, 2019 11:20 pm

“The following year the Jewish propaganda film Gentleman’s Agreement, a defamatory attack on Americans’ alleged “anti-Semitism” starring Leftist movie star Gregory Peck, mentioned Bilbo as an exemplar of bigotry.”

Funny how these sanctimonious white liberals and Jews live as far as they possibly can away from blacks.

“Bigotry” = Whites wanting to live amongst their own kind.

Time Traveler
Time Traveler
7 August, 2019 10:33 am

“Ironically, the 1960’s/70’s version of “Dragnet” features a great many episodes with a socio-political slant many WN’s today would agree with, featuring anti-leftist, anti-drug use, anti-flower children, anti-black power, and all-around anti-freak stories spotlighting what was then only the beginning of what would later become the Cultural Marxist society we know today.” Agreed, as I was a regular viewer of the show when it originally ran. Back then, some of the episodes cast a spotlight on the “flower children” of the time and were downright hilarious, and remain so today. In fact, and as you stated,Dragnet attacked many leftist icons of the day during a time when it was still possible to do so. So, yes, both back then as well as today, it was clearly on the Right side… Read more »

Eugene
Eugene
4 June, 2021 8:25 am

I just listened to a replay on my TV of a Dragnet episode, I had seen them years ago, and to me Television was , other than the news, just something to listen to to relax after working all day, sit down, and just not have to be mentally alert for awhile, and not as a means of entertainment. But listening to him today, , his attitude, arrogance , method of looking as though comments by his characters in the programs were silly, stupid, unreasonable, unrealistic, or he couldn’t believe some of the things people said or believed made me believe that Jack Webb had to be a Jew, especially because of his voice and it’s sound of arrogance. I’ve noticed that in some Jews , their voices , its… Read more »

Eugene
Eugene
4 June, 2021 10:14 am

I just read the big write up on Wipedia about Jack Webb and not one word could I find about him being Jewish. It tells of him not knowing his father but makes sure to mention that he was brought up in his mother’s Catholic faith. How many other stories of Jews being brought up or pretending to be Catholic, are there? Oh!! John Kerry.