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The North Hollywood Shootout
Many of you will remember this. It occured on Friday, February 28, 1997 when two individuals clad in heavy body armor and armed with AK-47 assault rifles robbed the Bank of America on Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Officers from the North Hollywood Divsion of the Los Angeles Police Department observed the suspects enter the bank. Several minutes later, a 44 minute gun battle ensued. The police were so outmatched regarding firepower that they went to a local gun store to comandeer better weaponry! In the end, the suspects were the only ones to lose their lives, though several police officers and citizens were seriously wounded. This incident was the basis for the movie "44 minutes" and lots of actual video footage is available on the internet. In fact, there are also mp.3 files of all of the police radio traffic from the incident. It is very chilling to listen to. Here is a link to the recording. Scroll down to "North Hollywood Shootout". It is long, but very interesting. There is about two minutes of unrelated radio traffic before the robbery takes place.
http://www.freqofnature.com/index.php?m=Audio&p=Scanner%20Recordings
Anyway, here are a few locations if you are interested.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=34.191376~-118.396195&style=h&lvl=18&scene=3168218&cid=6C153E7875A6AFF6!242
Many of you will remember this. It occured on Friday, February 28, 1997 when two individuals clad in heavy body armor and armed with AK-47 assault rifles robbed the Bank of America on Laurel Canyon Boulevard. Officers from the North Hollywood Divsion of the Los Angeles Police Department observed the suspects enter the bank. Several minutes later, a 44 minute gun battle ensued. The police were so outmatched regarding firepower that they went to a local gun store to comandeer better weaponry! In the end, the suspects were the only ones to lose their lives, though several police officers and citizens were seriously wounded. This incident was the basis for the movie "44 minutes" and lots of actual video footage is available on the internet. In fact, there are also mp.3 files of all of the police radio traffic from the incident. It is very chilling to listen to. Here is a link to the recording. Scroll down to "North Hollywood Shootout". It is long, but very interesting. There is about two minutes of unrelated radio traffic before the robbery takes place.
http://www.freqofnature.com/index.php?m=Audio&p=Scanner%20Recordings
Anyway, here are a few locations if you are interested.
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=34.191376~-118.396195&style=h&lvl=18&scene=3168218&cid=6C153E7875A6AFF6!242
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