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Much of my information comes from L.G. Crews' personal scrapbook and interviews with family members, as well as numerous articles from the Miami newspapers of the period (the Miami Herald and the Miami Daily News).  The following is a list of some other relevant sources:

Primary Sources:

 

Scrapbooks/Files

Leaston G. Crews Personal Scrapbook

James Curtis Long Personal Scrapbook

H. Leslie Quigg Folder, Historical Museum of Southern Florida.

R. Marion Quigg Personal Scrapbook

 

Articles

“Miami Beach Installs New Police Signal System.” American City, March, 1927, Pg. 439.

Denby, Ben. “No Interference in Miami’s New Police Radio.” American City, December, 1945, Pg. 114.

Isman, Felix. “Florida’s Land Boom.” Saturday Evening Post, August 22, 1925. Pg. 14.

Leighley, H.M. “Police Radio in a Florida Hurricane: Miami’s Police Radio System Serves 220 City,

            County and State Cars.” American City, January, 1942, Pg. 85.

Rucker, Ann. “Swift Justice is Meted Out by Efficient Miami, Florida Dept.” Fraternal Order of Police

            Journal, January, 1928, Pg. 15.

Tibbits, M.A. “Motorized Police.” American City, December, 1937, Pg. 15.

 

 

Secondary Sources:

George, Paul S. “Criminal Justice in Miami, 1896-1930.” Ph.D dissertation, Florida State University, 1975.

Hollingsworth, Tracy. A History of Dade County. Coral Gables: Glade House, 1949.

Kleinberg, Howard. Miami: The Way We Were. Tampa, FL: Surfside Publishing, 1989.

Muir, Helen. Miami, U.S.A. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1953/2000.

Parks, Arva Moore. Miami, the American Crossroad: a Centennial Journey, 1896-1996.

            New York: Simon&Schuster Custom Publishing, 1996.

Picchi, Blaise. The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Zangara: The Man Who Would Assassinate

            FDR. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1998. 

Redford, Polly. Billion-Dollar Sandbar: A Biography of Miami Beach. New York: E.P.

            Dutton and Company, 1970.     

Smiley, Nixon. Yesterday’s Miami. Miami, FL: E.A. Seemann Publishers, 1973.

Wilbanks, William. Forgotten Heroes: Police Officers Killed in Dade County, 1895-1996.

            Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, 1996.

 

For more sources on Miami, from its beginnings to the modern era, consult:

Weiss, Susan. Miami Bibliography. Miami, FL: Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1995.

 

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