Covering the 1974 SLA Shootout - With Bullets Overhead

Off-Ramp® | September 12, 2009

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Jim Mitchell was one of the many reporters in the KFWB newsroom. John Rabe talks with him about his scariest story -- covering the SLA Shooutout with the LAPD from just feet away.

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