Hollywood tackled the 1963 kidnap and killing of Los Angeles police officer Ian James Campbell in the 1979 film “The Onion Field.” But the film ended up playing a role in ensuring that one of the two ...

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Gregory Powell, who was convicted of killing a Los Angeles police officer during an infamous kidnapping that inspired Joseph Wambaugh's true-life crime book "The Onion Field," has died in prison at ...

Joseph Wambaugh, whose experience as an LAPD officer enabled him to bring a warts-and-all realism to his novels about policing and the movies and TV shows like “Police Story,” died Friday in Rancho ...

OLDER FARE: "Flirting" (1991), "The Long Goodbye" (1973), "The Moderns" (1988), "The Onion Field" (1979), "The Pride of the Yankees" (1942), "Texasville" (1990 ...