60 Minutes1968

Tom Bradley:
I dare say you could go around this city and you wouldn't find more than a dozen people who were aware there was such a charge of conspiracy.

Himself - Correspondent:
The conspiracy didn't hit Los Angeles until the end of World War 2, a month after the new owners took over the transit company. Two hundred thirty-seven new buses arrived; this followed a year in which the electric lines had made a million and a half dollars and carried over 200 million passengers. By the end of GM's motorization campaign in 1955, almost 90% of the streetcars were gone from from American cities, including Los Angeles.