Qualla: Newhall Incident https://qualla.com/newhall-incident en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:10 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Newhall Incident https://qualla.com/newhall-incident Newhall Incident: Introduction https://qualla.com/newhall-incident/ At 11:54 p.m. on April 5, 1970, California Highway Patrol officers Walt Frago and Roger Gore pulled over a vehicle on the side of the road near Newhall, California. Both were young—Frago was 23, Gore was 23—and both had been with the CHP for less than two years. The traffic stop lasted minutes. By the time it was over, Frago and Gore were dead, and two more officers who arrived as backup, George Alleyn and James Pence, would soon be dead as well. Four officers. Less than thirty minutes. Seven children left without fathers.

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/5/e/newhall-incident-wp/9q5e-newhall-incident-the-night-of-april-5.mp3 0:06 2 full Newhall Incident: The Men Who Died https://qualla.com/newhall-incident/ George Michael Alleyn was 24 years old. Walter Carroll Frago was 23. Roger Davis Gore was 23. James E. Pence Jr. was 24. All four had been married. Among them they had seven children. All had joined the California Highway Patrol within the previous two years, young men at the beg...

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/5/e/newhall-incident-wp/9q5e-newhall-incident-the-men-who-died.mp3 0:06 3 full Newhall Incident: What Changed After That Night https://qualla.com/newhall-incident/ Law enforcement agencies across the country studied the Newhall incident the way aviation authorities study plane crashes: looking for every decision that went wrong, every gap in training or procedure that contributed to the outcome. The analysis was unflinching. Officers Frago ...

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]]> Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/q/5/e/newhall-incident-wp/9q5e-newhall-incident-what-changed-after-that-night.mp3 0:06 4 full Newhall Incident: A Stretch of Highway Named for Four Men https://qualla.com/newhall-incident/ In 2006, the California legislature designated a stretch of Interstate 5 between Rye Canyon Road and Magic Mountain Parkway as the "California Highway Patrol Officers James E. Pence, Jr., Roger D. Gore, Walter C. Frago, and George M. Alleyn Memorial Highway." A dedication ceremon...

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