This week in history: July 2-8, 1948

"Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" - alfonso Bedoya in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre

By Benjamin Schachtman

July 2, 2018

Walt Disney's "Melody Time" was released in late May of 1948, but was still ruling the box offices over a month later. (Port City Daily photo | Public domain) — Walt Disney’s “Melody Time” was released in late May of 1948, but was still ruling the box offices over a month later. (Port City Daily photo | Public domain)

During the week of July 2-8, 1948:
The #1 song as “Woody Woodpecker” by Kay Kyser & His Orchestra.
The #1 movie is Disney’s “Melody Time.”
Judge Joe Brown was born and Adrien H. Gerhard, one of 12 “apostle” co-founders of the Dutch Social Democratic Workers’ Party (SDAP) died.
Quote: “Badges? We ain’t got no badges! We don’t need no badges! I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!” – Alfonso Bedoya, as Gold Hat, in Treasure of the Sierra Madre