# 50 Years of SWAT- Kenneth Parkerson

Kenneth Parkerson joined the FBI in 1966 as a night clerk in San Diego and became a special agent in 1971, working in Phoenix, Denver, and Miami. The former Navy corpsman was a member of the original FBI SWAT team in 1973. He retired from the Miami Division in 1996.

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- Kind: Short
- Year: 2023
- Runtime: 1 min
- By: FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:50_Years_of_SWAT-_Kenneth_Parkerson.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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