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The Burton-Brown organization spawned a who’s who of leaders, including two San Francisco mayors — George Moscone, who was a high school friend, and Brown, the most powerful Assembly speaker in California history.

The movie has spawned a number of memes, including close-ups of the characters’ expressive faces.

The sweeping nature of the arrests drew immediate criticism as racial profiling and spawned robust community condemnation.

“Jaws,” which premiered 50 years ago this summer, was the first of the big-budget action pictures that spawned a near-infinite series of remakes, sequels and franchises.

The Georgia incident had spawned thousands of false threats looping through social media feeds across the country.