This is Your FBI: Draft Dodging - Dr Woodbury

This is your FBI. This is your FBI, an official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. To your FBI, you look for national security, and to the Equitable Society for Financial Security.

These two great institutions are dedicated to the protection of you, your home, and your country. Tonight, the story of a crime against our war effort. Draft dodgering. It's not news when a man is drafted.

And notice rarely appears in the nation's newspapers unless that man is a celebrity. It is news though when a man is caught trying to evade the draft. And so notice does appear in the papers.

That's why it may seem that we have had many draft dodges in this war. Actually we haven't. Actually the number has been very small, particularly when compared to the last war, when seven out of every thousand men were delinquent.

When whole areas like Times Square and New York were roped off and slacker raids were common. In this war instead of seven, only one out of each thousand eligible has been delinquent. The FBI has vigorously sought to get men in the army instead of jail.

Those who have tried to make a racket out of the draft have tried many schemes. Some of their victims, like teenage kids just out of high school, earning their first real paychecks in war plants, and reluctant in a rather human way to give up those checks and go to war, have been misled by a vicious type of criminal.

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