This is Your FBI: Bank Robbery - Phil Bardo, Arthur Clinton

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. 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 the community. Thanks, robbery. Man walks into a bank, calls up a teller, and walks out a few minutes later with thousands of dollars.

How has he finally caught? How has he traced? What is the clue to his identity? The answer seems easy. The tele-could describe him, that's true, but until 1934 there were about 600 bank robberies every year.

Most of them successful. Last year there were 37 most of them unsuccessful. What brought about the change? The explanation that a 1934 Congress gave the FBI jurisdiction over certain banks is not enough. The main clue to work on is still the same, the robber's description.

The real explanation lies in the FBI itself, and its organization, and its coverage, and its methods are following up at the description. Appracing bank robbers, of hunting down, for example, the two men who began plotting a bank robbery in a small rooming house in the Midwestern city a few months ago.

Hi, Artie. Hi, Phil. How are you? Two o'clock? Is I sleeping that lawn? Yep. We were riding a... No, right. I've covered right-hit Cincinnati around the 20th. That'll be the blow-off for us then, kid.

Really got a barrier, huh? Yep. And what? Then I lay off for a couple of years. That's for squares. So I wanted... ...we got a checker. And it's about all picked up, kid. Up in Minnesota.