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This is Your FBI: The Desert Dictator
This is Your FBI · November 2, 1945 · 29 min · 3,821 words
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The Equitable Society presents 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.
The 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. The Night's File, the Desert Dictator.
There is an ancient proverb which says, The sword of the wicked shall break against the wisdom of the righteous. History bears witness to the inexorable truth of that proverb, And likewise does tonight's case from the files of your FBI, in which a ruthless criminal, a killer, is defeated by it.
On a desert in Arizona, two elderly men and a girl are seated before a campfire watching the red sun poise for a moment over the peak of a distant mountain. Gradually, the red turns to pink, then to purple, then indigo.
Now it is night. Duck? Oh, I freshen up that fire you could see a little better. You better? Yeah. He didn't hear a word you said, major. No, no, Larry. Uncle Harold, you know that when you're making notes you get so engrossed you could do it in the dark.
You exaggerate by talent. Good company. Wolf. Yeah? Well, he won't bother us. I don't imagine wolves but particularly interested in archeology. Oh, Doc. Yes. I'd like to ask you something. Go ahead. I like you, and I like you niece here.
You're paying me good money to guide you around the desert? Well, just what satisfaction do you get out of digging stuff out the ground that's been there for hundreds, thousands of years? Well, not a fair question.
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