This is Your FBI: Bank Robbery

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 the community. Bank robbery. According to the 19th century German philosopher, Frederick Nietzsche, only the weak man is moral.

The strong man, the superior man is above morality. As the basis of the Nazi religion of the superman, this philosophy produced a nation of gangsters. It can make a criminal out of any human being who permits his ego to feed upon it.

Tonight's case is the story of a young man who made the Nietzsche philosophy his religion. A highly intellectual youth with an extraordinary educational background. He was precocious as a child, cynical as an adolescent. And now, while our story opens at a cabin resort on a lake in northern Illinois, it is nearly sundown.

Philip Houston and his young bride of a week are strolling along the lake shore. Gonna be a lovely sunset, Philip. The storm would be even more beautiful. You know, nature is never more beautiful than when she's angry.

When the thunder rolls and rumbles, crushes and lightning cuts a gash across the sky. The wild wind and rain beat against the house, and smash trees to it. And swollen streams become raging tarrants. And leap over their banks.

And crush everything in their way. Phil. Yes. I love storms too. That's part of what I've been talking to you about. Past three days. The beauty of power of force. Remember what I've said? Remember?