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This is Your FBI: The Big Breakout

This is Your FBI · November 30, 1945 · 29 min · 3,762 words

The transcript of “The Big Breakout”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast November 30, 1945. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Thanksgiving Radio plays This is Your FBI free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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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, and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

The FVI 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's file, the big breakout.

All criminals suffer from the same organic disorder, enlargement of the ego, And sooner or later it proves fatal to their career of crime. Or as an ancient thinker once said, he is most vulnerable who believes himself invincible.

For some criminals, one heavy prison sentence is enough to deflate their ego. But in tonight's case from the files of your FBI, Earl Dixon accepted his first set of prison bars not as a defeat, but as a great opportunity to prove himself smarter than the law.

In a Midwestern penitentiary, Dixon's serving a term for hijacking and two fellow inmates are seated in their cell after the evening meal. Cigarette gentlemen? Rock? Ah, thanks, Dixie. Luane? That's the bus you can do, Dixie.

Of course, I'm used to lighting a corona after a festival. You're used to talking too much, Lui. Somebody's got to keep the yard at chatter alive in our little home. Rock is a man of action rather than words.

Well, you weren't exactly the gabby type yourself, Dixie. I've been interested in only one subject since matriculating here, but you ain't talking about it, eh? I never talk on a subject until I'm qualified by research.

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