This is Your FBI: Crime in the Roaring 20's

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. Before opening tonight's file this first broadcast of 1946

This first week in January is a good time to look forward into the future and back at the past. We of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States are happy to report that the end of World War II finds our society in a stronger position than ever before.

Our membership, our assets, and the amount of life insurance owned by our members increased during the war years. So the Equitable Society is weathered this war as successfully as it did three previous wars and seven major depressions.

We wish to report also that in the future, as in the past, the premium dollars of Equitable Society members will be invested in ways that benefit the entire country. And by serving its members, the Equitable Society will continue to serve America.

Tonight's file, crime in the roaring 20. This week, as America begins the first year of another post-war era, he faces here at home just as he did some 25 years ago.

Those many grave problems which grow out of war. But of them all, none is a greater menace to the right of American citizens to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And that problem which is splashing more and more black ink across the front pages of our newspapers every day.

Crime. Addressing the International Association of Chiefs of Police recently, Director Jay Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, your FBI uttered this warning. After every great war, there has been a recession of moral fortitude. This one will be no exception.