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This is Your FBI: The Bogus War Bride

This is Your FBI · March 29, 1946 · 29 min · 4,286 words

The transcript of “The Bogus War Bride”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast March 29, 1946. 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 Life Assurance 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 enacting tonight's timely case, I'd like to call your attention to a very significant fact about the sponsor of tonight's program, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and that's the increasing number of women who are becoming members of the Equitable Society.

More and more, women are seeking security through life insurance. They call on Equitable Society representatives eager to know of the many uses and applications of modern life insurance. In fact, a number of our equitable society representatives are themselves women.

I'll tell you about one of them later. Just like the men, they realize the value of life insurance both to the individual policy holder and to the community. They know that by serving equitable society members, they serve America.

Tonight's FBI file, the bogus war bride. Tonight's case from the files of your FBI presents another in the series of demonstrations of gratitude for the heroic sacrifices of the returned veteran being performed daily by that lower-wrong member of America's Criminal Society.

He was first in lying, first in cheating, and first in the pockets of his countrymen. The Swindler. And a certain bar of Times Square, which became a favorite oasis of GIs during the war, two of the last three vacant stools have been quickly spotted by the deliriously happy couple just coming in the door.

Well, here we are baby. Why try to give us a couple of champagne cocktails? Okay. We got a lot of celebrating to do tonight, huh, Betty? Oh listen to that rather what rather be here than any spot on earth. That's what oh you kill me with those quick comebacks Baby, you know, that's what got me into this mess to start with

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