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This is Your FBI: The Walkie-Talkie Stick-Up

This is Your FBI · July 19, 1946 · 29 min · 3,919 words

The transcript of “The Walkie-Talkie Stick-Up”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast July 19, 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.

Are you one of the 50 million Americans covered by Social Security? If so, have you any clear idea of your rights and benefits under Social Security? Well, there may be a pleasant surprise in store for you.

For in a few minutes you will learn from our sponsor, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, how easy it is to build Social Security into full security. Tonight's FBI file, the Walkie Talkie Stick-Up.

During six horrible years of war, Millions of human beings were slaughtered, and today countless other millions are homeless and starving. All because the younger generations of two nations had been imbued with a savage contempt for the rights and property of others.

Had grown up in the belief that the way to get what you want was to steal it, and if necessary, use a gun. Today the lives and rights and property of American citizens are being assaulted by the biggest army of criminals in the country's entire history.

How old are they? More than one out of five is under twenty-one years of age, and the percentage is increasing. Last year the largest number of arrests in all age groups was a boys and girls seventeen years old.

Boys, more or less like those in tonight's case from the files of your FBI. Young Jack Chase, whose crippled leg had long since earned him the cruel nickname, Guimphade, spent most of his time in his little workshop in the cellar of the Chase House in Cincinnati.

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