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This is Your FBI: The Sinister Witness

This is Your FBI · July 26, 1946 · 29 min · 4,399 words

The transcript of “The Sinister Witness”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast July 26, 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'll 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 Sinister Witness.

Sometimes, as you listen to these programs taken from the files of your FBI, it may occur to you that the characters involved are from another world. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Every hour of every day you are living closer to crime than you think. For the best proof of that, consider tonight's case, a case involving a person who might be you. People who stay up late and protect too freely will wake up the next morning with a hangover. That is a medical fact. A hangover can happen to a professor, a fireman, or even

as in this story from the files of your FBI to the president of the department store, one Mr. J. B. Lamar. Mrs. Lamar is just across the bed from her husband as he opens his eyes for the first time.

Good morning, dear. Oh, no. Dear. What? Pull down the shades. Are you going to stay in bed? Shall I call the store? What time is it? About 10 o'clock. Well, days are Friday. Mm. Oh, Friday.

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