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This is Your FBI: The Sinister Lighthouse

This is Your FBI · June 7, 1946 · 29 min · 3,788 words

The transcript of “The Sinister Lighthouse”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast June 7, 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.

Mrs. America, if your husband isn't with you by the radio tonight, please get him. Tell him that 14 minutes from now, the equitable society, the sponsor of this program, has some important news for homeowners as well as for people who are thinking of buying or building a home.

Tell him that he's going to hear about a money-saving plan that will give him and you special protection. It's known as America's finest plan for home ownership. Tonight's FBI file, the Sinister Lighthouse. As we speak to you tonight, an unprecedented tidal wave of crime is sweeping our country

from coast to coast, through village and hamlet and town and city, destroying lives and property, and smashing savagely at the very pilings on which rest the whole structure of American society. It is the biggest prime wave in the history of our country.

As to its magnitude, we need say no more than this, that major crimes alone, one of which we report tonight, are being committed at the rate of almost 5,000 every 24 hours. That morning when her wounded veteran husband was discharged from the Long Island Hospital wearing his first set of cibis in nearly four years.

Anne Russell was waiting outside for him and they're small convertible. A few hours later they were driving slowly over a rough dirt trail. Anne? Yes? Can I open my eyes now? Dick don't you dare. But I'm supposed to see where I'm driving.

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