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This is Your FBI: The Friendly Killers

This is Your FBI · June 21, 1946 · 29 min · 4,117 words

The transcript of “The Friendly Killers”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast June 21, 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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a plan that can save you money and give you greater security in a home of your own. Tonight's FBI file, the Friendly Killer. The most alarming feature of the current crime wave in America is not just the fact that it is the largest in the history of the nation.

Rather, it is the probability that the majority of those who have helped to make it the largest, the thousands of juvenile and adult beginners in crime, it is the probability that the majority of them will join and thereby expand the ranks of the professional criminals.

That is the most alarming part of it, for it is the professional criminals, like those in tonight's case from the files of your FBI, who live solely by preying on the lives and property of others.

It is they who form the cancerous area on the moral body of our society, and any prominent It's an increase in their number, only spreads the malignancy, and shortens the distance to fatal degeneration. Most any other couple would have celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary by at least dining out or having in a few friends.

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