This is Your FBI: The Friendly Hitchhiker

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 Friendly Hitchhiker.

One of the outstanding characteristics of the average American is a natural friendliness toward the stranger. Now this is an admirable trait, and certainly in general it is one to be preserved and encouraged. But unfortunately there are a great many persons at large who make criminal capital of friendliness.

And there are many occasions such as in tonight's case from the files of your FBI when it is wise to avoid the stranger altogether. Already the prairie growth was beginning to take on the first tints of a Texas tan-handle sunset and a young man in the sailor suit trudging along the highway with his battered suitcase. It looked as if night would catch him still

some 50 miles from his goal and a rillo. Unless this car that's coming down the highway stops. Are you going to eat sailor? Yes sir. Then you're going to board son. Gee fate. That was the fred you're going to plow right on by.