This is Your FBI: Death for a Draft Dodger

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI This is your FBI The 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 Fathers and Mothers of America, attention please

Upon the training you give your children today depends the future of America. Our system of free enterprise, personal liberty and democracy cannot exist without educated and enlightened citizens. In about 14 minutes our sponsor, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, will have some helpful suggestions for parents.

If you wish to equip your children to take advantage of all the opportunities the future offers, don't miss this important message. Tonight's FBI file, Death for a draft dodger. No other soldier in the world is prouder of the uniform that he wears than the American soldier, nor grumbles as much because he is in it.

That is an American boast because we are proud of the fact that we are not, traditionally, a nation of goose-stepping professional soldiers. But we are instead a nation of peace-loving people who cherish the handshake far more than the hands elute.

Therefore, none of us censors the young man who answers the call to uniform with a good, healthy American grumble, nor do we censure the parent who joins him in it. But we do condemn the young man and the parent who, as in tonight's case from the files of your FBI, who conspire to evade that call. We condemn them in the name of those millions

of Americans down through the 170 years from Bunker Hill to the Bulge, who likewise grumbled at the call to duty, but who gave or stood ready to give, the last full measure of their devotion to it. In the Davenport Hall at Great Bay Long Island, Richard Davenport III, a member of what the society pages of the New York papers called the Long Island