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This is Your FBI: The Would Be Movie Star

This is Your FBI · August 2, 1946 · 29 min · 4,169 words

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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. The Knights FBI file, the would-be movie star.

As a general rule, statistics are rather dull, but here are some statistics which, to you and to every other good American citizen, should not only be far from dull, but should in fact be truly alarming.

Last year in this country, major crimes alone were committed at the rate of nearly 5,000 every 24 hours. And the figures for this year already show an increase of almost 22 percent. And the figures are still climbing, particularly in that field of crime of which tonight's case from the files of your FBI is a recent example, the crime of robbery, which has increased during

the last six months, almost 50 percent. Ever since she saw that movie a couple of weeks ago, in which a baby stole the picture from the grown-ups in the cast, Ruth Batterson has been obsessed with three ideas. One that her own two months old Ricky is three times cuter, two could have played the part ten times better, and that she and her husband Frank should move to Hollywood

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