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This is Your FBI: The Diamond Studded Double-Cross

This is Your FBI · September 20, 1946 · 29 min · 4,122 words

The transcript of “The Diamond Studded Double-Cross”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast September 20, 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. 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, the Diamond Studded Double Cross. It is a grave indictment indeed, that the silent accessory to practically every crime is the criminal's own mother, father or guardian. The parent who was always too busy to watch how his or her son or daughter grew up, or who

just didn't care what kind of companions they kept, where they went, and what they did when they got there. Or the parent who was too indulgent, who always gave in, who let the boy or girl have their own way so freely that soon for them, the wrong way became the right way, the only

way. Joe Bristol's mother had been that kind when he was growing up down along New York's waterfront, and she still was. That's why tonight's case is in the files of your FBI. The hot Yuma Dare hung like smoke over the East River, wrapping a damn shroud about the old bards tied up to the sagging dock.

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