This is Your FBI: The Curious Coin Collector

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. 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 curious coin collector. As August 14th, 1945 crept onto the pages of history, the White House announced that the shooting in World War II had come to an end.

A victorious end that saw America in her allies triumph over tyranny. Once again, this nation had managed to protect its basic liberties. A wise prophet once said that eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.

For liberty, freedom, and democracy are not prizes that are won by a people and put on a shelf. No people ever win permanent possession of these prizes. The Liberty, Freedom and Democracy are given only to those who first fight to win them, and then keep fighting to protect them.

Tonight's file opens in a photographic studio, located in a shabby frame house in one of the poorer sections of a large Midwestern city. The proprietor of this establishment, one author, Belton, is just greeting a newly arrived customer.