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This is Your FBI: The Baby Big Shot

This is Your FBI · January 31, 1947 · 29 min · 4,211 words

The transcript of “The Baby Big Shot”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast January 31, 1947. 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.

Tonight, right in your own home, the telephone may ring. Hello? This is the Radio Checking Bureau. Well, yes it is. This is your FBI? Do you know who sponsors that program? Well, of course I do.

It's the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Just last week I got my Equitable Representative to bring me that fact-facing chart for fathers they tell about in this program. And believe me, that chart is a real eye-opener.

So naturally I know that this is your FBI, sponsored by the Equitable Society. And in just fifteen minutes I'll give all fathers full information about the equitable society's fact-facing chart that this father found so valuable.

Tonight's FBI file, the Baby Big Shot. Tonight's case from the files of your FBI is one involving juvenile delinquency, involving children who are criminals.

delinquency is a phrase that is misunderstood by many people. Misunderstood because they regard any case in that category as being the result of a childish prank. But they are wrong. For your juvenile criminal of today is not a boy or girl whose ambition is to steal a package of gum from the corner drug store. Your juvenile criminal of today is capable of any crime committed

by his elders. A few weeks ago a store in New York was held up by an armed robber who shot it out with a New York detective. The detective was seriously wounded. The armed bandit was killed. The armed bandit was aged 16. Tonight's fire opens in a town in one of our Midwestern states. At a street intersection in the midtown district of this community,

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