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This is Your FBI: Murder by Accident

This is Your FBI · November 15, 1946 · 29 min · 4,600 words

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society present, 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.

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Tonight's FBI file, murder by accident. In your mind's eye when you picture the surroundings in which a criminal operates, you undoubtedly picture a filthy, crowded slum that's picked in a noisy city.

You never think of a quiet country lane when asked to imagine the typical environment of those who lead a life of crime. And yet, the greatest percentage of increase in crimes in the United States did not take place in the teeming cities, but in the placid rural areas of our nation.

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