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This is Your FBI: The Souvenir Gun

This is Your FBI · January 10, 1947 · 29 min · 4,234 words

The transcript of “The Souvenir Gun”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast January 10, 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.

At the beginning of the new year, there are few fathers who don't pause to reflect on the on the twelve months that have gone by, to make plans for the future, plans that will promote the happiness of those they love. That's why so many fathers pick January as the time to increase their family's protection with the equitable life assurance society.

Yes, the finest New Year's resolution of all is this, resolve to give your family increased security through life insurance, then keep that resolution by getting in touch with your equitable society representative tomorrow. Tonight's FBI file, the souvenir gun.

It is a fact certified by history that after every war, there has been an increase in crime. It is not a fact, however, that the new criminals are a result of the practice which the Army and Navy gave our younger generation in the art of murder.

The hoodlums who are swelling the files of police departments all over the country, or hudlams because of circumstances. War time is a period of loose morals and easy money, a set of conditions which suits the criminal to perfection.

Let us therefore stop pointing at the armed forces and blaming them for our current troubles. Let us stop finding reasons for the crime wave, and start finding cures. The night's file opens in a clearing near a small cabin located in the hill country of one of our Midwestern states.

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