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This is Your FBI: The Fugitive Pirate
This is Your FBI · March 14, 1947 · 30 min · 4,124 words
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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.
For the next 30 seconds, I want to talk to listeners between the ages of 35 and 45. To men and women who occasionally find themselves thinking, will I be alive in 1975? Well, the answer is that a good many million of you will be alive in 75.
In that year this country will have 20 million people over 65, and that's twice as many as we have today. So, as you plan your future, remember that there is a mighty good chance that you will be alive in 75. And in exactly 15 minutes we'll have a suggestion which will show you how life
insurance with the equitable society can help you make the most of this long life that's ahead of you. Tonight's FBI file, the Fugitive Pirate. This is the year when man may finally use the secret of atomic power for peaceful purposes. When man's conquest of machines will surpass is every previous achievement in the field of invention.
But while some men are delving into the scientific unknown, there are others who are still playing their same old selfish trade, benefiting no one but themselves. True they have borrowed some of the equipment of America's technical progress for their activities, but basically they have not changed.
Their motives are as primitive as the jungle. These people are criminals. The night's file opens in a cottage located in a sparsely settled section of the Florida coast. It is night. In the living room of this modest dwelling we find John Douglas and his wife Lucy.
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