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This is Your FBI: The Curious Patient

This is Your FBI · April 11, 1947 · 29 min · 4,336 words

The transcript of “The Curious Patient”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast April 11, 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, while you're listening to this program, you might be called to the phone to answer an easy question. Yes? This is the Radio Checking Bureau. Is your radio turned on now? Well, yes it is.

What program are you listening to, please? It's this is your FBI, just starting. Do you know who sponsors that program? Sure I do. It's my good friends, the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Last Wednesday, my equitable representative was telling me about a special life insurance plan they have for men and women on the way up.

Believe me, that's one great life insurance plan. So naturally, I know that this is your FBI is sponsored by the Equitable Society. And in just 15 minutes, I'll give you full information about the Equitable Society's plan for men and women on the way up.

Tonight's FBI file, The Curious Patient. studying the criminal records of the six million people in the United States today who have been arrested on charges of having committed a major crime. Your FBI learned that less than 50% of those six million committed only one crime and then stopped. That is true despite the fact that they were caught

and punished for that first crime. Because in the commission of their second one they were buoyed by the optimistic thought that they had learned enough by by then to commit a crime and not be apprehended.

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