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This is Your FBI: Death in the Desert

This is Your FBI · February 14, 1947 · 28 min · 3,920 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.

Who are you? If you're between 35 and 45, then here is a question you've probably asked yourself more than once. Will I be alive in 1975? According to equitable life assurance society's figures, since 1910, there's been a decided increase in the proportion of our population made up of men and women who've reached their 65th year. To be exactly increased

amount to 68%. So the longer you live, the better your chance becomes of living longer, and the more likely it is 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 life assurance society can help you make the most of this long life that's

ahead of you. Tonight's FBI file, Death in the Desert, 18 months have passed since the end of World War II. But there is still a war going on in the United States. A vicious, sustained battle in which the decent people of the nation are pitted against unscrupulous criminals. Criminals who man an army of six million, it may not have occurred to you that there were six million persons

with the rest records in the nation, but it is a fact. Out of every 22 people, that includes our men, women and children, there is one person who has been convicted of a crime. That fact concerns you because in almost every crime you are the victim, you, the decent law abiding citizen.

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