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This is Your FBI: The Juvenile Shakedown

This is Your FBI · April 18, 1947 · 29 min · 4,295 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.

At any time in the next half hour while you're listening to this program your telephone may ring Yes, this is the radio checking bureau is your radio turned on now. Oh, 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 my good friends the equitable life assurance society just last Wednesday My equitable representative was telling me about a special life insurance plan 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 Juvenile Shakedown. As composed of men who have made a career of crime prevention, and to that end they recently completed a nationwide survey which showed that in the United States last year there were committed the appalling number of 1,600,000 crimes.

Or a more disturbing to your FBI than that total number of major crimes however, was the fact that the number committed by boys and girls in the 17-21 age group was out of all proportions. That means that America is raising a new bumper crop of criminals. A crop which will make the current crime wave seem puny unless something is done. Something is done

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