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This is Your FBI: The Professional Killer

This is Your FBI · May 16, 1947 · 29 min · 4,193 words

The transcript of “The Professional Killer”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast May 16, 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.

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It's the Equitable Society's Assured Home Ownership Plan. Don't miss it. Tonight's FBI file, the Professional Killer. Your FBI not only pursues every criminal who violates a federal statute, but it also makes a close, keen, analytical study of the field of crime all over the nation.

For crime is the business your FBI is engaged in, and like every successful organization it realizes that the more it knows about its business, the better job it will be able to do. With that in mind, your FBI recently completed a study of crime throughout the 48 states, and the study brought forth one fact that is not only shocking, but is also indicative of the

self-evident truth that the crime wave, unless stifled quickly, will soon be out of hand. That one single fact is that in the United States today and every day, there are 36 people murdered. In the past two hours, three people have been killed by criminals.

The night's FBI file opens in a small smart nightclub located in a large midwestern city. In an office in the rear of this establishment, Larry Mansfield, the owner of the club, is just reading a visit to him.

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