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This is Your FBI: The Ambitious Widow

This is Your FBI · August 22, 1947 · 29 min · 4,086 words

The transcript of “The Ambitious Widow”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast August 22, 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.

Rain isn't the only thing that can ruin a summer vacation. Worry is another. Worry about the financial future of your family. Well, why not slip some of that burden onto the broad shoulders of the equitable life-assurance society.

The equitable shoulders have the combined broadness of nearly four million members who have joined forces to protect one another. For the peace of mind that only well-planned life insurance can give, see your equitable society representative.

He'll arrange to give you a lifelong vacation from worry. Tonight's FBI file, the Ambitious Widow. There have been many wise and practical suggestions offered to your FBI and to every other law enforcement agency on methods of curbing the current serious crime wave.

Most of those suggestions had merit, but of them all, only one was an absolute preventative. That one was eternal vigilance. Law abiding citizens have a tendency to forget that crime, like many other things, runs and cycles.

That one crime seemed to be successful and there will be a series of such crimes. Then because the gaff has been filled, those crimes cease and another type will begin. But there's no way of knowing which new friend will begin.

That is why your FBI tells you that there's only one way for you, the citizens, to help fight the crime way. That way, to repeat, is eternal vigilance. Tonight's FBI file opens on a rainy day in a quiet cemetery near a large Midwestern town.

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