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This is Your FBI: The Melancholy Mind Reader

This is Your FBI · September 26, 1947 · 29 min · 4,465 words

The transcript of “The Melancholy Mind Reader”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast September 26, 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. Transcribed and presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

Here in the Equitable Life Assurance Society, we never lose sight of the fact that our equitable radio messages radio messages go into millions of homes. Because of this, we feel that it is our responsibility to key these equitable commercials to a home and family problem.

Tonight's message concerns education. Are there young children in your home? Then you'll be interested in getting the facts on the Equitable Education Fund. For full details, listen carefully in just 15 minutes. Tonight's FBI file, the Millenkali Mind Reader.

More than a million and a half major crimes are committed in the United States every year. And they are committed for a variety of reasons. Some of the result of passion or temper and are usually un-premeditated.

Some of the result of an overwhelming desire for revenge. But for the most part, grands are committed because the criminal is overcome with greed. That type cannot wait until he has earned what he desires, because waiting to his point of view is needless.

Take what you want, when you want it is his personal credo, and in order to live up to that he will stop at nothing, not even murder. The night-prepy eye-fire opens on the grounds of a large carnival that's playing an engagement in the Midwestern city.

The stroll along the Midway reveals the usual assortment of candy-butchers, drink-for-bearers, pitchmen, and, oh yes, the mind-reader. His tent, large of them, the rest, bears a huge sign reading, carry the metal marvel. On the rear of his tent, the living quarters carry the metal marvel in person reclines on a cop.

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