This Is Your FBI: The Criminal Caravan

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 transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community In a recent talk, Thomas I. Parkinson, president of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, remarked,

self-reliant citizens living in their own mortgage-free homes are the cornerstone of a free country. That is why, of all the manifold services rendered by the Equitable Society to its four million members, one which I rank near the top in importance is the Equitable's Assured Home Ownership Plan.

In about 14 minutes, I'll be back to tell you homeowners about the equitable society's famous Assured Homeownership Plan that President Parkinson considers so important. Tonight, FBI File Number 301, its subject, Jewel Fett, its title, the Criminal Caravan.

As is true every week, there was a definite and specific reason for this particular case being chosen from the files of your FBI for dramatization. A great number of people have gotten their ideas about criminals from the mountains of crime fiction currently available.

They have been led to believe the average criminal dangles a cigarette from his lips, speaks a harsh, strident tongue, and altogether makes it obvious at first glance that he is not a decent law-abiding citizen.

Another belief accepted as fact by too many is that the criminal frequents only dark alleys, cheap saloons and slum section pool rooms. Both notions are a hundred percent wrong. America's criminals are not a breed apart.

Their talk, dress and habits reflect only their background, not their occupation. For proof, we bring you this case history of a fugitive. Tonight's FBI file opens in a diner located on a downtown corner in a Midwestern city.