This Is Your FBI: The Harvest

This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file.

Armed robbery. It's title. The Harvest. Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation tells the story of a vicious crime. Why are such crimes committed? According to one authority, many of them are a direct result of a growing national lack of respect for law and order.

Maybe it is too late to teach that respect to those men and women who are already our adult criminals. It is not too late, however, to breed a just regard for decency in the millions upon millions of Americans now growing up.

The very future of the nation, of all of us, depends on that lesson being learned by the generation now approaching the world. now approaching maturity. Or it is a fact beyond any denial that in those places where a disregard for law and order attained definite proportions, the state itself has deteriorated.

Aprehending criminals is largely the job of law enforcement agencies. Preventing crime is largely the job of you, the people. Tonight's FBI file opens on the outskirts of a vineyard in a western state. It is early evening and an open fire is blazing in the center of a large cluster of tents. A leather-faced middle-aged man sits before the fire strumming an ancient

weather-beaten guitar. Beside him, a young man lies on the ground reading a paper-covered book. Looks up as he hears the squeak of a washline fully from between two of the tents. Rose. Aren't you done yet?

This is the last trick. Oh, you see the notice in front of the office? Oh, no. Say something special. The Paradise Ranch Call Wicks Work Club. Fifty Pickers and Ten Shuckers. Work. Rose. You and your father going there next?