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This Is Your FBI: The Knock Out

This Is Your FBI · January 18, 1952 · 26 min · 3,867 words

The transcript of “The Knock Out”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast January 18, 1952. 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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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, Grand Larcini. It's titled Knockout.

Tonight's case from the official files of the FBI prompts us to ask the question. When is gambling, not gambling? The answer is when there is no risk involved. For the dictionary defines the word gamble as, quote, to hazard something on a chance, end quote.

And that's exactly what thousands of people who place bets with bookmakers do not do. For in far too many cases, the event they bet on has been fixed, the winner already chosen. Not only does the innocent better throw his money down the drain, but he helps to base the very sport he's interested in.

If you must bet, bet only with friends or through legal channels. If everyone would thus restrict themselves, the underworld would have no incentive to fix sports. And all athletic contests would be real contests. Tonight's FBI file opens in a large southwestern city.

The crowd is leaving an arena as a fighter and a faded bathroom walks with his manager, caught a small dressing room. had a citizen's or angry. But what if they quirt? You're large. They paid to see a Christian thrown to a lion.

And a lion lost. Huh? Go ahead, laddie. Go ahead. What's all that stuff about a lion? No, mine. I'm up on a table. Where'd that put the senses? Oh, oh, on a chair. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Hey, host them. Yeah. Oh, yeah, they're poor. They're still bored. Church, it's been so long since you weren't an accountant. Your memory's fair enough. I, I, Pachi. Well, then you should remember the citizens don't like the local pie to be carted from the Reagan oblivion.

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