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This Is Your FBI: The Five Fathom Stick-Up

This Is Your FBI · July 4, 1952 · 29 min · 3,984 words

The transcript of “The Five Fathom Stick-Up”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast July 4, 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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Tonight, the subject of our FBI file armed robbery, its title, the Five Pathoms Stick Up. Most psychologists agree that there is no such thing as a definite criminal type. Criminals vary in their personalities just as do all human beings.

But there are certain common denominator qualities you will find most criminals possessing. They are emotionally childish and apt to swing violently and abruptly from one mood to another, or selfish to the highest degree. Above all, they rarely know what it means to be sincerely grateful or obligated to others.

In tonight's case from the files of your FBI, we meet a criminal who personifies these qualities. The night's fire opens in a cottage located in the sparsely settled section of the Florida coast. It is night.

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