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This is Your FBI: The Musical Stick-Up

This is Your FBI · September 1, 1950 · 29 min · 4,204 words

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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 present a transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and The Equitable Society's representative in your community Survey show that the commercials on This is Your FBI are listened to very carefully.

The reason is simple. Our equitable commercial messages treat you like an intelligent human being. Their purpose is to give you useful information. Tonight, for instance, we're going to talk about the Equitable Education Fund, the painless way to pay for college education for your children.

Every father and mother with ambitions for their children will welcome this information from the equitable society, you in about 14 minutes. Tonight's FBI file, the musical sticker! It has been a rare week in recent years when your FBI has not been involved in headline use of one kind or another.

Often those headlines reported the capture of a dangerous criminal. Sometimes they merely heralded the entrance of the bureau into a case. For the most part though, the cases involved were well publicized crimes. a kidnapping, a bank robbery, or a murder which caught the interest of the nation.

However, to make a deduction from those headlines that special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation work exclusively on spectacular infractions of the law would be to arrive at a false conclusion. Your FBI has jurisdiction over approximately 120 federal laws, and in the space of any given year, it investigates thousands upon thousands of violations of those laws.

Part of the training of every special agent teaches him that no individual case is to be given precedence, while another remains uninvestigated. The reason behind that is relatively simple. To the men of your FBI, there are no unimportant crimes or unimportant lawbreakers, or every criminal remains a menace to you, the American people, until his capture, or his death. Tonight's

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