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This is Your FBI: Dead Man's Tale

This is Your FBI · September 30, 1949 · 29 min · 4,423 words

The transcript of “Dead Man's Tale”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast September 30, 1949. 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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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 as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

Now for a moment, we're going to hear from a representative of our sponsor, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Last week I saw my daughter off to our state university. She's going on an equitable education fund. I started the year she was born.

And on the same train were five of the youngsters of her age leaving for college. Thanks to the equitable education funds I planned for their debt. Do you wonder I'm proud to be a representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Society?

In approximately 14 minutes I'll be back to give the whole story of the Equitable Education Fund. an important contribution to American education made by the equitable life-assurance society of the United States. Tonight's FBI file, Dead Man's Tale.

This morning a graduation ceremony was held in Washington, D.C. A graduation ceremony at the FBI National Academy, a school operated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the dissemination of knowledge to members of local police organizations throughout the country.

If it seems strange to you that these local police officers, the men who form your first line of defense against crime, are going to school to learn the latest methods of waging that war, when you are guilty of old-fashioned thinking.

Yesterday's blue, uniformed minion of the law, who took his tribute in fruit from the cornerstone, has been replaced by the modern police officer. A younger man, who in every respect is better equipped to do his job, is better equipped to safeguard your precious freedoms. Each day, as more of these well-trained young men take

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