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This is Your FBI: The Canvas-Backed Frame-Up

This is Your FBI · February 23, 1951 · 29 min · 4,648 words

The transcript of “The Canvas-Backed Frame-Up”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast February 23, 1951. 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 transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

Self-reliant citizens living in their own mortgage-free homes are the cornerstone of a free country. That is why, of all the manifold services rendered by the Equitable Society, to nearly six million people, near the top in importance is the Equitable's Assured Home Ownership Plan.

In about fourteen minutes, Mr Keating will be back to tell you homeowners about the Equitable Society's famous Assured Home Ownership Plan. The subject of our FBI file, Jules Fett, its title, The Canvas Back Frame Up.

Have you ever given any thought to the high cost of crime in the United States? Remember, our yearly crime bill has many items. It includes all the millions of dollars worth of goods lost in robberies.

Plus, all the money spent in running down criminals. Plus, the huge cost of maintaining police forces, criminal courts and prisons. Speaking before, a group of Midwestern economists, FBI Director Hoover, said, The cost of crime in this nation annually can be figured not in millions of dollars, but in billions.

Tonight's case from the official files of your FBI was selected because it points out a simple way to cut down this staggering crime bill. Because it shows what measures respectable citizens like you can take to avoid being victimized by some member of the underworld.

Tonight's file opens in a small dimly lit gymnasium on the second floor of an old unpainted building located in the slum section of an eastern city. In one corner a big heavyweight punches the bag as a clean grey-haired man approaches.

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