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This is Your FBI: The Gentle Killer
This is Your FBI · June 17, 1949 · 29 min · 4,070 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. Presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.
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assurance society of the United States. Tonight's FBI file, the gentle killer. It is unfortunate, but true, that the average citizen does not look upon the current crime wave as something which can and does affect him.
It is part of his metal pattern to hear something about crime, some statistical observation, and to regard it as a fact about another world, a world in which he is not a citizen, but a rather distant observer.
He hears, for instance, that more than a million and a half major crimes are committed every year in the United States, and if he has any feeling at all about that statement, It is probably one of the tax sympathy for the various and sundry victims.
The greater probability is that he doesn't really feel one way or the other about it. The Federal Bureau of Investigation would like to correct that feeling of widespread apathy about the crime way. No one in the nation, wherever he may be, is distant from the activities of the country's army of criminals.
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