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This is Your FBI: The Man Who Died Twice

This is Your FBI · November 19, 1948 · 28 min · 4,513 words

The transcript of “The Man Who Died Twice”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast November 19, 1948. 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. The presenters of the public servants by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society representative in your community.

The Equitable Life Assurance Society is a great new tool institution organized to serve Americans and the Americans. Therefore, one of the equitable societies major objectives is to make all possible contributions to the welfare and stability of American business, which so many of the equitable societies, nearly four million members, defend for their livelihood.

Tonight's middle commercial is addressed to the man who owns his own business. For such an owner, this commercial, due in about fourteen minutes, will have information of great importance from the equitable life-assurance society of the United States.

Nice FBI file, the man who died twice. During the recent World War, the United States put into uniform from 11 million citizens. And sent them to every corner of the globe to help fight a shooting war.

They bought battles in far off places, with strange sounding names. Places like Salerno and the old. And the old sand was there, back there on the top of the land, one side of the world.

And you now in Corregador, Sulmadi and Finn Shabun on the other side. They bought those battles and they won them, but they won them dearly. Now it is three long years since the shooting has got.

And in the streets of America we are enjoying what the historians will refer to as Pete. Yet, let us examine that scene. In these next four years, should the present average hold up, the number of people killed in the United States will be 18% of the number who died during the entire war.

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