This is Your FBI: The Hollywood Shakedown

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The Official Broadgast 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.

What is it that makes Americans different from many people of other nations? Here at the Equitable Society, we like to think that it's our heritage of freedom, that freedom has made us self-reliant and independent.

We look out for ourselves and take care of our own. That's why more than five million of us Americans are members of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Of our own free will, we have joined together into the Equitable Society to provide for the security of our families and our own peace of mind.

In about 13 minutes, we have something to tell you about a man who knows more about that kind of security than anyone in your community. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, extortion, its title, the Hollywood Shake Down.

Since the passage by Congress of the Federal Extortion Statute in 1932, the number of such crimes has been drastically reduced. However, it is probably safe to say that some form of extortion is practiced almost daily in some parts of the country.

This evening's program is brought to you not to acquaint you with the motor-sufferandai of the typical felon who commits this type of crime, for there is no average extortion case. The circumstances in each instance are different.

However, this case history is dramatized in the hope of reaching people who are being victimized by extortioners, and who, through fear, are now keeping it a secret. If this description fits you, protect yourself, protect everyone except the criminal, by instantly notifying the nearest field office of your FBI.