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This is Your FBI: The Hapless Hijackers

This is Your FBI · August 26, 1949 · 29 min · 4,476 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. Transcribed and presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representatives in your community.

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I can name you a dozen boys and girls who wouldn't have had the advantage of a college education if their fathers hadn't talked to me about an equitable education fund. In approximately 14 minutes I'll be back with full information on the equitable education fund.

An important contribution to American education made by the equitable life assurance society of the United States. The Night FBI file, the hapless hijackers! The Federal Bureau of Investigation cooperates in bringing this series of official radio programs to you, because it feels that progress in a democracy is made in only one way.

Through the increased knowledge of the citizens, these dramatizations are intended to increase your knowledge about crime, and its effect on you, the average decent citizen. Tonight's case concerns Auto Theft, who often dismissed as a minor and unimportant crime.

The truth is that Auto Theft today is one of the prime problems facing every law enforcement agency in the nation. In records compiled by your FBI, covering crime in every one of the 48 states, it was told it in the past twelve months. More than 169,000 cars were stolen. An average of better than

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