This Is Your FBI: The Prodigal Hoodlum

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 representative in your community The Equitable Life Assurance Society has nearly 8,000 trained representatives from coast to coast serving over

million members. Tonight an equitable society representative has an important message on Social Security. We were all keenly interested to hear the news about Social Security. Benefits have gone up from 50 to 100 percent. Ten million more people have been taken into the security fold.

What does this mean to you? Are you just starting out with Social Security or have you been covered all along? In either case, your future has changed. Now is the time to give it a careful once over.

To help you, the Equitable Society has revised its famous fact-finding chart for fathers and In just 14 minutes, Mr. Keating will explain just how this chart can help you. Tonight, FBI file number 293, its subject, homicide.

Its title, the Prodigal Hootlem. Those who have gone most deeply into the problem of juvenile delinquency agree on this one point. Among youthful lawbreakers, there is no common denominator. Some are bright boys, some are dullards, some come from broken homes, some from well-to-do families.

Similarly, each young criminal is what he is for many different reasons. No one factor is entirely to blame. That is why there is no single cure-all for the problem of juvenile delinquents, or for any individual who is classified as such.

Tonight's case from the vials of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is an example of bits. The fire opens in the hospital ward of a prison located beside a river which runs through a large Midwestern city.