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This Is Your FBI: The Chinatown Shakedown

This Is Your FBI · September 16, 1949 · 29 min · 4,377 words

The transcript of “The Chinatown Shakedown”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast September 16, 1949. 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 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!

Now for a moment we're going to hear from a representative of our sponsor the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Next week, one of the most promising boys in my hometown leaves for college.

This boy's father died ten years ago, but the son is getting the college education because his dad started an equitable education fund a few days after the boy was born. And that's one good reason why I like my job as a representative of the equitable life assurance society.

In approximately fourteen minutes, I'll be back to give the whole story of an equitable education fund. an important contribution to American education made by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Tonight's FBI file, the Chinatown Shakedown!

Some are vacations are ending, and with the odds that are fall, many people are looking ahead to how they will fare in business in the coming years. It is not within the province of the men directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation predict what the coming months will mean to the economic picture.

However, they are in a position to tell you that the graph kept on the number of major crimes each month is climbing upwards. Unless something is done, this will be another banner year for the Army of American criminals.

But the picture is not entirely thought. There is some reason to hope that the decent citizens of this country are becoming aware of the danger to them in the current crime wave. There are unofficial citizens' committees being formed to further educate the public, and if the job is done thoroughly enough, this war can be won.

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