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This Is Your FBI: The Unknown Voice

This Is Your FBI · September 24, 1948 · 29 min · 4,989 words

The transcript of “The Unknown Voice”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast September 24, 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. Presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

In the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, nearly four million members members are banded together to build better futures for themselves and their families. Their reasons for becoming equitable society policy holders are many, but certainly among the most unselfish and far-sighted equitable society members are those parents who have seen the wisdom of an equitable education fund.

Fathers and mothers, in just 14 minutes, the equitable society will tell you how to make sure that your children get the funds necessary for the education you want them to have through an equitable education fund.

Tonight's FBI file, the Unknown Voice. There are many serious crimes that violate the 120 different statutes under the jurisdiction of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

It is a matter of record and of performance that the members of your FBI work as hard to apprehend one type of criminal as another, but in addition to being law enforcement officers. All agents are human beings with the same set of emotions as any decent citizen.

And so it is not surprising that the two most venal crimes, kidnapping and extortion, are investigated not only with a trained mind, but with the sympathetic heart. Most crimes have a suddenness to them. The criminal determines when he will commit them, he commits them, and they are over.

Not so though with kidnapping and extortion. They are crimes of torture, for the victim of no other crime knows the terror, the constant nerve-shattering terror that comes with waiting for the kidnappers next ransom note, or the extortioner's next telephone call.

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