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This Is Your FBI: The Face

This Is Your FBI · February 8, 1952 · 30 min · 4,523 words

The transcript of “The Face”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast February 8, 1952. 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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Please listen carefully in about 12 minutes. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Juvenile Delinquency, its title, The Face. There are no accurate figures on juvenile delinquency in the United States today, but without any question it is the most serious law enforcement problem of the day.

Any statistic must be an understatement, because of the practice in some localities of not fingerprinting youthful offenders. However, it can be said that during the past ten years, youth has been in the vanguard of the criminal army in this country.

One basic cause of that high rate of juvenile crime is the lack of a sense of moral responsibility, and for this the blame rests squarely on the parents of the country. For it is in the home that the child must learn that others besides himself have rights.

Just learn the values that will help him grow into a decent law-abiding citizen. A public servant, and not a public enemy. Tonight's FBI file opens in the local police station in a crowded tenement district of a large eastern city.

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