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This Is Your FBI: The Prodigal Brother

This Is Your FBI · December 17, 1948 · 29 min · 4,129 words

The transcript of “The Prodigal Brother”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast December 17, 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.

Has this ever happened in your home? You're sitting listening to the radio when... Yes? Yes, it is. It's this is your FBI, just starting. I'm sure I do. It's the Equitable Life Assurance Society.

I listened to the Equitable Program last week and heard about the fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers. My Equitable Society representative brought me a copy. So naturally I know that this is your FBI, The FBI is sponsored by the Equitable Society.

In about 15 minutes I'll be back with full information about the Equitable Society's fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers. Tonight's FBI file, the Prodigal Brother. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an organization composed of men who have studied crime from every angle.

They know that in this past year there have been a million and a half major crimes committed in the United States. They know that there are more than 18 million sets of fingerprints in the criminal files.

They know not only those and other figures, but also what are the best ways to fight an outbreak of crime on any front. Their knowledge on the subject is specialized in modern, and yet some of that knowledge is almost as old as time itself.

After a recent archaeological survey of some stones brought to the surface by bombing in Italy during the war, it was decided that the writing on the tablets could be deciphered to mean, and here I quote the verbatim translation, crime must be concealed by crime.

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