This Is Your FBI: The Unhappy Firebug

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Tonight's FBI file, the Unhappy Firebug. Because the middle of the 20th century is now almost close enough to touch, it might be well to make this a time of reckoning. A time to sit and count something besides our many and generous blessings.

What, for instance, is the crime picture as we plunge into the second half of the 1900s? A study has just been completed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which might give us some idea. The study covered all crime records since the birth of your FBI, and two juds from those files.

The answer is one to sober even the most optimistic among us. way of recrying, be it arson or murder or anything in between, is being committed more often now than it was five, fifteen or twenty years ago. This past twelve month period, for example, saw the police blutters of our nation record more than a million and a half major