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This Is Your FBI: Jackpot

This Is Your FBI · June 6, 1952 · 29 min · 4,601 words

The transcript of “Jackpot”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast June 6, 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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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. Presenters try to strive as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

If you are worried about money, if your problem is providing for your children's education, owning your own home, security for your family of something happened to you, then get acquainted with the man who can help you most, your local Equitable Society agent.

You'll never do yourself or your family a bigger favor. In about 14 minutes, I'd like to tell you more about Equitable Society representatives and how they may help you provide for your future security and enjoy the advantages of membership in the equitable society. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Interstate Transportation of Gambling Devices, its title, Jackpot. In connection with tonight's case from the

files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, we bring you a statement from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. I quote, the experience of your FBI and observing the growth of crime in the prohibition era, its sharp decline in the mid-30s, and now its gradual rise, convinces me of one thing. Crime is basically a problem to be met and solved on the local

level. In facing this task, one fact is certain. In those communities where public opinion is enlightened and aroused, crime is at a minimum. In such communities, crime has not become entrenched. It does not enjoy unholy alliances with those in public office. And it is unable to secure recruits from the usual incubators of Prime, the honky-tunk saloon, the gambling

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