This Is Your FBI: The Mercy Manhunt

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI. This is the fifth anniversary of This is your FBI. The Official Broadcast from the Files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented Transcribed as a Public Service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

Five years ago, during the first broadcast of this program, it was our privilege to present two distinguished Americans, Mr. Thomas I. Parkinson, President of the Equitable Life Assurance Society, and the Honorable Jay Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Tonight, five years later, we are again privileged to bring you the same... Mr. Hoover will speak to you in person later in the program. Now, we are pleased to present Mr. Thomas I. Parkinson. Five years ago, we of the Equitable Life Assurance Society undertook the sponsorship of this as your FBI.

We did so because we saw in this program a unique opportunity to render a public service, an opportunity to bring to the American public a deeper understanding and a better appreciation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

and its important role in safeguarding the lives and property of American citizens from crime, violence, and conspiracy. It is particularly fitting for the equitable society to sponsor such a program, because the protection of American homes and American families is our business too.

For 91 years we have been promoting security, preserving homes for widows and children, educating youth, youth, providing comfort for elderly men and women, and peace of mind for the millions of people who have joined the Equitable Society.

At the same time, life insurance dollars represent another forceful good in the economic life of our country. Our investment funds, while earning interest to the members of the society, build railroads and factories, finance homes, participation in the score of industries, help maintain millions of people on payrolls, contributing materially to the highest living standards known to mankind.