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This Is Your FBI: The Comeback Kid

This Is Your FBI · April 1, 1949 · 29 min · 4,579 words

The transcript of “The Comeback Kid”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast April 1, 1949. 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.

Since the Equitable Life Assurance Society was founded 90 years ago, this country has changed in many ways, but in one respect it is still the same. In those early days people always spoke of America as the land of opportunity. Well, it still is the land of opportunity just as much as ever. In just a few minutes into tonight's middle commercial, the Equitable Society

will have a special message for listeners who agree with this philosophy. We will describe a special life insurance plan for men and women on the way up, offered by the Equitable Life the official and society of the United States.

Tonight's FBI file, the comeback kid. It is part of the American heritage that a young boy in this country learns that it is 90 feet between home-blade and first base before he learns that there are two United States senators elected from each state.

Americans love sports. Nowhere else in the world have people ever paid more than a million dollars that they have six times in this country to see two men fight for the privilege of being heavyweight champion of the world. Each year football fans spend millions to watch their favorite teams in action and basketball fans still more millions. People pay that money because

sports is an important thing in our lives and for that reason it is too bad that a criminal element has infiltrated around the edges of certain sports. The reasons for that infiltration are varied. There's a certain amount of easy money that attracts these petty lost-n-hood limbs, but the greatest attraction is that it gives them a chance

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