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This Is Your FBI: The Curious Fisherman
This Is Your FBI · September 7, 1951 · 29 min · 4,122 words
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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 transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.
Good news for fathers and mothers who want their children to have a college education. When paying for that education has been made practically painless, that is good news, isn't it? The plan that makes this possible is called the Equitable Education Fund.
It's the way to provide a college education for your boy or girl so that not even death of a family breadwinner can interfere. Be sure to listen carefully when the Equitable Life Assurance Society gives you the full details on the Equitable Education Fund, about 14 minutes from now.
The subject of our FBI file armed robbery, its title, The Curious Fisherman. Tonight's case was selected because it points up a warning that your FBI has issued many times on this program.
This warning is don't publicize yourself as a promising victim for a crime. The underworld finds it highly profitable to scan newspapers carefully, to circulate unobtrusively in public places. The man who openly displays a well-filled wallet invites a pickpocket. The woman who allows herself to be photographed wearing costly jewels may be setting the wheels in motion for a carefully planned robbery months later.
Tonight's case from the official FBI files is dramatic proof that public display of wealth can be an invitation to grind. Tonight's FBI file opens on a small fishing boat tied to appear on the outskirts of a western city.
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The incidents used in tonight's Equitable Life Assurance Society's broadcast are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, all names used are fictitious. And any similarity thereof, the names of places or persons living or dead is accidental.
Tonight, the music was composed and conducted by Frederic Steiner. The author was Jerry D. Lewis. Your narrator was William Woodson, and Special Agent Taylor was played by Stacey Harris. Others in the cast were Sheldon Leonard, Paul Richard, John T. Smith, Naomi Stevens, Tom Tully, and Ann Whitfield.
This is your FBI, a Jerry Divine production, was directed by Sid Goodwin. This is Larry Keating, speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.
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