This Is Your FBI: The Knock Out

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 H.O. A H.O.

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A-H-O stands for the Assured Home Ownership Plan of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. For full information on this money-saving home-saving plan, please listen carefully in about 13 minutes. The Subutobar FBI file, Grand Larcini, its title, Knockout.

Tonight's case from the official files of the FBI prompts us to ask a question. When is gambling not gambling? The answer is when there is no risk involved. For the dictionary defines the word gamble as, quote, to hazard something on a chance, end quote.

But that's exactly what thousands of people who place bets with bookmakers do not do. Or in far too many cases, the event they bet on has been fixed, the winner already chosen. Not only does the innocent better throw his money down the drain, but he helps debase the very sport he's interested in.

If you must bet, bet only with friends or through legal channels. If everyone would thus restrict themselves, the underworld would have no incentive to fix sports, and all athletic contests would be real contests. Tonight's FBI file opens in a large southwestern city. The crowd is leaving an arena as a fighter in a faded bathroom walks