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This Is Your FBI: The Runaway Sister

This Is Your FBI · April 13, 1951 · 29 min · 3,906 words

The transcript of “The Runaway Sister”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast April 13, 1951. 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 transcribed as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

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The subject of our FBI file armed robbery, it's titled the runaway sister. Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation tells the story of first defender. 40% of all persons arrested are in this class. Most of them are youngsters, fingerprinted for the first time. What starts these kids off? Why do they begin stealing

the usual starting point of a criminal career? Listen to the actual words published in a case history of a typical young first defender. At first I did not steal for game. I stole because it was the most fascinating thing I could do. I didn't want to play tame games nor be confined in a school room.

I liked the daredevil spirit. What sends these boys and girls out on the street in search of dangerous thrills and bad companions? Again and again the answer is parental failure. Failure of the father and mother to provide a home atmosphere that children can enjoy.

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