This Is Your FBI: The Roaring Twenties

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 representative in your community From time to time in the 30s and early 40s most men and women asked themselves

What will I be doing when I'm 65 years old? What are my chances of being 100% self-supporting when it's time to stop work? Well, that's largely up to you and the decision you make right now.

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Do you like that idea? Then please listen carefully to this important message from the Equitable Society coming in about fourteen minutes. The subject of our FBI file, hijacking, its title, The Roaring Twenties. Tonight's case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation deals with organized

crime of twenty-five years ago. Even then, large-scale crime was nothing new. It goes back to the days of the Greeks and Romans. But in our country, big-time racketeering really took firm root in the prohibition era, when Al Capone, Bugs Moran, and crime-incorporated became household words.

The day of the lone wolf criminal was passing, crime developed into big business. Today it is estimated that the sum total of all damage done by lone wolf operators does not amount to one-tenth of the cost of streamline 20th century crime. Tonight, as you listen to Agent Putnam, who has ably served the FBI for over a quarter century, tell what went