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This Is Your FBI: The Divorced Child

This Is Your FBI · January 9, 1953 · 29 min · 4,095 words

The transcript of “The Divorced Child”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast January 9, 1953. 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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This is your FBI is next on ABC a whirlwind of laughter is heading your way meet Corliss Archer every Friday night on ABC America's favorite teenager has a hundred and one schemes in her pretty head to keep you in hysterics It's a screamingly funny trip back through time to your days of adolescence

The pranks are the same the execution a bit different and it's that difference that makes meet Corliss Archer Such a hilarious adventure into the realm of youthful Misadventure. Every plan our lovable young Miss Makes turns into a situation comedy.

For a full measure of fun, meet Corliss Archer tonight on ABC. This is your FBI, the official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, presented transcribed as a public service by the American Broadcasting Company.

Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Otto Tha, its title, the divorce child. The number one problem facing every law enforcement agency in the United States, including your FBI, is juvenile delinquency.

That is a sobering fact, or from the younger generation must come the men and women who will run the nation in a few years. For that reason, it is up to everyone to do his or her share in fighting the problem, or we dare not leave the heritage of a morally corrupt generation to the world tomorrow.

It is a sad but undeniably true fact that the basic reason for the prevalence of juvenile delinquency today is the laxness of some parents. Parents who believe that it is possible to allow their children to just grow up by themselves, could be further from the truth.

MUSIC Tonight's FBI file opens in a residential suburb of a large Midwestern city. In a comfortable home on a quiet, tree-shaded street, Gloria Baker, age 16, is sitting in her room. Her mother enters. Gloria?

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