This Is Your FBI: The Bridal Shakedown

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.

Do you ever feel that planning for the future is a hard uphill task because you don't make a lot of money? Do you wonder how you'll ever own your own home or send your children through college or provide for a pleasant life of retirement? Then here's good news.

Lots of families with average incomes solve these problems if they know the answers. And the man who really does know the answers is your friendly, helpful, equitable society agent, representing one of the greatest institutions in the world.

In about 14 minutes, I'd like to tell you more about equitable society men and how they can help you enjoy the many advantages of membership in the equitable society. Tonight, the Subirteller FBI file, extortion, its title, the bridal shakedown.

Why intelligent people become criminals will probably always be a mystery. After all, even average intelligence is all that's required to teach a person that crime does not pay. In the past 25 years, tremendous strides have been made in learning what makes us humans click, but there are still many unknown factors, so it is difficult to explain why a person with a good IQ,

an individual with many qualities and abilities which should enable him to earn an honest living, would rather risk prison than settle down and go to work. We must never for a minute underestimate the brainpower of many criminals who match their wits against the forces of law and order.