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This Is Your FBI: The Bridal Shakedown

This Is Your FBI · July 18, 1952 · 29 min · 4,023 words

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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.

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.

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Next week we will dramatize another case from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. subject armed robbery, its title. The 16 millimeter stick up. The incident used in tonight's equitable life-assurance society's broadcast are adapted from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. However, all names used are fictitious and any similarity thereof to the names of places or persons living or

dead is accidental. Tonight the music was composed and conducted by Frederick Steiner. Your narrator was William Woodson and special agent Taylor was played by Stacey Harris. All those in the cast were James Dobson, Stan Prorar, Anne Morrison, Vicki Roth, and Paul Richards. This is your FBI is a Jerry Divine production. This is

Larry Keating speaking for the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society is representative in your community and inviting you to tune in again next week at the same time when the Equitable Life Assurance Society will bring you another thrilling transcribed story from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The 16mm stick-up on this is your FBI.

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