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This Is Your FBI: The Out-of-Date Killer

This Is Your FBI · January 7, 1949 · 29 min · 4,730 words

The transcript of “The Out-of-Date Killer”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast January 7, 1949. 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 fires of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community.

It can happen to you tonight. Right in your own home. Suddenly the telephone bell will ring. Yes? This is the radio checking, Buon. Why, yes, it is. What is it? It's this is your FBI, just starting.

Do you know who sponsors that program? Sure I do. It's the Equitable Life Assurance Society. I listened last week and heard about the Equitable Society's fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers. My Equitable Society representative brought me a copy, so naturally I know that this is your FBI is sponsored by the Equitable Society.

society. In about fifteen minutes I'll be back with full information about the equitable societies, fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers. Tonight's FBI file, The Out-of-Date Killer. The citizens of America like to think that because there is no daily story of the exploits of a gun-crazy criminal like John Dillinger on the front pages of their morning newspapers, that the era of the

gang has passed. Nothing could be further from the truth. There not only are gangs of criminals operating in almost every section of the United States today, but in many instances they are composed of the same gangsters who are operating during the prohibition era. There is one difference between the gangster of the late 1920s and the top criminals of today. The current version

is no fast-topping thug with a broken nose and a colour-flower ear. Somewhere in the years between then and now. He is acquired in almost genteel quality. In spite of his monogrammed shirts and his manicured nails, however, he still remains a menace to you, the decent citizen. If through your law enforcement agencies, both local and federal, you do not

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