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This Is Your FBI: The Bridal Shakedown

This Is Your FBI · July 18, 1952 · 24 min · 2,883 words

The transcript of “The Bridal Shakedown”, an episode of This Is Your FBI first broadcast July 18, 1952. 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! This is your FBI! The official broadcast from the files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation! The subject of our FBI file, extortion, it's titled...

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 twenty-five 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 wicks against the forces of law and order. The sad proof is that they are often very intelligent and industrious. Tonight's FBI fire was a case in point.

The lifefire opens in a gymnasium and help club located in the business district of a large eastern city. In a small room in this establishment, a muscular rubber is giving a young man a massage.

We have a Mr. Spencer. Oh, you're good, Erm. Up around the back of my neck, Lou. Yeah, sure. That's my Mr. Spencer. I've had the truth. So many drinks and raw wine.

And herb. I'm on the wagon as of today. Yeah? Well, do you know, Mom, two weeks? Ah, myself. Well, you will live. Okay. Because relax there while Mr. Spencer. Right. If you should fall asleep, when would you like me to call you?

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