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This is Your FBI: The Roundup

This is Your FBI · October 10, 1952 · 29 min · 4,042 words

The transcript of “The Roundup”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast October 10, 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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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.

Nobody likes to take unnecessary risks. That's what the word assurance in the name of the Equitable Life Assurance Society society means to its millions of members. Some members are assured that their wives and children have future security, that the youngsters will get a good education. Others are assured of owning their home free and clear, or of a comfortable and independent old age. Others

are assured of all these things combined. If you need such assurance, any or all of it, then call your equitable society representative. In about fifteen minutes, I'd like to tell you more about this friendly, helpful neighbor of yours and how he may be able to help you enjoy the freedom from worry that comes with membership in the equitable life-assurance

society of the United States. Tonight the subject of our FBI file, Flight to Avoid Prosecution, its title, Roundup. Who is a criminal? How does he get that way? What does he look like? Is he a snarling delinquent with a gun, a slick swindler working the society parties, a big-time racketeer dealing in bribery and protection, every year law enforcement agencies contend with cases of otherwise honest

substantial citizens who under heavy emotional or financial pressure try for some easy money. Too late they learn that in the half world of crime and violence there is no easy payment plan. Let stolen funds bear a high rate of interest collectible in the coin of worry, discomfort, fear imprisonment or sometimes of life itself

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