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This is Your FBI: The Innocent Hostage

This is Your FBI · December 16, 1949 · 29 min · 4,407 words

The transcript of “The Innocent Hostage”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast December 16, 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 files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Transcribed and presented as a public service by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States and the Equitable Society's representative in your community!

Now I would like to introduce a representative of our sponsor, the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States Your future is his business, security in years to come for you, your home, and your family.

Tonight, our equitable representative has a very timely message for the fathers and mothers of America. Mothers and fathers, as Christmas Day approaches, don't you find yourself thinking more of your children than at any other season of the year?

The Christmas season is their season. That's why I think you'll be particularly interested tonight when Mr Keating tells you in approximately 14 minutes 14 minutes about the Equitable Society's famous fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers.

The facts this chart brings to light are vital to the future happiness of your family. Remember, it's the fact-finding chart for fathers and mothers, prepared by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

Tonight's FBI file, the Innocent Hostage. This year, now almost completely written into the pages of history, saw a number of new records established. There were, for instance, more automobiles made and sold than in any previous year of our history. The number of people gainfully employed in a single period hit an all-time high. Those are concrete accomplishments of which we may all be proud, for they represent

unmistakable events. However, this past year which saw the identification division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation celebrated its 25th anniversary. Also saw it handle more fingerprint arrest records than in any previous 12-month period. A great number of the people represented by those cards were convicted and sentenced to pay for their crime by serving

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