This is Your FBI: Murder on the Midway

The Equitable Life Assurance Society presents This is your FBI. This is your FBI. The official broadcast from the Fios 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.

Since the Equitable Life Assurance Society was founded 90 years ago, this country has changed in many ways. But in one respect, it is still the same. In those early days, people always spoke of America as the land of opportunity.

Well, it still is the land of opportunity just as much as ever. In just a few minutes into tonight's Middle Commercial, the Equitable Society will have a special message for listeners who agree with this philosophy.

We will describe a special life insurance plan for men and women on the way up, offered by the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States. Tonight's FBI file, Murder on the Midway. The traveling carnival, once an institution, is fast disappearing from the American scene.

Their gradual disappearance is a great pity, if only because it means that many a small town child will grow up without ever having seen the fearless daredevil who did his dive from the high platform into a shallow tank of water, nor shall he ever see the fabulous fat lady, the bearded lady, or the pretty young girl who was advertised as being able to shoot better

than any Oakley. The majority of those shows which still manage to tour the country and bring joy to children of all ages, are composed of old-timers who are the last-plink America has with a show business of yesterday. As such, they are deserving of our complete respect, for they have brought laughter and excitement wherever they went. Unfortunately for them, that respect is often