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This is Your FBI: The Jolly Widow

This is Your FBI · August 22, 1952 · 29 min · 4,444 words

The transcript of “The Jolly Widow”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast August 22, 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.

You and your wife worry about what will happen tomorrow, instead of getting the most out of life today. There is one way to take the uncertainty out of tomorrow, and that is to plan for it.

If you have the right plans, much of your worry is over. Now, there is a man who knows how to help you plan for the future. He is your local, equitable society representative. In about 13 minutes, I want to tell you more about this helpful, friendly neighbor of yours, your local representative of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, homicide, it's titled the Jolly Widow. Law-abiding citizens become shocked when they learn of the existence of an almost unbelievable organization whose business is murder.

Murder is skillfully performed by experts at reasonable prices. Law enforcement has met this menace in the past, and will continue to vigorously fight it. The lawlessness and gangsterism which produced gunmen for hire have not suffered totally feet.

In this country today, as is shown by tonight's case from the official FBI files, there still exists a class of professional killers. Men who will cold-bloodedly shoot down a fellow human being they have never laid eyes on before.

Their charge for so doing is of course higher than a decade ago. but it is still not regarded as exorbitant by those who patronize its services. Tonight's FBI file opens in a smartly furnished studio apartment in one of the better residential districts of a large western city.

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