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This is Your FBI: The Skyway Man (syndicated)

This is Your FBI · March 7, 1952 · 25 min · 3,743 words

The transcript of “The Skyway Man (syndicated)”, an episode of This is Your FBI first broadcast March 7, 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. Tonight, the subject of our FBI file, Grand Larcini. It's titled...

The Skyway Man. Crimes are committed for many reasons. Revenge, fear, ignorance, hate. But the greatest number are caused by greed. The dictionary defines greed as acquisitive desire beyond reason, but that definition does not explain why certain people are possessed by that unreasonable appetite.

For the explanation we must go to the field of psychiatry, which tells us that in the case of many adults, greed is a result of insecurity stemming from their youth. Insecurity which often is a result of a lack of affection by parents toward a child.

Sometimes it is a result of over-protection of a child by parents. The insecurity coming when the child goes out into the world and finds himself unable to cope with the society, which does not give him similar over-protection.

This message is brought to you so that parents in the homes into which this program is coming may learn what they may do today to well determine whether or not a crime will be committed ten years from now.

Tonight's FBI file opens on the midway of a County Fair. It is early afternoon as a well-dressed man approaches one of the midway games of Chant. Come on, anybody, you there, mister? Come on up to the counter. No, I don't want to play cards with you never gambling my life, but I'll kill you what I'm going to do.

I'm going to show you an amazing deck of cards. Come up a little closer, mister. That's right up to the counter. Now let's say you've been losing this summer, Rascal. You want to get even. That's human. That's natural.

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