Federal Bureau of Investigation employees sort out files containing fingerprints in the Fingerprint Identification Section of the FBI Headquarters. Two FBI employees look through fingerprint collection in the Identification Section. Fingerprint document being examined. Forensic scientists walk through hallway of the FBI Laboratory on the 6th floor and attic of the Justice Department Building in Washington DC. Forensic investigators examine a firearm....part of a rifle. A forensic scientist looks at evidence under microscope. Forensic investigator of the Cryptanalysis and Racketeering Records Unit (CRRU) examines a check sent as an evidence. Forensic scientist uses typewriter. Forensic investigator uses microscope do handwriting analysis on two documents. Forensic scientist examines the weight and thickness of a paper sent as an evidence. A paper thickness gauge is used to measure thickness. Forensic scientist compares rope fiber crime evidence against many samples of ropes. Forensic scientist examines a plaster cast of the sole of a shoe found as evidence in a crime scene.
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, works from his desk in the FBI Headquarters in Washington DC. A teletype machine printer prints out data of crimes being reported real-time in the United States. A man shoots at a mechanic with a handgun. Body of mechanic falling into vehicle inspection pit in garage. Burglars attempt to open a vault using blowtorch. A young man opens a locker and steals a wallet.
Robbers force a teller into a sedan before driving away from The New Hampshire Bank building at 22-26 Market Square, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Man reads a newspaper (The Portsmouth Herald) headline reads "Teller Kidnaped in Bank Holdup." FBI agents question locals at gas station near Portsmouth, New Hampshire. View of a farm house. Police man helping in ground search gives FBI agents a prize ticket found. Close up of prize ticket. FBI Agent picks up a piece of cardboard from the ground containing tire print. FBI agents extracts a piece of cloth from barbed wire. FBI forensic investigator examines the imprints of tire marking from cardboard. View of textile mill. FBI forensic investigators analyzing cloth from Massachusetts and North Carolina textile mills. FBI forensic investigator examines piece of fabric sent as evidence. A fiber is cut from piece of fabric and added to vial of chemicals. Line of test tubes containing liquid. Signage of Kimball’s, a tie store in Boston (31 Market St, Boston, MA 02135, USA). Signage of various menswear stores in Boston selling neckties. FBI agents speak with shop clerk of tie store in Boston. Shop clerk shows a necktie to FBI agents. FBI agents show shop clerk mugshots to identify a suspect. FBI agents inside car watching building. FBI agents observe a street. FBI agent answers a telephone inside a car. Black car trails behind a convertible on highway and over a bridge. An FBI agent confronts a suspect paying at a toll booth. Black car chases convertible as FBI agent clings to passenger door as the driver attempts to dislodge FBI agent from his car. POV through windshield exiting towards Portsmouth. Convertible car swerves past a truck. Car crash as convertible hits a truck of hay. FBI agent gets up and arrests the driver. Crashed truck in flames. View of the U.S. Department of Justice (950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20530, United States). J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, speaks from his desk. View of an American school. American flag waving. People sitting on stone stairs outside the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC. View of the Washington National Cathedral bell tower in Washington DC (3101 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20016, United States). View of a church’s bell towers. View of the United States Capitol in Washington DC. Statue from the United States Capitol stairs. “Eternal Vigilance the price of liberty” inscription below statue. “The End”.