more at quickfound.net "NEWSREEL: Follows twenty-seven year old law school graduate, Tom Holliday, progress through thirteen week training course at FBI Academy at Quantico, Virginia. Trainees learn when, where, what, and how to investigate bank robberies, kidnappings, extortion and espionage crimes, and laws and federal statutes covering these crimes. Demonstrates how to photograph and read burned paper, how to identify fire arms, manual fingerprint search process, and different types of guns. At Combat Village, ghost town used by FBI to train agents, Tom demonstrated his ability to capture and arrest fugitive. J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI since 1924, comments on importance of FBI training for special agents." Public domain film from the National Archives, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). www.fbi.gov In the Beginning ...How'd we end up at Quantico? It began with the so-called "Kansas City massacre." In June 1933, three police officers and one Bureau agent escorting a prisoner through a Missouri train station were killed when "Pretty Boy" Floyd and other criminals opened fire. Following the public outcry, FBI agents were given the authority to make arrests and to carry weapons for the first ...