Ben is a cop with the Pittsburgh Police Department. This day his partner, George, called in sick so Ben will be working the East Liberty midnight shift by himself.

Things are quiet for the first few hours, but then there’s a call on Ben’s patrol car radio: a burglary in the East Liberty section—the suspect is a young male carrying a pillow case.

Ben wheels around his patrol car and heads for the area where the suspect was last seen. There’s hardly any traffic at this time of night as Ben closes in on the area. He turns off his headlights and lets the car drift along ever so silently.

Minutes later Ben spots a young male carrying what looks like a cloth bag. There’s a brief footrace but Ben, a former track team member at Duquesne University, has the suspect spread-eagled on the ground and cuffed in no time at all.

It turns out that Ben’s prisoner is not a burglar—he’s a drug dealer. The bag contains several thousand dollars worth of drugs. Ben is able to get a few names from the suspect that eventually lead the Narcotics Squad to several more arrests. That was a good night’s work for Ben, even with his partner George out sick. The precinct commander gives Ben a citation at rollcall.

But according to Paul Harvey’s report of this incident you didn’t get the full story until you looked at all the paperwork with the entire list of names of people involved in this case. You’d think this incident happened on some patriot's holiday.

Let’s start with the cop on the beat. His name, of course, is Ben—Benjamin Franklin. Then there’s George, his out-sick partner—George Washington. Let’s not forget about Frank, the suspect. His name is Franklin Roosevelt. And he was arrested on Lincoln Street in the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.