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florida’s first lie detector

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by TBHC @ 9:48 am

60 years ago…

March 23, 1946 – The Hillsborough County sheriff’s department purchases the state of Florida’s first lie detector, a Keeler Polygraph machine, for $995 ($10,217 in today’s dollars).

Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.

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