J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. Edgar Hoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, Protestant, middle ...
“Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh, the baby’s parents, even declined [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover ... collared an international con man wanted in London. Hoover crowed about that arrest ...
“We’re seeing naked announcements that the bureau is going to be used as a political weapon,” says Pulitzer-prize winning historian Beverly Gage and author of “G Man: J. Edgar Hoover and ...
Meet the man who makes presidents wait. J Edgar Hoover built and then ran the FBI for almost five decades. He turned it from a bureaucratic backwater into a premier crime fighting and ...