...disastrous second term and chastened by the recent destruction of decades' worth of FBI files by the late director J. Edgar Hoover's loyal secretary. That order was expanded four years later into a law requiring that all presidents' papers -- everything...
...Bob Woodward helped bring down Richard Nixon. Within his lifetime, the country has seen the rise and fall of Joe McCarthy. J. Edgar Hoover headed the FBI. George Wallace ran for President, twice! Jesse Helms had a long career and powerful career as a...
...that the Pearl Harbor snafu occurred in part, and that the FBI covered up its connection to Oswald, as did the CIA. J. Edgar Hoover caught the Nazi saboteurs in 1942 only because one of them chickened out and turned informant on his own, betraying the...
...when he planned a colossal terrorist attack on Manhattan on the Friday after Thanksgiving in 1962. On November 17, 1962, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI cracked a terrorist plot (though the term "terrorist" was not used at the time) by Cuban agents who were using...
... FBI cover-up in 'Omaha Two' case continued after J. Edgar Hoover's death J. Edgar Hoover headed the Federal Bureau of Investigation until his death on May 2, 1972. Hoover's controversial forty-eight year tenure at the national police force established...
...12 /PRNewswire/ -- BET's critically acclaimed docu-drama AMERICAN GANGSTER takes an in-depth look at former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program), a secret directive that both authorized and mandated illegal...
Background
John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972), known popularly as J. Edgar Hoover, was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. Appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924, he was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972. During his life, Hoover was highly regarded by much of the U.S. public, but since his death various allegations have tarnished this image.
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