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The film also addressed longstanding rumors regarding Hoover's 'abnormal' sexual life; it acknowledges Screw Magazine's public accusation of Hoover being gay and in a relationship with deputy director/longtime colleague Clyde Tolson. However, it presents the accusation as a malicious slur conceived by critic Al Goldstein in retaliation towards ...
Dec 22, 1975 · Moreover, when Johnson’s aide, Walter Jenkins, was involved in a homosexual episode in 1964, L.B.J. suspected that a Barry Goldwater supporter may have set up the arrest.
Nov 10, 2015 · Herbert Hoover’s correspondence files contain many examples of letters received that were meant for J. Edgar Hoover. The two Hoovers were constantly forwarding one another mail and, in the process, became close friends.
Leonardo DiCaprio and his J. Edgar director Clint Eastwood met with the FBI to investigate whether there's evidence that Hoover was gay, but learned "there is no evidence in the historical...
Dec 6, 1976 · The folders even deal with allegations that Hoover himself was a homosexual. One three-page file is devoted to an FBI interview of a man claiming to have heard rumors that Hoover was “queer.”...
Jan 1, 1977 · Privately, he was a mama's boy and a homosexual who got his jollies by sitting in the dark with a bottle of bourbon and a tape recorder playing the sounds of a powerful government official's...
In J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and His Secrets, Gentry describes the nature of the files: [10] "their contents included blackmail material on the patriarch of an American political dynasty, his sons, their wives, and other women; allegations of two homosexual arrests which Hoover leaked to help defeat a witty, urbane Democratic presidential ...
