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Nov 22, 2022 · November 22, 2022. Five decades after his death, J. Edgar Hoover still haunts the FBI. His nearly 48-year reign as its director, from 1924 to 1972, has come to symbolize the dangers of a...
Nov 22, 2022 · November 22, 20225:00 AM ET. Heard on Morning Edition. Carrie Johnson. 4-Minute Listen. Playlist. Enlarge this image. J. Edgar Hoover is seen in his Washington, D.C., office in 1936. A new...
Nov 14, 2022 · J. Edgar Hoover, Public Enemy No. 1. The F.B.I. director promised to save American democracy from those who would subvert it—while his secret programs subverted it from within. By Margaret...
Mar 9, 2023 · March 9, 2023. “ G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century,” a 2022 biography of the controversial FBI director by Yale historian Beverly Gage, is among three books to win this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of the nation’s top honors in the field of American history.
J. Edgar Hoover. John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
May 4, 2012 · May 4, 2012. The Hoover Legacy, 40 Years After. Part 1: The End of an Era. J. Edgar Hoover’s body lies in state in the U.S. Capitol in 1972—an honor afforded to no other civil servant...
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May 25, 2023 · Listen • 47:17. This rebroadcast originally aired on December 9, 2022. J. Edgar Hoover, former FBI director. History has cast him as powerful, paranoid, a man not afraid to use the power of the FBI to intimidate and investigate his critics. But that’s how he’s seen now. What about then?
