America in the 1960s was dominated by the horror of three high profile assassinations of a President, an Attorney General, ...

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 ...

from a letter from J. Edgar Hoover to Louis B. Nichols, January 7. 1972 One effect of the Watergate scandals has been a parting of the curtain of secrecy and reverence that for decades protected ...

In the wake of its success, Hoover sought to double the FBI's budget, but he ran into opposition from a hostile senator and was forced to admit that he'd never made an arrest. The J Edgar Hoover ...

J. Edgar Hoover is mostly remembered as the dominant force of the FBI. But he really got his start in 1919. He was 24 when he got a job at the Justice Department and was handed the position of ...