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 J. Edgar Hoover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hoover habitually fired FBI agents, either randomly or by singling out those who "looked like truck drivers" or had "pointy heads." He was also notorious for assigning agents who had displeased him to career-ending jobs in cities with little need for an FBI presence.
Hoover and Tolson were both lifelong bachelors, and Hoover lived with his mother until her death in 1938, when he was 43 years old.
To date, Hoover is the longest-serving leader of an executive branch agency in the United States, having served under a record eight presidents, from Calvin Coolidge to Richard Nixon; indeed, it is because of Hoover that, since his tenure, FBI Directors have been limited to ten-year terms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover   (1498 words)

  
 J. Edgar Hoover Paper
John Edgar Hoover headed of the FBI for 48 years served under eight presidents and took criminal investigation and national security to a new level.
John Edgar Hoover, born January 1, 1895, to a mentally ill father and domineering mother, led the biggest crime-fighting group from May 10, 1924 till his death on May 2, 1972.
J. Edgar Hoover’s leadership and involvement in the FBI contributed to the many American’s mistrust of the FBI because Hoover tricked and deceived millions.
www.louisville.edu /~jrthom05/Hoover.htm   (1435 words)

  
 John Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington on 1st January, 1895.
Hoover was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924.
Hoover's persecution of people with left-wing views had the desired effect and membership of the Communist Party, estimated to have been 80,000 before the raids, fell to less that 6,000.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhooverE.htm   (4938 words)

  
 J. Edgar Hoover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hoover habitually fired FBI agents, either randomly or by singling out those who "looked stupid like truck drivers" or had "pointy heads." He was also notorious for relocating agents who had displeased him to career-ending jobs in cities with little need for an FBI presence, such as Melvin Purvis.
Hoover is credited with creating an effective law enforcement organization, but has frequently been accused of exceeding and abusing his authority in blackmailing notable public figures and engaging in unwarranted political persecution.
Hoover was appointed acting director of the FBI by President Coolidge to reform and clean up the bureau, which was considered a haven for corruption.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edgar_Hoover   (2479 words)

  
 J. Edgar Hoover
Edgar Hoover was the best FBI director organized crime could ever have wanted; it was difficult for syndicate members to be antagonized by a law enforcement official who claimed neither organized crime nor a Mafia existed in the United States.
Hoover's preoccupation with the races became so pronounced that he was frequently photographed at the $2 window and had a form letter that was sent out to irate citizens objecting to his wagering.
Hoover probably was fearful that, like other law enforcement agencies that came in contact with organized crime and the Mafia, the FBI would be tarred with the brush of corruption, since syndicate criminals had huge funds available for the fix.
www.carpenoctem.tv /mafia/hooverj.html   (1684 words)

  
 A Huey P. Newton Story - People - J. Edgar Hoover & the FBI PBS
John Edgar Hoover [commonly known as J. Edgar Hoover] was the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI] for 48 years from May 10, 1924 until his death on May 2, 1972.
On June 15, 1969, J. Edgar Hoover declared, "the Black Panther Party, without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country"; he pledged that 1969 would be the last year of the Party's existence.
Edgar Hoover himself had to say that it was not the guns that were the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States of America; it was not the guns, it was the Free Children's Breakfast Program that was the greatest threat to the internal security of the United States of America.
www.pbs.org /hueypnewton/people/people_hoover.html   (419 words)

  
 Dirty Politics--Hoover, Blackmail, O.J. Simson and Murder
Hoover considered Marilyn Monroe to be a serious threat to the national security of the United States, and she certainly fanned his paranoia in 1960 when she became a sponsor of SANE, the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy.
Given Hoover's paranoia and obsessions, it is not unreasonable to assume that there exists a closet full of controversial "suicide" cases which reflect Hoover's tendency to use the influence of his "infallible" FBI to enlist the services of unsuspecting or sympathetic professionals, in his private, covert war against domestic "subversives".
Hoover was particularly obsessed by the struggle in hollywood because he believed that Communists were trying to infiltrate the movie industry and he certainly was not about to let that happen.
dirtypolitics.50megs.com /hoover.htm   (5197 words)

  
 John Edgar Hoover
Hoover was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924.
Hoover's persecution of people with left-wing views had the desired effect and membership of the Communist Party, estimated to have been 80,000 before the raids, fell to less that 6,000.
Hoover was given responsibility of heading a new section that had been formed to gather evidence on "revolutionary and ultra-revolutionary groups".
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAhooverE.htm   (4938 words)

  
 The American Experience Eleanor Roosevelt People & Events J. Edgar Hoover
J. Edgar Hoover, the man responsible for the "G-man" hero in Hollywood and in real life, was to rule over the F.B.I. until his death in 1972.
Hoover's conditions were met and he set out on a rejuvenation campaign which would build the Bureau into one of the most powerful government agencies in twentieth century America.
Hoover was also eager to have all kidnapping cases under his jurisdiction.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eleanor/peopleevents/pande07.html   (1139 words)

  
 J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover described the demands as "a capitulation to public hysteria," and told Morganthau that arrests should not be made "unless there were sufficient facts (probable cause) upon which to justify the arrests." He contended the rights of American citizens should be protected, and protested the dragnet procedures.
Edgar Hoover and The Farm - by Albert Bates
Hoover and the FBI monitored Goldman's activities closely for the remainder of her life in exile from the United States.
www.zpub.com /notes/znote-jeh.html   (1353 words)

  
 Salon Health & Body J. Edgar Hoover: Gay marriage role model?
Yanking J. Edgar and Clyde flamboyantly out of the closet and waving their relationship with the rainbow flag may assist the cause of gay activists, but the truth remains that the master detective who spied on everyone else's sex life left the dossier on his own libido decidedly empty.
Edgar Hoover, the FBI chief, and his longtime companion, Clyde Tolson, were an ambiguously gay crime-fighting duo.
Richard Nixon's obscene comment upon hearing of Hoover's death ("Jesus Christ, that old cocksucker!") perhaps describes the opinion of inside observers, but no letters, photos, diaries or reliable witnesses can carnally tie the two men together.
archive.salon.com /health/sex/urge/world/2000/01/05/hoover   (496 words)

  
 The Real Crimes of J. Edgar Hoover
The issue of whether or not Hoover and Clyde Tolson ever were intimate is not only superficial but a smokescreen to hide John Edgar Hoover's gross dereliction of duty and hostility to the ideals he was sworn to protect.
ince we are living in a society that is now one big E Channel, gossip-driven, sensationalistic exercise in unnecessary exposures, let me tell you that the author of Puppetmaster, Richard Hack, a resident of Provincetown and Maui, has thoroughly investigated John Edgar Hoover's sexuality and found no evidence of bisexuality.
Hoover had blood on his hands, as Richard Hack amply demonstrates-the blood of the men and women he defamed as "Communists," using HUAC and Joe McCarthy as his puppets, and the blood of people who were corrupted and forced into illegal activities by organized crime's shylocks, and the blood of tyranny against innocent African Americans.
baltimorechronicle.com /071304JoeRosenberg.html   (884 words)

  
 Herbert Hoover
Capone should have been talking about J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but he was not.
J. Edgar, as early as 1930, demonstrated that he most certainly was not going to have anything to do with any form of organized crime, and certainly not with the Capone mob in Chicago.
Hoover turned to his Treasury Department for action, and Andrew Mellon, the secretary of the treasury at the time, later recounted the events that occurred daily at "meetings" of the president's so-called Medicine Cabinet, a group of high officials he had in to the White House each morning to toss around a medicine ball.
carpenoctem.tv /mafia/hoover.html   (580 words)

  
 J Edgar Hoover - Transvestite
J. Edgar Hoover was born in Washington on January 1, 1895 and rose to become one of the most powerful men in America some say even more powerful then the presidents he served under.
Hoover's alleged homosexuality was known to the Mafia, who apparently had photographs, and Hoover's frequent gambling junkets were paid by his Mafia friends.
In May of 1972, Hoover was nearing his fifty-five-year anniversary with the Justice Department.
www.transgenderzone.com /features/jedgarhoover.htm   (607 words)

  
 [Letter] 1957 November 12, Washington, D.C. [to] Francis E. Walter, Washington, D.C. / J. Edgar Hoover [John Edgar Hoover].
Hoover began his career as an attorney in the Justice Department in 1917; his early experiences included the deportation of alien members of the Union of Russian Workers and the American Communist Party such as Emma Goldman.
Hoover tells Walter he has just finished reviewing "Operation Abolition" set to be released by the Committee on Un-American Activities the following day.
He became Director of the FBI (1924-72) and established a fingerprint file, the crime lab, and the practice of infiltrating groups perceived as radical such as the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers, student protest groups, and civil rights organizations.
digital.lib.lehigh.edu /remain/122   (236 words)

  
 J. Edgar Hoover Building - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edgar Hoover Building is the headquarters for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The building is located on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. Since 1908, when the Bureau was still the Justice Department Bureau of Investigation, the FBI had been headquartered in the Department of Justice building.
The naming was authorized by President Richard Nixon on May 4, 1972, two days after Hoover's death.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J._Edgar_Hoover_Building   (248 words)

  
 The Real Crimes of J. Edgar Hoover
The issue of whether or not Hoover and Clyde Tolson ever were intimate is not only superficial but a smokescreen to hide John Edgar Hoover's gross dereliction of duty and hostility to the ideals he was sworn to protect.
ince we are living in a society that is now one big E Channel, gossip-driven, sensationalistic exercise in unnecessary exposures, let me tell you that the author of Puppetmaster, Richard Hack, a resident of Provincetown and Maui, has thoroughly investigated John Edgar Hoover's sexuality and found no evidence of bisexuality.
Hoover had blood on his hands, as Richard Hack amply demonstrates-the blood of the men and women he defamed as "Communists," using HUAC and Joe McCarthy as his puppets, and the blood of people who were corrupted and forced into illegal activities by organized crime's shylocks, and the blood of tyranny against innocent African Americans.
baltimorechronicle.com /071304JoeRosenberg.html   (884 words)

  
 J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, D.C., on January 1, 1895 to Dickerson N. Hoover, a federal official, and Annie M. Scheitlin, a strict woman of conviction.
Edgar Hoover served for nearly 50 years under no fewer than eight presidents, from Calvin Coolidge to Richard M. Nixon.
Hoover led the bureau in a thoroughgoing string of investigations intended to snuff out subversive activities not only within the government, but the private sector as well.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1593.html   (819 words)

  
 CNN Cold War - Profile: John Edgar Hoover
The powerful director of the FBI was born on January 1, 1895, in Washington, D.C., to Dickerson N. Hoover, a federal official, and Annie M. Scheitlin, a stern and principled woman.
At Justice, Hoover stood out because of the dandyish way he dressed, his ambition, and his capacity for detailed tasks.
That gave Hoover the opportunity to increase vastly the scope of his ongoing investigations of countless individuals, from the obscure to the very prominent.
clinton.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/kbank/profiles/hoover   (383 words)

  
 The Straight Dope: Was J. Edgar Hoover a cross-dresser?
Hoover went into a bedroom, took off his skirt to reveal a garter belt, and had a couple of blond boys--one wearing rubber gloves--"work on him with their hands." Cohn and Hoover then watched while Lewis Rosenstiel had sex with the boys.
Hoover, whom Cohn introduced as "Mary," was supposedly wearing a wig, a black dress, lace stockings, and high heels.
Hoover was an old hand at blackmail--he used incriminating information his agency collected about prominent people to maintain his hold on office and otherwise get his way.
www.straightdope.com /columns/021206.html   (849 words)

  
 J. Edgar Hoover
John Edgar Hoover was born on New Year's Day in 1895 in Washington, D.C. He was the youngest of the three surviving children born to Dickerson Naylor Hoover and Annie Marie Scheitlin Hoover.
Hoover described the demands as "a capitulation to public hysteria," and told Morganthau that arrests should not be made "unless there were sufficient facts (probable cause) upon which to justify the arrests." He contended the rights of American citizens should be protected, and protested the dragnet procedures.
Hoover and the FBI monitored Goldman's activities closely for the remainder of her life in exile from the United States.
www.zpub.com /notes/znote-jeh.html   (1353 words)

  
 John Edgar Hoover Biography / Biography of John Edgar Hoover Main Biography
Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) was appointed assistant director of the Bureau of Investigation in 1921, and director in 1924; he was the popular (and then controversial) director of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1935 until his death in 1972, at age 77.
Edgar Hoover was born into a Scottish Presbyterian family of civil servants in Washington, D.C. on New Year's Day, 1895; his mother called him Edgar from the day he was born.
Working days and attending school at nights, Hoover earned his Bachelor of Law degree with honors from George Washington University in 1916.
www.bookrags.com /biography-john-edgar-hoover   (245 words)

  
 J. Edgar Hoover
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issues a memo to Walt Disney, telling him: "I am indeed pleased that we can be of service to you in affording you a means of absolute identity throughout your lifetime." The meaning of the phrase "absolute identity" has yet to be deduced.
John Edgar Hoover born to Dickerson Naylor Hoover and Annie Marie Schleiten Hoover, Washington DC.
Edgar Hoover Acting Director of the Bureau of Identification.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/usa/j-edgar-hoover   (734 words)

  
 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Directors, Then and Now
John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, D.C., on January 1, 1895.
Hoover entered on duty with the Department of Justice on July 26, 1917, and rose quickly in government service.
Hoover's age and length of service, Presidents of both parties made the decision to keep him at the helm of the Bureau.
www.fbi.gov /libref/directors/hoover.htm   (484 words)

  
 The New American - "Assassinating" J. Edgar Hoover - August 9, 1993
Hoover's position stands in sharp contrast to that recently expressed by FBI Director William Sessions in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno recommending that the Justice Department endorse new federal gun control laws, including the controversial Brady waiting-period bill.
Kennedy had written to Hoover requesting information, but Hoover had replied that he had been advised by the attorney general "that since the courts have assumed jurisdiction of this matter, it would not be appropriate for me to use any other forum to contest Mr.
• Shortly thereafter, Attorney General John Mitchell advised Hoover to reserve his comments on the Shaw matter for the courts.
www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1993/vo09no16/vo09no16_hoover.htm   (2262 words)

  
 American Experience Marcus Garvey People & Events
John Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation (renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1935) from 1924 to 1977, was born on January 1, 1895, in Washington, D.C. to Annie Marie Scheitlin Hoover and Dickerson Naylor Hoover.
According to Kornweibel, "Hoover and the Justice Department were clearly hooked on a fixation on Garvey which would before long become a vendetta."
After Hoover graduated in 1917, Hoover's uncle, a judge, helped him obtain a job in the U. Justice Department.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/garvey/peopleevents/p_hoover.html   (766 words)

  
 J Edgar Hoover: May 2, 1972
Columnist Jack Anderson who had been one of Hoover's most worthy adversaries issued a measured statement: "J. Edgar Hoover transformed the FBI from a collection of hacks, misfits and courthouse hangers-on into one of the world's most effective and formidable law enforcement organizations.
Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger, who Hoover had supported as a court nominee, spoke at the ceremony, calling Hoover a man who did not abandon his principles to "popular clamor."
The legendary secret files were uppermost in the minds of Clyde Tolson, the upper echelon of the Bureau and the many private and public citizens who had been the subject of Hoover's probing investigations into their secrets, weaknesses and morality.
www.crimelibrary.com /hoover/hoovermain.htm   (1072 words)

  
 Federal Bureau of Investigation - Directors, Then and Now
John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, D.C., on January 1, 1895.
Hoover entered on duty with the Department of Justice on July 26, 1917, and rose quickly in government service.
Hoover's age and length of service, Presidents of both parties made the decision to keep him at the helm of the Bureau.
www.fbi.gov /libref/directors/hoover.htm   (484 words)

  
 The New American - "Assassinating" J. Edgar Hoover - August 9, 1993
Hoover's position stands in sharp contrast to that recently expressed by FBI Director William Sessions in a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno recommending that the Justice Department endorse new federal gun control laws, including the controversial Brady waiting-period bill.
Kennedy had written to Hoover requesting information, but Hoover had replied that he had been advised by the attorney general "that since the courts have assumed jurisdiction of this matter, it would not be appropriate for me to use any other forum to contest Mr.
• Shortly thereafter, Attorney General John Mitchell advised Hoover to reserve his comments on the Shaw matter for the courts.
www.thenewamerican.com /tna/1993/vo09no16/vo09no16_hoover.htm   (2229 words)

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