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2 days ago · 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). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924.
1 day ago · Happy Birthday FBI! “Hey, J. Edgar Hoover! Congrats!” by Gus Edson, 1949 ( NAID 518178; Local Identifier: 65-HA-7) Ray Davidson was questioning a subject recently and when he came to the “marital status,” Ray asked if he was married. The subject said that he wasn’t but that he was going to be married in about a month.
2 days ago · FBI director J. Edgar Hoover designed President Truman's loyalty-security program, and its background investigations of employees were carried out by FBI agents. This was a major assignment that led to the number of agents in the bureau being increased from 3,559 in 1946 to 7,029 in 1952.
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1 day ago · j. Edgar Hoover, the FBI Director, later described Ma Barker as “the most vicious, dangerous and resourceful criminal brain of the last decade.” However, those who knew her insisted this portrayal was a fabrication to justify the FBI’s actions.
2 days ago · By 1754, Great Britain and France had been fighting each other off and on for centuries. In the early seventeenth century, both empires began establishing colonies in North America, and both empires’ presence in the region grew over the next 150 years. As the British colonies looked to expand west and the French pushed south and east ...
2 days ago · By then, the FBI was investigating his potentially treasonous conduct: The exhibition includes a facsimile of an anonymous 1940 letter to J. Edgar Hoover stating that Johnson “is mesmerized by ...
2 days ago · New Dealers worked adeptly with Republican crime warriors like J. Edgar Hoover in the FBI and Harry Anslinger in the Narcotics Bureau. By 1944, the Presidential election revealed the metamorphosis ...
