While you would expect government agencies to actually investigate real crimes that are being committed, the FBI has ...

Hoping for another chance at glory, he applied for a job with J. Edgar Hoover’s budding Division of Investigation—the future FBI. A former U.S. attorney in Chicago wrote to recommend Ness.

The former assistant of J. Edgar Hoover has written a book about the FBI’s first director. “The Director: My Years Assisting J. Edgar Hoover” was written by Paul Letersky, who later ...

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, ...

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 ...

Former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover is often criticized for his zealous, unconstitutional surveillance of civil rights leaders and suspected communists. But many people don’t know Hoover ...

TWO books published years apart yield important information about J. Edgar Hoover, the controversial former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The FBI is the premier ...

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 ...

A seal reading "Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation" is displayed on the J. Edgar Hoover FBI ...

Meet the man who makes presidents wait. J Edgar Hoover built and then ran the FBI for almost five decades. He turned it from a bureaucratic backwater into a premier crime fighting and ...