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What You Don’t Know About the FBI Director Who Targeted MLK
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBettmann Archive/GettyJ. Edgar Hoover doesn’t have a lot of admirers. Author Beverly Gage, who just...
Los Angeles Times Book Prizes winners announced
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJames Ellroy enthusiastically accepts the 2022 Robert Kirsch Award for lifetime achievement at the L.A. Times Book Prizes ceremony Friday. (Varon...
How the FBI Worked With Hollywood to Build the Crime Genre’s Early Years In Film and TV
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 11 months agoMartin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s Killers of the Flower Moon is the latest turn in a...
Black Panther HQ could become National Park site as feds aim to add Black history to America’s story
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJ. Edgar Hoover, America’s infamous former FBI director, deemed the Black Panthers the “greatest...
Jimmy Carter admirers across generations celebrate the former president's 99th birthday
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 8 months agoJ. Edgar Hoover became the federal government’s top cop. The year was 1924, and that tiny fellow in...
RFK Jr. defends Kennedy administration wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.
Politico via Yahoo News· 5 months agoATLANTA — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Sunday defended his family’s role in authorizing government...
50 years ago, women made history at FBI: "I certainly wasn't going to fail"
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJ. Edgar Hoover, who served as FBI director for nearly half a century, said women could not be...
Alvin 'Creepy' Karpis: How America's last Public Enemy No. 1 was captured in New Orleans
The Daily Advertiser via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's four Depression-era Public Enemy No. 1's — John Dillinger, Pretty Boy...
Exclusive: A veteran FBI agent told Congress that investigations into Giuliani and other Trump...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC.Alex Brandon/AP An FBI veteran said his superiors...
'Rustin' fact check: Did J. Edgar Hoover spread rumors about him and Martin Luther King?
The Desert Sun via Yahoo News· 5 months agoBayard Rustin was an unsung hero of the civil rights movement. But he’s finally getting the...