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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...
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...
The FBI Wasn't Supposed to Be Political—But It Has Been Since the Beginning
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFBI director J. Edgar Hoover (left) has a laugh with President Lyndon Baines Johnson. Credit - Wally...
Percival Everett, Ling Ma among nominees for critics prizes
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoFiction by Percival Everett and Ling Ma, nonfiction by Annie Proulx and biographies of George...
Black Panther HQ could become National Park site as feds aim to add Black history to America’s story
theGrio via AOL· 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...
Ex-Ohio high court judge's play examines power struggle between JFK, Hoover
The Columbus Dispatch via Yahoo News· 1 year agoColumbus playwright Herb Brown, a former Ohio Supreme Court justice, has always been fascinated by...
RFK Jr. Defends Kennedy Administration Surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr.
Rolling Stone via Yahoo News· 4 months agoAhead of Martin Luther King Day, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended his family’s role in authorizing...
'Rustin' fact check: Did J. Edgar Hoover spread rumors about him and Martin Luther King?
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 months agoSpoiler alert! The following story contains plot details about Netflix drama “Rustin” (now...
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...