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.

“Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh, the baby’s parents, even declined [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover’s offer to meet,” John ...

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 fought to ...

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 became a field ...

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, Protestant ...

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 Hoover ...

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 ...

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 domestic ...

The book “Policing Show Business” shows how Trump’s attacks on “radical leftists” are like a sequel to the Red Scare.

The move is part of a broader effort by GSA’s Public Buildings Service to offload properties and leases the Trump administration has deemed no longer essential to government operations. The agency ...

The FBI of the past Some observers have compared Patel to J. Edgar Hoover, the domineering FBI director between 1924 and 1972 who was renowned for FBI abuses. In 1956, Hoover created COINTELPRO ...

A Wisconsin teenager allegedly killed his parents in February as part of a plot to assassinate President Donald Trump, ...