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 ...

“Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh, the baby’s parents, even declined [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover’s offer to meet,” John Oller writes in “Gangster Hunters: How Hoover’s G-men ...

But if that were to occur, it would not be the first time. The agency's longest serving director, J. Edgar Hoover, authorized covert harassment campaigns against perceived enemies like the Rev.

“We’re seeing naked announcements that the bureau is going to be used as a political weapon,” says Pulitzer-prize winning historian Beverly Gage and author of “G Man: J. Edgar Hoover and ...

WASHINGTON (UPI) --The Black Panther party represents the greatest threat among the black extremist groups to the internal security of the United States, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover said today.

While the FBI never launched a formal investigation of Eleanor Roosevelt, FBI references to her comprise one of the largest single files in J. Edgar Hoover's collection. Her affiliation with ...