J. Edgar Hoover
The FBI’s Wildly Successful Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List Was Hatched 60 Years Ago
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Saturday marks the 60th anniversary of the FBI’s famous and wildly successful Ten Most Wanted Fugitive program, which has helped capture hundreds of suspects since its inception. The Imperial Valley News reports that the program’s roots reach back to 1949, when a reporter for the International News Service wrote a story…
Records: FBI Spied on Numerous African American Authors, Scholars for Decades
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI and its notoriously paranoid director J. Edgar Hoover spied on prominent African American writers for decades, monitoring their activities and critiquing their work. The Guardian reports that newly declassified documents from the FBI show extensive surveillance of black writers and scholars, including Langston Hughes, James Baldwin and Claude McKay….
Weekend Series on Law Enforcement History: FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover
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FBI Letter to MLK Reveals How Much J. Edgar Hoover Hated the Civil Rights Leader
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com It’s well-known that notorious FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover loathed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. That has never been made clearer than in an uncensored letter from Hoover to King that was recently found among the former director’s archives, the New York Times wrote. In the letter, Hoover calls…
Weekend Series on Law Enforcement: Richard Nixon Talks to LBJ About the Death of the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover
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Weekend Series on Law Enforcement History: Nixon Delivers Eulogy at FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover’s Funeral
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80th Anniversary: Death of Gangster John Dillinger Helped Lead to Creation of FBI
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Gangster John Dillinger was the fed’s first Public Enemy Number One. It was June 22, 1934, and Dillinger was wanted for at least 12 bank robberies, four police department robberies and the murder of a police officer. Outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago, agents from the Department of Investigation of the Justice…