He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King encouraged McCarthy and singlehandedly changed the course of history Hired by FDR to be the director of the FBI Hoover erected the most sophisticated ...

America in the 1960s was dominated by the horror of three high profile assassinations of a President, an Attorney General, and a Civil Rights icon. Their deaths are linked to thousands of conspiracy ...

Emily Maitlis explores the life and legacy of J Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI for almost five decades and turned it into a premier crime-fighting and counterintelligence force. In part two Hoover ...

Roger Ebert was a fan of most of Clint Eastwood's movies, even ones that other critics disliked. However, there was one movie that he was utterly in awe of.

Based on the bestselling novel by Marc Dugain, this original docudrama weaves unique archival footage within a fictional story and sheds a new light on J. Edgar Hoover. This film reveals the FBI ...

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 ...

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 ...

Meet the man who makes presidents wait. J Edgar Hoover built and then ran the FBI for almost five decades. He turned it from a bureaucratic backwater into a premier crime fighting and ...