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J. Edgar Hoover was the nominal author of a number of books and articles, although it is widely believed that all of these were ghostwritten by FBI employees. [168] [169] [170] Hoover received the credit and royalties. Hoover, J. Edgar (1938). Persons in Hiding. Gaunt Publishing. ISBN 978-1-56169-340-5. Hoover, J. Edgar (February 1947).
Hoover died during the night of May 1–2, 1972. According to Curt Gentry, who wrote the 1991 book J Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, Hoover's body was not discovered by his live-in cook and general housekeeper, Annie Fields; rather, it was discovered by James Crawford, who had been Hoover's chauffeur for 37 years. Crawford then yelled ...
Tolson (left) with J. Edgar Hoover, c. 1939. It has been stated that J. Edgar Hoover described: "They rode to and from work together, ate lunch together, and often traveled together on official or unofficial business." [17] Their relationship has been described as "what many considered a 'spousal' relationship between the two men". [18]
And John Edgar Hoover, who was the first Director of the FBI and certainly not a fan of JFK, kept declassified FBI files that claim the two eloped in 1939 and then divorced in 1953 — the same ...
Hoover’s reign at the FBI compromised American civil liberties and turned the FBI into America's secret police. An American Gangster at 100: J. Edgar Hoover's Authoritarian Legacy Skip to main ...
The two married in 1935 and divorced in 1939. [24] [25] Early in her career, Lamour met J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to Hoover's biographer Richard Hack, Hoover pursued a romantic relationship with Lamour, and the two spent a night together at a Washington, D.C., hotel. When Lamour was later asked ...
J. Edgar Hoover conducted a perfunctory investigation of the Senator's alleged sexual assault; ... In 1953, he married Jean Fraser Kerr, a researcher in his office.
FBI directors get those 10-year terms as the result of a post-Watergate law that was in response to J. Edgar Hoover’s much-too-long and controlling 48-year leadership of the FBI.