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    John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation...
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    The J. Edgar Hoover Building is a low-rise office building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is the...
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  • J. Edgar is a 2011 American biographical drama film based on the career of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, directed, produced and scored by Clint Eastwood...
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  • of J. Edgar Hoover is a 1977 American biographical drama film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen. It stars Broderick Crawford as Hoover, alongside...
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    Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. The FBI has a List of the Top 10 criminals...
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  • J. Edgar Hoover is a 1987 American biographical drama television film written and directed by Robert L. Collins. It stars Treat Williams as the eponymous...
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    discipline. He was the protégé and long-time top deputy of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Tolson was born in Laredo, Missouri to James William Tolson, a farmer...
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  • Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, and was the primary contributor to the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation. In 1936, Rosenstiel purchased...
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    Helen Gandy (category J. Edgar Hoover)
    director J. Edgar Hoover, who called her "indispensable". Serving in that role for 54 years she exercised great behind-the-scenes influence on Hoover and the...
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    modern day, outdated. Ellen Schrecker has suggested that Hooverism, after FBI Head J. Edgar Hoover, is more appropriate. What became known as the McCarthy...
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    director, J. Edgar Hoover with his longtime aide, Clyde Tolson. In his book, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, biographer...
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    written by FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover: he was scheduled to read it for the film, but died before it started production. Hoover's text is read at the film's...
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  • G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century is a biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover by historian Beverly Gage, first published...
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    attention of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover. With support from Hoover and Cardinal Spellman, Hearst columnist George Sokolsky...
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    2017. Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, p. 43 Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, p. 49 Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and...
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    thriller Inception. In 2011, he portrayed J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, in the biopic J. Edgar. The following year, he played a supporting...
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  • "TV REVIEWS : 'J. Edgar Hoover': Dirt Shown Out of Context". Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles. Retrieved December 6, 2014. "J. Edgar Hoover Was Homosexual...
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  • music and chamber music composer. Hoover (surname) Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States J. Edgar Hoover (1895–1972), first director of the...
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    president and, since 1972, subject to confirmation by the Senate. J. Edgar Hoover, appointed by President Calvin Coolidge to the predecessor office of...
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    Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Gallagher was approached by attorney Roy Cohn, who asked him on behalf of Hoover to hold...
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    General Robert F. Kennedy, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, CIA director John A. McCone, and Secret Service Chief James J. Rowley each individually reached the...
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  • mini-series depicting the political struggles between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy...
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    (1992). J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0-393-32128-9. Gentry, Curt (1992). J. Edgar Hoover: The...
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    intimidation, and withholding of exculpatory evidence. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued directives governing COINTELPRO, ordering FBI agents to "expose...
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    with aides from the Justice Department. J. Edgar Hoover called and told him his brother had been shot. Hoover then hung up before he could ask any questions...
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  • Giancana of the Chicago Outfit), tax evasion, bribery of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, payment of hush money to actress Marilyn Monroe for being Kennedy's...
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    Newsweek article from 2008 credits Edward Allen Tamm, once a top aide to J. Edgar Hoover who regularly briefed President Franklin Roosevelt on domestic intelligence...
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  • W. McCormack wrote a personal note to J. Edgar Hoover on behalf of a constituent. The letter began, "Dear Edgar, It has come to my attention that the...
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  • fight the Zagurons. Hoover 1.0, Hoover 2.0, and Hoover 3.0 (portrayed by Giacomo Baesatto) are the robot clones of J. Edgar Hoover (also portrayed by Baesatto)...
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  • Director J. Edgar Hoover, confidentially telling William Sullivan never to initiate a meeting with him for any reason, since the mercurial Hoover was known...
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