J. Edgar Hoover | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-04

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J. Edgar Hoover


00:01:14 1 Early life and education
00:03:51 2 Department of Justice
00:04:35 2.1 War Emergency Division
00:05:10 2.2 Bureau of Investigation
00:05:20 2.2.1 Head of the Radical Division
00:06:13 2.2.2 Head of the Bureau of Investigation
00:06:59 2.2.3 Early leadership
00:07:56 2.3 Depression-era gangsters
00:10:21 2.4 American Mafia
00:12:00 2.5 Investigation of subversion and radicals
00:12:44 2.5.1 Florida and Long Island U-boat landings
00:13:28 2.5.2 Illegal wire-tapping
00:14:14 2.5.3 Concealed espionage discoveries
00:15:13 2.5.4 Plans for suspending habeas corpus
00:15:47 2.5.5 COINTELPRO and the 1950s
00:18:10 2.6 Reaction to civil rights groups
00:20:29 2.7 Late career and death
00:23:14 2.8 Legacy
00:25:58 3 Private life
00:26:07 3.1 Pets
00:26:45 3.2 Sexuality
00:27:52 3.2.1 Hoover and Tolson
00:29:05 3.2.2 Other romantic allegations
00:29:44 3.2.3 Pornography collection
00:30:17 3.2.4 Cross-dressing story
00:32:34 3.2.5 The Lavender Scare
00:34:15 3.2.6 Supportive friends
00:35:04 4 Written works
00:36:19 5 Honors
00:37:43 6 Theater and media portrayals
00:40:53 7 See also



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John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for over 37 years until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.
Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI, and to have used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders, and to collect evidence using illegal methods. Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten others, even sitting presidents of the United States.