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- J. Edgar Hoover, powerful head of the F.B.I. for nearly fifty years, looks back on his professional and personal life.
- The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.
- He battled the Kennedys and Martin Luther King, encouraged McCarthy and single-handedly changed the course of history. Hired by F.D.R. to be the director of the FBI, Hoover erected the most sophisticated investigatory agency in the world.
- For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians. Frontline reveals how Hoover's own secret life left him open to blackmail by the Mafia and offers a startling new explanation why the FBI allowed the mob to operate unchallenged for over two decades.
- The real story of J. Edgar Hoover, created as a bonus featurette for the international DVD/Blu-ray of the film J. Edgar (2011).
- The real story of J. Edgar Hoover, created as a bonus featurette for the DVD/Blu-ray of the film J. Edgar (2011).
- A pair of dim bulb burglars happen onto a mysteriously jolly college professor who takes an inordinate interest in details of their profession, to the point of allowing them to... steal all his stuff! Might he have an ulterior motive? Might they be in... danger? Oh my!
- Hotelier Royal Payne (John Larroquette) finds himself in a typical sitcom situation: his wife Connie (JoBeth Williams) informs him that he has forgotten their wedding anniversary.
- After several old files are revealed in the newspapers Lee searches for the culprit and the old files of J. Edger Hoover.
- For nearly 50 years, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover amassed secret files on America's most prominent figures, files he used to smear and control presidents and politicians.
- 2012–TV Episode
- 1991–1996TV-GTV EpisodeDouble Trouble have stolen the J. Edgar Hoover Building.
- The first and most famous director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, consolidated his power through brilliant Public Relations moves, compromising files, and notorious programs.
- To understand J. Edgar Hoover's rise to power is to understand the America of the 1920s and 1930s and the building of both the power and the mythology of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
- 2017– 33mPodcast EpisodeBy the turn of the century, radical anarchists were becoming a growing and volatile political movement. As shifting workplace conditions exploited and endangered American workers, anarchists increasingly turned to violence to spur everyday citizens to upend the capitalist system. The growth of these politically motivated shootings and bombings stoked fear among American citizens - fear of immigrants, outsiders, and anyone else whose ideas might be considered a threat.
- 2017– 34mPodcast EpisodeJ. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI when he was just 29 years old. His orders? Clean up the Bureau. At first, he proved to be a brilliant and innovative leader, setting new standards for education, physical fitness, and training of federal agents. But there was a dark side to his success. Hoover was also obsessed with tracking anyone he considered to be disloyal to the U.S. government. By the early 1930s, the Bureau was secretly compiling dossiers on tens of thousands of American citizens, in defiance of government orders.
- 2017– 35mPodcast EpisodeDuring the mid-1930s, the FBI's public relations department had effectively changed the image of its agents from accountants into action heroes; and its director, from a bureaucrat into an American icon. They pushed stories about heroic G-men facing off against violent foes, gunning them down in self-defense. And the press ate it up. But in April 1939, an FBI agent shot and killed a small town bank robber in the back. The real story didn't fit the FBI's new heroic narrative. So Hoover changed it. Using his public relations machine, Hoover would twist the average story of a small-time midwestern criminal into one final, heroic, spellbinding triumph of the FBI.
- 2017– 41mPodcast EpisodeThe rise of fascism and World War II shifted the FBI's focus in the 1940s from fighting midwestern outlaws to catching Communists. To Hoover and the FBI, nearly anyone on the political left was suspect, potentially part of a Soviet conspiracy to overthrow Western democracies. In reality, the American left was fragmented. But again and again, Hoover would use the threat of Communism to go after the Bureau's enemies.
- 2017– 40mPodcast EpisodeBetween 1956 and 1971, the FBI carried out more than 2,000 top secret spying operations aimed at American citizens. Their target? The so called Fifth Column, a network of undercover Soviet agents allegedly working to destroy the American government from within. The agency even had an internal code name for these operations: COINTELPRO. In the name of this mission, Hoover directed agents to infiltrate, penetrate, disorganize and disrupt their targets. But the FBI's actions weren't just aimed at taking down suspected Communists.
- 2017– 40mPodcast EpisodeOn March 8, 1971, seven ordinary Americans broke into a poorly guarded FBI regional office in Media, Pennsylvania. They called themselves the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, and they had one purpose: to gather evidence that would prove the agency was engaged in a covert and illegal spying campaign against American citizens. For more than 30 years, Director J. Edgar Hoover had maintained an iron grip on the media, and with it, public perception of the Bureau.
- 2017– 35mPodcast EpisodePulitzer Prize winner. National Book Award winner. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. Today David McCullough, one of America's greatest living historians, joins to discuss his new book, The Pioneers, about the heroic men and women who shaped the Northwest Territories, in present-day Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Illinois. Without their bravery, foresight, and commitment to their ideals, the United States we know today might look very different.
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- 2017–Podcast Episode
- 2016– 28mPodcast EpisodeA young journalist took up the investigation into the world-famous golfer's mysterious death, uncovering a story that began to look a lot like a tale of adultery, jealousy, and murder.
- 2016– 34mPodcast EpisodeThe pro golfer who revolutionized the game with a new technique dubbed "The Movement" was found dead on the side of the road in 1921. The case was reported as a hit and run, but his injuries told a different story.
- 2015– 57mPodcast Episode
- 2011– 28mPodcast Episode
- Leonard Maltin reviews new releases in theaters, including "J. Edgar," starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Clint Eastwood.
- Dennis reviews Clint Eastwood's biopic about the life of J. Edgar Hoover.
- 2022–TV Episode
- J. Edgar Hoover ran the FBI for almost 40 years and was America's most respected, and feared, lawman. Author and historian David Eisenbach digs into Hoover's buried secrets to reveal that Hoover was also a neighborhood peeping tom, a sexual blackmailer, and created the world's first Gay Spy Ring.
- 2021–Podcast Episode
- 2014–Podcast Episode
- 2018–Podcast Episode