While he was F.B.I director, J. Edgar Hoover dictated the following memo shortly after Jack Ruby fatally shot Lee Harvey ...

Osage oil headrights were hereditary — when ... (the precursor to the Federal Bureau of Investigation), director J. Edgar Hoover sent former Texas Ranger Tom White to investigate — and White ...

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 ...

In the wake of its success, Hoover sought to double the FBI's budget, but he ran into opposition from a hostile senator and was forced to admit that he'd never made an arrest. The J Edgar Hoover ...

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 ...

To the editor: J. Edgar Hoover is smiling down on the building named after him. With the confirmation of Kash Patel to direct the FBI, the agency can now return to the days when Hoover ...