The FBI and the General Services Administration announced Tuesday the Ronald Reagan Building complex in downtown Washington ...

Hoover crowed about that arrest as a way to take the focus off his organization’s failed pursuit of Dillinger. In three weeks John Dillinger escaped FBI capture four times.

In 1955, John Lindsay was a rising star at the US Department of Justice and in good graces with then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. But over the next decade and a half, the charismatic, Kennedy ...

A new book explores the legacy of J. Edgar Hoover. “Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh, the baby’s parents, even declined [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover’s offer to meet,” John Oller writes ...

J. Edgar Hoover took over the FBI, then known as the Bureau of Investigation in 1924 when he was 29 years old. At first, agents couldn't carry weapons and reported suspects to other law officials.

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, middle ...

FBI Director John Edgar Hoover has been a Washington institution nearly as long as the Lincoln Memorial (41 years v. 43) and, particularly over the past year, has weathered plenty of criticism ...

In his new comic drama, Brown explores the relationships among President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Abbey Theater of Dublin ...

One morning in the fall of 1971, President Richard Nixon set out to fire J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the F.B.I., who had ruled over the agency like a potentate since 1924. The two men were ...

On May 10, 1924, one of the worst events in history for American civil liberties happened: 29-year-old J. Edgar Hoover assumed the role of director of the then-Bureau of Investigation. Ambitious ...