When Charles Lindbergh’s 20-month-old son was kidnapped in 1932 and his corpse was found two months later, it was considered the crime of the century. It took nearly three years before the boy ...
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 ...
An examination, half a century on from the first director of the FBI's death in office in 1972, of how Hoover's iron grip still permeates contemporary America.
“Charles and Ann Morrow Lindbergh, the baby’s parents, even declined [FBI Director J. Edgar] Hoover’s offer to meet,” John Oller writes in “Gangster Hunters: How Hoover’s G-men ...
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 ...