A community portal about J. Edgar Hoover with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John Edgar Hoover was the founder of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in its present form and its director from May 10, 1924...
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A community portal about J. Edgar Hoover with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: John Edgar Hoover was the founder of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation in its present form and its director from May 10, 1924, until his death in 1972. Hoover was appointed the first director of the FBI by President Calvin Coolidge. During his tenure, Hoover attained extraordinary power and unusual discretionary authority, while also feuding with many adversaries. It is because of Hoover that, since his tenure, FBI directors have been limited to ten-year terms.
Marilyn Monroe may be dead, but she clearly still has "it".
A New York business man has purchased a 15-minute sex tape that features Monroe giving an unidentified man oral sex.
The new owner says he will keep the video private.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for $1.5 million, the broker of the deal said on Monday.
Memorabilia collector... Read Full Story
A New York businessman has purchased a 15-minute sex tape of Marilyn Monroe for $1.5 million.
The unidentified buyer says he will keep the film private.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in oral sex with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for $1.5 million, the broker of the deal said on Monday.
Memorabilia collector Keya Morgan said he recently arranged the sale of the silent, black-and-white... Read Full Story
Ted Rall wrote a column, “An Iron Fist in a Velvet Glove,” Uexpress, January 1, 2008, about J. Edgar Hoover’s 1950 list of people Hoover wanted to throw into concentration camps. Rall made the same point I did earlier on December 28, 2007, about how despite Hoover failing to get his way, there were no acts of sabotage. Ted also points out the following about the Reagan years and now George W. Bush.
During the 1960s and 1970s the CIA–in violation of its charter, which limits the agency to... Read Full Story
Bryan Burrough who has worked as a financial journalist for Vanity Fair writes in his book about the crime wave that swept America in 1933 and 1934. He has a personal interest in this period because it was his grandfather J. Edgar Hoover who helped man a roadblock at Arkansas during a hunt for Bonnie and Clyde.
At the time, police jurisdictions ended at state borders, the FBI was only in its infancy, the highway was spreading across America and fast cars along with machine guns were readily... Read Full Story
When the late J. Edgar Hoover died a new home for the Federal Bureau of Investigation was completed and named after him. FBI, these three letters bring fear to some, and entertainment to others. The investigation of alleged indiscretions and the administration of law are always intended to be separate in order to assure fairness, it rarely works that way even in reasoned democracy. The blurring of roles leads to abuse in the fact finding (interrogation) process. Presidents and ordinary... Read Full Story
