America in the 1960s was dominated by the horror of three high profile assassinations of a President, an Attorney General, ...

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 ...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been considered the world’s premier law enforcement agency for a century since its founding. It had grown into many different areas since its inception. The ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s family offered their response to President Trump’s decision to release the secret FBI files on the ...

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 ...

As Donald Trump signs an executive order to declassify and release all remaining records relating to the assassination of ...

President Trump has announced plans to release classified documents on high-profile assassinations, including that of ...

The president-elect's choice to be the FBI director is a dangerous pick, one whose willingness to persecute left-wing Americans goes beyond even Hoover's.