• J. Edgar is a 2011 American biographical drama film based on the career of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, directed, produced and scored by Clint Eastwood...
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    to J. Edgar Hoover. Wikiquote has quotations related to J. Edgar Hoover. Works by J. Edgar Hoover at Project Gutenberg Works by or about J. Edgar Hoover...
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    The J. Edgar Hoover Building is a low-rise office building located at 935 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It is the headquarters...
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    FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover with his longtime aide, Clyde Tolson. In his book, Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover, biographer...
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    Edgar Jonas Kaufmann (November 1, 1885 – April 15, 1955) was an American businessman and philanthropist who owned and directed Kaufmann's Department Store...
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    Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1935. The FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. The FBI has a List of the Top 10 criminals...
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    outdated. Ellen Schrecker has suggested that Hooverism, after FBI Head J. Edgar Hoover, is more appropriate. What became known as the McCarthy era began...
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    Cohn to the attention of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover. With support from Hoover and Cardinal Spellman, Hearst columnist...
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    by his searches. The University's collection is now named in his honor. Edgar J. Goodspeed was born in Quincy, Illinois. He was the son of Thomas Wakefield...
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    for Best Supporting Actor. Hammer portrayed Clyde Tolson in the biopic J. Edgar (2011), played the title character in the western The Lone Ranger (2013)...
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    thriller Inception. In 2011, he portrayed J. Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, in the biopic J. Edgar. The following year, he played a supporting...
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    discipline. He was the protégé and long-time top deputy of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Tolson was born in Laredo, Missouri to James William Tolson, a...
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    Entering (2006), Son of Rambow (2007), S. Darko (2009), Chalet Girl (2011), J. Edgar (2011), Romeo & Juliet (2013), Bone in the Throat (2015), Freaks of Nature...
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    Times. Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, p. 43 Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, p. 49 Gentry, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man...
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  • The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover is a 1977 American biographical drama film written, produced, and directed by Larry Cohen. It stars Broderick Crawford...
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  • J. Edgar Hoover is a 1987 American biographical drama television film written and directed by Robert L. Collins. It stars Treat Williams as the eponymous...
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  • with Federal Bureau of Investigation director J. Edgar Hoover, and was the primary contributor to the J. Edgar Hoover Foundation. In 1936, Rosenstiel purchased...
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    witness intimidation, and withholding of exculpatory evidence. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued directives governing COINTELPRO, ordering FBI agents to "expose...
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    Edgar is a commonly used English given name, from an Anglo-Saxon name Edgar (composed of ead "rich, prosperous" and gar "spear"). Like most Anglo-Saxon...
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    Life as We Know It (2010), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Red Dog (2011), J. Edgar (2011), The Mend (2014), Breakthrough (2019), Ford v Ferrari (2019), The...
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    Eastwood at the 46th Cannes Film Festival (1993) Eastwood at the premiere for J. Edgar in Washington D.C. (2011) In the early stages of his acting career, Eastwood...
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    which stayed at about 80% and for which Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover once chided him as being unacceptable. Just before becoming Special...
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    and Come Early Morning. He played Robert F. Kennedy in Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar (2011) and his brother John F. Kennedy in Rob Reiner's LBJ (2016). He had...
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    personality, and described him as a Robin Hood-type figure. In response, J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), used Dillinger as...
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    but never passed by Congress. The full letter was first discovered in J. Edgar Hoover's confidential files at the National Archives in 2014 by historian...
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  • W. McCormack wrote a personal note to J. Edgar Hoover on behalf of a constituent. The letter began, "Dear Edgar, It has come to my attention that the...
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  • G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century is a biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover by historian Beverly Gage, first published...
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  • 2000 American drama film starring Ernest Borgnine as J. Edgar Hoover. Ernest Borgnine as J. Edgar Hoover Cartha DeLoach as himself Linden, Sheri (27 December...
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    then she has appeared in such films as Dear Dumb Diary, Enter the Void, J. Edgar, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, and Movie 43. She has...
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    3, 2019. Herst, Burton (2007). Bobby and J. Edgar, p. 372. Herst, Burton, (2007) pp. 372–374. Garrow, David J. (July 8, 2002). "The FBI and Martin Luther...
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