All things J. Edgar Hoover

J. Edgar Hoover in the 1960s, after having
led the FBI for over 40 years.

 This month, we give you all things J. Edgar Hoover: photos, movie links, books excerpts, cartoons, and the rest.  Check this page for the latest, below:

   
      -- Own Clyde Tolson's actual apartment !  Yes, this is FOR REAL !!

       -- Hoover: Andrew Simpson on J. Edgar as a student at George Washington University

      -- Hoover: A journalist's view -- Charles Elliott on searching J. Edgar's trash.

      -- Hoover: The view of an FBI veteran;

      -- Still more snapshots of J. Edgar, including in the White House, 1930s-1970.

      -- More photos of J. Edgar hoover in the 1930s.

      -- J. Edgar Hoover and Clyde Tolson -- the actual photos

      -- A few cartoons of J. Edgar Hoover.

        -- "The Real J. Edgar Hoover," interview with NPR's "On Point," 11/9/2011.

        -- "Five Myths about J. Edgar Hoover," Washington Post, 11/9/2011.

       -- Washington Post web conversation on Hoover "5 Myths" article.   

       -- My favorite photo of J. Edgar Hoover 

DiCaprio as J. Edgar, from the new movie.

"Mr. Black said he had been interested in Hoover ever since his brother gave him a copy of a book called 'Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the Assault on Civil Liberties.'” 
-- Interview with Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter for the firm "J. Edgar,"  WSJ "Speakeasy," 11/4/2011.














Hoover in 1924, from the new
edition of Young J. Edgar.