Biography
John Edgar Hoover was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the fifth and final director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924. After 11 years in the post, Hoover became instrumental in founding the FBI in June 1935, where he remained as director for an additional 37 years until his death in May 1972 – serving a total of 48 years leading both the BOI and the FBI under eight presidents.
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Awards & recognition
- NAS Public Welfare Medal · 1939
- James Cardinal Gibbons Medal
- Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Filmography26 titles
After Newtown: Guns in America
Scandalize My Name: Stories from the Blacklist
The Real Spies Among Friends
Hearts and Minds
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
Arthur Miller: Writer
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
Heir To An Execution
MLK/FBI
The Majestic
The UnXplained
1971
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
American Experience
The FBI Story
Lee Harvey Oswald: 48 Hours to Live
Oswald's Ghost
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
First Ladies
Marilyn and the Mob
Standoff: The FBI, Power and Paranoia
Who Bombed Judi Bari?
COINTELPRO 101