J. Edgar Hoover took over the FBI, then known as the Bureau of Investigation in 1924 when he was 29 years old. At first, agents couldn't carry weapons and reported suspects to other law officials.

For nearly half a century, J. Edgar Hoover presided over the FBI with an iron fist. His career began with a wave of anti-communist raids in 1919. It ended during the presidency of his friend Richard ...

On May 10, 1924, one of the worst events in history for American civil liberties happened: 29-year-old J. Edgar Hoover assumed the role of director of the then-Bureau of Investigation. Ambitious, ...

On March 8, 1971, a group calling itself the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into an FBI office in Media, ...

No one in American history wielded so much power for so long as J. Edgar Hoover. He created a peerless law-enforcement agency in his own unsmiling image and served eight presidents, from Coolidge to ...

If that ideological turnabout seems ironic, Beverly Gage’s magnificent biography of Hoover, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, shows how the institution has always been ...

In 1955, John Lindsay was a rising star at the US Department of Justice and in good graces with then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. But over the next decade and a half, the charismatic, Kennedy-esque ...

(RNS)— In 'The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover,' Stanford professor Lerone Martin details how the longtime FBI director shaped the belief in America as a Christian nation. (RNS) — Lerone Martin’s new book ...

There’s a huge political fight going on between Prince George’s and Fairfax counties over the prospective location of the next headquarters for the FBI. I live in Prince George’s and whenever I try to ...