J Edgar Hoover

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  5/30/19
  

  J. Edgar Hoover’s revenge: Information the FBI once hoped could destroy Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been declassified

  by Trevor Griffey

  An article just published by the U.K.-based Standpoint Magazine alleges that civil rights icon Martin Luther King witnessed and even celebrated a woman’s rape.

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• 4/2/19
  

  The Red Scare: From the Palmer Raids to Joseph McCarthy to Donald Trump

  by Ronald L. Feinman

  Trump has learned very well from prior anti-Communism crusaders, and it requires vigilance and activism to cope with the threat he represents every day.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-5-18
  

  The End of Privacy Began in the 1960s

  by Margaret O’Mara

  Choices that Congress made decades ago allowed tech giants to become as powerful as they are.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-13-17
  

  ‘You are done’: A secret letter to Martin Luther King Jr. sheds light on FBI’s malice

  The secret letter was tucked inside the pages of an old book. It had been written by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to a top lieutenant, condemning civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6-8-17
  

  J Edgar Hoover’s oversteps: Why FBI directors are forbidden from getting cozy with presidents

  by Douglas M. Charles

  How are U.S. presidents and FBI directors supposed to communicate?