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#Hoover

Events indexed under #Hoover — 11 entries in the record.

11 events From Aug 1, 1919 To May 2, 1972 Open in filter view →
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1919 · 1 event1920 · 1 event1924 · 1 event1935 · 1 event1936 · 1 event1939 · 1 event1957 · 1 event1963 · 1 event1964 · 1 event1971 · 1 event1972 · 1 event19191972
DateEventLanesStatus
1972-05-02J. Edgar Hoover Dies in Office After 48 Years, Ending Longest FBI Directorship and Enabling Oversight Possibility 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · L. Patrick Gray · Helen Gandy · Clyde Tolson · +2
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1971-04-28Hoover Abolishes Formal COINTELPRO Operations After Media Expose, But Informal Operations Continue 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI
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1964-11-21FBI Mails Anonymous Suicide Letter to Martin Luther King Jr., Weaponizing Surveillance Material 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · William C. Sullivan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. · +1
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1963-10-18Hoover Personally Briefs Johnson with King Sex-Surveillance Dossier, Weaponizing Personal Material Against Civil Rights Leader 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Lyndon B. Johnson · William C. Sullivan · Martin Luther King Jr. · +1
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1957-07-08Hoover Formalizes "Official and Confidential" File System, Institutionalizing Personal Blackmail Infrastructure 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Helen Gandy · Clyde Tolson · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1939-09-06Roosevelt Proclamation Consolidates All Domestic Intelligence Under FBI, Creating Peacetime Intelligence Monopoly 2 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Office of Naval Intelligence · +1
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1936-08-24Roosevelt Secret Oral Directive Authorizes FBI General Intelligence Without Statutory Basis 3 src
Franklin D. Roosevelt · J. Edgar Hoover · Cordell Hull · Federal Bureau of Investigation
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1935-07-01Bureau of Investigation Formally Renamed Federal Bureau of Investigation, Professionalization Era Begins 2 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Homer Cummings
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1924-05-10Hoover Named Acting Director of Bureau of Investigation, Begins 48-Year Tenure 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · Attorney General Harlan Fiske Stone · Bureau of Investigation · Calvin Coolidge
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1920-05-28'Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the United States Department of Justice' Repudiates Palmer Raids 2 src
Felix Frankfurter · Roscoe Pound · Zechariah Chafee · National Popular Government League · +2
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1919-08-01Hoover Named to Lead Justice Department Radical Division, Origin of Permanent Political Dossier System 3 src
J. Edgar Hoover · A. Mitchell Palmer · Department of Justice · General Intelligence Division
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