J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Humanizing History with David McCullough | 7
Pulitzer Prize winner. National Book Award winner. Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient. Today David McCullough, one of America’s greatest living historians, joins us to discuss his new book, The P...
22 Touko 201935min
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Citizens Resistance | 6
On March 8, 1971, seven ordinary Americans broke into a poorly guarded FBI regional office in Media, Pennsylvania. They called themselves the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI, and they had o...
15 Touko 201940min
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Black Bag Job | 5
Between 1956 and 1971, the FBI carried out more than 2,000 top secret spying operations aimed at American citizens. Their target? The so-called Fifth Column, a network of undercover Soviet agents alle...
8 Touko 201939min
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Controlling the Message | 4
The rise of fascism and World War II shifted the FBI’s focus in the 1940s from fighting midwestern outlaws to catching Communists. To Hoover and the FBI, nearly anyone on the political left was suspec...
1 Touko 201941min
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - The Bobby Sox Bandit Queen | 3
During the mid-1930s, the FBI’s public relations department had effectively changed the image of its agents from accountants into action heroes; and its director, from a bureaucrat into an American ic...
24 Huhti 201943min
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - Giant Among G-Men | 2
J. Edgar Hoover became director of the FBI when he was just 29 years old. His orders? Clean up the Bureau. At first, he proved to be a brilliant and innovative leader, setting new standards for educat...
17 Huhti 201933min
J. Edgar Hoover's FBI - The Department of Easy Virtues | 1
By the turn of the century, radical anarchists were becoming a growing -- and volatile -- political movement. As shifting workplace conditions exploited and endangered American workers, anarchists inc...
10 Huhti 201932min
America's Anthem | 7
“Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord.” That’s the opening line of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” written by Julie Ward Howe in 1861. Over the years, it’s become something of an ...
3 Huhti 201943min
