old comments made by the 44-year-old about shutting down the J Edgar Hoover Building, the FBI's headquarters in Pennsylvania, resurfaced. Patel had famously proclaimed that he would shut down the ...
The J Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, DC Hoover's response was to fast-track the capture of the last big-name gangster at large, Alvin Karpis. The story was that Hoover had made the arrest ...
Many consider the Brutalist behemoth, officially called the J. Edgar Hoover Building, to be the most unsightly structure in ...
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of FBI in his office, April 1940. Courtesy: Library of Congress J. Edgar Hoover lived in Washington, D.C. all his life. In 1895 he was born in a white, Protestant ...
J. Edgar Hoover is mostly remembered as the dominant force of the FBI. But he really got his start in 1919. He was 24 when he got a job at the Justice Department and was handed the position of ...