By the 1930s the FBI was changing — and Hoover was its key change agent. After the so-called “Lindbergh Law” made kidnapping ...

John Edgar Hoover was born in Washington, DC in 1895 and spent most of his life there. His final resting place is near his childhood home, by Capitol Hill. Washington through and through, it's ...

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, middle ...

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 ...

Kash Patel, Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI chief, has said he wants to dismantle the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the agency’s concrete fortress headquarters in Washington, and disperse the 7,000 ...

To the editor: J. Edgar Hoover is smiling down on the building named after him. With the confirmation of Kash Patel to direct the FBI, the agency can now return to the days when Hoover, its first ...