Essays Tagged: "J. Edgar Hoover"

Film Review of The Manchurian Candidate

decides to end this game of charades in his head by killing Iselin, then Mrs. Iselin, then himself.J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, was one of the head investigators against the communists. He a ...

(2 pages) 76 0 5.0 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"Madamoiselle" Hoover: The Story Behind the Director of the FBI

t shoe size they wore could become known by the entire country. For the former director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, it was no different. Rumours about his sexuality, his childhood, and transvestism s ... e time he entered the bureau, possibly even earlier in his life, during his childhood and education.J. Edgar Hoover - His Family7:30 am, January 1, 1895: Annie and Dickerson Hoover are blessed with th ...

(11 pages) 80 1 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This contains some of the illegal and controversial events in the history of the FBI, or to be more precise J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO.

tive branch of the United States Department of Justice, was established by Attorney-General Charles J. Bonaparte (1851-1921), a grand nephew of Napoleon, in 1908, under Theodore Roosevelt (Churchill). ... some of the dealings the FBI had with Martin Luther King Jr. in addition to the impression left by J. Edgar Hoover's Counter Intelligence Program (COINTELPRO), most would question why and how this co ...

(8 pages) 119 1 4.0 Jun/2003

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

SteganoGraphy.

including drawings and photographs. The German invention of the microdot was dubbed by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover as `the enemy's masterpiece of espionage'.Steganography was used as recently as 2001 ...

(5 pages) 61 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science

An Analysis of the Sources of Disagreements between David Cole & Attorney General John Ashcroft

id Cole uses the example of the "Palmer Raids" of 1919 (p1) in an attempt to draw a parallelbetween J. Edgar Hoover's then detention of thousands of immigrants from across the country based solely on ... result of the United States Patriot Act. David Cole would have us believe that the past actions of J. Edgar Hoover were unjust, and that they played a pivotal role in America's first "Red Scare" (p1) ...

(3 pages) 35 0 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

Untied States at the end of the Great War: The 1920s

nt. On New Year's day, 1920, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and his ambitious young assistant, J. Edgar Hoover, orchestrated a series of raids on alleged radical centers throughout the country an ...

(3 pages) 58 1 5.0 Jul/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History > North American Wars

COINTELPRO-National Security Vs. Civil Liberty

ter-intelligence program (COINTELPRO) was established in 1956. The program founded by head of F.B.I J. Edgar Hoover originally had a sound purpose, one that was both reasonable and logical. The progra ...

(6 pages) 43 0 0.0 Sep/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The 1950's An American History: Brief overview of 1950's culture.

rush the American people into the cold war and against the communists is portrayed in the words of J. Edgar Hoover, "Every American Communist was, and is, potentially an espionage agent of the Soviet ...

(2 pages) 63 0 4.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Black panthers

ities through organization and education. There was only one problem in their plan. The problem was J. Edgar Hoover. J. Edgar Hoover was the director of the FBI, and he got the Federal Bureau of Inves ... BI, and he got the Federal Bureau of Investigation involved. He wanted to make America safer. While J. Edgar Hoover was destroying the Black Panther Party for the safety of white Americans, and was de ...

(4 pages) 28 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

Anxiety, Conflict, Fear: Emotions in US Society, 1915-1920

plots to establish communism.’Even the government was not immune to anti-communistic hysteria. J. E. Hoover had a mission to uncover Bolshevik Conspiracies and to find all conspirators. These eff ...

(1 pages) 1185 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

The decline of the civil rights movement

Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997. 127-49. Print.Carson, Clayborne, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, and Gary B. Nash. "Ch. 18: Marching Toward Freedom, 1961-1966." The Struggle fo ...

(19 pages) 1 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers > African Studies - History