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Afternoon Play: J Edgar Hoover - They Call Him Bobby

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By Mike Walker. The third of four different plays about the legendary director of the FBI is a powerful duologue for US Attorney General Robert F Kennedy and Hoover, It is set in the volatile years of the Kennedy administration, when civil rights, Martin Luther King Jr and the war against the Mafia were high on the Kennedy agenda.
Director Ned Chaillet

Contributors

Unknown:
Mike Walker.
Unknown:
General Robert F Kennedy
Director:
Ned Chaillet
J Edgar Hoover:
William Hootkins
Robert F Kennedy:
John Sharian
Source: Radio Times

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