The People vs J Edgar Hoover

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An examination of how the first director of the FBI's iron grip still permeates America.

An examination, half a century on from the first director of the FBI's death in office in 1972, of how Hoover's iron grip still permeates contemporary America.

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The People vs J Edgar Hoover: Omnibus 1

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Meet the man who made presidents wait. With Emily Maitlis.

The story of the ascent to power of the man who made presidents wait. With Emily Maitlis.

Emily Maitlis on the ascent to power of the man who made presidents wait. J Edgar Hoover built then ran the FBI for almost five decades. He turned it from a bureaucratic backwater into a premier crime fighting and counterintelligence force. In the process, he arguably became America’s most powerful man. He’s been dead 50 years and still his shadow looms over the US. In the first of two programmes, Emily shows how though his job was to enforce the law...he would not always be bound by it. 
Producer: Neal Razzell 
Research: Louise Byrne
Editor: Hugh Levinson
Production Coordinator: Janet Staples
Sound: Tom Brignell

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