One of J. Edgar Hoover's main goals was to increase the use of science in crime investigations. This turned into a fascination with different ways of busting criminals and specifically a want to improve fingerprinting technology.
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J. Edgar Hoover was know for having a large amount of secret files. This is one of the few pages that was recovered from those files. Very few of these files are known about because they were most likely destroyed, the files that have been recovered have come from places where they were randomly found after being misfiled.
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This is a replica of how J. Edgar Hoover used to keep his desk in his office at the FBI.
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This is a newspaper from J. Edgar Hoover's time. It is displaying the ten fugitives who were believed to be on the FBI's most wanted list at that time.
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J. Edgar Hoover was infamous for blackmailing various people. He had lots of dirt on many different important figures. This specific file contains information that he had on Marilyn Monroe that could be used to convince her to do whatever he may please to prevent it from being leaked to the public.
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This photograph was taken while Mr. Hoover and Mr. Tolson were at a horse race together in Laurel, Maryland in 1953. Hoover and Tolson were best friends and the two were so close that there actually many rumors suggesting that they were lovers instead of colleagues.
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This is the flag that was dedicated at J. Edgar Hoover's funeral. The flag was accepted by Hoover's best friend and right hand man, Clyde Tolson.
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The Charles Lindbergh Jr. Case was an important case for the time period, but also an important case for the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover. The outcome of this case resulted in kidnapping becoming a real crime. Hoover participated in the solving of this case during his time with the FBI.
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