"J. Edgar Hoover" - The Panthers

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Published 2010-10-15
Bruce Moody portrays J. Edgar Hoover in a film for a 2007 workshop production of an opera about the Black Panthers by Clark Suprynowicz and Lynne Morrow. Presented by Oakland Opera Theater.

Video by Jeremy Knight
All Comments (15)
  • @junesilvermanb2979
    John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed director of the Bureau of Investigation – the FBI's predecessor – in 1924, and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director for another 37 years, until his death in 1972 at the age of 77. Hoover has been credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file, and forensic laboratories. Hoover is also credited with establishing and expanding a national blacklist, referred to as the FBI Index or Index List, renamed in 2001 as the Terrorist Screening Database, which the FBI still compiles and manages.
  • @larrysmall3771
    He was legit sinster, he want them dead.... and not shy bout it
  • @lexhashim9143
    It's crazy how things were back then ! If the president said things like this in these days it would be over lol
  • @dddecke
    That isn’t the FBI director....
  • @bqpahdoesstuff5123
    Hoover actually made me appreciate the black panther movement and black lives matter and many more left wing democratic socialists of the Civil rights movement even more.