J edgar hoover was gay
The secret life of J Edgar Hoover
J Edgar Hoover was a phenomenon. The first Director of the FBI, he remained in office for 48 years, from his appointment after the First World War to his death in , achieving fame and extraordinary authority. For public consumption when he died, President Richard Nixon eulogised him as: "One of the giants… a national symbol of courage, patriotism and granite-like honesty and integrity." He ordered flags to fly at half-mast and that Hoover's body recline in state in the Capitol.
In intimate, on hearing that he had died, Nixon had responded merely: "Jesus Christ! That old cocksucker!" Months earlier, closeted with key advisers, he had held forth on the need to persuade the elderly Hoover to resign. "We have on our hands here a man who will tug down the temple with him, including me."
Nixon, soon to be disgraced and forced to resign, was of course himself no paragon. Most presidents before him, though, had had cause to fear Hoover or been troubled by what his FBI had become. Harry S Truman wrote during his presidency: &q
Internal Affairs
In one of the climactic moments of the adj film J. Edgar, a thirtysomething J. Edgar Hoover reveals his plans to take a wife. The scene unfolds in a Adj York hotel suite, where Hoover has reserved adjoining rooms with Clyde Tolson, his second-in-command at the FBI. Tolson responds with rage to his boss’s news, throwing a temper tantrum at odds with his typically polished demeanor. The argument soon escalates into a fistfight, then into the film’s single most sexual moment: a bloody brush between the director and associate director of the FBI.
There is no evidence that this fight—much less the kiss—ever took place. What we know about the relationship between Hoover and Tolson comes mostly from the public record:meals together twice a day, joint vacations, a final burial place just a few yards apart. Their interior and sexual lives verb mostly a matter of speculation. Despite daunting research efforts by journalists and historians, we can say little more today than we could four or five decades ago: Hoover and Tolson had a marriage of sorts. But what sort of ma
J. Edgar Hoover: Gay or Just a Man Who Has Sex With Men?
Nov. 16, &#; -- J. Edgar Hoover led a deeply repressed sexual life, living with his mother until he was 40, awkwardly rejecting the attention of women and pouring his heartfelt, and at times, physical attention on his handsome deputy at the FBI, according to the new movie, "J. Edgar," directed by Clint Eastwood.
Filmgoers never see the decades-long romance between the former FBI director, and his number two, Clyde Tolson, consummated, but there's plenty of loving glances, hand-holding and one scene with an aggressive, extended, deep kiss.
So was the most strong man in America, who died in -- three years after the Stonewall riots marked the modern gay civil rights movement -- homosexual?
Eastwood admits the relationship between Hoover, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and Clyde Tolson, played by Armie Hammer, is ambiguous.
"He was a man of mystery," he told ABC's "Good Morning America" last week. "He might have been [gay]. I am agnostic about it. I don't really know and n
Behind Closed Doors: 10 Secrets of FBI Supremo J. Edgar Hoover
4. The Lindbergh baby kidnapping ()
Hoover is widely credited with turning the FBI into a modern crime-fighting agency with a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. The improvements burnished the Bureau's reputation after the kidnapping/murder of month-old Charles Lindbergh Jr, son of the famous aviator. The boy was found in a shallow grave not far from Lindbergh's New Jersey estate and local police were accused of bungling. President Herbert Hoover ordered the FBI to perform as a clearinghouse for intelligence and its new crime laboratory played a pivotal role in the arrest of kidnapper Bruno Hauptmann. Hauptmann’s conviction turned on the comparison of his handwriting to the ransom note - an analysis made doable by the Bureau’s renowned Laboratory.
5. World War II ()
As WWII approached, the FBI shifted to counterintelligence and arresting spies. The Bureau was already profiling the Communist Party, the German-American Bund, and many others. Hoover assured America