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Hoover, Communism, and the FBI

ChinaTalk

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The Role of Hoover in the Civil Rights Movement

Hoover and LBJ were neighbors on the same block of 30th place in Washington. Johnson turned to Hoover both to manage the Kennedy assassination and the Warren Commission. In reward, he made Hoover kind of FBI director for life. The most amazing of those stories is the Democratic convention in 1964 when civil rights protesters are coming from Mississippi.

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