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The Secrets of J. Edgar Hoover

The LRB Podcast

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The Kennedys' Relationship With Hoover

The Kennedys referred to Hoover with slurs that would suggest that they thought he was gay. FDR's son, Eliot said that his father was warned that Hoover might be gay and Roosevelt said he didn't care. And then Hoover's story is that Kennedy's assassination in 1963, Hoover didn't seem that interested in it. You'd think it would be if the president's assassinated, the direction of the FBI is going to be dedicating everything to solving the case.

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