
Ep. 55: OG Man
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
The Origins of Hoover's Sexual Relationship With Tulsa
In the 40s and 50s when the lavender scare which is the purge of homosexuals from the federal government begins Hoover is in charge of enforcing and investigating a lot of that. He sends his agents out anytime anyone suggests hey you know we've heard these rumors about the director of the FBI he actually sent FBI agents out to say hello ma'am. You did not find any evidence that Hoover was a cross-dresser because this was something that was Oliver's turn there's a famous book about like I think it was a British journalist and it was kind of debunked in the moment but maybe just spend a little bit of time just want to make sure that we can just he was not a
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