NPR: J. Edgar Hoover https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=132287731 J. Edgar Hoover en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:52:15 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: J. Edgar Hoover https://www.npr.org/tags/132287731/j-edgar-hoover Lightfoot Solomon Michaux: The Black preacher and broadcaster who feuded with MLK Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. <em>Radio Diaries</em>' series "Making Waves" looks at his life and his contentious relationship with Martin Luther King Jr. Sat, 15 Mar 2025 18:46:58 -0400 https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5324673/radio-diaries-black-preacher-and-broadcaster-elder-lightfoot-solomon-michaux https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5324673/radio-diaries-black-preacher-and-broadcaster-elder-lightfoot-solomon-michaux

Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux was a renowned Black preacher and broadcaster. Radio Diaries' series "Making Waves" looks at his life and his contentious relationship with Martin Luther King Jr.

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]]> Mycah Hazel The Real Black Panthers (2021) In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party "without question, represents the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." And with that declaration he used United States federal law enforcement to wage war on the group. But why did Hoover's FBI target the Black Panther Party more severely than any other Black power organization? Historian Donna Murch says the answer lies in the Panthers' political agenda: not their brash, gun-toting public image, but in their capacity to organize across racial and class lines. It was a strategy that challenged the very foundations of American society. And it was working. Thu, 02 Feb 2023 00:10:19 -0500 https://www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152784993/the-real-black-panthers-2021 https://www.npr.org/2023/01/31/1152784993/the-real-black-panthers-2021

In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party "without question, represents the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." And with that declaration he used United States federal law enforcement to wage war on the group. But why did Hoover's FBI target the Black Panther Party more severely than any other Black power organization? Historian Donna Murch says the answer lies in the Panthers' political agenda: not their brash, gun-toting public image, but in their capacity to organize across racial and class lines. It was a strategy that challenged the very foundations of American society. And it was working.

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]]> Rund Abdelfatah The Real Black Panthers The Black Panther Party's battles for social justice and economic equality are the centerpiece of the Oscar-nominated film 'Judas and The Black Messiah.' In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party "without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country." And with that declaration he used United States federal law enforcement to wage war on the group, But why did Hoover's FBI target the Black Panther Party more severely than any other Black power organization? Historian Donna Murch says the answer lies in the Panthers' political agenda and a strategy that challenged the very foundations of American society. Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:01:47 -0400 https://www.npr.org/2021/04/12/986561396/the-real-black-panthers https://www.npr.org/2021/04/12/986561396/the-real-black-panthers

The Black Panther Party's battles for social justice and economic equality are the centerpiece of the Oscar-nominated film 'Judas and The Black Messiah.' In 1968, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover said the Black Panther Party "without question, represents the greatest threat to internal security of the country." And with that declaration he used United States federal law enforcement to wage war on the group, But why did Hoover's FBI target the Black Panther Party more severely than any other Black power organization? Historian Donna Murch says the answer lies in the Panthers' political agenda and a strategy that challenged the very foundations of American society.

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]]> Rund Abdelfatah The Massive Case Of Collective Amnesia: The FBI Has Been Political From The Start The fact is, controversy about the FBI is anything but new. And political goals of one kind or another have been part of the reason for the agency since its inception. Fri, 26 Jan 2018 05:00:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/2018/01/26/580677742/the-massive-case-of-collective-amnesia-the-fbi-has-been-political-from-the-start https://www.npr.org/2018/01/26/580677742/the-massive-case-of-collective-amnesia-the-fbi-has-been-political-from-the-start The fact is, controversy about the FBI is anything but new. And political goals of one kind or another have been part of the reason for the agency since its inception.

]]> Ron Elving 'Louie Louie': Indecipherable, Or Indecent? An FBI Investigation The Kingsmen's 1963 version of the song was a huge hit — though no one could make out the words. Some fevered imaginations and misheard lines led to an FBI investigation into alleged obscenity. Sat, 02 May 2015 07:57:00 -0400 https://www.npr.org/2015/05/02/403623915/louie-louie-indecipherable-or-indecent-an-fbi-investigation https://www.npr.org/2015/05/02/403623915/louie-louie-indecipherable-or-indecent-an-fbi-investigation The Kingsmen's 1963 version of the song was a huge hit — though no one could make out the words. Some fevered imaginations and misheard lines led to an FBI investigation into alleged obscenity.

]]> NPR Staff FBI's Vicious Letter To King Holds Lessons On Surveillance, Hindsight The letter calls King an "evil, abnormal beast," and speaks of his extramarital affairs, which were discovered while seeking ties to communism. Journalists in the 1960s rejected the FBI's scoop. Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:28:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/13/363899210/fbis-vicious-letter-to-king-holds-lessons-on-surveillance-hindsight https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/11/13/363899210/fbis-vicious-letter-to-king-holds-lessons-on-surveillance-hindsight The letter calls King an "evil, abnormal beast," and speaks of his extramarital affairs, which were discovered while seeking ties to communism. Journalists in the 1960s rejected the FBI's scoop.

]]> Sam Sanders Nixon-Era Probe Of Dan Schorr Uncovered A Great Reporter, FBI Files Show In August 1971 the Nixon White House asked the FBI to do a background check on Daniel Schorr -- who at that time was annoying the administration because he was a hard-working, deep-digging, exposer of corruption and wrongdoing with CBS News. Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:05:00 -0500 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/12/23/132287697/nixon-era-probe-of-dan-schorr-uncovered-a-great-reporter-fbi-files-show https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2010/12/23/132287697/nixon-era-probe-of-dan-schorr-uncovered-a-great-reporter-fbi-files-show In August 1971 the Nixon White House asked the FBI to do a background check on Daniel Schorr -- who at that time was annoying the administration because he was a hard-working, deep-digging, exposer of corruption and wrongdoing with CBS News.

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