J. EDGAR HOOVER - AUTOGRAPHED INSCRIBED PHOTOGRAPH 01/14/1937 - HFSID 43061
Price: $400.00
J. EDGAR HOOVER
J. Edgar Hoover signs a 10x14 publicity photograph.
Large Photograph inscribed and signed: "To American History
Students,/Centralia Township High School/With best wishes/J. Edgar
Hoover/1-14-37". Sepia, 10x14 overall, image 5x8½, (one surface). J.
Edgar Hoover (1895-1972, born John Edgar Hoover in Washington, DC) served as
the first Director of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972.
During his 48-year term, he restored order to the department and
established the world's largest fingerprint file and the FBI Academy. The
FBI fought organized crime in the Prohibition era. Under his direction, the FBI
also infiltrated the American Communist Party, the Ku Klux Klanand other subversive organizations. It also conducted
counterintelligence during WWII and the Cold War. By the 1970s, Hoover came
under frequent public criticism for his authoritarian administration, but his
power was so great that no President dared to remove him. Hoover made the FBI
one of the world's most effective law enforcement agencies. He established
its vast fingerprint file, crime laboratory and training academy. Lightly
creased and soiled at blank portions, vertical crease just touches the "J" and
portion of forehead, mounting remnants on verso (no show
through).
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