J. Edgar Hoover took over the FBI, then known as the Bureau of Investigation in 1924 when he was 29 years old. At first, agents couldn't carry weapons and reported suspects to other law officials.

The passion for practical jokes is one of the few evidences of the policeman in John Edgar Hoover, onetime boy soprano in the Church of the Reformation choir, who for a time considered the ministry.

CONSIDERING that J. Edgar Hoover's F.B.I. collected dossiers on such disparate cultural icons as Josephine Baker, John Lennon, Jean Seberg, E. B. White, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alexander Calder, it was ...

Columbus playwright Herb Brown, a former Ohio Supreme Court justice, has always been fascinated by the drama of American politics. In his new comic drama, Brown explores the relationships among ...

The move prolongs the dispute over the F.B.I.’s headquarters, an aging colossus veiled in netting to keep concrete from falling on passers-by. By Glenn Thrush If the F.B.I. is seen as a tool of ...