01-16-2020, 01:05 PM
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Re: Bonnie and Clyde
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Originally Posted by FortyNiner
Really? The agency that was first established in 1908 and had Hoover as a leader since 1924 was the Bureau of Investigation. J. Edgar, ever the empire builder, certainly took advantage of the high profile bank robbers of the era to increase the scope and funding of the agency. He also did the same thing with the Red Scare, the Lindbergh kidnapping, Prohibition, WWII, McCarthism, Civil Rights, and 60s war protestors.
The name change to the FBI in 1932 was important - but the biggest factor in the creation of a federal police agency was J. Edgar Hoover.
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Before Dillinger the FBI was a bunch of paper pushers that Washington thought they could do without!
Last edited by FrankWest; 01-17-2020 at 08:42 AM.
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