1950 HERBERT HOOVER & J EDGAR HOOVER Signs Autograph Vintage Original Photo gp

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1950 HERBERT HOOVER & J EDGAR HOOVER Signs Autograph Vintage Original Photo gp:
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J. EDGAR HOOVER GIVES AUTOGRAPH

J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, is shown giving his autograph to nine year old Arthur Gorman as former President Herbert Hoover looks on. The incident took place at the Convention Dinner of the Boys Club of America, last night. Both of the \'Mr. Hoovers\' spoke at the dinner.

DATE: 5-19-1950

ORIGINAL / REPRINT: Type 1 Original - Printed from the original negative within about 2 years of when it was shot

SUBJECTS: Herbert Hoover, J Edgar Hoover

APPROXIMATE SIZE: 8\"x10\"

NUMBER OF FRAMES: 1

COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large number of entertainment photos, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months which proceed from the Globe Photos archive. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the sale ends.

BIO:

John Edgar Hoover was born in 1895 in Washington D.C. and died in 1972 in Washington D.C.. J Edgar Hoover was the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States. He was appointed as the sixth director of the Bureau of Investigation—predecessor to the FBI—in 1924 and was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935, where he remained director until his death in 1972, aged 77. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency than it was at its inception, and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories. Later in life and after his death, Hoover became a controversial figure as evidence of his secretive abuses of power began to surface. He was found to have exceeded the jurisdiction of the FBI and to have used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders, and to collect evidence using illegal methods. Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten sitting presidents. According to biographer Kenneth Ackerman, the notion that Hoover\'s secret files kept presidents from firing him is a myth. However, Richard Nixon was recorded as stating in 1971 that one of the reasons he did not fire Hoover was that he was afraid of reprisals against him from Hoover.

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