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Controversial Cop Sir: When J. Edgar Hoover, a public servant, publicly sympathizes with Walter Jenkins, insults a leading citizen, berates a Government agency and vilifies our highest court [Nov. 27], then, sir, his public usefulness has come...
...Same." But in his blasts against the Warren Commission, Hoover was relatively mild. FBI agents in Mississippi, he said, had been rendered all but helpless because the state is "filled with water moccasins, rattlesnakes, and red-neck sheriffs, and they are all in the same category, as far as I am concerned." In even more vitriolic style, the FBI chief attacked the South's most revered integrationist, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who, even as Hoover delivered his blast, was in the Bahamas working on his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, to be delivered in Oslo...
...remember," said Hoover to the newsladies, "the notorious Martin Luther King making a speech in the South some months ago where he advised...
Negroes not to report any violations to our Albany, Georgia, agents because they were all Southerners." A check of FBI records, said Hoover, had proved that of five agents in racially torn Albany one was from New York, one from Massachusetts, one from Indiana, one from Minnesota, and one from Georgia. Then Hoover delivered the line that rang round the world. Said he of King: "He is the most notorious liar in the country...
...what had happened to the tight-lipped old G-man. Some felt that, because he will reach the mandatory retirement age of 70 on Jan. 1, this was simply a parting shot before he turned in his badge. Yet Lyndon Johnson signed an executive order last May that allows Hoover to stay on no matter how old he is. Still, it was obvious that Hoover had been chafing for a long time in his unfamiliar role as a Justice Department underling, and his reverberating blast to the newshens was one way to ease that frustration. J. Edgar Hoover has many...