What Was J. Edgar Hoover Biggest Secret that Could Have Destroyed Him?

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

I was a cop 50 years ago. Every cop, fed and detective I ever knew knew Hoover was gay. But Tolson was not his lover, although many thought he was. Tolson and Hoover were best friends in the truest sense - they both wre attracted to the same type of teenaged boy. Their taste did not run to adult males - or each other. And I had that on the very best kind of testimony. Unimpeachable testimony.

[@lawrencelewis8105]

Are you sure about that with Tolson? I've read somewhere that someone came to his hotel room and noticed JEH and CT were both wearing bathrobes and there was only one bed in the room.

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

@@lawrencelewis8105 I interviewed two teenage boys who had been busted for prostitution and in separate statements they gave Hoover and Tolson as their clients. They were totally beleivable under questioning. We also corroborated that from other snitches in the rent boy business in DC and Florida back in the day

[@lawrencelewis8105]

@@ericvonsiebenburg548 I have no reason to doubt you. Maybe they just slept in the same bed.

[@uspalcatraz4355]

@@ericvonsiebenburg548 How would they know Tolson? He wasn't exactly a celebrity.

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

@@uspalcatraz4355 by sleeping with him

[@DonalDocRavioli]

As one of his successors pointed out, crime in the U.S. grew out of control directly because of this freak. He allowed himself to be under the direct control of the Mob, the same Mob he refused to acknowledge. His illegal activities promoted crime and ruined many innocent lives. He was the very kind of person who should never have had any authority. The man was a monster.

[@CRAIG5835]

Just like Biden, but not as crooked as Biden. Lets Go Brandon.

[@awoketoolate9864]

And all to avoid detection that he was half black.

[@elizabethsirois992]

Agreed was a jerk and coward

[@edwardstrowder2217]

He’s greatest Secret was that he was “BLACK”.

[@davidwesley2525]

And a GAY cross dresser.

[@tonyt8805]

😉 💯 😉

[@groovyastronaut5079]

Isn't his grandpa black

[@42Laj]

He sure was. How on earth was he able to pass!!?

[@groovyastronaut5079]

@@42Laj light is right black to the back old saying that makes sense when you really see how society works different story for a different day

[@richarddelgado8530]

He never heard of civil rights. Above all he was in power too long. Sadly, the public will never know how many lives he affected or destroyed. How much of his mischief still exists is open to conjecture. He was not a good man.

[@Jamestown-y9j]

Where's he's at many today will follow, look how many lives trump and co. have been destroyed, and when ms. Lindsey gets there, he can give ms.J. the latest dirt.

[@JR-ez3zd]

Trust me one day we will know all his dirty little secrets!

[@JR-ez3zd]

@@Jamestown-y9j they went after President Trump too!

[@Jamestown-y9j]

@@JR-ez3zd there's no honor among crooks, former president trump included, they all are crooked cannibals, I personally don't care what political affiliation a person is, dems, republican, independents, because their agendas all change from time to time Republicans was after all the party of Lincoln once, and his agenda, people evolves and so do the times as Dylan wrote, " times are a changing" and it always will, but one thing for certain don't, a crook is a crook, no matter what political affiliation they are. Investigate and persicute them all, with no indiscretion. Truth.

[@Jamestown-y9j]

a crook is a crook, I don't care what political banner they fall under , former president trump including, after all Republicans represented the party of Lincoln once, agendas changes as do the times, as Dylan wrote "Times are a changing",and always will, but one thing don't, a crook is a crook no matter, I don't care if they are democrats, Republicans, or independents, they all are cannibals, investigate and prosecute them all equally and blindly I'm not interested in "them or those, or tit for tat I'm just for fair justice.

[@2394Joseph]

The massive damage that this man did to the whole of America could never be calculated, and his deathly legacy continues to this day.

[@pearlsaremybestfriend]

it would be some consolation to remove his name from the FBI building . His victims didnt get benefit of the doubt neither should he.

[@silverstuff182]

Agreed. But don't forget that who he was, was a result of "having" to live a lie. In those Victorian days to be honest and free also meant to disappear, die, death knell yourself. People need to be free to be who they are or they may become as twisted as this creep.

[@tomsampson8084]

Very true. It almost seems like trump is his reincarnation. Trump must have files on every republican in congress. That is the only reason that could possibly explain their support of him.

[@vivianbookstaber1068]

funny isn't it?? how those with a seedy life and past are in high places passing judgement on others when they themselves are criminals in their own right.

[@emjay2045]

☝🏽😎. Just like someone named “America’s Mayor”

[@jaerobbins6075]

100% how it is, and they wonder why some of us don't ass kiss. You can't have power and not be corrupt, it's just a matter of how much you keep that power lust in check.

[@rachelgarber1423]

Unfortunately that is often the case

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

Americans adore and respect big-time criminals - they elect them, worship them, give them money and pardon their crimes. Check it out.

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

@@jaerobbins6075 pure sophistry

[@monilaninetynine3811]

He was lgbtq and had African American ancestry. And his ideas about women were from the dark ages. These were just "some" of his secrets.

[@fattheodoes3888]

I was going to say the same thing. His ancestry I believe was his biggest secret.

[@teenabrunk83]

He didn't look all american he had the armenian features. He was a real JACKASS he had no business in that job he Black -mailed everyone. He was the meaning of toxic . One of his greatest cheerleaders was also gay Richard Nixon.

[@qur4334]

It's A Crying Shame that Ms.,Oops Mr.Hover had all that absolute Black Power & used it to intimidated PPL.

[@valr1260]

@@teenabrunk83 I’ve never heard that Nixon was in the closet but that’s not surprising if true.

[@Jasona1976]

Proof of his black ancestry?

[@joelsmith5461]

For a man who was interested in uncovering the dirty secrets of stars and politicians to blackmail them, he had plenty of skeletons in his own closet. I guess he never believed in the saying 'people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones'

[@bingola45]

Hoover's glass house was bullet-proof.

[@joelsmith5461]

@@bingola45 Well if that picture of him at a party dressed in women's clothes had ever surfaced and made public back at the height of his career, no amount of bullet-proof glass would have been able to protect him from the scandal

[@bingola45]

@@joelsmith5461 It didn't surface. That's because his glass was bullet-proof.

[@yannick245]

Tell me about the skeletons! He's infact bullet-proof, even in afterlife. Only rumors and speculations...

[@maysmith3330]

I knew he was lgbtq but I didn't know he had African American ancestry, just goes to show you learn something new every day. Thank you for that information.

[@charlesstevens4247]

May the whole story is here on Y.T

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

and that's not a recent revelation either

[@dshooter6391]

I heard years ago he was part black. I wonder which one would he want known first, being a cross dresser or being part black.

[@charlesstevens4247]

@@dshooter6391 We know this shooter for sure it was 100% wicked because it has so much blood the devil is jealous!

[@21stcenturyozman20]

*May Smith* J Edna may have been a Q, a G, or even a T (for transvestite rather than transsexual), but he certainly wasn't an L. The LGBTIQACDC… alphabet soup might be an acceptable generic description of that (my) community, but few if any individuals are all of those letters. I find it ridiculous to use the term to describe any individual, because it's just not likely - if even possible - to be all of what the initialism stands for.

[@LadyQuick]

0:25 0:37 He really showed his African American heritage . I can see he had black features in those photos.

[@bflo1000]

I never could tell.

[@davidthompson6834]

It’s just a shitty photograph that’s all

[@whayes8084]

We need to stop trying to claim this man. He did everything in his power to destroy us. Plus you all never provide proof he was part black. Just speculation.

[@garycollier6950]

@@whayes8084 Caucosoids can not spot blackness in people but black people can easily. Facts

[@amonduul2154]

@@garycollier6950 No, he looks like many Europeans do from southern Europe to Moscow.

[@richardblack5710]

He is a disgrace, a hypocrite. He was supposed to uphold the law but broke it all the time. The FBI building should be renamed.

[@azadmajors2098]

Right on..

[@sheilakirby5616]

ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY !!!

[@spaceman081447]

@Sheila Kirby RE: "ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY !!!" Hoover did not have "absolute power." If he had, do you doubt that he would've had Martin Luther King killed instead of merely "bugging" his hotel rooms and spreading false rumors about him?

[@stanleyhood9873]

@Sheila Kirby You betcha.

[@davedee4382]

Nevertheless, I want absolute power. Ok? Me. Yeah.

[@davedee4382]

Some of this information is incorrect. He kept files and you can read them and say Elvis Presley who was as a soldier in Germany being harassed by a ConMan. He kept files on Jackie Robinson because Robinson was threatened he kept files on Lucille Ball proving that she was not a communist. Even though she said she just signed some paper under pressure of her grandfather. He cleared her twice.

[@ABCABC-hn1xw]

LIKE DEMOCRATS USING DOMINION VOTING MACHINES

[@spankyharland9845]

dude was a closet queen.....big time.

[@dwightlove3704]

His name among mobsters was MARY!!!!!

[@npbiggs4382]

He was a master of black mail and a raving cross dressing queen. His Book of Secrets would ruin the world's Power Elite. He used to refer to Lord Mountbatten as Lord Mount Bottom. Hypocrite MONSTER of the first order.

[@spankyharland9845]

@@npbiggs4382 I agree, this guy was such a back stabbing weasel....it was also mentioned that he had African ancestry- in which he vehemently denied....put an afro on his head, and he could pass for a corner store brother.....or a Louisiana pimp.

[@dwightlove3704]

@@npbiggs4382 If only the Mafia revealed to the rest of the planet what they knew about Hoover there is no place that he could have hidden from public scrutiny.

[@alejandrojerez1492]

He was a power bottom!

[@Imintune...]

He was the the most powerful flaming queen at that time.

[@dleet86]

Cross dressers that tuck their junk between their legs when in drag to appear more feminine are called Tuckers. Tuckers also work as prostitutes and specialize in hand jobs as their hands are as tiny as the former moron-in-chief's. Rupert introduced Lachlan to Tuckers during the Reagan aids crisis and he liked them himself. Of course they did oral too, for an extra fee. It was a father/son bonding moment and I thought it was just an Aussie thing. Hiring a Tucker shows their commitment to safe sex.

[@cynthiasolomon6383]

Yes she was.Peace

[@MrTommyboy68]

I can not understand why JFK didn't simply have Hoover's office cleaned out one night after he left, had him watched overnight to ensure no one tipped him off, the next morning as soon as he left his house, had a team make entry, shut off the phone lines and keep his household staff in a secure location while ALL of his files at his residence were confiscated and sent to a secure location. Once his secretary arrived, she could have been detained with no access to a phone and when John arrived at work, be immediately escorted to the White House where his written letter of resignation was waiting. Once all the files were secured, he could be taken home. This way JFK would have had all his "secret" files and thereby taken away his "power" over people.

[@elavke5441]

To my understanding jfk was planning on getting rid of the alphabets

[@lulassong6524]

Dream on McDuff....!

[@paparentman]

Maybe Hover had Kennedy killed.

[@lulassong6524]

@@paparentman Maybe Bybee? Sure thing.

[@lawrencelewis8105]

JFK said the the three most over-rated things in the world were home cooking, home sex and the FBI. there was no love lost between him, Bobby and JEH

[@douglastodd1947]

the fact JFK had told him a few days earlier that he was sacking him on his return from Dallas. i still think he had something to do with JFK's assasination

[@michaellovetere8033]

Yes, he should have never told Hoover what he was going to do...

[@JR-ez3zd]

Agree!

[@lizfair5157]

Kennedy was not in understanding of certain things in the games,hover was not worry about him. He had much dirt on president Kennedy.

[@valenciacarlin2357]

According to my mom's cousins the Roybal's to which are still and have been in government during Hoover's time in office; he was hiding in the closet, often dressed in women's underwear in private and didn't want the public to know his illicit affairs with men. Honestly I don't know if any of this is true since these stories have been passed down through the generations as hear say rumors. This man was also very stern, rigid and just plain cruel.

[@secondchance1503]

MISS HOOVER WAS A STRONG WOMAN OF COLOR!

[@voodoochild1806]

YAS!!! 💯😂

[@emjay2045]

☝🏽😎

[@jaerobbins6075]

That part.

[@bflo1000]

LMFAO!!!

[@constancegomez351]

😂

[@dcdad556]

As a native District of Columbian, we knew everything about Hoover. The most secret of all his files, were locked away on 3X5 file cards in his desk at the Bureau; an idea he got while working at the Library of Congress. Many pictures are used here of Hoover and his boyfriend, Clyde Tolson who could be seen daily at lunch at the Mayflower Hotel still on Connecticut Avenue in DC today. Why was Hoover so powerful? Fear...

[@truecynic1270]

I have certainly have never known of any person who was so incredibly satisfied by obtaining information about other people ( other than himself) and then priding (himself/herself/itself) of publicizing that he had possession of such information and how he could use this "information" to "upset" that person's day to day life!!

[@olynnjones6274]

He said if any president tried to force him to retire, he would unleash scandals the likes that the United States has never seen!

[@valerieneal2747]

Hoover was a sick bastard.

[@tudorchick1]

oh like Obama??

[@johnchalmers]

It's called cancel culture now and it rages all around us if you didn't know ?

[@bobtaylor170]

The term is "malignant narcissist."

[@sirsidfosse1313]

Truman Capote called him: "Killer fruit".

[@johnchalmers]

Truman would know .

[@johnchalmers]

@Barbara Jolley I know whom Truman Capote was .He wrote the book "In Cold Blood" which told the story of the Clutter family who were brutally murdered in the late 1950's . Capote somewhat glamourized the killers , which has lead to Hollywood doing so ever since . Capote was also in the hilarious 1976 movie "Murder By Death " . At best he was an annoying little puke !

[@johnchalmers]

@Barbara Jolley it has been said that Truman had a crush on one of the killer's of the Clutter family and that is why his book is biased towards the killers ? Personally I have owned the book , but never read it( like many others ) , but if the movie is any indication of the books tone then I would say it's somewhat sympathetic towards the killers .It does tell the entire story from the perspective of the killers and the Clutter family seem like they are there merely to advance the storyline . My father always liked the movie , especially the execution scene , because it reminded him of the stark justice of capital punishment .

[@johnchalmers]

@Barbara Jolley well let's face it telling the story of the Clutter family's murder , from their perspective, would not have made for that interesting of reading , nor viewing .

[@johnchalmers]

That is unless the movie was made up of just the actual murders ,with no preamble . Then it probably would have been too overpowering for the audience ?

[@robkunkel8833]

Tim Gunn, who used to be a major part of Project Runway, told a story on the show about how his father who worked for the FBI. As a young boy, Tim was invited to learn about his father’s job and they made a visit to Mr. Hoover’s office. There, they did not meet the director but instead they met a lady named Vivian Vance who on the old Honeymooner show.

[@robkunkel8833]

📌You probably know the rest of the story. Tim later learned was that lovely lady was the director. Hoover had a very smooth face. I can see how he can pass. 📌Good work. I subscribed

[@selenaphillips6971]

Vivian Vance were on "I Love Lucy" and "The Lucy Show". Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph were on the Honeymooners.

[@greggoreo6738]

Vivían Vance? I Love Lucy...yes? Not ....' The Honey Mooners'. Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca

[@ingridwalker8809]

OK....? Soooo?? What's your point?

[@janinecox256]

If they knew what kind of man Hoover was then they would have tarred and feathered him! That is why most people were afraid of him because he knows where the bodies were buried!

[@j.s.connolly8579]

No... He knew HOW and WHERE to BURY the BODIES!!!

[@elavke5441]

What bodies?

[@albertmorris6162]

@@j.s.connolly8579 Well said, sir.

[@djquinn11]

Well he wasn’t really a man at all..

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

@@elavke5441 It's a figure of speech. It means that Hoover knew everybody's dirty little secrets.

[@beaselinda9340]

They need to remove his name from the FBI building or anywhere. From everything that we know of him this is the person that represents the highest agency.

[@tyroneashford1195]

Yes, he had African American in his ancestry. Some of his close employees knew that. They would converse about his dark skin; (compared to theirs). And his corn rolled black hair; they saw as suspect. Now, of course if Hoover found out; they were instantly fired!) That may be the reason why. Hoover was such a brutal racist; towards African Americans. Through out his whole career! -MIN. OBI Ha'Shem.

[@lulassong6524]

Like Hitler, who had Jewish blood.

[@tyroneashford1195]

@@lulassong6524 Exactly! Lulas Song, That's an on point statement! -MIN. OBI.

[@michaelpalmieri7335]

Charles Manson didn't like black people either, even though he suspected that he was half-black himself. In fact, the murders that he had his followers commit (Sharon Tate and her house guests, the LaBiancas, and, some say, others) were part of a plot to start a race war by blaming the crimes on black militants. (the victims were all white) Manson called it "Helter Skelter," after a song of the same name by the Beatles, which he believed contained code words proclaiming a future war between the white people and the blacks.

[@tyroneashford1195]

Another thing Manson was an Agent! Do the research. And he was still a piece of shit. -MIN. OBI.

[@jaerobbins6075]

Lots of people with a passing parent, are conditioned to have an aversion to whatever their parent comes from. Since they don't understand it, they just think they've been raised in a racist home.

[@ericturpin3149]

His secretary destroyed all his drag after he died . His mother caught him when he was younger wearing her clothes.

[@lakeeshahollis9522]

Dame

[@emjay2045]

Experimental

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

Gossip and rumors - we all would love to see the evidence, hear the testimony, examine the documents, watch the video and llisten to the recordings...what? You have....NONE of any of those things...riiiight....don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

[@silverstuff182]

In Washington he used to open the door dressed as a woman. To hand picked guests I would imagine.

[@fazbell]

This stuff is comedy GOLD!!!!!

[@teenabrunk83]

His homosexuality and his affair with Cylde Tolson number two at the FBI.

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

they were not lovers - just fellow predators on teen boys - rent boys, who they shared

[@douglasthompson8927]

it wasn`t an affair they lived together

[@zephyer-gp1ju]

There was a long running TV show called "Project Runway." It's host was man named Tim Gunn. He also grew up in Wash D.C. and his father was Hoover's #2 man. Gunn said his father's office was next to Tolson's and Tolson's was next to Hoovers. Gunn tells how when as boy he went to the FBI building all the time. Once he went to his father's office with his sister and their father asked if they would like to meet Vivan Vance. She was a Costar on I Love Lucy tv show and she was in Hoover's office. They went down and there was this woman in an evening gown, make up, looking very nice and she talked to them bla bla bla. Years later it came out the Hoover was a cross dresser and at a family dinner one night the family was upset because they loved Hoover for all he had done for the family. But Tim Gunn said to his sister, "Did you ever wonder why Vivan Vance was in Hoover's office but, he wasn't there?"

[@fuzzamajumula]

Hoover was a self-loathing little creep. His name deserves to go down in infamy. Rename the FBI building!

[@reddyb7089]

Maybe because he was rumored to be Black and gay.

[@pepelemoko01]

There is the old story of some meeting at Washinton hotel,a noise out the back got louder and louder. Someone asked what is it, the answer came back, it's "the coloured busboys finishing their shift".At this stage, one of the men at the table went back to tell them to keep it down. When he got there was JEDGER in the centre telling jokes and having a good time.

[@elavke5441]

Does it matter what color he was? The man didn't say that in the vid

[@trina415]

Can you imagine getting hold of his little black book

[@jackdewitt461]

I would of liked to have gotten a hold of his little pencil neck

[@elavke5441]

@@jackdewitt461 why?

[@leawaldrop1050]

I think the book was burned

[@trina415]

@@leawaldrop1050 I'm sure

[@constancegomez351]

I think his secretary got rid of it

[@MegaDavyk]

Hoover wasn't just Gay he also liked very young boys. Also you left out Hoover was part Afro American and his darker relations feared for their lives if they ever spoke up about that.

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

you almost have it right - he didn't "also like' young boys - he exclusively liked teenaged hustlers, so did Tolson. Neither of them cared for adult males - so in that sense they were in no way "Gay" - they weren't that normal.

[@JoseRodriguez-qd5cu]

Selling your soul to the devil is no reward.Unfortinantly people's still do.

[@hart60]

A evil man who drove many innocent people to dire consequences. His sexuality really is inconsequential, except that he did not suffer as other LGBT persons did at that time. What he caused to be done to MLK and John Lennon was criminal.

[@bingola45]

@channeleightythree083 It's sadly becoming clear that John Lennon was an idiot in many ways.

[@patrickregan3302]

I believe he hated the Kennedy’s, but I’m sure he was too much of a loner to be in some conspiracy to kill them.

[@dottiejarrett6896]

THE DEVIL 😈👿👹👺

[@elavke5441]

What do they have to do with hoover?

[@stephenantonicelli7069]

The Soviets may have had MLK murdered to start a race War. That is my take on history. Many riots on campuses started after Soviet Agents would have talks about Socialism. I attend a speech in Harrisburg, Pa , condemning Viet Nam War. James Earl Ray meet son of MLK and denied killing his father.

[@davidscoggin6523]

J. Edgar got jealous of the attention Melvin Purvis received for catching John Dillinger so he ruined Purvis's career.

[@cynthiasolomon6383]

Jealous just like a little Girl.Peace

[@kidofflint8812]

Also he was responsible for a a lot of activist deaths during the 60s

[@dwightwilson7148]

Activist or commie

[@kidofflint8812]

@@dwightwilson7148 activists who cares if they were communism also here’s the names John Jerome Huggins jr age 23 killed on the UCLA alprentice Bunchy carter age 26 also killed on the UCLA campus with Huggins Mark Clark age 22 killed in Chicago in police raid Fred Hampton age 21 also killed alongside mark Clark And so on

[@kidofflint8812]

@@dwightwilson7148 that’s the one thing what makes this world so crappy everyone just thinks in black and white world a’nt In black and white

[@dwightwilson7148]

Now commie line all communist multicultural be definition they racist I sure your is like most Anc supports confused for your information I am nonracialist . Before talking I ask you u tubes Neely Fuller jr

[@dwightwilson7148]

Kid of Flint until you understand white supremacy is not a race based system it system based on deception and corruption until you will always be confused my eyes ... If you only knew

[@CastorPollum]

And today's FBI hasn't done anything to improve its image/reputation.

[@michaellovetere8033]

It's gotten worse..

[@aolcom-nl9qb]

Hoover did a lot in building the infrastructure of the Bureau, as bad as he was in character and unrepentant of his abuses of power he and a few others brought technology and some standard procedures to law enforcement investigations. Unless you lie much more you can't change the bad habits of Hoover, so he didn't care and you shouldn't white wash his bullshit.

[@barrywinfree6845]

No they have gone down hill and should be dismantled

[@ted4ps581]

Hover was a transvestite. There are many photos of him in drag.

[@davidwesley2525]

Hoover was Caitlyn Jenner before Caitlyn Jenner.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@J.BaxGeronimo]

Hollywood's movie J Edgar Hoover Exposed him !

[@ERASEREPLACEPLACE]

He's clearly an African-American. My Mom used to say that anyone who was raised down South could see this and she wondered how he was ever able to fool so many for so long.

[@amonduul2154]

Because many Europeans look like him

[@Qwerty-ey5fi]

@@amonduul2154 No. we don’t!

[@tytypartridge3135]

@@Qwerty-ey5fi Ermm Greeks, Italians,Turks etc… smh!!

[@tonipaslay2539]

Goodness I never had a clue! He sure set the precedent going forward! So sick and sad he had so much power and influence in the WRONG way for America

[@melissacooper4282]

Hoover sort of reminds me of an episode of The Twilight Zone where this man was ruining lives of people because he believed that they were evil! I would probably bet that if Hoover made a claim to shrink evil people like the lead character done in the episode he would've shrank too!

[@m.f.richardson1602]

Thank you. Always informative.

[@sheilakirby5616]

A CLIMB TO POWER WHILE KEEPING HIS OWN SECRETS

[@Himithor]

10:07- My mom had a pair of sandles like the one JEH is wearing in this pic.😂😂😂🤔😒🤔

[@HhEeAaDd]

His father was a mixed race Black Man, & the blood cousin to his adopted father, who also happened to hate J Edgar. With his installment into the Bureau, came the mysterious death of his blood father, blood half sister, & the institutionalization of his public father Dickerson.

[@chrissyli6759]

Not true his father was Black not mixed race at all. His mothers father mistreated him for being mixed but tried to kerp it secret but it wasn't.

[@TheTallMan50]

@@chrissyli6759 Then why does he look so Caucasian?

[@chrissyli6759]

@@TheTallMan50 Because some Biracials look more white, examples Mariah Carey, Wentworth Miller, Rashida Jones. All are born to white mothers and black fathers All mixed not black and look White.

[@whayes8084]

@@TheTallMan50 Why does Jennifer Beals?

[@TheBerkeleyBeauty]

@@TheTallMan50 - Because he doesn’t?

[@ThePiratemachine]

The story goes he had a file on Errol Flynn because he was so jealous of him.

[@douglastodd1947]

he tried on with ERROL in private and public life , Flynn wasn't going for his blackmailing ways threatened to expose him and put the creep in his place.

[@acajudi100]

They have a file on all of us.

[@lawrencelewis8105]

Ernest Hemingway was convinced that the FBI was following him. People chalked it up to paranoia near the end of his life but he was right. They had a huge file on him for being on the "wrong" side in the Spanish civil war and he did have articles published in Pravda and he had respect for Fidel Castro.

[@RETROMV]

Plain and simple this guy was a pickle sniffer and played like he was such a straight tough guy!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@samuelwhite1743]

He was a mixed black man passing as a caucasoid.

[@alonzocalvillo6702]

How there is a building in Washington DC bearing his name, is beyond me.

[@davef.2811]

Just consider where it is.

[@victorevanssr.5034]

I agree

[@lorenepperson2678]

Did You Know Him And Lyndon Baines Johnson Were Two Pees In Pod There Friendship Went Back To 1930s Johnson Put Him On The Sham Warren Commission On Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy Johnson In 1964 Made J.Edgar FBI Director For Life

[@lulassong6524]

@@lorenepperson2678 Two mafia crooks.

[@lulassong6524]

Or vacuum cleaner! 😂

[@johnnyohness]

Yes J Edgar was a closet queen. Rotten to the core. Yet we still have a huge building in Washington with his name on it. Go figure. He must be still blackmailing from the grave.

[@janinecox256]

I can’t help but think that if some one that he had his eye on found out about his secret, they would have blackmailed him and I’m sure Hoover couldn’t live with that and that is why he played chi’s cards close to the vest!

[@tyrone.m.warren9011]

🗣 *There’s a reason why Hoover never went after the ‘Cosa Nostra’ (Mafia) & the reason he didn’t lay in the fact that the Mafia had pictures of Hoover & his long term lover in drag & bang at it!* *Hoover kept his word..... nothing was said!* *Regards from Penzance, Cornwall,UK!* 🎭

[@andrewgates9333]

Brazier

[@MrBeeg55]

My vote will be for his role in the JFK assassination cover-up. Or maybe that's not considered a secret?

[@dleet86]

JFK could've survived the Oswald shots but the kill shot was an armor piercing exploding bullet that Secret Service used. The car detail were reservists as the senior experienced agents got drunk the night before. The rookie proffered his weapon to respond asap the 1st shot rang out and he accidently sent a load into JFK's head. All the casings for Oswald's shots were accounted for in the 5th floor depository window. The exploding round would not fit Oswald's rifle. The only conspiracy was the cover up. Oswald was the lone assassin.

[@dwightlove3704]

Charlie Chaplin called him a homo and he had a file made about him.

[@lulassong6524]

He persecuted Chaplin no end, who ended up in court twice. He confiscated his visa re-entry to the USA when in London for the Premiere of The Great Dictator which Europe and the whole world adored. Hoover accused the hilarious film Modern Times of being "communist". Had no culture and didn't have the slightest sense of humour. Boy, was he messed up.

[@dwightlove3704]

@@lulassong6524 Too bad Chaplin didn't have any connections with ORGANIZED CRIME they would have told him about the life Hoover led away from the FBI.

[@josweetlove1537]

No one had to tell me he had African ancestry. It is plainly seen in his features. For years I have been looking at his pictures and saying to myself that this man is not white. In the Caribbean we have many people of mixed ancestry. We have "white" people who are not white only in skin tone and everyone knows it.

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

Obama is not black but every African American claims him as.

[@jolldoes1515]

@@Ijustinsultedyou + If you have one drop of black blood you are black your ancestors made that rule in consequence Obama is Black .

[@Ijustinsultedyou]

@@jolldoes1515 He’s black because you want him to be so bad because you can’t claim a full black president. But have no fear my boy at the way this world is going you will definitely be able to claim that without any discrepancies

[@rosemarywilliams6044]

He was Gay!!

[@tiathompson6674]

And a Negroe

[@elizabethsirois992]

Better described in the J Edgar movie with Leonardo Dicaprio. EPIC film.

[@psychomd1939]

He was so consumed by his own power that he was commonly referred to as Jehoover.

[@greggoreo6738]

Jehoover, as, in: Jahovah. (I get it!) Great pun!! Gregg Oreo long Beach Ca

[@soniafell8267]

I think the women he had afairs with just a cover up

[@znayJ]

Beards

[@lulassong6524]

I'd like to hear what they have to say.

[@booster5329]

J Edgar was gay and black.SMFH.

[@TheBerkeleyBeauty]

THAT’S the problem you had with him? That he was gay, and black?

[@mcelroychandler6267]

I think this man is why there has been such a lack of trust in government law enforcement and government in general in America today, the roots of distrust are from Edgar's Hoover's unlawful behaviour at the helm of the FBI. The repercussions are felt to this day in our additude towards powerfull government

[@TheTallMan50]

10:06 J Edgar is wearing WOMEN'S SHOES!!! Did anyone else catch that?

[@dorothykilgallenwasmurdere1653]

Yeah. Ladies sandals, complete with the strap going around the back. Lol😀

[@42Laj]

😂😂😂😭

[@palerider964]

I love those times. The stuff you had on someone you used to your advantage. Very cool. Nothing has changed.☺💪👏👍

[@kevinsmith9875]

He was a rump ranger!

[@billchambersmarquez1964]

A pickle smoocher!!!!!!

[@TheCat72850]

He had too much power

[@lulassong6524]

EXACTLY

[@mintjulip60]

I believe his greatest secret was the fact he was a black American 'passing' as a white man. He has cousins who've spoken of this;and have always been terrified of disappearing. The video may still be available on KZbin.

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

Not his "greatest secret" for heaven's sake. We just had a president who was half black and proud of it. Biracial is no big deal

[@42Laj]

@@ericvonsiebenburg548 - Are you freaking kidding me!? You must be over in Europe somewhere making a statement like that. And when Obama was President he was constantly disrespected by his white haters (Republicans), they could care less about him being bi-racial. He was treated as Black. But he made history, and they will NEVER be able to take that from him.

[@renaissanceinblack]

​@@ericvonsiebenburg548 at the time it was. J Edgar Hoover also targeted Black celebs and social groups.

[@khaldounelbey3968]

Most ironic, Hoover was also bi-racial.

[@johnmehaffey9953]

G man, did that mean Gay man

[@RollinWitWBMathewsLLC]

He was "FRUITY"!!! 🤣🤣🤣

[@jamesbuffer4120]

Could it have been his desire for little boys? Fed to him by the mafia? Who he never acknowledged as a reality. Naaa.... ok what. His cross dressing ? Not eating the crust on his sandwichs? P.s.he died of a heart attack while eating APPLE PIE. IE he outlived his usefulness

[@Himithor]

His AA family was from Hattiesburg MS. I believe his grandmother or great grandmother was a AA slave.

[@bbe3034]

I grew up near Hattiesburg. Do you know their last name?

[@Himithor]

@@bbe3034 not sure. I saw a doc film on KZbin about him some years ago.

[@tainyaross2842]

Powerful Sick Person!

[@executiveproducerkeyiocwol9280]

J. Edgar was a catcher in tha dookie boi leagues.

[@Anglovox]

Also, "Apalachin" was a MASSIVE embarrassment to J. Edgar Hoover.

[@charlesdayon5715]

I read in one book that Hoover was a Mason , and wanted to be buried with apron and trowel etc. but this would have to embarrassing for certain people

[@deniseroe5891]

I always wonder when watching or reading about people and events that happen, some before I was born (I am 60) and others after, are we, as a country still as naïve as we were in the mid 1900’s. Hoover, Nixon, JFK, RFK are just a few that comes to mind. Creepy little man as was his lover Clyde.

[@theavandenberg6876]

His biggest secrets will likely never be known. His personal secretary destroyed the most sensitive files after his death

[@joycesmith4608]

Thats the only decent thing the Rat low life ever did.

[@jodegarbe2704]

@@joycesmith4608 please don't malign rats

[@falanajerido875]

She was stupid she should made copy and written a book

[@joycesmith4608]

@@falanajerido875 she made no copies she did it she was instructed by the big boss and that's all it is to say about it

[@carltonclay4618]

What famous men Hoover slept with? We may never know.

[@normaalexander3844]

Hoover was a serial killer and a master blackmailer.

[@deidramartin6762]

He was a “mommas boy” 😄

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

true, but in decent people, that's not a bad thing to be - So was Elvis, and so am I

[@meffamass252]

@@ericvonsiebenburg548 do you enjoy the company of woman or men ?

[@ogarzabello]

Cosa Nostra had a film on him performing homosexual acts and he took "tips" about winning horses, he bet way more than 2 dollars per race (that what he used to say)

[@mcelroychandler6267]

What ever happen to all those files Hoover collected on people after he died?

[@michaelalexander8249]

An evil man.

[@ralphharris4861]

Truly this man was an enemy of the state of the welfare of innocent people who's lives he destroyed .. Sure he has accomplishments in government, but his dark insidious nature was who he truly was

[@Emacee1701]

He wasn't the first director. In fact, he promoted himself as having "cleaned up" a corrupt and ineffective organization.

[@tomcusack884]

Organized Crime had 'the goods' on J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover kept insisting there was no such thing as La Cosa Nostra. The mob liked it that way and Hoover knew that if he crossed them, they'd release photos of him not only cross dressed but having gay sex with young boys. Robert Kennedy, Attorney General, turned on organized crime making things dicey for Hoover. Hoover hated the Kennedy's and vice-versa. When JFK was assassinated Hoover from the get-go insisted LHO acted alone. JEH was the best man in Organized Crime's pocket. They thrived during the Hoover years.

[@pantera2512]

Oh my😳 he has on very cute sandals..😂😂😂😂

[@charlesstevens4247]

LOL

[@theodorblasius5358]

it was also some nasty pictures that mafia had against him

[@nonadeplume1145]

Very good as usual! The narrator's voice is beyond soothing. The Brit Morgan Freeman of You Tube! ❤

[@baymaxc1647]

Has their EVER been a FBI Director WORTH A DAMM!!! Lots of GREAT Agents but Leadership Very LACKING

[@grevberg]

I always wondered why the FBI called the building after him. They should have erased him from history!

[@josef56]

Fish rots from the head!

[@TheBerkeleyBeauty]

I don’t know how anybody could look at him and not see that he was mixed with black (6:33). White folks might not know us, but we DAMN sure know US when we SEE US. 😂

[@richarddelgado8530]

His secret: that he was probably gay and that he never investigated the mafia. Civil rights? He never heard of civil

[@edwardgleeson850]

The picture of Hoover at 1:49 is actually Broderick Crawford who played Hoover in a TV movie.

[@markcadieux3445]

The picture at 6:20 isn't a real gangster. It's Michael Corleone in Sicily.

[@notthebeaver1532]

He also had a Big gambling habit that the mob let him slide on

[@kazuyoshisakamoto4096]

Thank you for posting your valuable video. I read his memoir "Freedom Betrayed", and watching videos like this helps me to acquire knowledge because I can learn about various aspects of him.

[@SighDown]

Okay, since this video won’t tell it, I will: Hoover was half-black. There. I said it.

[@champaigne16]

His cousin wrote a book on him but she never spoke out not while he was alive because he threaten to kill her.

[@ericvonsiebenburg548]

old news

[@BennyCashRetro]

Ironically, the biggest lawman and the biggest criminal in America simultaneously.

[@angelabender8132]

The two went to eat every day for lunch for over 20 years at the same Italian restaurant for free. Once the place was sold, the new owners presented them with a bill at the end of the meal. They never returned to eat there. 🤑

[@angelabender8132]

In 2 pictures he had questionable footwear: the one with white female sandals at about 10.9 and the other with pointed extravagant shoes around 10.25

[@voodoochild1806]

10:03 Hoover's shoes look like women's sandals

[@janierobertson1484]

That he was gay and black.