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I think it's easy for us to look back

I think it's easy for us to look back at what the FBI was doing during Hoover's years and...

MLK/FBI • 2020

Self - Yale University, Author, G-Men: J. Edgar Hoover and the American Century:
I think it's easy for us to look back at what the FBI was doing during Hoover's years and be outraged by it, and rightly so, but I also think there's an image of J. Edgar Hoover as being some sort of a rogue actor, behind the scenes, and being kind of out of step with the American mainstream. But the truth is that a lot of this wasn't particularly secret. A lot of people understood what the FBI was up to, and in fact, they supported it

Full Transcript

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I think it's easy for us to look back

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at what the FBI was doing during Hoover's years

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and be outraged by it and rightly so

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but I also think there's an image

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of J Edgar Hoover as being some sort of rogue actor

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behind the scenes

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and being kind of out of step with the American mainstream

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But the truth is that a lot of this

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wasn't particularly secret

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A lot of people understood what the FBI was up to

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and in fact they supported it

Duration

37 seconds

Views

250

Timestamp in Movie

01:40:35

Uploaded

Nov 14, 2022

Genres

documentary, history

Production

Field of Vision,Play/Action Pictures

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Movie Summary

Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's resonant film explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Actors

Self - Yale University